Ebbw Vale Gallery

A gallery from 'Industrial Monmouthshire - The Leftovers'

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Pen-y-fan Uchaf and Upper Collieries

Penyfan Uchaf Colliery, site, 2009	Penyfan Uchaf Colliery, screens, 2011	Penyfan Uchaf Colliery, screens, 2011	Penyfan Uchaf Colliery, screens, 2011
Penyfan Uchaf Colliery, screens, 2011	Penyfan Uchaf Colliery, screens, 2011	Penyfan Uchaf Colliery screens, 2011	Penyfan Uchaf Colliery, screens, 2011
Penyfan Uchaf Colliery, screens, 2011	Penyfan Uchaf Colliery screens, 2011	Penyfan Uchaf Colliery screens, 2011	Penyfan Upper Colliery, incline looking up, 2011
Penyfan Upper Colliery, incline top, 2011	Penyfan Upper Colliery, brakewheel, 2011	Penyfan Upper Colliery, brakewheel, 2011	Penyfan Upper Colliery, brakehouse, 2011
Penyfan Upper Colliery, stonework, 2011	Penyfan Upper Colliery, stonework, 2011	Penyfan Upper Colliery, adit, 2011	Penyfan Upper Colliery, adit, 2011
Penyfan Upper Colliery, incline from brakehouse, 2011	Penyfan Upper Colliery, older top level, 2011	Penyfan Upper Colliery, older top level, 2011	Penyfan Upper Colliery, older top level, 2011
Penyfan Upper Colliery, general view, 2011	Penyfan Upper Colliery, tips at foot of incline, 2011	Penyfan Collieries, old adits along seam between sites, 2009

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Graig Fawr Colliery and Level

Graig Fawr level exterior, 2011	Graig Fawr level exterior, 2011	Graig Fawr level interior, 2011	Graig Fawr level interior, 2011
Graig Fawr level interior, 2011	Graig Fawr level interior, 2011	Graig Fawr airshaft, 2011	Graig Fawr airshaft, 2009
Graig Fawr airshaft, 2009	Graig Fawr foundations, 2009	Graig Fawr foundations, 2011	Graig Fawr concrete foundations, 2009
Graig Fawr concrete foundations, 2011

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Marine Colliery

"Nasmyth", built in Ebbw Vale, No 2 of 1907, April 1967	Top of ropeway to tip, 2009	Top of ropeway to tip, 2009	Colliery, top of ropeway to tip, 2009
Colliery, top of ropeway to tip, 2009	building with TV cable by tips, 2009	Course of aerial ropeway to tip, 2009	Colliery tips bridge, 2011
Colliery air or drainage adit, 2011	Colliery bridge foundations, 2011	Colliery site from East, 2009	Colliery monument. 2011

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Maes Mawr Quarry

Water tank, 2011	Water tank and pipework, 2011	Air vent for Graig Fawr Northern level, 2011	Air vent for Graig Fawr Northern level, 2011
Air vent for Graig Fawr Northern level, 2011	General view of quarry, 2011	Top of incline, 2011	Quarry incline, 2011
Quarry tramway and incline, 2009	Quarry tramway and incline, 2009

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Victoria Tramway to Lower Woods

Geoff Palfrey now lives in Toronto but has some great memories of this area and has provided these historical photos.
Read all about them here :- Industrial Monmouthshire - the Ebbw Vale page.

Victoria - The Becker Coke Ovens that replaced the Coppee ovens in c1936	Victoria - The new blast furnaces under construction, c1936	Victoria - The old blast furnaces with the tramway in the top right background, c1900	Victoria - Coppee coke ovens and Park Road
Victoria - A general view of the ironworks	Victoria - No 5 Pit (Prince of Wales), c1936 with Bwlch-y-garn tips on the right skyline	Waun Lwyd Colliery c1950s with Silent Valley tips and incline in background	Ty Llwyn with Bwlch-y-garn in the background
Victoria - The foundry floor, c1900

And back to the leftovers....

Incline from Victoria, 2009	Engine House, 2009	Engine House, 2009	Engine House, 2009
Engine House, 2009	Engine House, 2009	Engine House, 2009	Engine House, 2009
Engine House, 2009	Engine House, 2011	Stonework near engine house, 2011	Small building near engine house, 2011
Small building near engine house, 2009	Furnace level entrance, 2009	Furnace level entrance, 2011	Furnace level chimney, 2011
Furnace level chimney, 2009	Furnace level interior, 2011	Furnace level interior, 2011	Furnace level interior, 2011
Furnace level interior, 2011	Furnace level interior, 2011	Furnace level interior, 2011	South level stonework, 2009
South level building, 2009	South level building, 2011	South level, 2009	South level, 2011
South level, 2011	Festival Park funicular, top station, 2009	Festival Park funicular, top station, 2011	Lower Woods North level, tramway, 2011
Lower Woods North level tips, 2011	Lower Woods North level, 2011	Lower Woods South level tramway, 2011	Lower Woods South level, 2011

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Cwm, East Bank

South Level, 2011	South level from West bank, 2009	South Level wagon remains, 2009	South Level wagon remains, 2009
North Level, 2009	Cwm Colliery, 2009	Cwm Colliery from West, 2011

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Waun Lwyd and Silent Valley

Powerhouse, 2011	Reservoir, 2010	Reservoir, 2010	Reservoir spillway, 2010
Silent Valley, incline from West, 2011	Silent Valley, incline from West, 2011	Silent Valley, lower incline, 2010	Silent Valley, upper incline, 2010
Silent Valley, incline above footbridge, 2010	Silent Valley, incline below footbridge, 2010	Silent Valley, footbridge over incline, 2010	Silent Valley, footbridge over incline, 2010
Silent Valley, incline underpass, 2010	Silent Valley, incline underpass, 2010	Silent Valley, incline haulage cable, 2010	Silent Valley, incline sleeper, 2010

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Ty Llwyn, Bwlch-y-garn and Red Ash Collieries

Bwlch-y-garn Pit site, 2010	Bwlch-y-garn Pit tramway, 2010	Bwlch-y-garn Pit tramway, 2010	Red Ash Level incline tipping dock, 2010
Red Ash Level tipping dock at Bwlch-y-garn, 2010	Red Ash Level lower incline, 2010	Red Ash Level lower incline, 2010	Red Ash Level incline cutting, 2010
Red Ash Level incline rail, 2010	Red Ash Level upper incline, 2010	Red Ash Level upper incline, 2010	Red Ash Level upper incline, 2010
Red Ash Level tips, 2010	Reservoir, 2010	Reservoir, 2010	Reservoir spillway, 2010
Rassau Industrial Estate, 2010

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