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Posted: 01/02/2011 19:29:40 Reply |  Quote
...partridge road in foreground,church st behind and i don't now the workings at the bottom of the photo.

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Posted: 05/09/2011 09:02:46 Reply |  Quote
The workings in the picture belong to The Glamorgan (Scotch) Colliery. Sometime later (after 1913) this pit was abandoned and the area filled in with waste from the Scotch Colliery, down as far as the River Rhondda. Immediately after the war, 'PREFABS' were erected on the site. In the early sixties the prefabs were demolished and council houses built. It is called Partridge Avenue. To the right of the picture (sometime after 1913) waste from the Scotch Colliery was tipped forming an huge tip bordering Ynyscynon Road and as far down as the Ynyscynon Hotel. This tip was removed circa 1947 and a Children's Playground and the Ynyscynon Football Field now sits there. Approximately 250 yards from the Ynyscynon Hotel was Trealaw Colliery again belonging to the Scotch Colliery. This colliery was also later abandoned. It seems that Scotch Colliery consisted of four pits on the western side of the River Rhondda and two pits on the eastern side. IP: 217.44.167.133
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