Tower Colliery

I have arranged a photo shoot at this site in a few weeks time and I asked if I could go and have a look around to see if it was suitable. It is!! I was meant to have been only looking around the outside but managed to get into the pithead baths and old offices. (There are new offices there as there are still people working on site.)
"Tower Colliery was the oldest continuously working deep-coal mine in the United Kingdom, and possibly the world, and the last mine of its kind to remain in the South Wales Valleys"
It was open 1864 to 2008. British Coal closed Tower Colliery on 22 April 1994, On 3 January 1995 the Colliery re-opened under the ownership of the workforce.
Again in Black & White (My preferred medium) (All hand held with only a couple using a flash, so some a little blurred) hope you like.





















http://www.flickr.com/photos/100221036@N06/sets/72157635717233414/

Nice if you like that kind of thing and I have to be brutally honest and say I don't... BUT... and it's a big but, a bit like mine... I have to say those are some crackin' B&W photographs and they really capture the place well.

Very atmospheric. Great job dude.

Superb photos,there is so much to see.

Not one of our deep coal mines needed to close. OK - so some needed to be made profitable, but that was never Thatcher's plan. She wanted nothing less than the destruction of coal and heavy industry in the UK. Places like this are important - thanks for posting.