Meet the Colliery Officials.  This was life at the top? far right my Great Grandfather Charles Harding.
My grandfather Thomas Harding was the last man to work at Ty Trist. and I have photographs of the final episode when finally they filled in the last remaining Ty Trist shaft.  The Colliery was left open and unattended for most of my youth and we played on the winding gear and in and out of the abandoned buildings.  the town, as I recall as a young boy was one long factory with chimneys, coalmines slagheaps and shunting engines.  It really was the rape of the fair country.

"How green is my valley now". It is difficult nowadays to imagine that the valley ever looked like this it is finally restored to it's former beauty.  A school and playing fields now occupies the site of Ty Trist (House of sorrow)

All of these photographs were kindly given by my cousin and accomplished photographer:
Derek Harding.

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