The Ebbw Vale Steel Iron and Coal Co. Ltd. owned several pits in the Ebbw vale district and together with their Iron and Steel plants, were known collectively as the "Ebbw Vale Works".

No. 22 pit was sunk around 1860.
From the Inspector of Mines list 1896, "Nos. 15 and 22", and "Fire clay Level" together employing 587 producing from the Old coal, Big vein, Elled and Three quarters seams.

By 1908 the workforce had diminished to only 66.
Nos. 22 and 15 closed 1908/9.
Fire Clay level remained opened and in 1918 there were 30 men

Victoria pits were a series of 16 mine workings producing both coal and iron ore to supply the Victoria Ironworks owned by the Ebbw Vale Steel, Iron and Coal Co. Ltd.

The shaft of the original Victoria No.1 colliery was sunk to a depth of 690 feet by the Ebbw Vale Company and completed in 1846 (other shafts were sunk later). Although it was only a single shaft it was used to raise both coal and iron from three different levels. Winding was by the Water Balance method.
The No. 6 pit was added in 1847. This was also a water balance pit working both iron and coal.

There occurred an accident just over one year after it opened, when 11 miners who were descending the shaft fell to their deaths after a rope, which was connected to a counter balance bucket became detached.

On March 2nd 1871, a gas explosion occurred at the Victoria No.1 pit killing eighteen men and one boy.

At the inquest the government mines inspector reported that a blower of gas from the coalface had been ignited by a naked flame, he also added that the ventilation was inadequate and this was compounded by the abnormal weather conditions. In his report to the Home Office the inspector stated if his earlier advice on ventilation improvement had been put into practice the explosion probably would not have occurred.

After the explosion the pit was closed down, it reopened eleven years later when steam powered ventilation fans were installed.

In 1896 a workforce of 363 were producing coal from the Big Vein, Byddeg, Old Coal and Old Woman's Coal seams.By 1908 the workforce had increased to 463.
In 1918 there were 998 men employed.
Later Partridge Jones & John Paton Ltd. owned it.
Production ceased in 1929.In 1945 there were only 8 men employed for pumping and ventilation.

21st of June 1848

No.1 and No.2 shafts both downcast at 272 yards and 168 yards deep respectively, No.3 shaft up-cast at a depth of 269 yards.

An underground fire broke out near the stables, on September 22nd, 1879 killing three men including a father and his son, 16 horses also perished. An air-door, which had been purposely left open to clear a pocket of gas was accidentally close by a fireman sending the gas to the naked lights at the stables, where it ignited.

The Dead.;
John Jones a Fireman.
William Griffiths (snr.) an Ostler.
William Griffiths (jnr.) an Ostler.
In 1896 a workforce of 951 men were employed here and coal was being extracted from the Three Quarters, Big Vein and Elled seams.By 1918 the workforce had grown to 2,365 men.
During 1935 Partridge Jones and John Paton and Co. became the new owners.
In 1938 it employed 1,123 and in 1945 there were 758 men employed.The colliery was effectively closed when it was integrated with the Marine colliery in 1964.

It is again mentioned in the 1896 list when the owners were Monmouthshire and Cwm Collieries Co. At this time there were 124 men employed here producing coal from the Tillery seam.
By 1908 the number employed was 105, it also went by the name of Cwm North and South levels.
In 1918 there were 76 men employed at this collery, later Jones and Emmanuel became the owners.
In 1938 E. H. Bennet and Co. Ltd. owned the Cwm South level employing 58 men.
It closed in the early 1940's.

The Red Ash Level mine was one of the many mines that were set into the easterns side of the ebbw Vallley.

This was down to the many seams found along the Ebbw Valley and was often concidered dangerous to be worked in. also along the valley at this time one could find mines names the Black Vein, Big Veinand the old coal