48 Waterloo cions Pontypool museum May 2015
A film relating to opening of The Waterloo Coin Exhibition at Pontypool Museum on Friday 1st. May 2015 by retired MP Paul Murphy and his talk. Presenting a book of the event to various persons including myself Adrian J. Smith was Eloise Prosser of The London Mint. This film is a collaboration between Clare Johnson and myself Adrian J. Smith and is around 12 minutes long. Music tilted Praying by Adrian J. Smith.
Llanrech Colliery, Abersychan Pontypool South Wales - April 2017
Aerial view of the old workings of Llanrech Colliery near Abersychan, Pontypool South Wales which opened in 1858 and closed in 1947. The two shafts can be still seen but have been filled in for safety. The buildings and railway have all long gone. Records show that three explosions occurred during its lifetime. The first killing 7 workers, the second no fatalities but the third killing 176 workers that was caused from a massive gas explosion due to a naked flame.
Blaenserchan Colliery, Abersychan Pontypool South Wales - April 2017
Aerial view of the old workings of Blaenserchan Colliery near Abersychan, Pontypool South Wales which opened in 1890 and closed in 1985. The two shafts can be still seen but have been filled in for safety. The most important buildings and railway have all long gone.
Pontypool Indoor Market update 1
A progress report on the £2 million Pontypool Indoor Market refurbishment project
ECS Helps Keep the National Coal Mining Museum Above Water
The National Coal Mining Museum for England has been offering visitors the chance to learn more about this ancient industry for over 25 years. As with most coal mines, there is a constant build up of water in the underground workings that makes its way to the old mineshafts. This water needs to be pumped out and treated before it is discharged into the local watercourse. ECS Engineering Services has been responsible for maintaining the pumps and the treatment works for the past 18 years and ensuring that the water levels remain under control.
The museum is based at the site of Caphouse Colliery in Overton, West Yorkshire and originally opened in 1988 as the Yorkshire Mining Museum after the colliery was closed in 1985. In 1995, it gained national status and at this point ECS was appointed to maintain the water pumping equipment and the treatment works, which it has been doing ever since. The contract has seen a permanent presence of ECS engineers, who are responsible for preventing the museum from filling up with ground water and ensuring that the treated water meets the standards set by the Environment Agency (EA).
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Pontypool & Blaenavon Railway
Preserved Railway at Furnace Sidings Station Near Blaenavon South Wales uk
also Calling at Big Pit, Blaenavon High Leve,l Whistle Holt
Pontypool & Blaenavon Railway Halloween Event 28/10/2017
This small Preserved Railway high in the Mountains in South East Wales, will hold its Halloween Event for 2017 over the 28th 29th and 31st October 2017 between 16.00 and 21.00.
This footage was captured on Saturday 28th October, and it was truly amazing to see the results of this incredible event. The visitors queued up non stop to ride on the train, and to be scared by the wonderfully dressed up staff and volunteers on the Railway.
The attention to details was phenomenal, and the power was provided by the Railway's own Austerity 71515 Mech Navvies Ltd.hauling trains from Furnace Sidings to Whistle Inn and return.
A big thank you to Alex Hinshelwood and his colleagues for looking after Mrs M and me during the visit, and to all the wonderful visitors who allowed me to video them.
Why not come along with the Family, Dress up and have an unforgettable day our at the P&BR...You'll Love it!
Pontypool & Blaenavon Vintage Weekend 18 ~ 19/05/2019.
This weekend the Pontypool & Blaenavon Railway held a Vintage train weekend, featuring newly restored loco 'Jessie'.
UK Railtours also ran an excursion from Stevenage to Cardiff, and brought a coach full of passengers up to the Railway from Newport., and they all had an enjoyable time.
It was also a thrill to meet Richard and Jan Lawson who I haven't seen for nearly thirty years.
I would also like to thank the Staff and Volunteers for making the day such an enjoyable one, so why not bring your family up and enjoy a ride on the trains tomorrow, Sunday the 19th of May 2019.
tesco pontypool sledging part 2
Video from my Kodak EASYSHARE Z915 DIGITAL CAMERA
Glyn Pits Colliery, Pontypool South Wales - June 2017
Aerial view of the remains of the Glyn Pits Colliery in Pontypool South Wales which opened in 1840's and closed in 1932. The two shafts, Winding Engine House and Pump Engine House are remaining with believed steam engines 'in situ'. The railway that carried the coal and connected the Colliery have all long gone and have become a path for walkers and bikers. The site is being reclaimed by plant life and wildlife slowly.
Pontypool and Blaenavon Railway Furnace Sidings Heritage Railways
The Pontypool and Blaenavon Railway (Welsh: Rheilffordd Pont-y-pŵl a Blaenafon) is a 2-mile (3 km) volunteer-run heritage railway in South Wales, running trains between a halt platform opposite the Whistle Inn public house (famed for its collection of miner's lamps) southwards to the town of Blaenavon via a two-platform station at the site of former colliery furnace of the Big Pit National Coal Museum.
The line is the highest preserved standard-gauge line in the United Kingdom, and also uniquely having the only standard-gauge rail-over-rail bridge within preservation.
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Learn that our capital’s Cardiff
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Bordering England To Our East
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I am the Island of Anglesey
On the north-west coast of Wales
I’m the County of Gwynedd
See Caernarfon Castle scale
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Conwy Castle is a site to go
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Come rafting on the River Dee
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Come to visit Basingwerk Abbey
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I house Chirk Castle don’t you know
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And Pembroke Castle is in me
I’m Ceredigion County
Devil's Bridge is quite a scene you see
I’m Monmouthshire Wales
Raglan Castle has quite a tale
There are 22 Principal areas in
the country of Wales
Learn that our capital’s Cardiff
and some other details
We’re located in Northern Europe
within the United Kingdom
Bordering England to our East
Let’s go learn and have fun
Torfaen County Borough
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Caerphilly Castle, you should see
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Cyfarthfa Castle’s on show
I’m the city and county of Swansea
If you can visit me
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In the South you wales you know
Bridgend County Borough here
Ogmore Castle just appeared
The Vale of Glamorgan County Borough
The southernmost point of Wales that’s so
I’m Cardiff County
and the capital of Wales you see
Rhondda Cynon Taf County Borough
Is located in Wales below
I am the Country of Wales
In the United Kingdom, you know
I have a capital its name is Cardiff
it’s where this star is shown
There are 22 Principal areas in
the country of Wales
Learn that our capital’s Cardiff
and some other details
We’re located in Northern Europe
within the United Kingdom
Bordering England to our East
Let’s go learn and have fun
Pit Village and Colliery a Bit of Old England
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The Mahogony Drift Mine is original to Beamish, having opened in 1855 and after closing, was brought back into use in 1921 to transport coal from Beamish Park Drift to Beamish Cophill Colliery. It opened as a museum display in 1979. Included in the display is the winding engine and a short section of trackway used to transport tubs of coal to the surface, and a mine office. Visitor access into the mine shaft is by guided tour.The colliery features both a standard gauge and narrow gauge railway - the former representing how coal was transported to its onward destination, and the latter typically used by Edwardian collieries for internal purposes. The standard gauge railway is laid out to serve the deep mine - wagons being loaded by dropping coal from the heapstead - and runs out of the yard to sidings laid out along the northern edge of the Pit Village.
On the standard gauge railway there are two engine sheds in the colliery yard, the smaller brick, wood and metal structure being an operational building, the larger brick built structure being presented as Beamish Engine Works, a reconstruction of an engine shed formerly at Beamish 2nd Pit. Used for locomotive and stock storage, it is a long, single track shed featuring a servicing pit for part of its length, visitors can walk along the full length in a segregated corridor. A third engine shed has been constructed at the southern end of the yard (i.e. the other side of the heapstead to the other two sheds), also in brick (lower half) and corrugated iron, and is used for both narrow and standard gauge vehicles (on one road), although it is not connected to either system - instead being fed by low-loaders and used for long term storage only.
The narrow gauge railway is serviced by a corrugate iron engine shed, and is being expanded to eventually encompass several sidings.
There are a number of industrial steam locomotives (including rare examples by Stephen Lewin, from Seaham, and Black, Hawthorn & Co), and many chaldron wagons (the region’s traditional type of colliery railway rolling stock, and which became a symbol of Beamish Museum). The locomotive Coffee Pot No 1 is often in steam during the summer.Alongside the colliery is the pit village, representing life in the mining communities that grew alongside coal production sites in the North East, many having come into existence solely because of the industry, such as Seaham Harbour, West Hartlepool, Esh Winning and Bedlington.Miner's Cottages
The row of six miner's cottages in Francis Street represent the tied housing provided by colliery owners to mine workers. Relocated to the museum in 1976, they were originally built in the 1860s in Hetton-le-Hole by Hetton Coal Company. They feature the common layout of a single-storey with a kitchen to the rear, the main room the house, and parlour to the front, rarely used (although it was common for both rooms to be used for sleeping, with disguised folding dess beds common), and with children sleeping in attic spaces upstairs. In front are long gardens, used for food production, with associated sheds. An outdoor toilet and coal bunker were in the rear yards, and beyond the cobbled back lane to their rear are assorted sheds used for cultivation, repairs and hobbies. Chalkboard slates attached to the rear wall were used by the occupier to tell the mine's knocker up when they wished to be woken for their next shift.
No.2 is presented as a Methodist family's home, featuring good quality Pitman's mahogany furniture; No.3 is presented as occupied by a second generation well off Irish Catholic immigrant family featuring many items of value (so they could be readily sold off in times of need) and an early 1990s range; No.3 is presented as more impoverished than the others with just a simple convector style Newcastle oven, being inhabited by a miner's widow allowed to remain as her son is also a miner, and supplementing her income doing laundry and making/mending for other families. All the cottages feature examples of the folk art objects typical of mining communities. Also included in the row is an office for the miner's paymaster. In the rear alleyway of the cottages is a communal bread oven, which were commonplace until miner's cottages gradually obtained their own kitchen ranges. They were used to bake traditional breads such as the Stottie, as well as sweet items, such as tea cakes. With no extant examples, the museum's oven had to be created from photographs and oral history.School[edit]
The school opened in 1992, and represents the typical board school. in the educational system of the era .
Blaenavon Industrial Landscape - UNESCO World Heritage Site
A tour of the UNESCO World Heritage listed industrial landscape around Blaenavon in southern Wales. This small area of coal mines, ironworks, towns and mills was one a heartland of the industrial revolution - at one point, 30% of the world's coal was mined in southern Wales!
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Pontypool & Bleanavon Railway Steam Running Days 13 & 14/07/2019
With two of their locos in steam, Mrs M and I went up to the Pontypool & Blaenavon Railway to see 1954 built Bagnall 'Empress' back in service after receiving some heavy work done on her wheels etc recently. Also on show, giving her all, was the magnificent 1914 built Andrew Barclay tank 'Rosyth No1'.
The railway is also open tomorrow, Sunday the 14th of July 2019, so why not come along and have an enjoyable day out riding the trains in this wonderful World Heritage Centre location.
Motorbike Ride: A4042 Pontypool to Abergavenny...ish (and back)
This video is not intended to show off my mad riding skillz or brag about how fast I can go. This was purely for fun.
For fun I strapped an action cam to my motorbike the other week, just to see what the footage looked like. Some fun roads round here, with some very pretty scenery.
United Kingdom ????????- Welcoming 2020
In chronological order- to my best memory
London, England
-Paddington
-Royal Albert Hall
-Kensington Palace
-Queensway- Gold Mine
-London Eye
-The Shard
-Oxford Street
-Regent Street
-Piccadilly Circus
-Leicester Square
-Trafalgar Square
-Hyde Park (Winter Wonderland)
-221b Baker Street
-Dean Street (Chinatown)
-Big Ben
-The Graffiti Tunnel
-London Bridge
-St. Paul Cathedral
-Victoria Station
Bristol, England
-St. Philip’s
-Upper Easton
Newport, Wales
-Caerleon Amphitheatre
Pontypool, Wales
-Big Pit National Coal Museum
Newtown, Wales
-Maesmawr Farm Resort
Blaenau Ffestiniog, Wales
-Snowdonia National Park
-Zip World Bounce Below
Northwich, England
-Belmont Hall Camping
Manchester, England
-Old Trafford National Stadium
Grasmere, England
-The Grasmere Gingerbread Shop
Enerdale Water, England
-Low Gillerthwaite Field Centre
Edinburgh, Scotland
-Mortonhall Gate
-University of Edinburgh
-Edinburgh Old Town
-Edinburgh New Town
-Holyrood Park
-Edinburgh Castle
The Scotch Whiskey Experience
Bishop Auckland, England
-Meadow Farm Park
Whitby, England
-West Cliff
-Robin Hood’s Bay
York, England
-JORVIK Viking Centre
-York’s Chocolate Story
-Riverside Caravan & Camping Site
Oxford, England
-University of Oxford
-Oxford Botanic Gardens
-Pitt Rivers Museum
-Bicester Village
Bath, England
-Roman Baths
DAVID BURTON-RICHARDSON, Exhibition of Sculptures, Pontypool Museum and Art Gallery
Exhibition of Sculptures by David Burton-Richardson, Pontypool Museum and Art Gallery.
Coity Castle Bridgend South Wales UK
Coity Castle filmed from above using DJI Phantom Drone
The Big Pit Mine Wales UK Travel With Kids Wales
Explore the Big Pit coal mine in Wales near Cardiff. Descend down deep underground to learn about the Welsh history of coal mining in this fun tour for kids and grown ups alike! Part of the TV/DVD episodes from Travel With Kids: Wales
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