National Coal Board, Records

Records of the National Coal Board (NCB) and the British Coal Corporation, South Wales Area. Records are arranged by the creating department, with records concerning a variety of subjects found across the different series, such as colliery planning and development schemes, capital expenditure, colliery closures, strikes and industrial relations (particularly material on the 1984/1985 Miners’ Strike), industrial disease, accidents, compensation, NCB property, public relations (including colliery profile leaflets and press statements), accounts, welfare (including plans of pithead baths), the Aberfan disaster and Tribunal, tip control (including a set of tip plans) and opencast operations. Within the Mining Department papers there are plans showing underground workings across the south Wales coalfield and at individual collieries. Other plans within the collection include those relating to machinery and engineering.

There is a substantial photographic print and negative collection which includes images of collieries across the south Wales coalfield. The collection includes (but is not limited to) images of individual collieries (above and below ground), disasters, strikes, royal visits, groups of workmen, general studies of ‘valley life’, colliery horses, coal face work, pithead baths, medical centres, people, machinery, buildings, ancillary works, scientific equipment, exhibitions and staff training.

Records created at individual collieries also feature within the collection and include accident and compensation registers, pay books, rent books and a horse purchase book. Some of this material was in use by pre-vesting colliery companies and continued by the NCB.

Alongside records created by the NCB, the collection includes pre-vesting date records kept by the NCB. This material comprises records relating to coal mining and associated industries before nationalisation. This series includes (but is not limited to) papers of The Monmouthshire and South Wales Coal Owners' Association (including a set of press digests covering the period immediately before the nationalisation of the coal industry), a set of newspaper cutting volumes and terms of settlement papers.

The NCB also deposited the pre-nationalisation records of individual colliery companies. See the related collections field for a list of these collections.

In 1945 the newly-elected Labour government announced its intention to nationalise the British coal industry. The Coal Industry Nationalisation Act was passed on 12 July 1946 and it provided for the establishment of a National Coal Board (NCB) in which all the assets of the coal industry would be vested. The NCB would be responsible for running the whole industry, split into the following eight Divisions: No.1 Scottish; No.2 Northern; No.3 North-Eastern; No.4 North-Western; No.5 East Midland; No.6 West Midland; No.7. South-Western; No.8 South-Eastern.

On the vesting date, 1 January 1947, the NCB’s South Western Division consisted of 220 collieries and over 100 small privately owned mines. The Division was sub-divided into the following areas; No.1 Swansea, No.2 Maesteg, No.3 Rhondda, No.4 Aberdare, No.5 Rhymney, No.6 Monmouthshire and Severn (Forest of Dean, Somerset, Bristol).

In the early 1940s there had been a great demand for coal and many pits had been kept open although operating at a loss. This great demand continued after nationalisation, but the NCB embarked on a policy of distributing the available finances to the collieries that they believed would have the best returns. In the period 1947 to 1959 this led to the closure of 76 collieries. However, alongside the closures, the NCB also started to invest heavily in new ventures, redeveloping collieries such as Mardy and Fernhill in the Rhondda and Llanharan and Nantgarw near the southern outcrop.

The closure policy had the desired effect of improving the output per manshift at collieries, but ultimately it failed in its attempts to stem the huge losses that the Division was running up. The mergers of pits continued in the 1960s; Wyndham and Western Collieries were merged in 1965, and Tower and Fernhill Collieries in 1966, with Merthyr Vale and Deep Navigation collieries receiving major investments.

The 1960s also saw the occurrence of one of the worst disasters in the history of the British coal industry. On 21 October 1966, 144 people, 116 of them children, were killed when a tip of coal waste slid onto the welsh village of Aberfan. On 26 October 1966, the Secretary of State for Wales, appointed a Tribunal to inquire into the causes of, and circumstances relating to, the Aberfan disaster. The NCB accepted the lessons and recommendations set out in the Report of the Tribunal and gave the Minister of Power an immediate account of what they were doing to remedy the shortcomings. Comprehensive information about all NCB tips was assembled (for the first time) and policies were devised for controlling them. A tip safety committee was established by the NCB, and a programme of inspection, investigation and remedial work was installed.

In order to make the south Wales coalfield more efficient, and to meet the demand for coal, more mergers of collieries were carried out during the 1970s, including the mergers of Lady Windsor and Abercynon in 1975, Nantgarw and Windsor in 1974 and Garw and Ffaldau in 1975.

By the late 1970s, the pit closures had started contributing to an industrial depression in south Wales. With a rise in unemployment, people became increasingly concerned not only with the loss of jobs, but also the effect that unemployment would have on the mining communities as a whole. In 1984 the National Coal Board declared that it wished to close 20 pits across Britain, with the loss of 20,000 jobs. On 12 March 1984, Arthur Scargill, President of the NUM, called a national strike against the pit closures. Many miners were involved in picketing and protesting, including miners from 28 pits in the south Wales coalfield. The strike lasted for nearly a year, with the miners conceding defeat on 3 March 1985.

On 1 January 1987, the NCB became the British Coal Corporation. Over the next few years more collieries were closed and mining operations in Wales, under the British Coal Corporation, came to an end in 1994, with the closure of Tower No.4, the last British Coal Corporation deep mine in the south Wales coalfield.

With the passing of the Coal Industry Act 1994, the industry wide administrative functions of British Coal were transferred to the Coal Authority and its economic assets were privatised. The British Coal Corporation was wound up in 1997.

Where identifiable, records have been listed by the creating department within the National Coal Board. Notable exceptions are the individual collieries, photographic collection and pre-vesting material, for which an artificial arrangement has been created based on subject and type of record.

Items containing information on named individuals may be restricted in accordance with data protection regulations

The majority of material was deposited under S.4(1) of the Public Records Act 1958 by the National Coal Board and the British Coal Corporation in the period 1957-1997. Some material was presented under S.3(6) of the Public Records Act 1958 by the British Coal Corporation in the 1990s, namely duplicate mine plans, engineering drawings and colliery profit and loss accounts.

A detailed catalogue is available

Compiled by Louise Clarke for Glamorgan Archives, with reference to:

Ashworth, William, The History of the British Coal Industry: Vol.5. The Nationalized Industry, 1946-1982’, (Clarendon Press, 1986)

Curtis, Ben, The South Wales Mines, 1965-1985, (University of Wales Press, 2013)

Francis, Hywel; Rees, Gareth No Surrender in the Valleys : the 1984-85 miners' strike in South Wales, Llafur : journal of Welsh Labour History = Cylchgrawn Hanes Llafur Cymru. Vol. 5, no. 2 ([1989]), pp. 41-71

Lawrence, Ray, Mines of the South Wales Coalfield, Colliery Index, 2009

Coalfield Web Materials website, http://www.agor.org.uk/cwm/themes/love%20and%20hate/civil_class_unrest.asp#1972: (accessed 25 Jan 2019)

List of Historic Place names, Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales, https://historicplacenames.rcahmw.gov.uk/ (accessed 7 Nov 2019)

National Library of Scotland, Map Images website, https://maps.nls.uk/geo/find/#zoom=5&lat=56.0000&lon=-4.0000&layers=102&b=1&z=1&point=0,0 (accessed 7 Nov 2019)

The National Archives ‘COAL’ catalogue, http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/browse/r/h/C58 (accessed 25 Jan 2019)

Welsh Coalmines website, http://www.welshcoalmines.co.uk/index.html (accessed 7 Nov 2019)

Department of Energy and Climate Change, Appraisal report from Department of Energy and Climate Change (“DECC”) relating to records of the former National Coal Board ("NCB") (latterly British Coal Corporation ("BCC")) – a statutory corporation created in 1947 and wound up in 2004, Jan 2014

NCB/BCC divisional changes sourced from a letter from Jacqui Rose, Principal Inspection and Documentation Officer, Public Record Office to Mrs Burton, Glamorgan Archives, 6 Nov 1995. Glamorgan Archives Depositor File, D55/11/1D

This catalogue was produced with support from the Wellcome Trust as part of the cataloguing project, 'Glamorgan's Blood: Dark Arteries, Old Veins.’

Normal Glamorgan Archives conditions apply.

Appraisal has taken place retrospectively, with all records which meet the collection policy of the Glamorgan Archives having been retained. Duplicates destroyed.

DNCB comprises records deposited and presented by the National Coal Board and the British Coal Corporation in the period 1957 to 1997. Many records were deposited or presented following the British Coal Corporation's review of their records leading up to the time of privatisation, however accession data for much of the material deposited by the British Coal Corporation is limited. At that time the British Coal Corporation was faced with the disposal of some 45 miles of records which had accumulated since the nationalisation of the industry in 1947.

A number of records that were deposited by the National Coal Board and the British Coal Corporation were those of pre-vesting private colliery companies that were not integrated with NCB administration. This material has been separated from the National Coal Board (DNCB) collection and new fonds have been created for each colliery company. Where pre-vesting date records were not clearly associated with a particular colliery company, these records have been retained within the DNCB collection. See the related records field for a list of the records of pre-vesting private coal companies that have been separated from the National Coal Board collection.

The collection was previously listed under references attributed at the time of deposit, with no clear cross referencing between each individual set of records. Archival appraisal of the deposits had not been undertaken due to the scale of the collection, staffing and storage limitations. Since deposit, some work had been undertaken to re-catalogue material, including work to catalogue pre-vesting date material, however the amount of material and complexity of the records still meant that some parts of the collection were not listed in detail. A cataloguing project, funded by the Wellcome Trust in 2016-2019, enabled the collection to be fully surveyed, appraised and catalogued.

Accruals are not expected.

The following collections contain material that was deposited at Glamorgan Archives by the National Coal Board and British Coal:

DPD: Records of Powell Duffryn Limited

D1100: Fernhill Collieries Limited, Records

D1101: North's Navigation Collieries (1889) Limited, Records

D1370: Cardiff Collieries Ltd, Llanbradach, Records

D1398: Burnyeat, Brown and Co., Records

D1399: Locket’s Merthyr Collieries Limited, Records

D1400: Ocean Coal Co. Limited, Records

D1404: Ocean and United National Limited, Records

D1411: United National Collieries Limited, Records

D1422: London and South Wales Coal Company, Records

D1423: Risca Coal and Iron Company, Records

D1427: Abercarn Coal Company, Records

D1482: John Jones, Hengoed, Papers

D1493: Hill's Plymouth Company Limited, Records

D1621: Welsh Navigation Steam Coal Company Limited, Papers

D1628: Ynishir Steam Coal Company Limited, Records

D1645: Glenavon Garw Collieries Limited, Records

D1668: Crown Preserved Coal Company, Limited, Records

The following list records further items, series and collections held at Glamorgan Archives relating to the coal industry. Please note that this list is not exhaustive and there may be other material held at Glamorgan Archives that is relevant to coalfield research.

BB/C/33/1-10: Clerk's Department, Borough of Barry - National Coal Board Posters

D243: Mid Glamorgan County Library, Miscellaneous Papers

D359: Aberfan Spoil tips photographs

D386: Aberdare Library Collection - coal material concerning collieries in Mountain Ash area

D608: George Hatch of Abercynon, National Union of Mineworkers papers

D624: Douglas Simpson, Colliery Manager, Papers

D682: John Owen Evans, research notes for book 'Coal Mining in Caerphilly and District'

D701: Mrs Alison Essaye, Collection. Plans originally used at NCB Offices, Tondu

D803: Teifion Davies of Ystrad Mynach, Surveyor, papers

D935: John Toghill of Caerphilly, colliery plans, collection

D955: Wyndham/Western Colliery, Nantymoel, Records

D972/2/1: Alfred J Davies Papers, Plan of the Nine Foot Seam at Windsor Colliery, Abertridwr

D978: Forestry Comission, aerial photographs, some taken for NCB

D1013: Colliery Maps and Plans of South Wales

D1061: John O'Sullivan of Cardiff, Photographer, Records

D1069: P O Davies of Mountain Ash, Deep Duffryn Colliery slides

D1080: Matthew Williams collection, images of a South Wales Miners' Gala, Cardiff, 1960s

D1114: Nantgarw and Coedely Collieries, Records

D1120: Park slip relief fund

D1265: Park Colliery and Cambrian Colliery, Records

D1301: Taff Merthyr Colliery, Trelewis, Records

D1318: Wyndham Colliery and Penllwyngwent Colliery, Records

D1370: Cardiff Collieries Ltd, Llanbradach, Records

D1544: Leslie Price, Photographs of South Wales Coalfield

D1554: Colliery Guardian, Coalfield Map, 1959

D1555: Garw Colliery, Plans

D1559: TP Spierling of Barry, Collection, south Wales coalfield plans

D1606: Mark Baker of Blaenllechau Colliery. Underground plans of Tower and Mardy Collieries

D1617: Coal Spoil reports

D1652: Jill McAndrew, Colliery Nursing Officer - occupational health research project

D1656: Conrad Phillips Colliery Photograph Collection. Photographs of pit head baths at Gelli Colliery

D1657: Leslie Price collection, colliery plans

D1686/1: James Breacher, Colliery Manager, Garw Ocean Colliery

D1722: Nightingale's Map of Glamorgan

D1724: Blaengarw Colliery Strike, Photograph, Nov 1929

D1733: Keith Leighfield, British Coal privatisation papers, 1994

BMT/E/8/13: X-ray and medical examinations of trainees and prospective employees in collieries

CL/BRA: Cardiff Libraries, British Records Association Deposits. Coal leases at CRA/BRA 715/7; CL/BRA 333/2; CL/BRA 333/14; CL/BRA 333/15

DA: Glamorgan Estate of Lord Bute, Collection

DAB/26: S Andrews and Son: records relating to collieries

DART/N/6/1-3: South Wales Argus, 'Coal Crisis' issue 1926

DB/I: Marquess of Bute Welsh Estates, Mineral Leases (copies)

DBJ: Blandy-Jenkins of Llanharan, Estate Collection

DCB: Records of Cory Brothers and Company Ltd

DCH: Edgar Chappell, Collection, Campions map of collieries, iron, tin, copper and chemical works, railways and stations in South Wales

DCOMC/13/5: Colliery Owners Taxation Committee

DCOMC/22/3: Joseph Davies and Hailey, coal and coke export statistics

DCOMC/23: Andrews, Davies and Dupont Limited, Coal Exporters

DCOMC/25/9: Annual reports, accounts, minutes etc for The Monmouthshire and South Wales Coal Owners Association

DCOMC/29/4, 9, 12: Cardiff Incorporated Chamber of Commerce - Maps and plans

DCR/13: Bwllfa & Merthyr Dare Steam Collieries (1891) Limited as additional lessee

DCR/101: Contract with Powell Duffryn Associated Collieries Limited

DDH/4: Aubrey-Fletcher Estate, Records. Correspondence and plans relating to Trebanog Colliery Company

DDJ: Dillwyn and Jones, Mining Engineers, Records

DEGS/8: The Western Merthyr Coal and Fuel Co., Deeds and plans, 1875-1959

DER: Evans and Reid Coal Company Ltd, Cardiff, Records

DG: Dowlais Iron Company, Records

DHSE: Health and Safety Executive, Records - Plans

DJE/143: Plan of part of Llyspentwyn Colliery in Mynyddislwyn (co. Mons)

DMP2/25-27: Papers of Ann Clywd, MP, concerning coal

DNACODS: National Association of Colliery Overmen, Deputies and Shotfirers (NACODS), Lady Windsor Lodge, Ynysybwl

DNLE/1: Cardiff Washed Coal Co. Ltd

DNLE/6: Garth Works, Walnut Tree Bridge, Eglwysilan

DNLE/8: Glyn Colliery Co. Ltd.

DNLE/9: Messrs. Gueret

DNLE/10: Powell’s Tillery Steam Coal Co. Ltd

DNLE/11: Pyeman Watson & Co. Ltd

DNLE/12: Taylor Leyshon & Co. coal selling agents and coal shippers

DNLE/13: Charles M Willie & Co.

DNLE/14: Company Records – various

DNLE/30: Glamorgan Coal Co. Ltd and Archibald Hood of Cardiff

DNMW/5: Bettws Colliery. Particulars and conditions of sale

DPE: Homfray of Penllyn Estate papers - Penlline estate colliery plans

DRA/11/1-466: Elders’ Navigation Colliery

DRA/11/477-513: Prospectuses, statements of account and directors’ reports of various companies

DRA/15/17-26: Ffaldau Colliery Workmen School Committee - Legal opinion, school account and correspondence

DRH: Rhymney Iron Company Records

DSA: Stephenson & Alexander, Auctioneers and Chartered Surveyors, Records

DSB/6/8: South Wales Coalfield, plans

DST/17: Maesteg Collieries, copies of leases

DST/18: Braich-y-cymmer Collieries, copies of leases

DST/25/28: Llynvi Colliery: Cost of washing coal at the Llynvi Washing Machine, maesteg, issued from Colliery office

DSWP/PH/COA: Coal strikes photographs

DTD/5: Correspondence, accounts and notes concerning colliery at Margam

DTH: Thomas Family of Llantwit Fardre and Pontypridd; collection - plans

DTHO: Thomas family of Llanbradach and Ystrad Mynach Estates Records - deeds

DVAU/61-63: Thomas and Evans Steam Coal Company, Treorci

DVL/69-117: Lanelay Estate. Colliery Plans

DWA/ABERFAN: Piggott, R.J. (Chief Surveyor, National Coal Board), Aberfan Disaster Inquiry Papers

DXNG/2: Map of east Glamorgan, showing collieries, ironworks, canals and railways

DXNS: S Jenkins, Collection

DXBA: Maps and Plans

DXBK: Port Talbot Railway & Docks Co etc

DXBT/5: Industrial deeds

DXBT/7: Industrial deeds

DXCR/1: Collection of deeds, plans and leases

DXCU/17/1-5: Plans of Abergorky and Mardy Colliery

DXCV: Insole and Biddle, Brick, Timber and Coal Merchants Records

DXCZ: Colliery plans

DXDA: Gordon's map of the South Wales coalfield

DXDG/7: Senghenydd Disaster 1913

DXDF/1-3: Gwaun-cae-gurwen collieries plans

DXDK/22: Plymouth Collieries and Ironworks, Merthyr Tydfil sale catalogue

DXDV/1-4: Plans of Blackbrook Colliery, Caerphilly; lease of workings in Rhondda

DXFA: Lease

DXGC16: Greenwood's map of south east Wales

DXGC17: Lewis Merthyr Collieries

DXGC23: Plan of the western section of the south Wales Coalfield

DXGC103: Mining ballads

DXGC156: National Museum of Wales: discussion papers

DXGC184: Photograph of official presentation of papers relating to the Aberfan disaster enquiry, to the Glamorgan Archive Service

DXGC189: Photographs from the John Cornwall Collection

DXGC206: Cartoons of the Welsh Coal strike by J.M. Staniforth

DXGC237: Plans of the South Wales Coalfield by Henry K. Jordan

DXGC293: Rhondda & Pontypridd - Tonypandy riots, 1910

DXGE7: Deeds of messuages and lands called Newhouse in Bayden, Llangynwyd; and plan of Ton Phillip Rhondda Coal Co.

DXGE16: Lease of Penrhiw and Maindy collieries

DXGJ: Universal Colliery, Senghenydd: Transcript re explosion

DXGR/1-2: Lady Lewis Pit Records

DXHD/1: The Cardiff Navigation Colliery: Sale catalogue, with five plans

DXHD2/I,ii: Bettws Llantwit Colliery Ltd

DXHU: Lewis Watkins of Caerphilly, colliery manager; Papers

DXHV: S.O. Davies

DXIA/11: Y Fwyell yn Llaw Eglwysbach, Cyf 1, Rhif 6. Rhifyn coffadwriaethol am danchwa Cilfynydd

DXIA/12/5: Postcard - Cambrian Colliery Ambulance and Nursing Division, 1920

DXIO/4: Cardiff Navigation Colliery, Llantrisant. Sale catalogue, including engineers' reports, schedule of plant, plans and sections

DXIO/5/1-7: Neath Abbey & Duffryn Estates Colliery Co. Ltd

DXIS: South Cambria Collieries Syndicate Ltd

DXIT: Sections by Henry K. Jordan, 1908

DXIU: Evans family of Llangynwyd - Llynvi Valley Colliery Company Records, 1872-1873

DXIW: Gwaundda and Graig Ddu Estate in Llantrisant

DXKF/1/16: Postcard, South Rhondda colliery, Brynna

DXKI/25: Cardiff Navigation Colliery

DXKI/34: Postcards showing collieries

DXKI/46: Senghenydd Colliery Disaster, 1913

DXMF1/83: Postcard showing Powell Duffryn colliery

DXMX: Llanbradach Colliery Records

DXN/11/1-2: David D M Clark of Cardiff Collection, National Coal Board, Annual Report and Statements of Accounts, 1947-1948

DXNG/2: Map of east Glamorgan, showing collieries, ironworks, canals and railways.

DXNH: Notice of sale: Naval Steam Coal Colliery

DXNL/7-10: Tir Tuppa & Cefn Forest Minerals

DXNS: Engineers' and Surveyors' Notebooks

DXPI: Gomer Thomas, Mining Engineer, Papers

DXQM/9: Llewellyn Pit Shaft distaster, Gifach Goch

DXQF: Plan of part of Llantrisant

DXQN/25/18: Photograph of Sketch of Cwm Winning colliery, Beddau, 13 Oct 1909

DXQS: Miss G Morgan; Collection - Coal workings at Gin Pit and Norths. Photograph of Wm. Davies (1802-70), agent of Llynfi Mineral Works.

DXRK: Deeds of property in Llantrisant

DXRQ: South Wales Coalfield plan by Henry K. Jordan

DXRS: Bargoed Colliery Ambulance Team photograph

DXRT/3/1-4: Glamorgan County Council - Children And Welfare Department records - Mineral Papers

DXRZ/8: Cardiff Navigation Colliery

DXSB/1-3: List of nicknames used in mines and factories, compiled by G. Greeves; Plans of explosion at Mclaren No. 1 pit, Rhymney; Bedwellty Pits, plan, including a section of Ty Trist Colliery, Tredegar

DXSW/3/1-2: Blaenrhondda Colliery, mineral lease/conveyance

DXTQ/8: Photographs of industrial scenes in the Rhondda Valley and Hirwaun

DXUP: G P Williams - County Councillor, collection

DX6: Photographs of Maesteg Collieries

DX64/1-8: Copy letter books and notebooks of Gwilym L. Jones, Groesfaen colliery, Bargoed. Photos, Gilfach Goch, Evanstown, Britannia Colliery

DX73/2/2: Photograph of Plymouth Colliery Workmen's Prize Band

DX102/10, 11, 14: Davies Family, Abercynon

DX107/28/1-3: T. Graham Davies of Merthyr Tydfil Collection - Leaflets, 'March for jobs' in support of the miners, 21 Oct 1992

DX143/1: Weekly pay slip of Rees Davies from Albion Colliery

DX154/2-3: Comparison of colliery performances of Powell Duffryn and Cory units

DX160: Newbridge Colliery. Photograph of a painting of the first steam engine in the Rhondda valley, now standing in the grounds of the Polytechnic of Wales, Treforest

DX186/1: Lady Windsor Colliery, Abertridwr - Storekeeper's diary

DX199/1/1: Colliery plans - Grosfaen, Garth

DX199/1/2: Photographs - Blaengarw. Colliery houses and Glenavon pithead

DX209/1/1-2: North's Navigation Collieries Ltd, Reports c1890

DX215/1: Werntarw Colliery, Pencoed. Timebook

DX228/1-4: C H Chrismas of Caerphilly, papers. Llanbradach Colliery

DX253/6: Photograph taken at the opening of the new Cardiff Coal and Shipping Exchange

DX260/1-2: D. Hugh Thomas, Papers, Programme for Senghenydd pit disaster commemoration, 1981

DX298/1: McLaren Merthyr Colliery, Abertysswg

DX316/1-3: Ocean Steam Coal Collieries

DX325/1: Coal seams, Llanwonno parish

DX325/3/1-3: Practical Coal-mining' edited by Prof. W.S. Boulton of University College, Cardiff

DX325/4: 'A treasure on ore and stone mining' by Sir Clement Le Neve Foster, seventh Edition, revised by S. Herbert Cox, 1910

DX325/17: National Colliery Disaster, July 15th, 1905

DX399/4: Cambrian Colliery Disaster Fund, Trust Deed and Scheme

DX423: John Cornwell papers, Colliery plans and lease book, 1877-1956

DX426: Cwmogwr Colliery Co.

DX450b: Penygraig, Naval Colliery Explosion. Transcripts of newspaper reports

DX454: E.G. Williams of Chepstow, Papers

D464/2/91-92, 113: Idris Bowen, amateur camera club. Underground photos and the Coal Exchange

DX470: Papers of Mr Davies, Blaenclydach

DX494: South Wales Coal Field, 1849

DX506/4: Brynmenyn Miners' Rescue Station, Agreement

DX520: Colliery disasters 1875-1905 booklet, 'Tragedies of the Mine, Thirty Years' Explosions in South Wales'

DX526: Photographic printing plate of lorries marked 'Park Coal Co., Maesteg Deep' outside City Hall, Cardiff

DX538: Llantwit and Black Vein Colliery, Sale catalogue

DX550/4: South Wales and Monmouthshire Winders' Association, Minute Book

DX557: Account of the Tynewydd Pit Disaster 1877

DX788/1: South Wales Coal Annual map of South Wales coalfield showing mineral undertakings, published by Joseph Davies, 1904

DX790/1: Report of the explosion at Six Bells Colliery, Monmouthshire

DX800: Penallta and Abercynon Colliery records

DX839/1/2-4: Collection of Postcards of Bedwas Colliery and New Tredegar

DX841/1-6: Plans of Bryn-du Colliery, near Bridgend and 1 plan of Cefn Colliery

DX860: Pamphlet including brief history of Dowlais Cardiff /Abercynon Colliery, Dec 1889-Mar 1988.

DX885: An illuminated greeting to Rowland Rowlands, manager of the Penygraig Coal Company 1873

DX920: South Wales Coalfield Maps, Printed maps of coalfields and railways

DX949: Photograph of Central Valuation Board (Coal Act, 1938)

DX953: Universal Colliery, Senghennydd mining disaster, 1913 - postcard, rescue team

DX960: Papers of Violet John relating to South Wales Miners Support Groups

DX975: Obadiah Williams, copy book with some entries concerning Dinas Middle Pit in the period 1869-1870

GD/C/CD/U/1-3: Civil Defence Collection, Aberfan Disaster

GD/PL: Proposed Glyncorrwg Miners’ Museum

MC/X/21: Mid Glamorgan County Council - Lewis Merthyr/Ty Mawr Project Steering Committee, Rhondda Heritage Park

MD/C/10/45: Visit to Prince of Wales to Nightingale's Bush Nature Reserve and Nantgarw Colliery

MD/LB/UNL/5-7: Mid Glamorgan County Council Land and Buildings Department, plans

MD/PL/5/5: Tip survey schedules and plan of derelict colliery sites in Glamorgan

MD/PL/6/13/15: Conservation Architect's files, St John's Colliery, Maesteg

UDPP/S/1: Pontypridd Urban District Council, Surveyor's Department, Miscellaneous photographs - includes coal tip subsidence and collieries

UDR: Small number of colliery tip drainage plans and other plans relating to tips

UPP/118-123: Pontypridd Poor Law Union - records relating to non-poor law duties of the Board of Guardians, including assessment of collieries