"Birds eye view, Ferndale"

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"Birds eye view, Ferndale"

Postby mochyn » Sat Nov 27, 2010 12:12 am

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

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Re: "Birds eye view, Ferndale"

Postby mochyn » Sat Nov 27, 2010 12:13 am

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?

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Re: "Birds eye view, Ferndale"

Postby JohnPitt » Sat Nov 27, 2010 1:42 am

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?

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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.
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Re: "Birds eye view, Ferndale"

Postby mochyn » Sat Nov 27, 2010 9:20 am

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


Thanks, I'll have a read.
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Re: "Birds eye view, Ferndale"

Postby brianblaenboy » Sat Nov 27, 2010 12:14 pm

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.
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