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Industrial Sites and Museums

Coal Mines


Tower Colliery

In the early 90s the miners at the Tower Colliery were faced with the threat of closure of their pit (mine). Unlike other pits in the area, the Tower did not close. As a result of their determination and their resistance to the Government's plans, the Tower remained open as a cooperative, controlled by the workers themselves. To this day it remains producing coal and providing a livelihood for its workers. The Tower Colliery is located near the head of the Rhondda Valley between Treherbert and Hirwaun. It has a Visitors Centre which is open to the public.

Wales's only working coal mine cannot be visited by the public, but nevertheless there is a Visitors' Centre which displays documents and artificats relating to the history of coal mining in the area and to the struggle of the miners of Tower Colliery to prevent the closure of their mine by the Conservative government in the early 90s.

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