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Tondu history
Sir Robert Price
Sir Robert Price began to develop an ironworks alongside the Dyffryn Llynvi and Porthcawl Railway in the late 1830s. The year 1843 was significant for the Tondu district as extensive reserves of black-band ironstone were discovered six miles (10 km) to the north in the Maesteg area.
Brogdens
In February 1854 John Brogden sent his fourth son James, aged 22, to revive and run the business. In 1856 the Brogdens re-opened Price’s coal and ore mine at Tywith. In the 1861 census he said he was employing 900 men and farming 1,100 acres with 20 men.
Brogdens give way to North’s Navigation
In 1872 Alexander Brogden formed a new joint-stock company, the Llynvi, Tondu and Ogmore Coal and Iron Company Limited. It merged Brogdens’ Glamorgan business interests with those of the other company. However the new company was short-lived and was wound up by creditors in 1878.
Disastrous explosion
112 men and boys died in explosion at Parc Slip Colliery in August 1892. Just 39 survivors survived; some remained trapped underground for a week. Sixty women were widowed and 153 children left fatherless.
New manager
Boyd-Harvey was a Cornishman who had studied gas production in Swansea. He had followed his elder brother Robert to South America. He retired in 1913, at the early age of 52.
Tondu House
The General Managers lived in Tondu House until 1940 when the house was commandeered by the Ministry of Supply for the Pyrotechnic Research Department. The site was chosen because it was in an elevated and relatively isolated position, some distance from a built-up area and only four miles from ROF Bridgend.
The Old Pit Pony Hospital
On site is an old pit pony hospital where all the local pit ponies came for treatment and rest during their lives in the local pits. It was the only pit pony. hospital in Mid Glamorgan.
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