'Comradeship and friendship' - Miners remember Deep Navigation Colliery 25 years after closure
A ceremony has taken place to mark twenty five years since the closure of Deep Navigation Colliery.
The pit, in Treharris, closed in 1991 after working for more than 100 years.
Deep Navigation was a casualty of the pit closure programme of the early 90s.
Nearly 400 men lost their jobs when it closed in March 1991.
Watch the report from Mike Griffiths below:
25 years on, and with little trace remaining of the pit, former miners and friends braved the Treharris rain to remember it.
Nearby Penallta Colliery closed later in 1991, while Taff Merthyr shut in 1993.
For many men closure meant unemployment, with few new jobs in a rapidly shrinking industry.
Others found new opportunities. Bobby Brain started his own grocery business.
The Deep Navigation site has now been extensively landscaped, with a stone commemorating it and the nearby Trelewis Drift and Taff Merthyr Colliery