welsh coal mines

[melonhead]

good evening everyone i been on the internet finding out what i can about a area called manmoel in gwent were me and casa dos detect and came across this site www.welshcoalmines.co.uk/gwent/manmoel.thm  in a mine review of 1840 it lists statments of men and boys who came from allover to work here some very young . its a interesting read but it made me realise i should be gratefull im alive now and not then but back to metal detecting kev found 1 florin 1 shilling and one sixpence in the same hole not far from a level mine a while back in manmoel and its got me thinking it it could have been a weeks wage for a kid.being local and reconiseing some of the surnames it just makes history more addictive

[Tafflaff (Rob)]

could be a good off shoot of this site, build up a database of old pics , stories , of all the Valley's mines. Interesting history!

[Val Beechey]

That was much more likely to have been a weeks wages for a grown man. Just think of the misery the loss of that much  would have caused. Poor man and his family.

Val

[Nick]

The men working the mines were so poor they didn't have two ha'pennies to scratch their wotsit with.

By comparison, William Lewis who owned two mines in the Rhondda left £12,000,000 in his will when he died in 1914.

Most of my older relatives worked in his mines.