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Tylorstown,No.8 and No.9, 1920.
Situated about a mile and a half down the valley from Ferndale's No.1 and No.5 ,
Tylorstown pits consisted of three unconnected collieries until they came under the ownership of David
Davies and Sons in 1894, when they became linked and worked as one unit, employing over 1700 men
producing 1800 tons of high grade steam coal per
day.
Thomas Wayne sank No.8 or Cynllwyn du, in 1858. Originally called Pont y Gwaith it was reopened
and deepened in 1892. Coal production ended in 1935. Alfred Taylor of Tylor’s Colliery Company Limited
sank No.6 and No.7 Pendyrys colliery in 1873/76. An underground accident occurred here on the 25th of July 1892, when
three men were killed after the tram there were pushing left the rails and dislodge timber props resulting
in a roof fall crushing them to death. Known originally as Tylor's, it ceased production in the 1930's.
No.9 sunk in 1907 by D. Davies, closed in 1960. There were also three ventilation shafts Lower, Middle and
Upper fan pits. On Monday the 28th of January 1896 at half past five in the morning an explosion occurred here
killing 57 miners, most of who were making there way to the pit bottom at the end of the night shift. Two
men were killed in a shaft explosion in 1905. In 1908 the Tylorstown pits employed No. 6 = 560. No.7 = 1,033.
No. 8 = 1,112. No.9 = 207
Information on individual collieries kindly supplied by www.welshcoalmines.co.uk
