Bronze Age Gold from Wales

Mardy Colliery (plate)

Souvenir plate commemorating the closure of Mardy Colliery, 1990. Decorated with the image from the Maerdy Lodge NUM banner (colliery in background, miner and dragon in foreground holding a parchment marked "Peace Forward to Socialism") in centre and inscribed "Mardy Colliery, the Last Pit in the Rhondda" around the edge.

Collection Area

Industry

Item Number

90.90I/1

Creation/Production

Ceramic Arts
Date: 1990

Acquisition

Donation, 1990

Measurements

diameter (mm): 273

Material

ceramics

Location

Big Pit National Coal Museum : Pit Head Baths Gallery (DC 3.07 middle row)

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Categories

coal Mid Glamorgan 1990s
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