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Snow on Penallta pithead
Image: © lyn exton
Taken: Unknown
0.01 miles
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Penallta Colliery, steam capstan
Horizontal duplex geared capstan built in 1887 by Llewellyn & Cubitt of Pentre and presumably installed here secondhand (Penallta was about 1906). This was an unusually big example with cylinders c16" x 33" and a 6' 2" diameter drum. This was in a separate and cramped engine house near the upcast shaft.
Image: © Chris Allen
Taken: 23 Apr 1982
0.06 miles
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21st century houses in Cwm Celon, Hengoed
The recently-built houses are part of a Redrow development.
Image: © Jaggery
Taken: 25 Feb 2012
0.07 miles
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Access road to Cwm Calon, Hengoed
The recently-built houses are in a Redrow development named Cwm Calon.
Image: © Jaggery
Taken: 25 Feb 2012
0.07 miles
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Penallta Colliery Building, Nr Ystrad Mynach
Image: © Kev Griffin
Taken: 16 Nov 2004
0.08 miles
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Penallta Colliery
The mine closed in 1991, but the pit-head buildings are now being redeveloped.
Image: © Gareth James
Taken: 26 May 2015
0.08 miles
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Penalta Colliery
Still a working colliery in 1982. Large central power house, originally all steam. The brick building at the base of the right-hand head gear housed a large steam/compressed air winch. Now scrapped.
The pit had a modern high speed fan and we were taken in through the airlock to stand next to it on load.
Oh how I miss the 80s and the opportunities for serious "live" industrial archaeology!
Image: © Chris Allen
Taken: 23 Apr 1982
0.08 miles
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Penallta Colliery - steam winch
Horizontal duplex geared capstan built in 1887 by Llewellyn & Cubitt of Pentre and presumably installed here secondhand (Penallta was about 1906). This was an unusually big example with cylinders c16" x 33" and a 6' 2" diameter drum. This was in a separate and cramped engine house near the upcast shaft.
Image: © Chris Allen
Taken: 23 Apr 1982
0.08 miles
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Ysgol Gymraeg Penalltau, Hengoed
The £3 million school was officially opened in the autumn of 2009. The purpose-built school, located on the Cwm Calon estate, provides Welsh medium education for pupils aged 3-11. A Welsh medium school is one in which all lessons are delivered through the medium of the Welsh language.
Image: © Jaggery
Taken: 25 Feb 2012
0.09 miles
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Western side of a building in the former Penallta Colliery, Hengoed
Viewed from Winding Wheel Lane,this is the western half of a 90 metre long building
that was part of Penallta Colliery which closed in November 1991.
Image: © Jaggery
Taken: 25 Feb 2012
0.09 miles