MORNING SERIAL

BEFORE TIME

AN INQUEST was held on Monday 6 instant, at the Miners’ Arms, before the Deputy Coroner, Thomas Williams, on the body of Thomas Roberts, aged eleven years. Deceased was a doorboy. On Thursday 2 instant, between two and three in the afternoon, while he was at work a journey of trams loaded with coal passed over his legs. He was taken home and attended by doctors but died on Saturday. The verdict was accidental death.

– Cardiff and Merthyr Guardian, Friday, 10 July 1863

RICHARD Thomas, a young fellow twelve years of age was working in a stall with his father on Tuesday when a mass of coal fell on him from the roof and crushed him so seriously that he died an hour afterwards.

– Cardiff and Merthyr Guardian, Friday, 14 October, 1864

FATAL accident to a doorboy at Ysguborwen pit. On Tuesday last Ifor Evans of Robertstown was killed when a stone fell from the roof and he was killed instantly. The poor little fellow was only twelve years of age.

– Cardiff and Merthyr Guardian, Saturday, 16 June, 1866

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THE lower gorse-covered and stone-strewn flanks of the mountain, bilious yellow in summer and in winter a grey sage hue, almost abutted up against the back of the House where it squatted, square and unseemly, all alone in its hollow, an imitation of a Georgian mansion decked out in Victorian concrete with a whitewashed stucco finish.

From its frontage a drive, in truth more a broad cinder path, bisected a tussocky lawn and ran down the slope towards the river and the valley’s bottom level.