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Cwmburgwm water balance 1968
The Ebbw Vale Company erected this winding gear in the 1840’s. It was originally used to raise ironstone.
Cwmburgwm Colliery comprised a number of sites, including the
Balance Pit. In 1860 an extensive slip or fall took place on the
mountains, which closed Cwmbargwm or Bargwm Mine Pit of the Ebbw
Vale Co. "The fall has now been cleared. Pit is now to be
reopened." was so reported on 31st of May1862.
In 1869 it was reported that Cwm Burgwm Balance Pit was104 yards
deep and raised Black Pins Mine (30 tons per day), that the Cwm
Burgwm Pits were partly sunk but stopped and a level on the Red
Ash seam near Cwm Burgwm was not worked.
When the Balance pit was last used is unclear from the various
listings. The colliery was abandoned in 1877, but reappeared in
1891. By 1897 it was no longer working. In 1906 it was reported
that "Understood that the old Cwmburgem (sic) coal levels (sic),
situated at the foot of British Mountain, Talywain, which have
been stopped about fifteen years, are to be reopened." and from
1907 they are under D. Buck. The Catalogue of Plans then gives
abandoned 10th of August 1910.
There were later Cwmburgwm levels, the first opening in 1922. The
last was abandoned on 28 of March 1931.