Bedwas Navigation Colliery was a coal mine in the small Welsh village of Bedwas, two miles north of Caerphilly. The colliery opened in 1913, and closed after the miners' strike of 1984-85.
In 1909 the Bedwas Colliery Company leased 1,475 acres of land, on the slopes of Mynydd y Grug just outside the village of Trethomas. As the best and easiest mineral rights had already been taken, Bedwas was forced to go deep, and called on the proven continental experience of Austrian Edmund L. Hann , to design the colliery, having previously designed Penallta Colliery. To sink the shaft the company used the same experience formula, engaging mining contractor Fred Piggott from Caerphilly , to be responsible for the entire sinking.
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