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Aber Colliery, Ogmore Vale.
Situated at Ty-newydd in the Ogmore valley, Aber Coal Co. opened this drift mine during 1865 to work the No.3 Rhondda seam.
In 1869 Nicholson and Taylor (probably the owners of the Aber Coal Co.) are listed as the owners.
Five miners were killed here in a localised underground explosion on the 18th of May 1887.
They were;
Gibbon, Edward 24 Haulier of Llewellyn Street, Ty-newydd Jones, Evan 18 Collier of High Street, Ty-newydd Rees, Joseph 62 Fireman of River Street, Ty-newydd Stanford, Jenkin 27 Collier of Llewellyn Street, Ty-newydd Williams, David 30 Haulier of Bridge Street, Ty-newydd
From the Inspector of Mines list 1896, Cory Brothers and Co. Ltd. then owned it and there were only 52 men employed including 17 surface workers. It was producing House and Manufacturing coal.
In 1908 there were 174 men employed.
Aber colliery closed in 1914, but the coal from nearby Cwm Fuwch Colliery continued to be processed and loaded at Aber Colliery screens and sidings. Over its working life 18 men suffered fatal accidents.