WPW043065 WALES (1933). Neath Abbey (ruins), oblique aerial view.
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| Title | [WPW043065] Neath Abbey (ruins), oblique aerial view. |
| Reference | WPW043065 |
| Date | September-1933 |
| Link | Coflein Archive Item 6335325 |
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| District | |
| Country | WALES |
| Easting / Northing | 273780, 197360 |
| Longitude / Latitude | -3.8250557235449, 51.660365769756 |
| National Grid Reference | SS738974 |
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 According to the Atlas of the GWR 1947, by R A COOKE this is the old Vale of Neath line, not the GWR main line to Swansea. |
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Sunday 28th of July 2013 10:45:56 PM |
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Thursday 20th of June 2013 02:29:40 PM | |
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Thursday 20th of June 2013 02:28:25 PM | |
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Thursday 20th of June 2013 02:26:43 PM | |
| River Clydach/Afon Clydach |
Enthusiast |
Sunday 19th of August 2012 08:46:40 PM |
| This was Ebenezer chapel, demolished some time ago (1990s?).
Currently a new evangelical church is being built on the same site. |
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Sunday 19th of August 2012 08:38:46 PM |
| Tennant Canal |
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Monday 2nd of July 2012 10:22:06 AM |
| River Neath/Afon Nedd |
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Monday 2nd of July 2012 10:15:23 AM |
| Cardiff - Swansea Great Western Railway Main Line |
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Monday 2nd of July 2012 10:14:31 AM |
Humble apologies on this but the railway is the GWR but not the South Wales Main Line. The line ran from Neath Riverside to Jersey Marine South Junction. |
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Sunday 12th of August 2012 11:03:29 PM |
User Comment Contributions
 Neath Abbey, 10/10/2014 |
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Monday 13th of October 2014 01:30:33 PM |
 Neath Abbey, 10/10/2014 |
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Monday 13th of October 2014 01:29:03 PM |
 Detail |
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Monday 15th of July 2013 09:25:11 AM |
 Looking south east. |
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Monday 15th of July 2013 09:24:12 AM |
 West end of nave. |
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Monday 15th of July 2013 09:22:40 AM |
 Western side of building. |
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Monday 15th of July 2013 09:21:45 AM |
 Tallest part of structure at the west end of the nave. The temporary safety fences have arrived since my last visit! |
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Monday 15th of July 2013 09:20:26 AM |
 View east of doorway |
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Monday 15th of July 2013 09:17:45 AM |
I have just read a fascinating account of how a team of volunteers - led initially by Glen A. Taylor and after his death in 1935 by C. Stanley Thomas - laboured each Saturday to shift 7,000 tons of rubble etc. out of the abbey ruins. This project began in 1923 and ended with the outbreak of WWII. They had no machinery, but rigged up their own 'railway' within the abbey on which to move their skips. |
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Sunday 19th of August 2012 08:36:28 PM |
The railway line in the foreground is the former Swansea and Neath Railway, later the Vale of Neath Railway and then Great Western Railway. It ran from the Dulais and Neath Valleys (left) to Swansea Docks and Jersey Marine Junction South (right) |
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Monday 6th of August 2012 11:56:52 PM |