Save the Workies · Tumble
The Price of Coal
Sixty-one men lost their lives at the Great Mountain Colliery above this village. This is the story of some of them — and of the one building they left standing.
The Tumble — the Growth of a Gwendraeth Valley Mining Village by Jeff Alexander · Outburst: Curse below the Gwendraeth Valley by Phil Cullen · They Gave Me A Lamp by Phyllis M. Jones, colliery nursing officer.
Photographs: Vernon D. Emmanuel Collection, RCAHMW · Western Mail, 1958 · Lodge banner, National Museum of Wales · fatality records, Northern Mine Research Society.