Blaenavon Mining Companies Pwll Du Village. Tram Road, Tunnel, Keepers Pond & Garnddyrs Ironworks

Pwll Du Village built for the coal, iron ore and quarry haulier workers around 1819 to bring the Limestone from the Tyla & Pwll Du Quarries to the Blaenavon Ironworks via The Pwlldu Tunnel, the longest horse drawn dram tunnel in the UK at the time and the only one with a Y junction underground.
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Tumble
Garnddyrys Forge
Taylor Woodrow
McAlpine
Canada Tips
Prince of Wales Pub
Lamb Pub
Long Row
Short Row
Long Rank
Short Rank
Keepers Pond
Balance Pond
Balance shaft
Old Pwlldu
Hill’s tram road
Thomas Hill
Ironwork’s
Big Pit
Coity opencast
Heritage centre
Unesco world heritage
Gorgeous Gussi
Big Bertha
Managers House
Rifleman’s green
Brickworks

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A wonderful photo story of a time gone by. How many of those industrial settlements remain now in Wales? All those people have now passed on. No community like it exists.

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The little girl with her pram is my grandmother ❤

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My great grandfather was an ostler there, lovely to see