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Love local history. Around here used to hugely industrial, mine, brickworks, pottery, harbour, tenement type housing, the brickworks didn't close until the early '70s. 30(?) years ago some money was spent tidying the place up and creating an industrial heritage museum. One of the brick making kilns, a Hoffman kiln, remains, the bases of several of the round kilns were restored, the beam engine that pumped the mine out is still there as is one of the pit wheels but it was moved to the roadside to "advertise" the place. All the remains of all the housing are the the four cottages that were the mine managers houses. I have photos of how it was but my scanner/printer decided to take early retirement :mad: Found some images on the net.
Circa 1950 https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...42a847f8_z.jpg https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...411fb568_z.jpg |
When you talk about the mine managers house it's the same here. Not so much now, but at one time our small town was in 3 sections. The Irish in the south, the Welsh in the north and the English managers and their supervisors in the middle. The "posh" houses are still standing, the south and north houses are been long gone.:}
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Lovely pictures, thank you for posting them up, as a miners son I do like to see pics from the days gone by :bowdown:
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Great pictures from another age, sadly gone forever all over the land.
This is the works where I served my engineering apprenticeship at High Wycombe. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...e985a3a0_z.jpg BroomWade Works 1960s photo It has gone now and has been replaced by flats and housing. Engineering aside, High Wycombe was best known for its furniture industry. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...b1eb5e9e_z.jpg Thomas Glenister Factory This one, for example, as many others are no more. At least they kept the steam engines when it was knocked down c 1990. All but gone now, with all of the big factories demolished and the woodlands in the Chiltern Hills are not managed anymore. I well maybe be accused of wearing rose tinted spectacles, but they were good times when I was there. Maybe harder work than now, but it was a fantastic community and all the lads would help each other out. We didn’t seem to have much money but we knew how to have a good time (particularly after the brown envelope arrived on a Friday). These were the days of the best music, best motorcycles and the best women that ever existed. ;) There were over 2000 men working at that factory. We didn’t know anything about personal computers or political correctness. But I bet the people who are there now, in their apartments, with a big TVs, delivered food, super-fast broadband, looking forward to the commute into London, hardly know anyone. ;) |
Not Wales, but just over the Severn bridge near Bristol. the lockdown has got me on my bike to keep fit. I've discovered 3 old mines down disused railways and dramways which I previously didn't know were there.
Brandy Bottom Colliery - well preserved (picture around 10 months old - it is now fenced off for an English Heritage restoration) https://i.imgur.com/bcqaRJD.jpg?1 Parkfield Colliery - really just the chimney left https://i.imgur.com/q1ccnDm.jpg?1 Ram Hill Colliery - wide gauge rail tracks remain, together with bases of buildings, but mostly gone https://i.imgur.com/AvVl9hC.jpg?1 |
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