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I was not aware of this book until the author contacted me earlier this week it is a superb piece of research of a colliery that closed just after nationalisation. Author: Clive Reed, Hb, 288pp, 300 x 290, 197 images colour and Black and White Tareni Colliery 1902 - 1949, A history of a mining enterprise in The Swansea Valley £30 This is the complete history of a coalmine in Cwmtawe, the Swansea Valley, the author who is not a mining but worked in heavy engineering and lived within the community all his life. Describes the mine, the trades, the communities around this valley.and the village of Rhos The mine was closed after nationalisation in 1949 and is therefore not included in Steve Grudgings book of a similar area Mike -- https://www.moorebooks.co.uk/ tel 01952 405105 Snailbeach and Tankerville Mines see http://shropshiremines.org.uk/ If you need to leave the list, send the following message to [log in to unmask] - leave mining-history ---------