WPW049995 WALES (1936). General view of Ebbw Vale showing steelworks, commissioned by R. Thomas & Co.. Oblique aerial photograph, 5"x4" BW glass plate.
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| Title | [WPW049995] General view of Ebbw Vale showing steelworks, commissioned by R. Thomas & Co.. Oblique aerial photograph, 5"x4" BW glass plate. |
| Reference | WPW049995 |
| Date | 1936 |
| Link | Coflein Archive Item 6423250 |
| Place name | |
| Parish | |
| District | |
| Country | WALES |
| Easting / Northing | 316800, 210000 |
| Longitude / Latitude | -3.2062224464759, 51.782019540859 |
| National Grid Reference | SO168100 |
Pins
 Ebbw Vale station |
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Thursday 16th of February 2023 11:04:24 PM |
| Darby Beam Blowing Engine House |
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Monday 24th of November 2014 12:07:35 AM |
| Site of 8/9 upper Ebbw Vale pits |
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Wednesday 5th of November 2014 02:11:53 AM |
| Drysiog Colliery |
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Sunday 12th of October 2014 01:23:15 AM |
| Working face of Black pins mine outcrop, a source of iron ore until 1870. |
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Sunday 12th of October 2014 01:22:15 AM |
| Scouring feeder for Black pins Mine outcrop quarry below it. |
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Sunday 12th of October 2014 01:20:57 AM |
| The Market Hall of Churchtown which had become the Palace Theatre at this time. |
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Sunday 12th of October 2014 01:19:42 AM |
| Briery Hill school |
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Sunday 12th of October 2014 01:17:35 AM |
| Edge of Old Tunnel houses |
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Sunday 12th of October 2014 01:16:40 AM |
| Site of Cornish pumping pit of Baileys Beaufort collieries, note the spoil heap which became part of the terraces of the sports ground. |
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Sunday 12th of October 2014 01:14:34 AM |
| Ventilation shaft, possibly the original #3 balance pit, joined to drillground pits complex. |
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Sunday 12th of October 2014 01:12:07 AM |
| Penycae Furnaces, closed September 1920 and dismantled here. |
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Sunday 12th of October 2014 01:10:41 AM |
| Bridge carrying trams of shale spoil to creeper haulage at brickworks over railway. |
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Sunday 12th of October 2014 01:09:29 AM |
| Gantra pit shale tip being removed to feed the Gantra brickworks |
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Sunday 12th of October 2014 01:06:49 AM |
| Gantra Pits |
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Sunday 12th of October 2014 01:05:33 AM |
| Gantra brickworks |
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Sunday 12th of October 2014 01:04:33 AM |
| Bryhelig brickworks |
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Sunday 12th of October 2014 01:03:58 AM |
| Waunllwyd Colliery |
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Sunday 12th of October 2014 01:03:18 AM |
| Slag tip of Victoria Ironworks, later levelled for the erection of the Bessemer and open hearth steel plant of RTB works |
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Sunday 12th of October 2014 01:02:21 AM |
| 1,2,3,4,5 Victoria Blast furnaces and generating station, the last numbered furnaces were built in 1918 and were rebuilt for use by RTB in 1936. |
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Sunday 12th of October 2014 01:00:38 AM |
| Koppers bye product plant of 1914 |
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Sunday 12th of October 2014 12:58:22 AM |
| Victoria Colliery including #5 Prince of Wales and the upcast at #1 pit, a rebuild from 1914, visited by Edward, Prince of Wales in March 1918, where he took a tour to the coal face. |
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Sunday 12th of October 2014 12:57:36 AM |
| New Koppers Bye Product plant 1918 |
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Sunday 12th of October 2014 12:54:58 AM |
| Sheet Mills |
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Sunday 12th of October 2014 12:52:17 AM |
| The second Bessemer steelworks of 1905, rebuilt on the old. |
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Sunday 12th of October 2014 12:51:15 AM |
| The Long Feeder |
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Sunday 12th of October 2014 12:50:08 AM |
| Fire Station and council yard, originally a pit complex and the Ebbw Vale Company's mining department and workshops, bought by the EVUDC council in 1903.
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Sunday 12th of October 2014 12:48:54 AM |
| Old Mans park |
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Sunday 12th of October 2014 12:45:42 AM |