Location:

Pontypridd, Taff Vale

Sunk:

circa 1841

Closed:

1961

Sunk in 1841 and serving the Taff Railway this colliery was lying idle by 1897. Following this the Great Western Colliery Company took control and in 1906 deepened the mine until in 1913 it was back to full production and employing 843 men. On Nataionalisation in 1947 the colliery employed 66 men on the surface and 348 men underground before the colliery was closed by the National Coal Board in June 1961.