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Bedwas Navigation Colliery was a coal mine in the small Welsh village of Bedwas, two miles (3.2 km) north of Caerphilly. The colliery opened in 1913, and closed after the miners' strike of 1984-85.

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Bedwas Navigation Colliery

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Bedwas Navigation Colliery was a coal mine in the small Welsh village of Bedwas, two miles (3.2 km) north of Caerphilly. The colliery opened in 1913,...

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Bedwas

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to Bedwas Navigation Colliery, but after its demise the section between Bedwas and Machen was closed in 1985. The Bridge Field is home to Bedwas RFC...

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Trethomas

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but the line remained in freight use as far as Bedwas until the closure of Bedwas Navigation Colliery in 1985. Nature has since engulfed the two platforms...

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Samuel Instone

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Death Of Sir S. Instone". The Times. 10 November 1937. p. 16. Bedwas Navigation Colliery – A Brief History Archived 2008-05-13 at the Wayback Machine Instone...

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Philip Weekes

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his pits, he was observed talking to pickets at the gates of Bedwas Navigation Colliery. During the conversation, he lit a cigarette - and the gesture...

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Mining in Wales

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mine closed in 1966 Bargoed Colliery sunk in 1887, closed 1977. Bedwas Navigation Colliery (closed 1985) Bersham Colliery (closed 1986) Big Pit National...

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Brecon and Merthyr Tydfil Junction Railway

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Bedwas Navigation Colliery, from Newport via Bassaleg and Nine Mile Point. When the Bedwas colliery closed, the section of the branch between Bedwas and...

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1985 in Wales

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strike (1984–85) formally ends. Among the mines not reopening is Bedwas Navigation Colliery. 16 May – Dean Hancock and Russell Shankland are convicted of...

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1912 in Wales

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for the remodelling of Llangoed Hall. First coal raised from Bedwas Navigation Colliery. A drill hall is built in the Pen-dre area of Tywyn for the Territorial...

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Rumney Railway

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Penallta Colliery Hengoed Hengoed High Level Cylla Goods Maesycwmmer & Hengoed Ystrad Mynach Bedwas Llanbradach Bedwas Navigation Colliery Trethomas...

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Pontllanfraith

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In 1914, Lloyd's Navigation Steam Coal Co. Ltd. restarted work at the colliery, but World War I caused it to stop again. The colliery was abandoned for...

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1954 New Year Honours

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Savings Group, Alnwick, Northumberland. Charles William Jones, Overman, Bedwas Colliery, South Western Division, National Coal Board. Violet Maud Jones, Honorary...

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1960 Birthday Honours

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Yorkshire Regional Board for Industry. Graham Reginald Beeston, JP, Councillor, Bedwas and Machen Urban District Council. Frederick Southall Bell, Collector of...

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