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Map by MAPCO. Fort Williams and Port Arthur merged in 1970 to become the city of Thunder Bay. Published for a local magazine distributor.
Map by Gallup Maps and Stationary. Older-style cartography. Map is glued to the inside rear cover of a 100+-page street guide, which also includes an extensive amount of local history and a long list of tourist-and-business-oriented points of interest.
Map by Thomas Brothers Maps. Published for a bank. For a time during the 1920s through the early 1940s, Long Beach was California's 4th largest city, behind Los Angeles, San Francisco and San Diego.
Glan-y-Llyn, Taffs Well. The Inn at bottom is the present day Taffs Well Inn.
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Map by Ashburn Maps. Published for a bank. St Louis is one of the many Mississippi Valley cities and places with French names, as relics of the Louisiana Purchase: the Grand Tetons, La Crosse, Eau Claire, St Louis, Lafayette, Baton Rouge, New Orleans, Cape Girardeau...
Adit arrowed. As can be seen, these workings were interrelated with those of Bryn Colliery but were known to have continued being worked after closure of Bryn.
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Map by AAA. Arlington is technically not a city, though the entire county, which is urbanized, is considered as such - it has never been formally incorporated as a municipality.
Highlight No.1 Llangattock Wharf coal yard on the Brecon canal.
Highlight No. 2 & 3 Incline plane and tramroad from Sirhowy supplying coal for limeburning at the wharf.
Site of Llanfabon colliery highlighted and the route of the disused Llanfabon Tramroad - c1810 - 1850's - annotated by me at bottom of photo.
Also shows the cottages of Tai Machine - lower left - where a weighing machine was located when the tramway was in use.
The railway is the Llancaiach branch of the TVR of 1841.
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The Old Dock, originally known as Thomas Steer's dock, was the world's first commercial wet dock. Its location is roughly underneath John Lewis and the Bus Station now.
The dock was built on the River Mersey in Liverpool, England, starting in 1709 and completed in 1715. A natural tidal pool off the river Mersey was partially filled and locked in from the river with quay walls erected. The "Pool" gives its name to Liverpool. Thomas Steers was the engineer responsible; additional advice was obtained from George Sorocold.
The Old Dock opened on 31 August 1715 and accommodated up to 100 ships. Originally a tidal basin was accessed directly from the river and from 1737 access was via Canning Dock. The dock was built with one graving dock; a second and third graving dock where added in 1746 and the 1750s.
The dock walls were constructed from brick laid directly on to sandstone bedrock. The dock gates would have allowed as much as 10% of the water out between high tides, resulting in a water level drop of several feet. This may have been offset by water entering the dock from a stream.
Although Liverpool vessels were involved in the slave trade before the dock opened, it would have served ships involved in the Africa-America trade, propelling Liverpool to world leader of this trade. The dock led to Liverpool's establishment as the leading European port and subsequent world trading port.
In the early 19th century, the dock was considered too small for the growing size of shipping using the port; the quays were too narrow; the city's sewage polluted the dock's water; and the narrow wooden drawbridge across its entrance channel caused traffic jams. Sentiment saved the Old Dock for 20 years, but the Old Dock closed on 31 August 1826 and was filled in. Liverpool’s fourth Custom House, designed by John Foster, was built on the site between 1828 and 1837, and was demolished after severe bomb damage during World War II.
Salthouse Dock shown on the map was designed by Thomas Steers and it was completed after his death by Henry Berry, opening in 1753.It is still present today.
As is indicative of its name, the dock was an important transit terminal for the salt industry. Liverpool was a base for the refining of rock salt from Cheshire and its onward transportation. The opening of the Albert Dock in 1846 allowed vessels to be unloaded there, before moving on to the Salthouse Dock for loading.
The 'Intended Wet Dock' is Kings Dock, and that was opened in 1785 so the original map probably dates to the 1780s
Map by Hammond Maps. New Jersey's largest city, and the county seat of Essex County. 67th largest city in the US, which is a bit of a rebound after years of declining fortunes - the city has grown ever-more diverse, and it's star mayor seems to want to revive the city's past glory.
Map by Thomas Brothers Maps. Map shows - among other things - bus, streetcar and other transit lines, illustrating (in a way) the evolution of mass transit in the Bay Area.
Entrance of tunnel below Kingsway in Cardiff.
The portal bears rope - cut grooves due to the sharp turn negotiated by the horses & barges.
Some old photos of the canal.
Map by Interstate Publishing. This base map was later used and expanded by Mapco, and was updated until 1963.
Map by Dolph Map Co, published for a local magazine distributor. Most of I-75 was still under construction.
Levels arrowed.
Opened as a level 1859 by Haughty Huxham & Partners working No.3 Rhondda seam.
Owned at time of this survey by Burneat, Brown & Co. with a total output from Pit & levels of some 1000 tons a day. The pit was ventilated in 1882 by a 36ft . dia.Guibal fan whereas the levels were furnace ventilated.
The shafts, sunk 1868, served the Two Feet Nine & Four Feet seams until late 1871 when, during a three month strike, the shafts were deepened a further 30yds. to the Six Feet seam.
In 1895 the downcast was 14ft. dia. and 200 yds. to Six Feet seam and the upcast 11ft. dia. - the manager at this time was Thomas Braithwaite.
The mineral rights were owned by the Marquis of Bute & Earl of Dunraven.
February 1917 - the one-time manager of the Abergorky levels, Mr. Evan Morgan, died at the age of 85 yrs. and was one of the earliest workers of the Rhondda mines and one of the survivors of the 1855 explosion.
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Sunk by Troedyrhiw Coal Co.(two shafts) in late 1850's with a lease area of c1,000 acres jointly owned by Mrs. Llewellyn of Baglan Hall and Mr. Abadam of Carmarthen.
The main winding downcast shaft was rectangular 14'x8' and the upcast 10' dia., both sunk to the Four Feet seam. A third downcast shaft was added later ( there were only 9 yds. between the shafts)
Original ventilation was by underground furnace but in 1879 a 9'-6" dia. Schiele fan was installed.
January 1882 - David Powell, a collier, was sentenced to 3 months imprisonment with hard labour for attempting to smoke a pipe whilst underground. At this time there were some 200 men & boys employed here.
June 1883 - the workforce went on strike for several weeks in a dispute over the appointment of a certain doctor being nominated as the colliery medical officer.
August 1884 - some 400 men & boys were laid off due to the state of disrepair at this mine.
June 1886 - due to the general depressed state of trade in the industry the mine was stopped whilst working the Six Feet seam and c300 men & boys laid off.
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Nantgarw Pottery alongside Nantgarw Hill. Crosskeys pub at bottom left.
This site now lies alongside, and partly under, the A470 - the cottages shown at the bottom end of the site are now the museum - see www.flickr.com/photos/thereggy/433452116/in/set-721576000...
The house on right of photo is Dyffryn-ffrwd - now a care home.
The Taff river was later re-routed left (west) to facilitate construction of the Cardiff Railway.
The area at top left of photo is the site of the later Nantgarw colliery.
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