Bardford - Correct the check weighman was elected by the Colliers to keep an eye on the Management Coal Weighers, this was in the days when colliers were on Piecework, each to thier stall ( bit of the face )

From my bedroom/study here in Ystrad Mynach I can see the remains of 4 colleries, Wylie, Penaltna, Llanbradach, and Bargoed Brittania. And two closed Railways, that took the Coal down to Cardiff, Newport and Barry.

But as the toast went in the old South Wales Miners Federation - "To the day the last man left the last pit on the last shift"

Gareth