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
Place name
Parish
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.

sloyne
Sunday 28th of July 2013 10:45:56 PM
View looking west from this bridge.

Class31
Thursday 20th of June 2013 02:29:40 PM

Class31
Thursday 20th of June 2013 02:28:25 PM

Class31
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.

Enthusiast
Sunday 19th of August 2012 08:38:46 PM

Class31
Monday 2nd of July 2012 10:22:06 AM
River Neath/Afon Nedd

Class31
Monday 2nd of July 2012 10:15:23 AM
Cardiff - Swansea Great Western Railway Main Line

Class31
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.

Class31
Sunday 12th of August 2012 11:03:29 PM

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Neath Abbey, 10/10/2014

Class31
Monday 13th of October 2014 01:30:33 PM
Neath Abbey, 10/10/2014

Class31
Monday 13th of October 2014 01:29:03 PM
Detail

Class31
Monday 15th of July 2013 09:25:11 AM
Looking south east.

Class31
Monday 15th of July 2013 09:24:12 AM
West end of nave.

Class31
Monday 15th of July 2013 09:22:40 AM
Western side of building.

Class31
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!

Class31
Monday 15th of July 2013 09:20:26 AM
View east of doorway

Class31
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.

Enthusiast
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)

Treforys
Monday 6th of August 2012 11:56:52 PM