Album Nine of Photos you have sent in

My thanks to you all for sharing your photos with us and please if you have any you wish displayed let me know?

"Officials at Cwmtillery Colliery (early 20th century)"

The photo' taken by "T.L.Howe of Penarth and Barry". and my late mother wrote on it and she has marked with a cross in the back row her father,
Henry Wilkinson who is my grand-father. Henry Wilkinson was a weigher at the colliery below are two of his wage slips.
He is buried in St Paul's churchyard and was auditor for their accounts and one of the balance sheet are also shown below.

David (Evans)

Payslip in 1919 for a Machine worker

Payslip in 1918 for a Weigher

St Paul's churchyard and was auditor for their accounts and one of the balance sheet are also shown below.

Back Row L-R  Mabel Dixon and Barbara Thomas

Front Row L-R  Maureen Tovey, Evelyn Hunt, Jean Smith and Valerie Bartlett.

 It was taken in 1982 shortly before the closure of Cwmtillery Colliery. 

Both photos above show the female staff from Cwmtillery colliery canteen, and include both my mother -in-law, Mable Dixon,[ 3rdleft in group waiting to go underground,] and my cousin, Barbara Thomas[ nee Lewis] 2nd left.  They believe they were the first and last group of women to go down Cwmtillery, a fact which you may be able to confirm from your extensive archives  Thanks  Dave Lewis.

 

 

I have attached a pic for you to use on the website it was taken in Cwmtillery Collery 1982  it is the afternoon shift
of the last face to ever  be worked in Cwmtillery.
The names are

Back Row Left to Right Ray Veale.. ??..George Hulme..Don Hayward.
Middle Row  Jeff Hayward.. Walter Welch.. Adrian Penny.
Front Row Ivor Gilgrass..Mel Price (ME) ..Don Marshman..Mel Roden..Ray (Bodger) Hughes.. Fred Sheen

Photo sent in by Melvin Price 

Standing    ?....?....Joe Swift....Jim Betteridge....Holly Russell....Chris Asseratti ?....?....?

Front row   ?....?....?....?....?....Ron Baker 

The Abertillery Civil Defence team...Can you help with names of any of the above.

This could be the Six Bells Colliery Civil Defence (fire & rescue) team. The picture dates to about 1956. Most of them worked on the surface, the chaps front left ,and 2nd from the right at the back worked, in the blacksmiths shop. Top left, 1st name Mervyn .... was a general labourer in the fitting shop. This team won the area firefighting championship. Their instructor, front row in the suit,  was W.J.R (Bob) Gumbleton, DSM, BEM. He was Foreman Pitman at Six Bells. (This information was sent in by John Gumbleton).

 
Cwmtillery Miners 1981 - 82 Sent in by Ian Moore
From left to right
Glyn Price...??..Malcom Fisher.. Glyn Williams...Dai Williams...George Hulme...Brian Coles
This picture was taken probably in 1958 or 59.
On the top row, first on the left is Eddie Huxley the Manager at the time. Three across from him is Sam Tucker, then Jim Betteridge, the last one on the top row is Mr Tony Rogers who lived in Brookside Row, he was possibly in charge of the Surface.
In the front row, the second from the left is a young Harold Bartlett who was the Lodge Sec.
The picture could be of the Mine Consultative Committee
Picture was taken at the annual outing for Staff, probably taken at one of the manufacturing plants that were usually the object of the trips.
Some of the names are Len Collier (Front row far left), Jack Drake who was the Assistant Mech Eng, Ron Baker the Training Officer and Town Councillor, Alvin Jeffries who was an Overman in the Garw, Eddie Rogers who was another Overman, Elwyn Griffin the Assistant Elect. Eng and Eddie Huxley the Manager.