Nine Mile Point Colliery
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Nine Mile Point Colliery
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Nine Mile Point colliery was a coal mine at Cwmfelinfach in the South Wales Valleys, originally known as "Coronation Colliery", and constructed between 1902 and 1905. The deepest shaft was 1,176 feet deep. Seven men were killed on 13 August 1904 during the establishment of the mine. It was renamed Nine Mile Point as that was the distance of the tramroad from the edge of Lord Tredegar's boundary in Newport to the colliery. At its peak it employed 2,105 men, who lived mainly in the surrounding vil
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Welsh coal mine
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nine_Mile_Point_Colliery
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2022-06-17T04:50:58Z
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