Bore da!

I'm an utter mining enthusiast (I've not mined, I just mean I'm enthused by the subject as a whole.

Lucky me gets to study history on the South Wales mining side of things (yippee) so I'm trying to dig out any historic information I can on the Aberaman colliery and whichever pit (was it iron?) which was behind the Cwmaman Institute.

All research also goes towards my children's book if I get it finished between university semesters (I'm in my second year and started writing it around March or April this year but I'm missing crucial information).

I know I cannot reproduce the photographs I have found (Dai the Pitman's?) but I'd love to speak to the owner of the photographs of these pits and enwuire whether anyone else has any or would be willing to point me in the direction of some factual information about these two pits in particular.

I have a geocaching trail which begins over the Aberaman colliery's old location and ends a bit past the Cwmaman one and I have incorporated this trail into one of my university modules, I need to dig up some accurate-as-possible history to write into the description sections of my caches, and to enable me to construct a suitable history talk to conduct as I lead groups of families from the RCT through the trail.

I'm a volunteer for Go4It! RCT, running their geocaching dept. So everything I do for Go4It benefits families from the RCT, several from the RCT Homes housing projects (RCT Homes owns Go4It, not that I'm a fan of RCT Homes, after a brief stint in a flat of theirs - I won't go into that :lol:)

I have to meet my boss next thursday to organise when this event will run. I've left it a bit late but juggling 5 modules worth of assignments plus 2 kids and 3 stepkids at home fulltime is a logistical nightmare! I'm also mildly disabled so if you do reply and I don't respond straight away, please accept my apologies - I have a lot on my shoulders.

If anyone can and will aid me in my quest, please please please do - it shall also help (in the long run, book etc) educate future generations.

Diolch yn fawr iawn!