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From a postcard posted in 1937. This must be looking down from the region of Rhondda Road?

By the way, the tip at the top right of this photo is still there isn't it? Where would that have come from? It seems a long way from the pits in Ferndale proper. Was it perhaps from a little further down, from the Tylorstown pits?

Alan

mochyn wrote:By the way, the tip at the top right of this photo is still there isn't it? Where would that have come from? It seems a long way from the pits in Ferndale proper. Was it perhaps from a little further down, from the Tylorstown pits?

Alan

Yes we discussed the "old Smokey" in the up the mountain thread.
In your pre-war picture the attempt to put in tipping works above No 1 pit which ran into legal troubles with the adjoining farm can be clearly seen.

JohnPitt wrote:Yes we discussed the "old Smokey" in the up the mountain thread.

Thanks, I'll have a read.

There was a dram track leading from the pit up to the tip when I was a kid, we used to walk along it to get up towards Llanwonno, and I remember the drams going up the mountain. So it was definitely used by the Ferndale pits.