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Walking stick carved from colliery timber to commemorate two ‘stay in strikes’ at Fernhill Colliery, Treherbert, Rhondda Fawr. The stick has a cross section of the Fernhill Colliery, with inscriptipn 'No.3 Pit FernHill Colliery Stay in Strikes Oct 17-22, 1935, 141 Hrs, Aug 28-Sep 9, 1936, 282 Hrs'. At the top is a carving of a ‘colliery proprieter’ wearing leather skull cap and sporting a moustache. The stick was carved by William Mathew Morgan born in the Forest of Dean in 1908 who worked as a collier, then later a banksman in Fernhill Colliery until retirement in 1971. He died in 1998.