Garw/Ffaldau Colliery
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garw-ffaldau-colliery-317-5942908
title:
Garw/Ffaldau Colliery
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The Garw/Ffaldau Colliery was a colliery formed in 1975 in Pontycymer, Wales. It was formed from the joining together of the Garw Colliery and the Ffaldau Colliery. The Ffaldau Colliery had 1,100 workers in 1927, though this had declined by half by the mid 1930s. The pit closed in November 1985; a total of 630 miners lost their jobs. A potential buy out of the pit by workers had been mooted, but this was deemed to have been prohibitively expensive after the National Coal Board cut the ropes on t
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Welsh coal mine active in the 20th century
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garw/Ffaldau_Colliery
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2020-12-22T22:28:14Z
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