"Birds eye view, Ferndale"

[mochyn]

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

[mochyn]

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

[JohnPitt]

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.

[mochyn]

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

Thanks, I'll have a read.

[brianblaenboy]

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.