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    Oakdale Colliery was a coal mine located in the Sirhowy Valley, one of the valleys of South Wales. In the early years of the twentieth century the need...
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  • hamlet of Rhiw Syr Dafydd. Work began clearing the site for the new colliery at Oakdale with the sinking of the pit in 1907. Waterloo shaft followed in 1911...
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    Managing Director of the Tredegar Iron and Coal Company, which owned Oakdale Colliery, represented them at the opening ceremony; the company had lent money...
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    line running between Risca and the Oakdale Colliery in the South Wales coalfield. It finally closed when the colliery closed in 1989 but several sections...
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    Industry and the Social Welfare Organisation, and funded by the miners of Oakdale Colliery at the rate of 3d a week. The building was initially single-story but...
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  • sat for Abertillery. In 1919 William persuaded the then owners of Oakdale Colliery, the Tredegar Iron and Coal Company to hand the franchise of the bakery...
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  • his family. He joined his father and eldest brother in the mines at Oakdale Colliery.[betterĀ sourceĀ needed][dead link] In the years after this, he qualified...
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    when sunk in 1915 Navigation Colliery in Crumlin Nine Mile Point Colliery at Cwmfelinfach (closed 1964) Oakdale Colliery at Ty Mellyn in the Sirhowy Valley...
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  • Witworth Colliery 1876: Pochin Colliery 1898: McLaren Colliery 1907: Oakdale Colliery 1908: Waterloo Colliery 1910: Markham Colliery 1926: Wyllie Colliery "A...
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    the Pontllanfraith and Oakdale sites until 2017 before moving to the new building located on the former site of Oakdale Colliery. On 28 September 2017...
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