Site of a former mine level, Tredegar
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Site of a former mine level, Tredegar
Image: © Robin Drayton Taken: 6 Jun 2013
This was the entrance to the Yard level which opened in 1802. It was from here that a huge lump of coal for the 1851 exhibition in London was extracted http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1180407 . For details of the sculpture see http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3506014 .
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Image Location
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51.773691
Longitude
-3.245805