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Have a look at this YouTube video  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_B3XwyU63o

It's about Timbering in Underground Anthracite Mines, but I'm sure something similar happened here.

 This demo bears NO relationship at all to the way it was done in the S.Wales mines I worked in.

Can anyone trace this further back.


                  James Messam          The 1891 census returns for Abergwynfi show that living at
                  21.3.1830 Manton         the same address, Jersey Rd, were: Head William Heath, wife Hannah and 2 children;
                  15.2.1905 Abergwynfi, Glamorgan   parents-in-law. James and Mary Ann, brother- and sister-in-law Alice and William
                  m.14.11.1854 Marlborough      and then brother-and sister-in-law Charles and Sarah Reeves as well as their four children
                  Mary Ann Rose         Fourteen people living in a two-up, two down terraced house on the side of a mountain!
                  21.1.1835 Marlborough
                  19.8.1918 Abergwynfi, Glamorgan
______________________________________________________↓_______________________________________________________________________________________
Sarah      James   John   Eliza      Hannah      Ruth    Fanny    Clara   Alice         Emma   William
1857      1859   1862   1864      1866      1868   1870   1874   1876         1878   1880
Mildenhall      M’bra   M’bra   M’bra      M’bra      M’bra   Box   Lockeridge SSM         SSM   Swindon
      4.1.1923
m  Mar 1877 Highw   m 7.1.1882 m   m      mJune1885 Highw   m   m   m   m17.4.1897Llangynwyd   m   m25.6.1900 Glyncorrwg
Charles Reeves   Julia Withers   ?      Wm Heath      ?   ?   ?   Arthur Jellyman      ?   Lilian Lewis
1856 Badbury   1860 Haydon Wick         1865 Blunsdon            1873 Avening Glos         1882
↓      7.2.1935            ↓               ↓            ↓
↓_________________________________________________   ↓_____________________________      ↓______________         ↓______________________
(Edith   William   Lily      Chas Henry  Thos   Ernest  Frederick)   (Ellen Amelia   Elizabeth Ann   Edwin)      (Arthur          Alice)         (Beatrice   Frederick   William)
1880      1882      1884     1886             1892    1895    1897    1885/6               1886/7         May 1889      1898        1900         Feb1901   ??   ??
Stratton   S’don    S’don  S’don           Abergwynfi      Aber.   S’don               W Bassett   24.6.1889 Abergwynfi   Abergwynfi   Glos         Abergwynfi  ??   ??
m.9.7.1900                              The 1901 census shows Alice      In 1901, Wm and Lilian are in
John Davies      Sarah and Charles are         By 1901 there is no indication      living alone with the children      Abergwynfi, in Commercial St.
shown in the 1901 census      of the Heath family in Wales      in Sinope St, Gloucester. Her       with the new baby. The two sons
In 1901 Edith and      at 27 Waun St Abergwynfi      nor in England. Hannah and Wm      husband was ‘at the front’ – the      are shown in much later electoral
John Davies were                  may have died as there is a sign that   Boer  war?            Registers of 1925 and 1929, as
lodging with James      Father, James died at this      the two girls might be in the Swindon                yet their dates of birth are not
and MaryAnn at 14      address in 1905         District: Ellen in Blunsdon and                  known.
Waun Street Abergwynfi   Yet MaryAnn died at 10      Eliz in Swindon.                     By 1918, they are living at 44
Western Terrace in 1918.                              Norton Terrace, Glyncyrrwg

Gareth, This is a piece about Frank Moody.
 An old family friend of ours , Lewis Williams, was the landlord of the Afandale Hotel, Cymmer, Port Talbot, not Porth.
He was also Frank Moody's manager. He told us the story of when he had to send Frank to the USA
to bolster his image.
 He said he was winning his fights until the last one against Tiger Flowers.
 Frank was doing very well against Tiger until in one clinch Tiger whispered in Frank's ear
that the party was over and he had to end it.
He then proceeded to give Frank the worse beating of his life.

And I saw on your previous post that you're a Cymmer boy. For my sins, I've migrated from Maesteg to Cymmer

 Born & lived in Heol Y Glyn, then Croeserw, but spent most of my time in Glyncorrwg.
 To give you a time line.
 I was born in 1937, went to Cymmer Comp, then to Bridgend Tech, 51 - 53, then
on to an NCB apprenticeship at North Rhondda.