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High Street, MERTHYR TYDFIL, CF48 3TB

This magnificently preserved industrial building is now a community project building and used for indoor sports. The building was built for Guest, Keen & Nettlefolds in 1905-7 to house the blowing engines for new blast furnaces completed in 1909. It is 54 m long and 15 m high and had a single internal space for three very large blowing engines. These were inverted vertical cross compound 'quarter crank' blowing engines with Corliss valves on the steam cylinders. Iron and steel making stopped in 1930 and most of the works closed in 1936. Fortunately this magnificent building survived and is Listed II*.

Formerly housed engines pumping air to blast furnaces.

This OS Flush Bracket can be found on the wall NE face of the Works Building on High Street. It marks a point 302.559m above mean sea level.

Constructed between 1905 and 1907, the engine house fed a bank of furnaces with air. Now in use as Pant & Dowlais Boys and Girls Club, a charitable organisation whose aim is to develop and educate the young people of Merthyr Tydfil by fulfilling their physical, mental and spiritual needs in as many ways as possible. The building is also home to numerous football and netball teams and is used by many organisations for a wide range of activities during the daytime.

Located on High Street. Built in 1863 as Dowlais Iron Company Guest Memorial Library. Its designer, Sir Charles Barry (designer of part of the Houses of Parliament) based his plans on a model of the Parthenon in Athens. The Guest family were owners of the Iron Company.

This is the last ingot mould cast at Dowlais and was destined for the BSC Llanwern works. It was cast on 22 September 1987. It is cast in spheroidal graphite cast iron with a wall thickness of 241 mm and weighs 23 tonnes. It was used for cast steel ingots and could be used 120 times. The ingot it contained weighed 18.8 tonnes. The red brick building in the background is the blowing engine house from 1905-7 that blew the new blast furnaces of Guest, Keen & Nettlefolds at Dowlais Iron Works.

This is the very last cast iron ingot made at the world famous Dowlais Iron Works. Dowlais Iron works was a forerunner and also the world's largest iron maker during the Industrial Revolution. By 1845 18 blast furnaces were operating producing 89,000 tons of iron a year. The first iron was made on this site in 1759. At the height of production over 7300 people were employed.