Location:

Gelli, Rhondda Fawr Valley

Sunk:

1870

Closed:

1962

Also known as the Globe and sunk in 1870, five men were killed in an underground explosion in 1871, followed by five more in 1883 - 16 others were severely burned in the blast. By 1913 the colliery employed 296 men with 238 in the house coal pit and 58 in the steam coal pit and following Nationalisation in 1947 111 men were employed on the surface and 414 underground, which increased to 583 men underground and 128 on the surface in 1954, achieving a maximum output of 166,261 tons in 1955. Gelli Colliery was closed in January 1962.