YEAR	EVENT
1815	Invention of the Davy Lamp promises a new era in mine safety
1839	CHARTIST UPRISING - A plaque in memory of William Williams of Cwmtillery, who was killed on November 4th can be seen on the Cwmtillery Colliery pit wheel memorial.
1842	Elled Coal Seam found at Cwmtillery, located at a depth of 130yds by Thomas Brown.
1850	First deep mine sunk in Cwmtillery
1850s	Housing construction start around Top Rows and West Bank Area's.
1851	Lower Lake constructed as a feeder pond for the Cwmtillery Colliery.
1851	Pen-y-bont colliery opened, Closed late 1960s.
1855	Gray Colliery Opened by Powell's Tillery Steam Coal Company.
1864	The South Wales Colliery Company was formed
1872	West Bank Primitive Methodist Church Built. Abandoned in 1910 due to subsidence.
1873	Under ground explosion kills Six people and badly injured two others.
1876	Under ground explosion kills Eighteen people in the threequarter district.
1885	Gray and Vivian Collieries opened.
1887	Primitive Methodist Chapel West Bank, building enlarged, seating now doubled
1888	St Paul's Church, Built on land donated by the Colliery Company, Completed 1891.
1893	School extension added to the Primitive Methodist Chapel
1906	Cwmtillery Reservoir completed.
	A single storey stone chapel was enlarged into the "Red Brick Chapel" Roberts Row
1910	Abertillery & District Water Board was formed
1911	The Primitive Methodist Chapel rebuilt at new site in West Bank
1912	Work started on the construction of the Grwyne Fawr Reservoir in the Black Mountains.
1913	The Cwmtillery Primitive Methodist Chapel opened in West Bank
1913	Huge Landslip after torrential winter rains. Thousands of tons of earth and rock slides down the mountain side.
1921	Miners Strike.
1926	Miners Strike, 4th - 12th May.
1928	Completion of the Grwyne Fawr Reservoir in the Black Mountains at a cost of £1,000.000.
1938	Gray Colliery Closed, It would continued to be used as a training centre until the 1940s.
1947	Memorial of a Oak and Super Alter was installed at St,Pauls in memory of the Cwmtillery men who died in the second World war.
1947	The British coal industry was Nationalised.
1948	Henley's Bus services established.
1956	Bronze age Palstave (axe) found above Llanerch-Padern Cwmtillery by Mr Bill Deasy.
1956	3 million scheme involved driving a 1096 metre drift mine to integrate Cwmtillery and Rose Heyworth collieries.
1957	Major repair work carried out on the Coity Tunnel.
1959	Blaentillery School destroyed by fire.
1960	Cwmtillery and Rose-hey-worth Collieries merge and renamed Abertillery new Mine.
1964	Abertillery and District Museum Society was founded.
1972	Demolished - The Cwmtillery Primitive Methodist Chapel in West Bank
1973	St Paul's celebrates its Golden Jubilee 1923-1973
1977	The longest and most advanced man riding system was installed, its length some 3000 metres.
1982	Cwmtillery Colliery stopped coal production but remained manned with limited workers.
1983	Major repair work carried out on the Coity Tunnel.
1984	Miners Strike.
1985	Cwmtillery Colliery finally closed after 140 years.
1987	The Cwmtillery colliery "Pit Wheel Monument" was erected.
1994	Completion of the Jim Owen Memorial Hall on the site of the Cwmtillery colliery.
1999	The Walter Group purchased from the NCB all the mountain top land of Cefn Coch, Coity Mountain, Mynydd James and Gwastad with the hope of open cast mining in some low land areas.
2000	Cock and Chick School Closed.
2003	Pennant Wind Energy Ventures Ltd is a subsidiary of the Walters Group (see 1999), applied for planning permission for a 24 Wind Turbine Farm on the tops of Cefn Coch, Coity Mountain, Mynydd James and Gwastad.
2005	Pennant Wind Energy Ventures Ltd withdrew its planning application for a 24 Wind Turbine Farm on the tops of Cefn Coch, Coity Mountain, Mynydd James and Gwastad. But the developers have indicated that it is their intention to re-design the scheme." and make a new planning submission.
2006	Gwrhyd Farm, Gwrhyd Bach, Sheepfold and Pasture land went up for sale
2006	Pennant Wind Energy Ventures Ltd is a subsidiary of the Walters Group (see 1999), applied for planning permission for a 4 Wind Turbine Farm on the tops of Mynydd James mountain.