Photographs of remnants at the Bersham Colliery site from a visit on 3rd August 2013.
Source: Photographs by Graham Lloyd.
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Bersham Colliery 2013
1800s
Queen Victoria’s visit to North Wales in 1889
This first article is from The Illustrated London News of 24 August 1889, during the week in which Queen Victoria was staying in North Wales. Her Majesty, accompanied by Prince and Princess Henry of Battenberg, [more]
Coal Mining
Wynnstay Colliery, Ruabon
Wynnstay Colliery or The Green Pit. Ruabon. The New British Iron Company owned the colliery. The workings were ventilated by a split of the air at the extremity of the horse road and then behind [more]
Bersham
Bersham Ironworks
Location Bersham (SJ30704926) History [from RCAHMW] Charles Lloyd of Dolobran, Montgomeryshire, established the Bersham Ironworks in about 1715, although there are a couple of documentary references to an earlier furnace, possibly in Bersham, from the [more]