IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Church Road, PONTYPOOL, NP4 9AF
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Church Road, NP4 9AF by members of the Geograph project.
The Geograph project started in 2005 with the aim of publishing, organising and preserving representative images for every square kilometre of Great Britain, Ireland and the Isle of Man.
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Image Map
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Image Listing (447 Images Found)
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From Church Road to North Street, Blaenavon
The B4246 Church Road on this side becomes the B4246 North Street ahead.
Image: © Jaggery
Taken: 19 Sep 2015
0.02 miles
2
Kennard Place, Blaenavon
Row of houses alongside the B4246.
Image: © Jaggery
Taken: 19 Sep 2015
0.02 miles
3
Residential block, Kennard Place
Numbers 5 to 8 between the B4246 and a stony track by woodland.
Image: © M J Roscoe
Taken: 1 Dec 2022
0.02 miles
4
Zigzag road markings - keep clear, Blaenavon
Alongside the entrance to the former Blaenavon Health Centre located below the B4246 on the road to Forgeside. This health centre became redundant after Blaenavon's new Primary Care Resource Centre opened in Middle Coed Cae Road on October 3rd 2014.
Image: © Jaggery
Taken: 19 Sep 2015
0.03 miles
5
Blaenavon Health Centre
Located at Heol-y-Parc, just off Church Road, on the northwest edge of town.
Image: © Jaggery
Taken: 12 May 2010
0.03 miles
6
Cast iron pit ponies, Blaenavon Ironworks
These pit pony statues were funded by the Heads of the Valleys programme as part of the Welsh Government regeneration initiative. Each one is six feet long from nose to tail and weighs 2 tons. Designed by sculptor Sally Matthews, the ponies were cast from recycled iron at Hargreaves Foundry in Halifax. Currently (July 2012) on display at Blaenavon Ironworks, the ponies will be relocated onto the landscape.
On the right is an obelisk http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3052009 dedicated to Sidney Gilchrist Thomas.
Image: © Jaggery
Taken: 22 Jul 2012
0.03 miles
7
Obelisk in Blaenavon Ironworks
The obelisk was erected in July 1960 by the Newport & District Metallurgical Society, in conjunction with the Iron and Steel Institute, to honour the memory of Sidney Gilchrist Thomas. http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3052014 Contributions towards the costs were made by the steel and allied industries of Great Britain and other countries.
Alongside the obelisk are five cast iron pit ponies, http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3051901 one of which is on the right.
Image: © Jaggery
Taken: 22 Jul 2012
0.03 miles
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Obelisk portrait of Sidney Gilchrist Thomas, Blaenavon Ironworks
The portrait is part of this obelisk. http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3052009
The dedication on the obelisk records that Sidney Gilchrist Thomas, with his cousin Percy Carlyle Gilchrist, carried out the first successful experiments for the removal of phosphorus from molten iron in a basic-lined Bessemer Converter during the period 1877-1878 on this site of the former Blaenavon Iron and Steel Company. This invention pioneered the basic Bessemer or Thomas Process and other basic steelmaking processes throughout the world.
Sidney Gilchrist Thomas died in 1885 aged only 34. The cause of death was a lung disease exacerbated by years of overwork.
Image: © Jaggery
Taken: 22 Jul 2012
0.03 miles
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Five cast iron pit ponies and an obelisk, Blaenavon Ironworks
The pony statues http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3051901 and the obelisk http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3052009 are located in the Blaenavon Ironworks industrial museum site.
Image: © Jaggery
Taken: 22 Jul 2012
0.03 miles
10
Track in beech woodland, off Church Road
The track goes up to meet a private road Image The area was probably part of the grounds of the adjacent Blaenavon House.
Image: © M J Roscoe
Taken: 1 Dec 2022
0.03 miles