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Collieries - Garngoch N3
Garngoch Colliery No.3
Location: Latitude: 51.665033 , Longitude: -4.008695 or Map Grid Reference: SS6117498161
John Glasbrook (1816-1887) Colliery Owner - Contemporary Portraits, Men & Women of South Wales & Monmouthshire", (Western Mail, 1897) |
Garngoch No.3 Colliery Area - Google Earth 1945 |
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Garngoch No.3 Colliery Area Reproduced from (1936 -1947) Ordnance Survey map. No.3 Colliery with buildings and Drift to its right. Mineral railway joining with No.2 from the left. In the bottom left corner is the disused Isolation Hospital. |
Garngoch No.3 Colliery Area - Google Earth 2009 |
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 Garngoch No.3 Colliery |
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 Old Isolation Hospital area (Disused) |
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 Mineral Railway No.2 & No.3 with junction which leads to No.1 Colliery |
Garngoch my understanding, meaning "red cairn", explanation: Garn or Carn (mound or cairn) from bronze age burial and goch,
meaning red coming from the Battle of Gower 1136. The area is also linked with Roman times.
The Battle of Gower 1136 memorial stone can be seen - follow sign post from Hospital Road, Garngoch.
Source |
Index |
Area |
Date |
Details |
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(NLT) |
STORY OF SWANSEA D & V |
1906 | The No.3 was opened in this year. |
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(RL) |
THE COLLIERS OF THE SWANSEA |
1908 |
The No.3 was managed by S.R.
Morgan and employed 152 / 43 men. |
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(RL) |
THE COLLIERS OF THE SWANSEA |
1916 |
The No.3 employed 468 men and was managed by D. Price. |
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(RL) |
THE COLLIERS OF THE SWANSEA |
1918 |
No.3 employed 308/57 the manager was D.J. Price. |
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(RL) |
THE COLLIERS OF THE SWANSEA |
1919 |
No.3 employed 353 men, manager D.J. Price. |
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(RL) |
THE COLLIERS OF THE SWANSEA |
1923 |
No.3 Pit employed 292/84 with Mr. Price still the manager. |
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(RL) |
THE COLLIERS OF THE SWANSEA |
1927 |
No.3 employed 355 men. |
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(RL) |
THE COLLIERS OF THE SWANSEA |
1930 |
The No.3 Pit manager Mr.D.J. Price and employed 376 /76 men in the mine. |
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(RL) |
THE COLLIERS OF THE SWANSEA |
1943/5 |
No.3 was managed by D.H. Rees and employed 328/135 working the Five-Feet and Six-Feet seams. |
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(RL) |
THE COLLIERS OF THE SWANSEA |
1947 |
The No.3 Pit employed 311/115 men working the Five-Feet and Six-Feet seams and was managed by D.H. Rees. |
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(RL) |
THE COLLIERS OF THE SWANSEA |
1954 |
The No.3 Pit was in the No.l Area's No.2 (Morlais) Group and employed |
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(RL) |
THE COLLIERS OF THE SWANSEA |
In 1955 |
There were 328 men employed on the coalfaces at this colliery. |
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(RL) |
THE COLLIERS OF THE SWANSEA |
1956 |
The amount of men were 300 on the
coalfaces in this year with the price list for the machine cut 31" thick 5 foot seam at two shillings and two pence per square yard.
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(RL) |
THE COLLIERS OF THE SWANSEA |
1958 |
A total of 286 men were working at the coalfaces in this year. |
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(RL) |
THE COLLIERS OF THE SWANSEA |
1961 |
The No.2 Group along with Morlais, Mountain and Brynlliw collieries. The Group had a manpower of 1,987 men, and a total coal production of 435,477 tons. The manager was J. Griffiths, and the Area Manager was J.G.Tait. |
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(NLT) |
STORY OF SWANSEA D & V |
1965. |
Many of the men were transfered to Brynlliw, 120 was just the start. |
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(NLT) |
STORY OF SWANSEA D & V |
1966 Feb. 11 |
In this month 238 joined workers at Brynlliw and others absorbed into other local collieries. No. 3 had a weekly output of 2,000 tons and its closure left only 13 pits within the Swansea No. 1 Area of the N.C.B.'s South Western Division at that time. The No.3 officaily closed by N.C.B to concentrate on more economic pits. |
NOTES: AREA COLLUM (etc.)
- THE COLLIERS OF THE SWANSEA AND SWANSEA VALLLEY GENERAL AREAS by Ray Lawrence BSc. 2008 - STORY OF SWANSEA D & V Norman Lewis Thomas (The Story of Swansea Districts and Villages Volume II Parts IV-VIII with Abridged Volume I Parts I - III, 1969)
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It mainly worked the Swansea Four-Feet, Five-Feet and Six-Feet seams.
Workers: e.g. 355 /61 = 355 underground and 61 on the surface.
The names of collieries would often change with ownership or re-openings, the coal seam name would sometimes follow suit. ________________________________________________________________________________________________
QUOTE
"No. 3 Pit was closed down in view of the fact that the coal it now worked could be brought up more conveniently from the Brynlliw Pit, in February, 1966."
The Story of Swansea Districts and Villages Volume II Parts IV-VIII with Abridged Volume I Parts I - III, 1969, p68
REFERENCE: "Garngoch" was used to filter the Cambrian index as best as possible with the information available. (C) Cambrian [web filtered] | Available from the Swansea County Hall |
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*A huge thank you to Dave Arnold for all his help with the Collieries* |
Thank you to the City & County of Swansea for all your help and support. |