Remains of the engine house
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Remains of the engine house
Image: © Neil Owen Taken: 18 Sep 2022
Ram Hill Colliery was a concerted commercial enterprise that began in the early nineteenth century. Coal deposits are plentiful in this part of the world, associated with the larger seams of South Wales. Coal pits, drift workings and bell pits have been recorded since the thirteenth century. By about 1832, Ram Hill Colliery was a busy and profitable business and so a steam engine was purchased. It stood in these structures, and used steam (powered by coal fires, of course) to move the men and extracted coal.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.52034
Longitude
-2.463749