WPW032438 WALES (1930). View of Ebbw Vale, oblique aerial view. 5"x4" black and white glass plate negative.

Abergavenny railway

Winches Pit, this pit was a hub of minerals for Nantyglo ironworks joined to the Beaufort ironworks by a mile long water level, as well as coal and iron ore, drams of finished iron were winched to this level to use the Newport to Brecon canal through Clydach gorge and save the extra cost of the shorter western valley route, Crawshay Bailey built a railway in the 1860's along its route. The water balance machine may be the reason for the name machine pond, its water fed it and it drained out into the river Ebbw. This pit and a number of others were part of the RTB steelworks water system, the water levels here were monitored, water was used from Bryn Pit- which was probably joined to this pit underground bringing outcrop iron ore to the furnaces, Drillground pits 5/6 and #5 Victoria.

Winches Buildings

Winches Row

Salem Chapel

Methodist Row

Market Hall Cinema 24/08/2013

Machine pond

Welfare grounds used to be the Heathcock pond.

Cwm Clydach

Humphrey Hughes houses

Ironstone and coal patch outcrop scourings/ mines

The missing link

Old tramroad from Bwlch y garn and Tunnel pits to Nantyglo Ironworks

King David Pub

Ben wards fields

lyons row

the dingle

alma street

beaufort street

warwick road

welfare grounds

st marys catolic church

winchestown

holy trinity church