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The reason for making this website is because of the rapid demise of the coal industry. Very soon there will be little left to show our children, so what we have done is to take a local coal mine, which even though iis very old, is fortunately fairly intact, and indeed since 1974 has been classified as a Monument of National Importance. Here we have tried to explain a brief history of the origins of coal and the early ways of mining it. One is able to appreciate the skill of the builders of these pit heads, and the men who worked these mines in the mid 19th and early part of the 20th century.

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We can use our imagination and visualise what it would have been like to have been involved here at Glyn Pits almost 175 years ago when the shafts was first being sunk and to hear those old engines working away. One should also try to picture seeing women working on site with their children - from the ages of 7 years, which came about from the sheer necessity of helping to keep the families solvent for, believe it or not, the few pennies earned by the children sometimes made the difference between survival and the workhouse.  You will also read about several of the mining disasters which shook the British coalfields, and what was causing them.