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Cyfarthfa Ironworks

Casting the Ingot

Rail Loading benches

Castle Rolling Mill

Charging the Bessemer Converter

Bessemer Converter - Blowing a Cast

Tapping the Cuppola

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Pandy Roughing Mill

Transporting the Ingot

Engine No 14 with the Ingot Moulds

1901

Coal Truck - 1900

Steam Crane - 1903

Cyfarthfa Works C1883 by photographer Edgar Williams of 98 Brecon Road.

The Rail Benches

The Bessemer Plant

Office Workers Outing - 1919

(Photograph Courtesy of Margaret Wells)

The Cam end of a Mechanical Hammer

The cam is rotated by the giant wheels which are driven by the Waterwheels. The cam hits the arm of the hammer which in turn forces the hammer down to hit the the iron being worked in the forge.

"Cyfarthfa"

"Cyfarthfa" - built August 1870, bought by the Crawshay Brothers in 1897

Another locomotive bearing the name "Cyfarthfa"

Crawshay Brothers Lime Wagon. 1880.

(Photograph courtesy of the John Owen Collection)

Carpenter's Shop,

Originally built as Robert Crawshay's Private Chapel. "The Chapel Of Ease"

To the right is Chapel Row, and in the top left Brychan Place, Brecon Road. Part of this This building exists

to this day.

Cyfarthfa Works, In it's Prime.

Cyfarthfa Works, In it's Decay

Cyfarthfa Works, now derelict, looking from Pwll Wat

The Ruins

Home Crane

The Raw Material Store Bunkers

Site of the Coke Ovens

Overshot Water Wheel, near Upper Forge

Old Waterway Crossing

Old Waterway Switch

Cyfarthfa Works Relics - 1929

(Photographs courtesy of Mrs S. Snow)

Blast Furnaces

From the Merthyr Express, January 9th 1926

(Courtesy of Peter Rogers)

The site of the Cyfarthfa Works in 1951.

With Lines Bros in the distance and a Circus in the Park.

Hoover Transport occupied the site for a number years

Turbine Generators on the River Taff at Cyfarthfa.

Any information on these turbines would be appreciated.

An Early Power Supply in Merthyr

On the River Taff adjacent to what later became Triang Toys (Lines Bros.) there was installed in 1932 a Gilbert, Gilkes & Gordon 195 H.P. Vertical Turbine set generating D.C. Current that was supplied to Merthyr Traction Co. To supplement their own steam driven generators. Fitted with an automatic weir crest collapsing device.
Closed in 1953.
The only evidence now of the installation can still be seen on the East side of the river Taff opposite the big arch of the Cyfarthfa works .

Compiled by DMJones l995

A Group Of Mill-Wrights With A Pipe Screwing Outfit

Crankshaft manufactured for the Dowlais finishing Engine.

Pont y Cafnau Bridge and the Hydro-Electric Station

The bridge is believed to date from 1793. Pont y Cafnau (Bridge of Troughs) was built to carry the tramroad to the Gurnos limestone quarries and to take domestic coal to Cyfarthfa Castle. The Hydro Electric Station generated the electricity for the Merthyr Electric Traction Company to power the Merthyr Tramcars.

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Pontycafnau Bridge

Cyfarthfa Works Close Down.

From the South Wales News, 28th August 1919.

1938 A new factory being built on the site of the old Cyfarthfa works,

built for the British Sewing Machine Co Ltd., Not sure if they ever occupied it.

(Merthyr Express June 30th 1938)

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