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Vanoord
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15 years ago

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Can anyone cast any light on the above photograph?

The image was emailed with the following note:

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Attached photograph (restored) is posted on a historical photo web site I subscribe to. It has been viewed by more than 800 subscribers, none of whom are able to determine the true nature of the site.

There have been a few suggestions that it may be associated with mining activity of some sort. Is anyone at AditNow able to confirm, or otherwise, that the photograph is mining related?

Any assistance you are able to offer would be greatly appreciated.

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Wormster
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15 years ago

Could be from S Wales??

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RJV
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15 years ago

The building bottom left of the picture is quite distinctive & could be the key. A fanhouse of some description perhaps?

Morlock
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15 years ago

"RJV" wrote:
The building bottom left of the picture is quite distinctive & could be the key. A fanhouse of some description perhaps?

Definitely fan house type structure and very much like parts of S. Wales. Rhondda?

Edit: I've posted a link to this thread on the Welsh Coal Mines Forum.

Graigfawr
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15 years ago

The building details, especially the roofing profiles, look very continental. Certainly not Wales imo.

Ty Gwyn
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15 years ago

I 2nd that,not in the South Wales style,the roof cladding and the pitch of them roofs ,they`re not steep enough.

rikj
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15 years ago

Any chance the enquirer could give a link to the suggestions that have already been made? I guess the site could be whatsthatpicture.com http://www.whatsthatpicture.com/ , but maybe there are others.

A couple of the little sheds in the middle of the photo look like railway wagons, don't know if that could help pin down the country.

carnkie
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15 years ago

If we are assuming this photo is connected to mining what is the building with all those chimneys? Also I've been puzzling over the ground configurations bottom right. Plus the buildings don't seem right for the Uk. I'm wondering whether it's western European at all.

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RJV
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15 years ago

I took it to be miners cottages, presuming of course that it is mine related.
Hard to imagine what else it could be in that sort of location.

Cornish Pixie
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15 years ago

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Is that snow on the ground? Must be a cold climate to have smallish houses/cottages each with a chimney. One thing I can categorically state - this is not in Cornwall!! It doesn't look like Britain either, more like Eastern Europe perhaps?

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carnkie
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15 years ago

#11

I was wondering that. Checked the PROKUDIN-GORSKII COLLECTION no joy there but I still wonder whether it may be the Russian Empire.

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Ty Gwyn
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15 years ago

#12

Quite similar design to Peasants cottages in Poland.

rhychydwr
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15 years ago

#13

Cannot remember seeing any single storey terraces in South Wales. I have just been looking at a Scottish coal mining DVD. This had a row of single storey houses.

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Monty Stubble
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15 years ago

#14

I thought the rooves on the dwelling places were a bit of a give-away.

They appear to be tiled not slate which tends me towards them being far foreign.

Also the terrain is unlike any British mining places i can think of. Almost Spanish except the houses don't seem Iberian.

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Ty Gwyn
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15 years ago

#15

In-fact ,there are single storey Miners cottages in Abercraf as you turn to Onllwyn,they are called Spanish Row,also a row of cottages in Seven Sisters on the main street.

There were several built for the Pit Sinkers,but these were of Corrugated Zinc sheets.

AR
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15 years ago

#16

The industrial buildings look to have wriggly tin roofing, and the structure at the bottom left is probable a fanhouse, the only other thing I know that looks like that is a crucible furnance chimney but the photo doesn't look like Sheffield - the terraces aren't a South Yorskhire style.

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