Colliery sunk 1844. Engine built 1845 by Varteg Ironworks. Replacement cylinder 1861 by Brown Lennox of Newbridge Works, Pontypridd. Colliery abandoned 1897. Engine lay derelict until c1920s [photo of it in ivy-cladroofless engine house in W.G.Thomas 'Welsh Coal Mines', Cardiff: National Museum of Wales, 1976] when the surviving parts were re-erected in the grounds of what was then the South Wales School of Mines, an institution that has evolved by today into the University of Glamorgan.