Oakdale
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Oakdale Colliery Oakdale
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Work began clearing the site for the new colliery at Ty Mellyn, Oakdale, with the sinking of the pit in 1907. Waterloo shaft followed in 1911. The shafts, North (upcast), and South, were 626 and 650 yards deep respectively.
Opened in 1911, the colliery was owned by the Oakdale Navigation Collieries Ltd, a subsidiary of the Tredegar Iron Company. At its peak in 1938 it employed a workforce of 2,235, when production reached one million tons per year.
Oakdale was linked to Markham colliery and the Celynen North colliery in the late 1970s and early 1980s, making it the largest colliery in Gwent.
The pit closed in 1989 and the tips have now been landscaped and converted into platforms for industrial development