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Demolition of Marine Colliery 2

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1989

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Cwm

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That is me (Joanne Dobbs at the time) I can remember walking from Cwm primary school with my class to watch the marine colliery be demolished.
By Joanne whyatt (03/04/2024)

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Social History

Official Reception for the Wales and Scotland Quoits Teams at The Park Hotel,Waunlwyd.
Victoria and Waunlwyd Welfare Grounds
1880 Map of Victoria and land where Waunlwyd was built on in the 1890's.
1984 Floods at Station Terrace
77 Curre St. In the 1940s
A new pit head wheel at Marine Colliery
Aerial photo of Waunlwyd, 1948
Aerial View of Waunlwyd
Alan James, Milkman, delivering milk in Augustus Street,Victoria.
Albert Griffiths,Undertaker,Carpenter,Joiner.
Albert Griffiths,Undertaker.
Augusta Street ,view North
Augusta Street Victoria
Baptists' Whitsun Walk, 1961
Bargoed Emporium
Betterment Bowls team
Betterment Field
Bill, Ella and Cara Mills, 1919
Biographical note
Blacksmith's Shop
Book presented to Amos John Harris
Boys Club Certificate
Boys' Clubs Award
Brighton Terrace
Brynhyfryd Terrace
Building the Colosseum Cinema, 1900
Butchery Dept., Waunlwyd Cooperative Stores,Station Road
By Product Plant
Caersalem Chapel Charabanc Outing in Waunlwyd
Caersalem Chapel Whitsun Turnout
Caersalem Chapel Whitsun Turnout
Caersalem Chapel Whitsun Turnout
Caersalem Chapel,Annual Sunday School Outing
Caersalem Ladies Sunday School Class
Caersalem Outing to Goughs Cave,Cheddar
Canning Street
Castle Hotel, Cwm
Celebration photograph outside the Oak.
Children's Playground, 1925 or 1926
Childrens play at Presbyterien Chapel.
Civic Luncheon at The Park Hotel, Waunlwyd for WALES and SCOTLAND Quoits International Teams.
Class 5 of Cwmyrdderch School (Top School)
Class of Pupils in Tyllwyn School Hut.
Cliff Shaw
Club Meeting at The Betterment Field
Collapse of Cwm Institute, 1992
Colliers and Colliers Boys
Colliers at Waunlwyd Colliery
Colliery and Pithead Baths
Colliery Disasters
Congregational Chapel Whitsun Picnic at the Garden Wells
Construction Gang building St.Matthew's Church in Tyllwyn.
Construction Gang laying Foundations for St. Matthew's Church,Tyllwyn.
Construction of Cwm Relief Road
Construction of Cwm Relief Road
Construction of Cwm Relief Road
Construction of Cwm Relief Road
Construction Site of Garden Festival Wales
Cookery Class Cwm community Centre
Cooperative Society,Station Road, Waunlwyd, in the 1970s
Cooperative Stores,Station Road, Waunlwyd, in the 1970s
Cornish pump engine at Marine Colliery site.
Corus Steelwork Site Prior to demolition
Corus Steelworks Prior to demolition
Cox's Bus Co. Ltd.
Cox's bus service from Cwm to Ebbw Vale, 1919
Critchcraft Shopping Centre
Crowd Gathering for a Special Event
Crown on the Coal Bunker for Queen Elizabeth's Coronation in 1953
Crumlin Low Level Station,G.W.R.
Crumlin Railbridge
Curre St Party
Currre St Victory Party
Cwm
Cwm (general view)
Cwm and Waunlwyd Community Archive display
Cwm Argyles Soccer Team
Cwm Band, 1939
Cwm Baptist Chapel, c. 1900
Cwm Betterment Quoit Ground,Wales 223 pts v England 179 pts.
Cwm Boys Brigade 1908
Cwm Boys Brigade football team 1940s
Cwm Boys' Brigade
Cwm Bypass
Cwm Bypass Consultation Document
Cwm Bypass looking north from St. Paul's Bridge
Cwm Bypass looking north from St. Paul's Bridge
Cwm Bypass looking south from St. Paul's Bridge
Cwm Bypass looking south from St. Paul's Bridge
Cwm Carnival
Cwm Carnival Day
Cwm Carnival Day
Cwm Carnival Day
Cwm Carnival Day
Cwm Carnival Day
Cwm Carnival Day
Cwm Carnival Queen and Court1950
Cwm Carnival, 1950s
Cwm Celtic Football Team
Cwm Constabulary 1939 to 1945
Cwm Dyffryn School Choir
Cwm Dyffryn School,Standard 1A
Cwm fire brigade
Cwm Fire Brigade, c. 1916
Cwm general
Cwm general
Cwm General
Cwm general
Cwm in the 1890s
Cwm in the 1890s
Cwm in the 1950s
Cwm Infants Council School Standard 4
Cwm Institute
Cwm Institute
Cwm Institute
Cwm Institute,before being demolished.
Cwm Junior School
Cwm Male Choir and Sonlight Singers.
Cwm Male Voice choir
Cwm Male Voice Choir at Tirzah Baptist Chapel
Cwm Marine Colliery
Cwm Marine Colliery
Cwm Marine Colliery
Cwm Marine Colliery Disaster when 53 miners lost their lives in an Underground Explosion
Cwm Marine Colliery,view East
Cwm Mens Club
Cwm Merddog Farm
Cwm New School Infants
Cwm OAPs Christmas Party, 1970
Cwm Pensioners Committee
Cwm Pensioners Outing to Blackpool in William Street
Cwm postcard
Cwm Quoits Club 1898.
Cwm Railway Station
Cwm Railway Station,view South
Cwm Railway Station,view South
Cwm Relief Road
Cwm Road
Cwm Road
Cwm Road, Waunlwyd, during demolition
Cwm Road, Waunlwyd, during demolition
Cwm Station, 1947
Cwm Sunday School Union. New Presidency.
Cwm Top School football team
Cwm Town Band
Cwm Town Band outside The Workingmen's Club in Crosscombe Terrace
Cwm United Football Team 1933
Cwm Villa Football Team 1932
Cwm Walking Club
Cwm Welfare Football Team
Cwm with Presbyterian Vestry in foreground
Cwm Workingmens Club
Cwm, Aerial View
Cwm, c. 1900
Cwm, c. 1900
Cwm, c. 1900
Cwm,Southern Part
Cwmrhydderch School
Cwmyrdderch (Top) Junior School,Festival of Britain practice for a display at Ebbw Vale Rugby Ground.
Cwmyrdderch Infants
Cwmyrdderch School
Cwmyrdderch School Choir, 1933
D.Ronald Evans ,Freeman of The Borough of Blaenau Gwent.
D.Ronald Evans,Honorary Freeman of The Borough of Blaenau Gwent.
D.Ronald Evans,M.B.E.,J.P.The Freedom of The Borough of Blaenau Gwent.
David Ronald Evans ,Freeman
Day Trip on the canal at Gilwern
Dedication of Foundation Stone of St.Matthew's Church,Tyllwyn.
Dedication Service of new St.Matthew's Church Tyllwyn.
Delya Programme, 1943
Demolition of Cwm Institute,after structural damage.
Demolition of Marine Colliery 2
Demolition of the Marine Colliery
Demolition of The Pickler on the Corus Site.
Demolition of The Victoria Hotel,Gin Shop
Deriliction after Ebbw Vale Steelworks demolition
Doreen Williams (nee Munn)
Douglas C.Osborne,Wireles Specialist.
Drill Hall Cwm. Christmas party
Duffryn Garage.
Dyffryn Boys School. Std 1A Class Photograph
Dyffryn Council School, Std. 3
Dyffryn School
Dyffryn School
Dyffryn School Caretakers House, flooding viewed from the Marine Colliery Tip
Dyffryn School Choir
Dyffryn School Football XI
Dyffryn Schools,Cwm
Dyffryn Secondary School
Dyffyrn Infants Class 2 Photograph
Early veiw of Cwm
Early View of Cwm looking N.E.
Early View of Cwm looking N.E.
Ebbw Vale Carnival
Ebbw Vale Carnival
Ebbw Vale Carnival
Ebbw Vale Coke Ovens opposite Garden City
Ebbw Vale High Level Station L.M.S and L.N.W.R.view south towards the Crossing.
Ebbw Vale Steelworks
Ebbw Vale Steelworks
Ebbw Vale Steelworks in full production
Ebbw Vale Steelworks view North
Ebbw Vale Steelworks view North
Ebbw Vale Steelworks,demolition of The Pickler by Tyllwyn.
Ebbw Vale Steelworks,South End
Ebbw Valley looking North
Ebbw Valley view South
Ebbw Valley,Garden Festival of Wales construction
Edward,Prince of Wales visiting No 5 Pit by Garden City in 1918,this pit was then named after him.
Edward,Prince of Wales visiting Roch Street, Abertillery.
Edward,Prince of Wales visiting the Depressed Areas of South Wales.
Edward,Prince of Wales, visiting a derelict Steelworks site in South Wales.
Edward.Prince of Wales speaking with ExServicemen in South Wales.
Elias and Florence (Flo) Penny
Ellis Evans, 1930s
Field Marshal Montgomery's visit
Fifty Years of Sport in Cwm 1896 to 1946 by Albert Baker.
Float at May Day Parade 1921
Floral Display for Garden Festival Wales
Football International at Cardiff.Result Wales 0 England 4.
Football International at Cardiff.Result Wales 0 England 4.Wales team included 3 footballers from Victoria,Eugene O'Callaghan and Willie Evans both played for Tottenham Hotspur ,Cuthbert Phillips played for Wolverhampton Wanderers.
Forbes Alexander C.S.M
Foundation Stone laid by The Bishop of Monmouth.
Fred L.Coombes,Undertaker.D.H.Thomas,Central Stores.
Garden City viewed from the top of one of the Chimney Stacks in Ebbw Vale Steelworks
Garden Festival Site under construction
Garden Festival view North from the Shuttle
Garden Festival Wales 1992 Panorama 1
Garden Festival Wales 1992 Panorama 2
Garden Festival Wales 1992 Panorama 3
Garden Festival Wales Construction,view South towards Cwm.
Garden Festival Wales landscaping 1990 view South.
Garden Festival Wales site landscaping.
General View of Cwm
General View of Cwm looking East
General View of Cwm looking North
General View of Waunlwyd
General View of Waunlwyd
Girl Guides c. 1920
Graig Colliery, Cwm
Grave of Gunner Amos John Harris
Griffin's Garage, 1947
Group Photograph
Gryff,Garden Festival Wales Mascot,Floral Display
Hanson Family
Heavy End of Ebbw Vale Steelworks,Waunlwyd
Heavy end of the Ebbw Vale Steelworks viewed to the N.W. from Waunlwyd.
Heckett's Site
Heckett's Site opposite Waunlwyd,view South towards Cwm
Helles Memorial, Gallipoli, Turkey
Hospital Sunday,Cwm
Institute Hall,Cwm.A Variety Concert.
Interior Damage at Cwm Institute
King Street, 1951 Party
Labour Party pensioners' Christmas Party, early 1960s
Lancaster Colliery,Six Bells.
Last Jones's Bus to Pass through Tyllwyn.
Last Pit Pony with Richard Yemm at Waunlwyd Colliery
Last Train at Victoria Station before the G.W.R.line closed to passenger traffic,view North.
Lethbridge Terrace
Lethbridge Terrace
Lethbridge Terrace demolished
Letter from Aneurin Bevan M.P.replying to Mr. Stanley Bevan.
Lime Plant and Slag Tipping
Lime Plant,Railway Sidings,Coolers
List of Wales Quoits Champions up to 1953
Llandavel
Local Adverts
Local Adverts
Local Adverts
Local Adverts
Local Map
Long Service Retirement Members Of R.T.B. Mechanical Engineering Dept.
Map of Cwm
Map Of The Old Farms
Map Of The Old Farms 2
Marine Colliery
Marine Colliery
Marine Colliery
Marine Colliery
Marine Colliery
Marine Colliery
Marine Colliery
Marine Colliery
Marine Colliery
Marine Colliery before demolition
Marine Colliery before demolition
Marine Colliery Cricket XI
Marine Colliery Disaster 1927
Marine Colliery in winter
Marine Colliery Officials Outing
Marine Colliery Pit shaft No. 2 taken from Pit shaft No. 1.
Marine Colliery video. Disaster, 1927.
Marine Colliery, The Second Ariel Ropeway
Marine Colliery,closure 1989,view from The Rhiw.
Marine Colliery,Cwm,view South.
Marine Street
Marine Street, c. 1900
members of Paran Chapel Manmoel.
Memoir of Cllr. Job Cool
Memories by George Carpenter
Methodist chapel float in Cwm Carnival
Methodist Chapel float in Cwm Carnival, late 1950s
Methodist Ladies, 1930s
Military Band Archive,The Jerome Gatehouse Collection
Mill Terrace amd Mill Farm, c. 1900
Mill Terrace Junior Youth Club
Mill Terrace Methodist Church
Mills family haymaking, 1953
Mills family haymaking, 1953
Miss Rose outside her fathers shop at School Terrace
Monmouthshire Railway Society Special at Victoria.
Moore family portrait c.1925
Mr and Mrs J. Long on their Diamond Wedding
Mr B.P.Pritchard B.A B.D Minister of Tirzah Baptist Church
Mr J Mills and Mr W Mills
Mr Rose the baker at School Terrace
Mrs Irene Mills making hay in Wordl War II
Munitions Workers at Ebbw Vale Steelworks during World War 1.
New Bessemer Converter being delivered for The Ebbw Vale Steelworks. View is North East
New church organ, Methodist Chapel
Newspaper cutting re. Cwm Bypass
Newspaper cutting re. Mr George Carpenter
Official Invitation to Mr.and Mrs.Enid Morris for The Honorary Freeman bestowed on David Ronald Evans,Labour Agent for Aneurin Bevan M.P. And Michael Foot M.P.
Official Opening of The Miner's Memorial near The Cwm Marine Colliery Site.
Old Caersalem Deacons
Old Cwm Bridge, 1947
Old Ebbw Vale Steelworks
Old Farms of The Ebbw Fawr Valley
Old Mill Farm
Old Steelworks
Open Day at Victoria House
Opening of Cwm OAPs' Hall
Painting of Pen Y Crug Farm in The Silent Valley or Cwm Merddach by Marilyn Hilgartner.
Park Hotel
Park Hotel Quoit Ground,Waunlwyd
Park Hotel,Waunlwyd
Park Place
Park View
Powell's Billiard Saloon 2
Powell's Billiard Saloon,Cwm.
Powell's Billiard Saloon,Lucania
Powell's Billiards Saloon
Presbyterian Vestry under construction
Presbyterian Whitsun Walk
Pretoria Terrace,Tyllwyn.
Primitive Methodists in Aubrey Terrace,meeting of The Sisterhood
Programme 2
Programme for the induction service of Rev. F.R. Smith
Programme of Induction Service
Quoits WALES 237pts ENGLAND 150pts
Quoits International Wales 205 England 194 held in 1920 at Ystrad Rhondda
Quoits International ,Wales 223 England 179
Quoits International ,Wales v England held at Victoria Park
Quoits International 1954 at Llanhilleth
Quoits International 1958,Wales v England at The Park Hotel,Waunlwyd
Quoits International at Cwm,WALES 223 pts ENGLAND 179 pts.
Quoits International at Llanhilleth 1954 Wales v Scotland.
Quoits International at The Park Hotel ,Waunlwyd, WALES 149 pts England 86 pts.
Quoits International at Waunlwyd,Wales 104 pts Scotland 142 pts.
Quoits International Records of Wales v Scotland
Quoits International Wales 104 pts Scotland 142 pts.
Quoits International Wales v England 1920
Quoits International,Wales 237 England 150
Quoits International,Wales v England held at The Betterment ,Cwm
Quoits Result 1958,Wales 104 Scotland 142
R.T.B. Steelworks view North from The Domen
R.T.B., Ebbw Vale Welfare and Cwm Welfare Tennis Social Gathering
Railway Line at Cwm when mountain slipped
Red Ash Colliery
Removal of railtrack at Ebbw Vale High Level Station,L.M.S.line.
Reunion of some of The Residents of Lethbridge Terrace
River Row ,Cwm
Road painting on the Cwm Road, 1940s.
Royal British Legion,Cwm Branch.
Royal Consent from Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth for The National Eisteddfod of Wales at Ebbw Vale in 1958.
Royal National Eisteddfod Of Wales held at Ebbw Vale 4 to 8 August 1958.
Ruins of Tyn Y Gelli Farm and the residue of The Waunlwyd Slag Tips in The Silent Valley.
Sallis' shop float in Cwm Carnival, 1930s
School attendance certificate
Service Bus 1928 at Fitzroy Avenue
Sid Bryant and the Blue Ensign
Sir Frederick Mills House
Slag Tips in 1986 being demolished in preparation for Garden Festival Wales 1992.
Slag Tips in The Silent Valley
Slag Tips opposite Waunlwyd
Slag Tips opposite Waunlwyd view South.
Social Meeting at The Betterment Field
South End of Ebbw Vale Steelworks
South End Of The Ebbw Vale Steelworks
South West Corner of Cwm Institute Collapse
St Mary's Church Waunlwyd prior to the Garden Festival.
St Paul's Church
St Pauls Bridge (the New Bridge ) demolished in 2003
St. Paul's Church, Cwm
St.Mary's Church,Victoria
St.Mary's Church,Victoria2
St.Matthews Church,Tyllwyn.
Staff of Sallis' shop, 1920s
Stained Glass Window dedicated by The Bishop of Monmouth.
Standing in line for bread, 1947
Standing in line for bread, 1947
Station Road, Waunlwyd
Station Road, Waunlwyd in the 1970s
Station Road, Waunlwyd, and the south end of Ebbw Vale Steelworks
Station Road, Waunlwyd, in the 1970s
Station Terrace
Station Terrace and Baptist Chapel
Stationmasters House
Steelworks during Demolition
Steelworks tips prior to festival site
Stephenson Rail Special passing through Cwm Station.
Tabernacle Chapel Outing from Waunlwyd
Tea At The Cwm Pensioners Hall
Teaspoon from Caersalem Chapel,Victoria.
Tennis Inter club Tournament Presentation R.T.B., Ebbw Vale Welfare, and Cwm Welfare
The Bailey Arms Tug o' War Team, 1968
The Building of Canning Street
The Cornish Pump in the Marine Colliery
The demolition of Marine Colliery
The Ebbw Vale Works Magazine
The last pit pony at Marine Colliery
The last pit pony being led out from The Marine Colliery by Jack (Gaffer) Lewis
The Marine Colliery
The Park Hotel in Waunlwyd
The people of the Waterwheel, Waunlwyd, on a day trip to Barry Island.
The Pickler after Demolition, view across to Ebbw Vale.
The Pickler before Demolition on the Corus Site, view across the valley to Ebbw Vale.
The Pickler,last building of the Corus site to be demolished.
The Richards Family,10,School Terrace,Cwm.
The Royal National Eisteddfod of Wales held in Ebbw Vale,August 4 to 9,1958.
The Wilcox family, 1930s
Tirzah after the fire
Tirzah after the fire
Tirzah after the fire of 1916
Tirzah Baptist being rebuilt
Tirzah Baptist Chapel ,Cwm,1880
Tirzah Baptist Church Whitsun Walkout,Railway View
Tottenham Hotspur Football Club 1932.
Tyllwyn
Tyllwyn Old Age Pensioners Hall,Official Opening.
Tyn y Fyd Farm
Unkown darts players
Unkown local girl
Upper Cwm
Victoria G.W.R.Station,view North
Victoria Park ,Annual Open Day at Whitsun
Victoria Residents bus trip to Symonds Yat
Victoria Station From Glan Ebbw Terrace
Victoria Steelworks,Blast Furnaces
Victoria United Football Team 1907
Victoria view from Waunlwyd
Victoria(built in 1837 and named after Queen Victoria)
Victory Certificate, 1946
View from the top of Waunlwyd Tips.
View from top of Slag Tips
View from Tyllwyn towards Ebbw Vale
View North from Lethbridge Terrace
View North from Queen Street,of Victoria Mixed School and Augusta Street.
View North from Steelworks
View North from Victoria of RTBs Water Treatment Plant
View North from Waunlwyd Colliery Site
View North of Augusta Street,Bethel Chapel,and Ebbw Vale Steelworks.
View North Of Garden Festival Wales Landscaping
View North up The Gin Shop Hill or Victoria Road
View of Cwm c1920
View of Victoria
View of Waunlwyd Colliery from The Lime Plant
View South from Park Road,Garden City
View South from Tubular Bridge over the River Ebbw Fawr
View South of Ebbw Vale Steelworks
View South of Ebbw Vale Steelworks and Lethbridge Terrace
View South of the first Victoria Iron Works
View South of Tyllwyn
View South of Tyllwyn and Ebbw Vale Steelworks
View South of Victoria Road(Gin Shop Hill) with Ebbw Vale Steelworks
View South of Waunlwyd
View South to Cwm from Construction Site of Garden Festival Wales.
View South to Cwm from Garden Festival Bluffs
View South to Cwm from Slag Tips
View South to Queen Street and Victoria Mixed School
View South towards Cwm from Waunlwyd Sidings
Visit of Viscount Montgomery
Wales Football International.Result Wales 5 Scotland 2 .Eugene O'Callaghan scored 2 goals.
Wales Football Team in Belfast 1933.Wales 1 Ireland 1.
Wales International Quoits Team
Wales Quoits Team 1912
Wales Quoits Team v England played at The Custom House,London.This was the first time Wales 219 pts beat England 203 pts away.
Wales,O'Callaghan and Evans, and England, Bowden and Hapgood, Football Internationals.
Walter Harris
Waunlwyd Albions A.F.C. 1925 1926
Waunlwyd and Victoria Institute
Waunlwyd CO OP staff 1956
Waunlwyd Colliery
Waunlwyd Colliery
Waunlwyd Colliery
Waunlwyd Colliery
Waunlwyd Colliery Officials 1901
Waunlwyd Colliery Site
Waunlwyd Colliery,view South.
Waunlwyd Council School Standard IV
Waunlwyd Council School Standard V 1911
Waunlwyd Council School,Standard V
Waunlwyd Council School,Standard1V
Waunlwyd Nibs Carnival Group
Waunlwyd Panorama 1
Waunlwyd Panorama 2
Waunlwyd recreational field prior to Garden Festival
Waunlwyd School Staff
Waunlwyd School, 1960s
Waunlwyd Slag Tips in The Silent Valley
Waunlwyd Tips from Dramroad(disused)
Waunlwyd, General. Station Road before demolition.
Waunlwyd(General)view from the Domen
Wedding of Jean Forty and Frank Heath
Wedding of William Mills and Irene Long, taken in the garden of 61 Curre St.
Wednesday Night Youth Club, Table Tennis Cup, 1946
Whitsun Day Out at Victoria Park
Whitsun turnout
Whitsun Turnout
Whitsun Walk,Canning Street
Whitsun Walk,End of Station Terrace
Whitsun Walk,Marine Street
Whitsun Walk,Mill Terrace
Whitsun Walkout Caersalem Chapel
Whitsun Walkout,Caersalem
Whitsun Walkout,Waunlwyd Chapels
Whitsun Walks
William Mills making hay in World War II
Workers at Red Ash Level
Z Training Parade