Showing posts with label Ferndale Colliery. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ferndale Colliery. Show all posts

Wednesday, June 10, 2015

Ferndale Colliery Disasters...

The small town of Ferndale is located in the heart of Welsh mining country in the Rhondda Valley in South Wales.  Ferndale was the very first community in the valley to be truly industrialised, when the first of nine coal mines was sunk in 1857.  Together, these nine mines made up Ferndale Colliery.