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Mardy Colliery (plate)
Ceramic Arts
(Manufacturer)
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.
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Collection Area
Industry
Item Number
90.90I/1
Historical Associations
Association Type: Colliery
Date: 1990
Place: Maerdy Colliery (Rhondda)
Association Type: Place name
Place: Rhondda Valley
Creation/Production
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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