In Those Days... 1976
A book of pictures and memories from the Community Projects Centre which used to be located in Victoria Street in Old Cwmbran. This publication was produced in 1976. A shame that nothing similar exists today, producing these books and what were known as Checkpoint Calendars showing old photographs of the Cwmbran area.
The path at the edge of the works was a continuation from Clomendy Road. I can remember the coke buildings, but the chimneys had gone. On the left of the picture you can see Springvale Cottages, demolished when I was a child but the foundations and gardens still clearly laid out. Now under the Springvale Industrial Estate.
When I was a young child in the 1950s and 1960s, the ruins of Cwmbran Colliery and the Coke Ovens were still there, and a fabulous adventure playground. The first adit was dug in 1837 in Upper Cwmbran, just above where the Siloam Chapel is. In the 1850s, the Mineslope adit was sunk further up the hill and the Main Adit at Springvale, opened in 1879. The colliery closed down in 1927.
In Those Days... 1976
A book of pictures and memories from the Community Projects Centre which used to be located in Victoria Street in Old Cwmbran. This publication was produced in 1976. A shame that nothing similar exists today, producing these books and what were known as Checkpoint Calendars showing old photographs of the Cwmbran area.
The path at the edge of the works was a continuation from Clomendy Road. I can remember the coke buildings, but the chimneys had gone. On the left of the picture you can see Springvale Cottages, demolished when I was a child but the foundations and gardens still clearly laid out. Now under the Springvale Industrial Estate.
When I was a young child in the 1950s and 1960s, the ruins of Cwmbran Colliery and the Coke Ovens were still there, and a fabulous adventure playground. The first adit was dug in 1837 in Upper Cwmbran, just above where the Siloam Chapel is. In the 1850s, the Mineslope adit was sunk further up the hill and the Main Adit at Springvale, opened in 1879. The colliery closed down in 1927.