Taskers Colliery

Overview

Taskers Colliery was one of the many pits feeding the Cyfarthfa Iron Works, Merthyr Tydfil, and closed in March 1924.

History

Taskers is recorded only briefly in its own right: one of the many mines used to feed the Cyfarthfa Iron Works, closed in March 1924, the same closure date recorded for several other small Cyfarthfa-feeder levels in the same NMRS survey; the same source cross-references it to a separate Pwll Tasker entry. A separate NMRS roundup of the 'Cyfarthfa Collieries' as a group names Taskers among some thirty pits and levels that fed the works under this umbrella, alongside Gutter, Pen Machine, Cornely Wain and others. That roundup adds that the group moved from purely supplying the ironworks to also exporting coal from 1866, and worked seams including the Upper- and Lower-Two-Feet-Nine, Twenty Inches, Bute, Gellideg, Upper Yard, Upper-Four-Feet, Six-Feet, Seven-Feet and Nine-Feet, with several ironstone veins also worked from the same group of pits. It records a run of named deaths across these mines between 1852 and 1866, but none of them is attributed specifically to Taskers; they belong to the wider Cyfarthfa group and are not used here as Taskers' own record.

Recorded claims

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

• Taskers Colliery was one of the many pits feeding the Cyfarthfa Iron Works, closed in March 1924; the same source cross-references it to a separate Pwll Tasker entry. ¹
• Taskers is named among the umbrella group of Cyfarthfa-feeding pits and levels, which moved from purely supplying the ironworks to also exporting coal from 1866 and worked a shared list of coal and ironstone seams. ²

Sources

1. (secondary) Small Collieries around Merthyr Tydfil — Northern Mine Research Society
2. (secondary) Cyfarthfa Collieries — Northern Mine Research Society

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