MineArchiveMines
90 mines beginning with T, of 1950.
| Mine | Region | Worked | Commodities |
|---|---|---|---|
| Taff Merthyr Colliery One of the last deep mines sunk in South Wales under private ownership, it became a flashpoint of 1930s industrial unrest when riot police were brought in. |
Merthyr Tydfil | Shafts sunk 1922-24; production from 1926–1992 (Taff Merthyr); Trelewis Drift closed 1989 | Coal |
| Tal-y-sarn Quarry As the neighbouring Dorothea quarry expanded, it grew to swallow the original village of Talysarn itself, forcing its relocation -- some of the old village's buildings remained in industrial use, and their ruins can still be seen today. |
Gwynedd | First developed in the early to mid-19th century.–20th century | Slate |
| Talar Wen Quarry A roadside quarry of five hundredths of a hectare, crowded with Llandeilo trilobites. |
Carmarthenshire | No reliable opening date has yet been located.–Disused by 1993, when the site was notified | Limestone |
| Talargoch Mine At its height Talargoch's pumping plant ran to an 80-inch engine, a 100-inch Cornish engine and thirteen smaller engines simultaneously — a small industrial army assembled for one job: keeping 200 feet of waterlogged glacial gravel from drowning the mine beneath it. |
Flintshire | documented from 1303; worked continuously from the 1630s–1884 (underground); tip-reworking to 1905 | Lead, Zinc |
| Talnotry Mine Nickel mines are vanishingly rare in Britain, and Talnotry's spoil heaps are valued today less for what could still be dug out of them than for the mineral specimens already sitting on the surface — nickeline and gersdorffite unlike almost anything else in this archive. |
Dumfries and Galloway | discovered c. 1885–Mid-1880s | Nickel, Copper |
| Talwrn Colliery The blast in No. 2 was strong enough to kill a horse in the pit next door, through the roadway that connected them. |
Wrexham | Working by 1857; Coedpoeth coal from 1790–No reliable closure date has yet been located. | Coal |
| Talyfan Colliery The same patch of hillside above Pontarddulais was worked as Tal-y-fan-fach, Talyfan, Cae and Glynhir over eighty years, and even the plans admit it was 'Glynhir formerly Cae or Talyfan'. |
Swansea | By 1876; later workings 1904-1954–1954 (last Glynhir working) | Coal |
| Tan Hill Colliery The coalfield around Britain's highest inn, which sent coal to Richmond Castle in 1384 and coke to the Swaledale lead smelters, and was worked into the 1930s. |
North Yorkshire | By the 13th century (first dated record 1384)–1935 or 1938 (sources differ) | Coal |
| Tankerville Mine Tankerville's 1,690-foot shaft — the deepest anywhere in the Shropshire orefield — makes an odd kind of monument: a huge investment in depth chasing the richest vein the county ever recorded, defeated in the end not by running out of lead but by the price of lead itself collapsing under it. |
Shropshire | small-scale working from the early 19th century–May 1884 (main); failed reopenings 1891-93, 1911-13 | Lead, Silver, Zinc, Barite |
| Tannochside Colliery Its owner opened a brand-new brickworks right next to the colliery in 1936, recruiting its entire workforce locally to turn out 150,000 bricks a week. |
North Lanarkshire | Worked from 1870 under the Monkland Iron Company.–Closed in September 1945. | Coal |
| Tarbrax Oil Shale Mine A remote outlying works of the Scottish shale oil industry, its huge red waste bing still visible for miles |
South Lanarkshire | 1870–1930s | Oil Shale |
| Tardree Quarry A rare Irish rhyolite quarry, now protected for crystals of tridymite, a high-temperature form of silica, visible only with a hand-lens. |
County Antrim | By 1902 (working)–Disused by 1997 | Rhyolite |
| Tarenni Colliery A 1909 flood from long-abandoned neighbouring workings killed five miners here -- and, decades after Tarenni's own closure, its successor drift mine Gleision was the scene of a further fatal flooding disaster in 2011. |
Neath Port Talbot | 1902-03–4 February 1949 | Coal |
| Team Colliery Worked under four names across two and a half centuries, and the Angel of the North stands on ground cleared from it. |
Tyne and Wear | 1726–1973 | Coal |
| Teversal Colliery The first colliery the Stanton Ironworks Company sank, still called Butcherwood locally after the ground it stood on. |
Nottinghamshire | Sinking began 1868–No reliable closure date has yet been located. | Coal |
| Thomas Chapel Colliery Anthracite pits at Begelly from 1784, where the 1842 Royal Commission found girls of eleven dragging trams; six drowned in an 1838 inrush. |
Pembrokeshire | 1784–1867 | Coal |
| Thoresby Colliery The Miners' Institute (1939) and pithead baths (1949) served a close-knit community whose canteen was named Coal Board 'Canteen of the Year' in 1979, beating fifteen other NCB areas. |
Nottinghamshire | Sinking 1925-28; coal reached 25 April 1928–10 July 2015 | Coal |
| Thorne Colliery Seventeen years to sink, and water beat it in the end — the pumps that had run since 1910 were finally switched off in 2004, forty-eight years after the last coal. |
South Yorkshire | January 1925–1956 | Coal |
| Thornley Colliery A Durham colliery founded partly on the winnings of a former bare-knuckle prizefighter turned MP, and the site of an 1841 explosion that killed eight boys and one man. |
County Durham | 1835 (sunk); coal from c. 1839–1970 | Coal |
| Thornthwaite Mine Unusually for a Lake District lead mine, Thornthwaite kept working through the price slump of the 1870s-80s and was worked continuously from 1900 to 1920, reaching 85 fathoms by 1912 with a workforce of around 90. |
Cumbria | 1780s–Sustained working ended around 1920-21 | Lead, Zinc |
| Threlkeld Quarry and Mine A granite quarry with a reconstructed underground lead and copper mine, now a mining museum |
Cumbria | 1870–1982 | Granite, Lead, Zinc, Barite |
| Thrislington Colliery The pit that made West Cornforth; its ground is now a limestone quarry, and the bungalows it built for retired miners in 1925 still stand by the war memorial. |
County Durham | Boring from 1835; sunk from 15 April 1840–4 March 1967 | Coal |
| Thurcroft Colliery A colliery that took eleven years to reach its coal, because the seam it was sunk for had been displaced by a fault nobody knew was there. |
South Yorkshire | 1913–1991 | Coal |
| Tibshelf Colliery Charles Seely's Derbyshire pits, and the birthplace of colliery ambulance work. |
Derbyshire | Bottom Pits deepened 1864-65; Top Pits sunk 1891–Bottom Pits 1936; Top Pits 1939 | Coal |
| Tideslow Rake Its own lime kiln burned quicklime on site as a cheaper alternative to gunpowder for blasting the rock -- and a unique series of legal agreements records no fewer than five separate soughs dug here between 1648 and 1685. |
Derbyshire | Worked between the 12th and 18th centuries–Out of use by c.1800 | Lead |
| Tievebulliagh Axe Factory Axes roughed out here from a single baked block of rock eight metres long were carried to the Outer Hebrides and the south coast of England, over 10,000 of them known today. |
County Antrim | Neolithic, c. 3800 BC (axes dated 3800-2500 BC)–c. 2500 BC (end of Neolithic axe production) | Porcellanite |
| Tilberthwaite Tilberthwaite's working life spans an almost absurd stretch of British mining history in one place — Elizabethan lead and copper prospectors in the 1500s, Victorian mining ambition driving a thousand-yard adit, and a slate quarry that was still being worked into the 21st century. |
Cumbria | worked from the late 16th/early 17th century (Elizabethan)–1942 (copper); 2001 (slate) | Copper, Lead, Slate |
| Tilly Whim Caves 'Tilly Whim' most likely commemorates a quarryman named George Tilly and the wooden crane, the whim, that swung his finished stone down to waiting boats — the very same kind of crane that gave its name to the winding whims used at metal mines across Britain. |
Dorset | Worked predominantly through the 18th century; possibly earlier–Quarrying ended around 1812; closed to public access in 1976 | Freestone |
| Tilmanstone Colliery Its coal reached Dover harbour by a three-mile aerial cableway through tunnels cut into the White Cliffs — built for exports that never really came |
Kent | Sinking began 1906; coal reached 1912–1987 | Coal |
| Tincroft Mine Carn Brea and Tincroft together raised nearly half a million tons of copper in their combined working lives — output on a scale that puts them among the genuine giants of the Camborne-Redruth district, even though most of the mine's surface footprint today has simply been built over. |
Cornwall | By the 1680s–1921 (South Tincroft) | Copper, Tin |
| Ting Tang Mine Carharrack mine in the West Clifford United sett, worked for tin before 1810 and copper through the mid-19th century. |
Cornwall | worked by 1816 for copper; some sources attribute earlier tin working–by 1870, as part of the Clifford Amalgamated Mines combine | Copper |
| Tinsley Park Colliery Sheffield bell pits sunk for Earl Fitzwilliam in 1819 that grew into a coking works supplying the city's gas, and were buried under a steelworks. |
South Yorkshire | 1819–Early 1943 | Coal |
| Tintagel Slate Quarries Cliff quarries worked straight off the face of the Cornish coast, where slate was lowered by horse whim to ships waiting at the foot of the rock. |
Cornwall | 15th century–1937 | Slate |
| Tir Edmund Colliery Its coal was shown at the Great Exhibition of 1851 and a Neath poet wrote verse about it, yet it closed in 1895 because the coal it was raising had gone poor. |
Neath Port Talbot | By 1851–December 1895 | Coal |
| Tir-y-Dail Colliery Built up to over 500 men in twenty-five years, then one of many Amman Valley pits whose end is tied to the defeat of the 1926 strike. |
Carmarthenshire | 1898–1927 (local histories); before 1947 (NMRS) | Coal |
| Tirbach Colliery Its Big Vein could be seventy feet thick in one place and absent a few yards on, so the thick patches were worked over two or three times. |
Neath Port Talbot | 1899–1940 (training centre to 1961) | Coal |
| Tirpentwys Colliery The largest pit in Cwmffrwdoer, kept on after closure as a pumping station so the coal from two other collieries could keep moving underground. |
Torfaen | 1877–1969 | Coal |
| Titterstone Clee Quarries Dhustone — black stone — cut into setts for the Newport docks, from a hill that had already been mined for ironstone, coal, fireclay and limestone. |
Shropshire | Medieval (ironstone); dolerite from the 19th century–All but one quarry closed; Clee Hill still worked | Whinstone, Coal |
| Tommo Colliery Its abandonment of two separate seams, 34 years apart, is confirmed independently by two separate NMRS accounts. |
Merthyr Tydfil | By 1859–After February 1893 | Coal |
| Tomnadashan Copper Mine A short-lived Loch Tay copper venture later used as a filming location for Monty Python and the Holy Grail |
Perth and Kinross | 1841–1862 | Copper, Gold |
| Tonfanau Quarry Granite on a coast of slate, and reputedly among the hardest in Europe — it built the seafront at Tywyn, and German prisoners of war were working it in 1918. |
Gwynedd | 1892–1998 | Granite |
| Tonge Colliery The Scowcrofts' Tonge pit on the edge of Bolton, 1854 to 1930, whose death list from Dickinson's and Gerrard's reports is a primer in small-colliery hazards. |
Greater Manchester | 1854–1930 (abandoned 1932) | Coal |
| Tonmawr Colliery Opened in 1839 for Messrs Parson & Strange, who went bankrupt within the year; a 14-year-old collier died under a roof fall here in 1864. |
Neath Port Talbot | 1839 (reopened 1845, then 1860s, then by 1907)–Not listed after 1917 | Coal |
| Tor-y-Fan Colliery A Dowlais Iron Company level that gave up the Black Vein seam in June 1914; a second drift of the same name reworked the seam in the 1930s. |
Merthyr Tydfil | No reliable opening date has yet been located.–June 1914 | Coal |
| Torr Works Renamed in 1970 after Ron Torr, the engineer brought in to rebuild it — and the rail terminal kept the old name, so the quarry and its railhead have been called different things ever since. |
Somerset | 1930s–Still active | Limestone |
| Totternhoe Stone Mines Totternhoe's stone built Westminster Abbey and Windsor Castle from galleries dug directly beneath its own medieval castle — mining and fortress standing one on top of the other for 600 years. |
Bedfordshire | Worked from the Roman period–Underground working ended around 1925 | Chalk |
| Tower Colliery Tower's 1994 closure and worker buyout became a genuine national story — a mine British Coal had declared unviable was run profitably by its own former workforce for another thirteen years, closing only once the coal itself, not the economics, ran out. |
Rhondda Cynon Taf | coal worked from c. 1805; Tower drift sunk 1864–1994 (British Coal); reopened 1995; closed for good 2008 | Coal |
| Towneley Colliery Kept pumping water for other collieries for over twenty years after its own coal ran out — the site is now a public park. |
Lancashire | Late 1860s; first coal February 1869–6 March 1949 | Coal |
| Trafalgar Colliery Installed the first electric pumps ever used underground in a mine in 1882 — and was later bought out entirely by its neighbours just to stop its floodwater reaching them. |
Forest of Dean | c. 1860 (gale granted 1842)–1925 | Coal |
| Tranent Collieries Scotland's first railway was built here in 1722 for one purpose only — getting Tranent's coal two and a half miles downhill to the sea |
East Lothian | Monastic working from the 13th century–1963 | Coal |
| Treak Cliff Cavern One of only two places on Earth where Blue John fluorspar is found, mined since the 18th century and now a show cave in the Peak District. |
Derbyshire | c.1745-50, as Millers Mine–Commercial bulk mining ended 1926 | Fluorspar, Lead |
| Treeton Colliery The third of the Rother Vale collieries, whose sinking stalled for four years for want of capital and which outlived both its partners by nine. |
South Yorkshire | Sinking begun 1875–7 December 1990 | Coal |
| Trefor Granite Quarry One of the world's largest granite sett quarries, which built the village below it and shipped its stone down Britain's steepest quarry incline. |
Gwynedd | 1850–1963, with later intermittent working | Granite |
| Tregargus China Stone Quarries China clay gets all the fame, but china stone is the ingredient that actually holds porcelain together — ground here by a waterwheel thirty feet across |
Cornwall | Worked from around 1870–1965 (last mill closed) | China Stone |
| Tregonning Hill China Clay Pits The birthplace of the British china clay industry: Cookworthy's first porcelain clay came from pits here after he saw miners mending their furnaces with it. |
Cornwall | c. 1746–By 1907 | China Clay |
| Tregurtha Downs Mine After the 1889 fire the men rebuilt the engine house in nine days for nothing, and the local paper said they had worked not for wages only but for their own repute. |
Cornwall | Engine first fired 27 March 1883–No reliable closure date has yet been located. | Tin |
| Trelewis Drift Mine Held the South Wales coalfield productivity record and was closed anyway; its buildings are now one of the largest indoor climbing centres in Wales. |
Merthyr Tydfil | 1954–1989 | Coal |
| Trelogan Mine A North Wales lead, silver and zinc mine that housed Flintshire's first Newcomen engine in 1732 and worked on until 1911 under the chemical firm Brunner Mond. |
Flintshire | c. 1694–1911 | Lead, Silver, Zinc |
| Tresavean Mine Before Michael Loam's man engine, reaching a working level at Tresavean meant climbing down — and, at the end of a shift, back up — as much as 1,728 feet of fixed ladders underground; the same journey on the new machine took a fraction of the effort, just by stepping from platform to platform as the rods rose and fell. |
Cornwall | 1737–1928 | Copper, Tin, Arsenic |
| Treskerby Mine A productive Gwennap-area copper mine, part of the wider Consolidated/United Mines district. |
Cornwall | already active by 1800–abandoned a few years after 1828; briefly reopened 1860 and 1922-27 | Copper, Tin, Fluorspar |
| Trevaunance Mine Trevaunance Mine is said to have paid its adventurers £100,000 in dividends over its working life -- a fortune built on ground that never needed to be sunk much below 60 fathoms. |
Cornwall | 1843–1887 | Copper, Tin |
| Trimdon Grange Colliery The 1882 explosion killed 74 men and boys and produced Tommy Armstrong's best-known ballad; the pit closed on the disaster's 86th anniversary, to the day. |
County Durham | May 1845–16 February 1968 | Coal |
| Trimsaran Colliery An anthracite drift colliery whose runaway drams killed sixteen men in two accidents. |
Carmarthenshire | Working by 1896; earlier mining in the area from the 1600s–April 1954 | Anthracite, Fireclay |
| Troutbeck Park Green Slate Works Thirteen people worked here in 1883; four years later one fall of rock killed two of them. |
Cumbria | In the returns from 1883–Standing by 1894 | Slate |
| Trowell Moor Colliery A Kilburn-seam pit at Stanton Gate run with Cossall, on which Lord Middleton drew a half-yearly royalty; its ground is now open space. |
Nottinghamshire | By 1887–No reliable closure date has yet been located. | Coal |
| True Blue Mine A walled greenway called Trueblue Lane, once a packhorse route linking the mine to Sheldon and to neighbouring Magshaw Mine, still runs past the site today. |
Derbyshire | Some workings indicate the 18th century–Production ceased shortly after 1913 | Lead |
| Tudhoe Colliery A big Weardale Iron and Coal Company pit that made coke by the trainload — and where 37 men and boys died in the Brockwell seam in 1882. |
County Durham | 1864–September 1935 | Coal, Fireclay |
| Tudhoe Whinstone Mine A whinstone working on the Hett Dyke near Spennymoor: quarried in a long open trench between Tudhoe and Hett, then followed underground from shafts by 1882. |
County Durham | By 1882 (quarried earlier)–After 1890; not listed in 1902 | Whinstone |
| Tunstead Quarry The largest limestone quarry in the country, and the reason the Peak District National Park has a bite taken out of it. |
Derbyshire | 1929–Still active | Limestone |
| Turf Copper Mine Its 'ore' was peat: copper from the rock below had turned leaves, acorns and hazelnuts into metal, and the ash sold so well that one year cleared £20,000. |
Gwynedd | Early 19th century–Unknown; mostly worked out by the mid-19th century | Copper |
| Turnavore Mine A 60-inch pumping engine is a serious piece of Cornish engineering -- and Turnavore's was thought valuable enough that when the shaft no longer needed it, the engine itself was moved next door rather than scrapped. |
Cornwall | 1837–1895 | Tin, Copper |
| Twentylands Mine Its freeing is recorded only because it got caught up in a payments dispute with the sough company whose drainage work it depended on. |
Derbyshire | Working by 30 June 1701–Disused by 1880 | Lead |
| Twin Shafts Its two shafts drop directly into the deeper reaches of neighbouring Reeking Mine, physically tying together workings that field evidence suggests span the 18th, early 19th and mid-19th centuries. |
Cheshire | No reliable opening date has yet been located.–No reliable closure date has yet been located. | Copper |
| Twyn-y-Waun Colliery A drift owned by the Tynywaun Colliery Company by 1917, working 18 seams totalling 97.5 feet of coal through 1,200 feet of strata. |
Merthyr Tydfil | By 1917–No reliable closure date has yet been located. | Coal |
| Ty Trist Colliery Tredegar's house of sorrow, sunk in 1834 as a water balance pit and still working 125 years later, with 2,152 people on its books in 1923. |
Blaenau Gwent | 1834–1959 | Coal, Ironstone |
| Tyddyn Gwladys Mine A failed gold mine that became a gunpowder works for the 'Welsh Gold King' and then a barracks for his miners, on lodes known for rare rich silver ore. |
Gwynedd | Before 1862 (lead and zinc)–Unknown; site reused as gunpowder works 1887-89 | Gold, Lead, Silver, Zinc |
| Tylechafach Colliery One of a handful of collieries anywhere to work the Ty Du seam, and a pit whose workforce went from 58 men to 397 and back to 29 inside a quarter of a century. |
Rhondda Cynon Taf | 1874–1930 (Ty Du seam abandoned) | Coal |
| Tylorstown Colliery Named for the village that grew up around it rather than for its owners, Tylorstown was, administratively, simply another set of Ferndale's own numbered pits by the time disaster struck it in 1896. |
Rhondda Cynon Taf | 1858 (No.8 shaft); Pendyrys pits 1873–76–Nos. 6–8 1936; No.9 October 1960 | Coal |
| Tymawr Colliery After 1958 every ton from the combined colliery came up through Tymawr, while the famous name next door wound only men and materials. |
Rhondda Cynon Taf | No reliable opening date has yet been located.–June 1983 | Coal |
| Tymawr East Quarry Worked as an open pit and hillside quarry on the south side of the road between Nantlle and Talysarn, one of a paired East and West working of the same name. |
Gwynedd | Opened around 1860.–Closed around 1910. | Slate |
| Tymawr West Quarry Grew from a pit-and-hillside working into a full open pit served by a Blondin cableway as work progressed downward, yet even at its peak in the 1860s never employed more than about 40 men and produced well under 1,000 tons of slate a year. |
Gwynedd | Active by the 1860s.–Closed during the 1930s. | Slate |
| Tyndrum Mines Tyndrum owes its lead mine to an accident of estate boundaries: Sir Robert Clifton, prospecting the Breadalbane estate he had leased in 1730, stumbled on the veins in 1741 without setting out to find them, and the mine his discovery started outlived him by nearly two centuries. |
Stirling | 1741 (vein discovered)–1926 | Lead, Silver, Zinc |
| Tynedale Colliery A Hexham pit where 27 Welsh miners, brought in to break a 1903 dispute, first refused to go down in solidarity. |
Northumberland | Sunk 1900–1924 (seam plans abandoned 1926) | Coal |
| Tynehead Mine A lead mine in the Alston Moor orefield, at the head of the South Tyne. |
Cumbria | 1854–1873 | Lead, Copper |
| Tynemount Colliery The Ormiston Coal Company's last pit, one shaft and three hundred men, closed 1952. |
East Lothian | Sinking and production from 1924 or 1925–Closed 1952; abandoned 1962 | Coal |
| Tynewydd Colliery, Porth Porth's water-balance pit, flooded from the old Cymmer workings in 1877 and the scene of the rescue that won the first Albert Medals on land. |
Rhondda Cynon Taf | 1852–1901 | Coal |
| Tyning Colliery Its own branch line climbed Tyning Hill so steeply that it had to cross the Somerset and Dorset twice — and its spoil kept being tipped for forty-five years after the pit itself shut. |
Somerset | 1837–1909 | Coal |
| Tynybedw Colliery A Rhondda pit whose upcast shaft had no cage, only a barrel — which killed six men in 1895. |
Rhondda Cynon Taf | Opened between 1874 and 1878–1933 or January 1935 | Coal |
| Tynywain Colliery Owned by the Swansea Vale Spelter Company and later the National Smelting Company, employing up to 44 men in 1927. |
Neath Port Talbot | By 1918–No reliable closure date has yet been located. | Coal |
| Tywarnhayle Mine Its 1906 flotation plant is described by Cornwall's own Historic Environment Record as the remains of 'the world's first commercial froth flotation plant' -- an extraordinary claim for a small, commercially unsuccessful Cornish revival, and one this record treats with real caution rather than repeating as fact. |
Cornwall | 1750–1864 | Copper, Tin |