The list below attempts to show a complete list of levels and collieries opened within the Rhondda. The area covered by the British Rhondda and Rhigos mines was extremely large and probably covered something like a square mile.

As he was coming out of the road at about 12.15 p.m., two electricians passed him going inbye the door and stopping at the end of P.11 connection was completed at 11.15 a.m.Coaling commenced normally about it was interrupted at about 9 a.m. by the breaking of the plough chain which coincided with the failure of the face telephone circuit. The Rhondda Valleys were, between 1860 and 1939, one of the world's most important coal mining regions. They found the atmosphere smoky and dusty but it cleared slowly. The ostler from Rhondda pit used to pick him up from Boolaroo in a sulky.On the surface the coal was tipped onto a belt about 2m wide and 20m long with men on either side with picks to remove stones. The access holes were intended to be temporary, pending the drivage of a proper connection between the intake gate and the Maindy Heading return. Over time, a very large number of openings were made, spread out over this area and it is a simplification to think of British Rhondda and Rhigos as being but a single mine, as is partly borne out by the "colliery" page which mentions the seven Rhigos drifts. Rock Colliery.

An air sample taken at the same time about 10 yards from the face showed 0.38 per cent firedamp.The air bridge had two openings in the floor one about nine feet square and covered with loose boards and the other about four feet square covered with a corrugated sheet. Lewis, the Deputy Area Production Manager (Planning), Mr. W.J. Every few miles up and down the hills lie the skeletal remains of a pit head, rusting silently, majestic.Though in popular parlance the name Rhondda has become synonymous with the mining district, the Rhondda itself is a dual-pronged valley rising north of Pontypridd. From the start the return end of the face had been advanced more rapidly than the intake end so as to bring it into line and at right angles with the roads and this had almost been achieved at the time of the explosion. During the winter, a collier never saw the sun except on Sunday, going into the pits before daybreak and emerging again after dark. Duke driving past decorated miners cottages. Jones, sheavesman for the mine, who was supervising this work, was in the roadway for nearly three hours from 9.30 a.m. and thought the ventilation satisfactory. Davies went to the telephone at the intake end of the face and spoke to the plough operator at the return end who said he would go and make inquiries. At the time of the disaster the pack was about eight yards behind and the air was leaving the face could not sweep into the fast end. The Inspector thought that they were originally the connection with the ventilation from the P.25 face. Fernhill colliery pit head. This probably took about half to three quarters of an hour but it was clear that from the time the materials reached the air bridge until the explosion the large access hole remained open. The justly acclaimed male voice choirs of Wales remain. Two major operations wee in progress, the transport and erection of a belt conveyor in the intake gate to replace one of the existing chain conveyors and the extension of a rope haulage system in the return gate. A level is seen as a horizontal cut into a hill or mountain to access a seam of coal, while a colliery consists of shafts mined into the earth to reach seams of coal underground. He would come back less than an hour later and Ernie would see nobody else until about 2.45pm when the men would start to come out of the pit.


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