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Drove down to the old ballpark today to take some last shots before it's lost forever. Even the paint in the vestibule is peeling.
Navigation Colliery, Crumlin.
A wander around the buildings during a Friends of the Navigation / Cardiff University School of Architecture public event, June 2022.
". . . . the best preserved colliery complex in south Wales. . . . is of unusual architectural quality of red brick with yellow brick pilasters. The complex includes two winding engine houses, a fan house, a magnificent chimney, a pumping house, stores and workshops, a heapstead, powder store and baths."
"Known locally as the Navi, Partridge Jones & Co. Ltd. began stinking this colliery in 1907. Two shafts were completed in 1911 at a depth of 512 yards, it was well known for the very rich Blackvein seam, which in places reached a thickness of 18 feet. Employed 439 in 1945, nationalised in 1947, closed 1967"
These images depict each of the offices at North Hills. These second floor offices are upstairs from a wealth of restaurants, shopping, Park & Market Apartments, and the Renaissance Raleigh Hotel. All this, and only a few miles from RDU International Airport.
Links Temple Meads to Bristols Floating Harbour. Built by McAlpine in 2000 and apparently named on February 14th
In contrast with the Pasture Master, Richmond Burgage Pastures Comittee and the Clerk of the Company of Fellmongers (no, I don't know what that means either), the Steward of the Company of Mercers, Grocers and Haberdashers seems quite ordinary. Mind you I went to a Mercers' Company School for a couple of years.
December 2019: I've found out what a fellmonger is. It's not someone who sells hills, but someone who deals in hides and skins, though after the tanning process. There's a house in St. Ives (Cambridgeshire) which used to belong to a fellmonger - I think they must have got fed up with people ringing the door bell to ask them what it meant, so they put a sign up explaining the name.
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