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BEDWAS NAVIGATION COLLIERY

 

INDEX OF CONTENTS

 

 

Senior management outside Colliery Offices. Photo courtesy Alan Lowe

third from left in front is Dai Jones (Aberdare) - see feedback page

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MAIN SITE INDEX

 

Front page/Welcome page

Page 1 - Index (you are here)

Page 2 - A South Wales Coalfield primer

Page 3 - A summary of the Colliery's history

Page 4 - The Sinking and Construction of Bedwas Navigation Colliery

Page 5 - Photograph Gallery 1

Page 6 - Facts and Statistics about the Colliery

Page 7 - Photograph Gallery 2, with further historical annecdotes

Page 8 - Pre-War Industrial Relations and the reading of the Riot Act

Page 9 - A 1970's recruitment brochure about Bedwas Colliery

Page 10 - An historic Photograph Gallery of black and white photographs taken over the Colliery's working life

Page 11 - A first-hand account of the explosion at the Colliery on 10th October 1952, by Evan Williams

Page 12 - Feedback Page 1 - earliest

Page 13 - Feedback Page 2 - latest

Page 14 - Colliers' recollections

Page 15 - Down in the Deeps - the memoirs of John Dennis - NEW

Page 16 - The Post-War Years 1945-1970

Page 17 - NACODS fury as Mine Closes

Page 18 - Welsh links

Page 19 - Mining Links

TRETHOMAS COKE PLANT

 

Page 20 - Trethomas Plant front page

Page 21 - A brief history of Trethomas Plant

Page 22 - Photographs of Trethomas Plant

Page 23 - Future of Colliery Site

Page 24 - Acknowledgments, Bibliography, Contact me.