Llanhilleth Colliery Mines Resue Team circa 1955

Members of Llanhilleth Colliery’s mines rescue team in the training galley at Crumlin Mines Rescue Station.

Left to right:

Gus Maloney, Joe Hookings, Mr. Nicholls (Training Centre Staff), David Lewis, unknown, Bill Coleman, Arthur Protheroe, unknown.

When he joined the team, aged 17 years, Bill Coleman was the youngest Rescue Team member in the country.

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Quite a shock seeing my Dad ( David Lewis) in 2 photos on your Webb Page . I have the same photos in one of my old albums. One of many Lewis’s working in the mining industry. He started when he was 13 if I remember correctly
I am sixty now the youngest of three children so I was just a baby when the Photos were taken.
The family moved to Pontypool when I was 4 so around 1958 . Dad worked in Llanhilleth for many years .
By Anthony Lewis (14/01/2015)

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