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Saturday, 26 October 2019

Taff Merthyr Colliery CF46 6RD

Heritage Plaques
- Structures



Taff Merthyr Colliery
CF46 6RD


The plaque read:

Taff Merthyr

Opened in 1926 it provided work much needed after the close of the nearby Bedlinog Pit 2 years earlier. The pit shafts reached a depth of 1,745 feet and by the 1980s produced 440,000 tons of coal a year and employed 680 men.


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