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Glamorgan, Gilfach Goch - The Britannic Coal Mine - the last colliery in Gilfach Goch being dismantled - photograph taken by the late Ivor Lawrence

Glamorgan, Gilfach Goch, Evanstown, Old Britannic Colliery as used in the film 'How Green was my Valley'

Glamorgan, Gilfach Goch, Trane and Llewellyn (Britannic) Collieries (Coal Mines)

Glamorgan, Gilfach Goch, Trane Colliery Ambulance and Nurse in 1910

Old Photos of Gilfach Goch in Glamorgan / Sir Morgannwg, South Wales, United Kingdom of Great Britain.

Old Photos of Gilfach Goch in Glamorgan, Wales

Coal Mining in Gilfach.

Glamorgan, Gilfach Goch, The Britannic Winding Gear being knocked down - photograph taken by the late Ivor Lawrence

Glamorgan, Gilfach Goch, How it looks now - post coal mining era

The images of Gilfach Goch on this page are kindly shared with us from the collection of
Mr. Wyndham Jones - a keen local historian and ex Coal Miner. Wyndham would like to extend this credit to his contributors and friends - like Alison Morgan of Sydney - for enhancing his collection.

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Oude Foto's van Engeland, Ierland, Schotland en Wales in het Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië.

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Alte Fotographien von England, von Irland, von Schottland und von Wales im Vereinigten Königreich von Großbritannien.

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Glamorgan, Gilfach Goch, View possibly circa 1900 with no colliery behind Libanus

Glamorgan, Gilfach Goch, The Trane Colliery before the Britannic Colliery was sunk c.1900

Glamorgan, Gilfach Goch, Britannic and Trane Collieries from the Ogmore Hotel

Glamorgan, Gilfach Goch, The Britannic Colliery