Price's Colliery

Overview

A Dowlais Iron Company level at Dowlais raising both ironstone and coal for the works, abandoned with the rest of the Dowlais Collieries group in May 1924.

History

Price's Colliery was one of the many levels owned by the Dowlais Iron Company to feed its works with both iron ore and coal. It was part of the wider "Dowlais Collieries" complex — the umbrella name for everything worked for the Dowlais Iron Works, comprising Price's alongside Black Ball, Blaen Dowlais, Brewhouse, Buxton's, Carno, Coslet, Cwmcenol, Morgan's, Pant-y-Waun, Penyard, several Penydarren pits, Pen-yr-Heol, Rhas Las, Tyla Dowlais and Vanwain — all worked for coal and ironstone and abandoned together in May 1924. Its 1924 abandonment plan, drawn with the other Dowlais water levels worked for coal and ironstone, survives in the national mine plans catalogue, and a separate plan of the Dowlais watercourses names a 'No 2 Thos Prices' level that may be the same working.

Workings

A level worked for iron ore and coal, part of the wider Dowlais Collieries complex.

Closure

Abandoned in May 1924, when the Dowlais Iron Company gave up its feeder levels together.

What's uncertain

Points where sources disagree or the record could not be settled; both accounts are kept. All open questions in the archive.

• A plan of the Dowlais watercourses and levels lists a 'No 2 Thos Prices' level, recording seams from the Two Feet Nine and Four Feet coals to the Rosser ironstone; it may be the same working. (uncertain) ⁴

Recorded claims

Individual factual claims, each attached to the source(s) that support it below. Where sources disagree, both are kept.

• One of many Dowlais Iron Company levels feeding the works with iron ore and coal, abandoned in May 1924. ¹
• Named among the pits making up the wider Dowlais Collieries complex, all worked for coal and ironstone and abandoned together in May 1924. ²
• Owned by the Dowlais Iron Company throughout its documented working life. ²
• The Mining Remediation Authority abandonment plan of the Dowlais water levels, worked for coal and ironstone and abandoned in 1924, lists Prices' among Black Ball, Blaen Dowlais, Coslet, Vanwain and other levels. ³
• A plan of the Dowlais watercourses and levels lists a 'No 2 Thos Prices' level, recording seams from the Two Feet Nine and Four Feet coals to the Rosser ironstone; it may be the same working. (uncertain) ⁴

Photographs & further reading

Sources

1. (secondary) Small collieries of the Dowlais Cwmbargoed & Penydarren areas — Northern Mine Research Society
2. (secondary) Dowlais Collieries — Northern Mine Research Society
3. (primary) BGS / Mining Remediation Authority mine plans catalogue: Dowlais (water levels): Black Ball, Blaen Dowlais, Brewhouse, Buxton's, Carno, Coslet, Cwmcenol, Morgan's, Panty Wain, Penyard, Penydarren Nos 2, 4, 7, Pen-yr-Heol, Prices', Rhas-Las, Tyla Dowlais, Vanwain — British Geological Survey
4. (primary) BGS / Mining Remediation Authority mine plans catalogue: Dowlais watercourses, Black Ball, Penrhoel, Coslet, No 2 Thos Prices, No 7 Banwain and other levels — British Geological Survey

Record created: 15 September 2026 · Last researched: 16 September 2026