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lipsi
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15 years ago

Found this a couple of days ago in South Wales. It's just up the road from Marine Colliery. The NGR is SO 17979 06466 and can clearly be seen on Google Earth

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Anybody any idea what this might have been?

Thanks

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Morlock
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15 years ago

Substation?

scooptram
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15 years ago

power house ? pump house?

Jimbo
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15 years ago

Is that an aerial mast, front left corner, if so could be for telemetry so probably water or electric company related 😉

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lipsi
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15 years ago

Think the aerial has been tacked on recently. The building itself is well disused.
The shape of the doors led me to believe it could have housed boilers, but it just has that "colliery feel" about it. Just below it in the valley was the Waun Lwyd Colliery. I'll ask some of the locals next time I'm down there. Thanks for your help.

Where there's a mine or a hole in the ground.
That's where I'm heading for that's where I'm bound
So follow me down Cousin Jack
(Grateful thanks to Show of Hands)

Morlock
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15 years ago

Think I found it at NGR: SO 18215 05925!

Streetview shows the front and rear elevations and also gives a better view of an apparent extension to the building in a different brick.

The sign on the door is not too clear but appears to be electricity related.

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Ebbw+Vale&sll=53.800651,-4.064941&sspn=8.051414,18.237305&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Ebbw+Vale,+Blaenau+Gwent,+United+Kingdom&ll=51.74604,-3.186547&spn=0,0.001068&t=h&z=20&layer=c&cbll=51.74591,-3.186548&panoid=qFwX9rIp193UwlCajz7I9g&cbp=12,86.13,,0,-17.1

To rear elevation

lipsi
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15 years ago

Thanks Morlock - appreciated

Where there's a mine or a hole in the ground.
That's where I'm heading for that's where I'm bound
So follow me down Cousin Jack
(Grateful thanks to Show of Hands)

Morlock
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15 years ago

I wonder if it was ever more than a substation as it looks the sort of building that may once have had a pitched roof?