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Dowlais Iron & Steel Works
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Dowlais Steelworks from the air. 

Dowlais and the Steelworks

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Aerial view of the works.

 
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View of the Blast Furnace Site C1865

Dowlais Ironworks Circa 1870  

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Outside the Goat Mill circa 1885  The Blast Furnaces.
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The Works.

The Condensers.

Postcard Courtesy of Viv Bayliss

 

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Locomotive "Eos" over the White Tip - 1917.

(Postcard courtesy of Mrs Thomas, West Grove.)

The Furnaces
     

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Gareth Hopkins from Pembroke, but born and brought up in Twynyrodyn, sends us this info.

"Excellent web-site, thought you might be interested to know that the photograph of the Engine “Eos”, going over the White Tip brings back memories that my grandfather related. He used to live in Top Row of Incline Top, and used to keep pigs in pig cots across the road behind the house. I can recall him telling me the story of the night he saw the engine driver miscalculate when tipping slag, with the engine being pulled over by the weight of the wagons which had already fallen over. It was a Saturday night, that it happened and apparently it was not until the Sunday that they were able to pick up the bones of the engine driver for burial."

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Dowlais House

Dowlais House

   
Building the Engine House. Caeharris yard looking north.
   

Dowlais Ironworks, The Goat Mill.

 The Goat Mill - 1897

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1905. In the distance, Dowlais House, The Guest Memorial

Library, and St Mair's Church, can be seen .

 The Furnaces in 1895.
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Building the Engine House. Building the Engine House.
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Dowlais Ironworks from above the Goat Mill Road.

On the left you can see the Oxford Hotel in Sand Street.

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The Sleeper Mill.

Dowlais Bank - 30 Shilling Note.

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1911 - Moulders Strike

(Photograph Courtesy of Viv Lloyd)
 

Carpenters Department - 1911
 
During the 1930's the old Dowlais Works was demolished.
 
Dowlais Iron Works - 1936-  Being Demolished.
 
Dowlais Iron Works - 1936-  Being Demolished.
 

Dowlas Ironworks site, from the High 

Street.

A later photograph from the same place,

Building the But ton Factory

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Click Here for the Button Factory
 

Click Here to see the Dowlais Works' Locomotives

 

 

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