Mardy colliery once stood at the very top of the Rhondda Fach valley A hundred years ago there were 53 collieries in the Rhondda. By 1990, there was only one left, at Maerdy at the very top of the ...

Money will be flowing into Maerdy to complete the restoration of the former colliery. Money will be flowing into Maerdy to complete the restoration of the former colliery. The south of the ...

“I went down the mine when I was 18 hoping I’d be down there until I retired,” says the 63-year-old who worked at Maerdy Colliery until it closed in 1990 five years after the strikes.

A once thriving village is now run down and deserted according to locals, with barren streets punctuated with cans of Carling and Strongbow. Residents of Maerdy, in south Wales, think they have ...

It consists of the pitwheel of Maerdy Colliery, along with masonry from ... From here, after passing part of the old railway line, you will shortly arrive at the Castell Nos reservoir, a beautiful ...

"The undertaker helped get the bodies back to south Wales and, in thanks, a gentleman from Maerdy Colliery said he was sending him the historical lamp promised, recovered from the Albion Colliery ...

Crews are dealing with a large blaze on Maerdy mountain, in Rhondda Cynon Taff, which started on Friday. A helicopter has been dropping water on the fire, which was still alight on Saturday ...

It consists of the pitwheel of Maerdy Colliery, along with masonry from ... From here, after passing part of the old railway line, you will shortly arrive at the Castell Nos reservoir, a beautiful ...

The former mineral railway, which used to link the former colliery in Cotgrave (now the site of the country park) to the main railway network, is currently used informally by walkers. A bid is ...