WPW049967 WALES. General view of Ebbw Vale showing steelworks, commissioned by R. Thomas & Co.. Oblique aerial photograph.

45 inch Blowing Engine House

Darby Blowing Engine House

is this the site of the old #1 tunnel????

Derelict Tyllwyn Bessemer steelworks, scrapped in 1936 along with a new unused 1200t hot metal mixer, the largest in the world at that time.

Mount Pleasant Square

The new Tyllwyn built after the steelworks rebuild of 1905

Old mans park on the drillground pits shale spoil.

#5 and 6 pits at parade or drillground.

#8 balance pit tip and pond.

Old Tunnel, driven through mineral ground to allow the Sirhowy tramroad to take Iron from Ebbw Vale forge, The Harfords had an interest in this tramroad, it was also a coal level.

The Gantra, miners housing for the Gantra pits and level.

The Sychffos, workers housing for the mines and old tunnel pit

Red ash level entrance

Scoured area of Black pins mine ground, the site of Hilltop housing estate of the 1950's This ground, containing over ten narrow iron ore bands or "pins" of argillaceous iron ore in 15 to 20 foot of shale was exploited through to Sirhowy above and below ground.

I think this is the "tump" described above Bwlch y Garn where Zephaniah Williams addressed the crowds of Chartists form Nantyglo, Blaina and Ebbw Vale in the rainy evening that they set off for Newport, they walked down to the valley floor, stopped the blast at Penycae furnaces, assaulted William Adams in his home and then walked down part the Victoria ironworks which was built and being commissioned following the tramroads to the port. In later years the area had a rifle range for the Brynmawr and Nantyglo militia.