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Onlwyn coal washery is situated at the head of the Dulais Valley, South Wales, UK. It washes and processes the coal ready for distribution, extracted from the nearby Nant Helen open cast coal mine, situated on the hillside above the small village of Onllwyn.
Documentary filmmaker, Roger Tiley spent the last year of production capturing the workforce as they faced closure.
A long history of coal mining in the area would come to a close when the washery finishes production.

[@jamesridley3596]

Just goes to show how out of touch the government is! closing old power stations and not building any new ones! Crazy and closing down the Steel works great content 👌 🇬🇧

[@philglover2973]

Awesome video thanks lads I am a ex miner working under ground and on top on the prep plant . Florence pit good times gone but not forgotten 😢😢⛏️⛏️⛏️⛏️⛏️⛏️⛏️😞😞

[@welshwizard822]

A great record 😢 and another nail in the coffin. All our industry has gone, whole communities killed off. The tory toffs and their rich friends couldnt have big unions who fought for better conditions and rights and the only way was to shut ALL big industry down. The rich got richer, they always do and the workers always pays for it. Well done Roger 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

[@photoworkshopwales]

Thanks butty.

[@gettogo0159]

@welshwizard822 Let me get this straight, I've had many family in the coal mining in all roles even open cast mining to non union so you can say it's in my blood. It was the unions that killed the mining industry + rest not the scabs. Unions have habit of being fools & then the balance of profit to operating in the black not the red undoes it's self ..... the whole lot closes & you lose all the jobs in 1/2 even 3 stage industry! If still the support unions in you need you head seeing too, look at the train drivers how the union screwed them over for a pay rise. 🤨

[@paulbrennan3996]

Away of life gone forever sad decline of a once Mighty industry respect to All Who have worked on winning the coal for generations my Dad was a coal ⛏️ miner my grandad and many members of My family on both sides ⛏️🙌👐👏🤝✊ total respect 🤝

[@barrieevans6914]

That was a very sad day for the industry all over Great Britain I worked in the local colliery at the Windsor colliery senghenydd ,washery plant under the late DAI m.s my dad

[@elainebest8626]

Thanks Rog for documenting the closure. What a lesson for the children of tomorrow to learn how the world used to be powered. And what a lesson for Governments of tomorrow how they messed up in the past. How the resources, knowledge and experience were on our doorstep but were thrown away.

[@scotty4579]

a fantastic documentary , green policy aint working

[@mabamabam]

I mean its a local tragedy and all but geez its hardly surprising. The place is tiny, falling apart, some of its apparently from the 30s, for gods sake theyre loading a train with a loader. The ROM loader looks like it was borrowed from the local farmer. And old mate wonders why coal from the other side of the world is cheaper.

[@johngibson3837]

Aye but it's not as good as it, think you should just go somewhere else, this is a poniont video and very sad also the outcome is not positive, I would guess you would prefer coal that's not as good and prefer to exploit cheap labour as well, sad times mate

[@mabamabam]

@@johngibson3837 "not as good"?, It's better. If imported coal werent better companies wouldnt buy it. "cheap labour". The UK imports its coal from the famously low wage EU, US and Australia. Yes its very sad that these guys are losing their jobs. And all the blokes before them. No one is happy about industry dying. But it's the silly coping stories, like your nonsense about poor exploited australian miners, that cheapen it all a bit.

[@joshuahill6153]

USA has low wages yes, but Aus/NZ Coal is expensive because of the great wages.

[@pauldavies7251]

​@@mabamabamplease stop with your clueless nonsense, welsh anthracite is factually the best in the world, The steel works imports Chinese coal as an excuse to offset the uk's carbon footprint, Anthracite is a clean burning coal not like coking or brown coal, We're exporting jobs & money to the other side of the world to keep the green brigade quiet, The country is on its knees with countless people unemployed & zero hard industry, It makes no sense whatso ever if it did Germany China America south Africa & Australia would be opening new mines & reopening new ones, Your a complete idiot pal.