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This very steep railway was used to transfer goods between the canal and the river. Photo Roger Smith.
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Lord Gower built the Donnington Wood Canal between 1765 and 1768 to carry coal from his estates in Donnington Wood a distance of 5.5 miles to the w...
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Throughout its working life the Donnington Wood Canal was known by several names, including the Marquess of Stafford's Canal and the Duke of Suther...
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In 1860 Thomas Savin built a railway line to connect the mines at Coed-y-Go to the Cambrian Railway at Whitehaven. Evidence for the course of this...
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This brick kiln at Acton Scott Historic Working Farm is an updraught beehive structure modeled on the kiln at Oreton which dated to around 1870. T...
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Coal outcrops at Gronwen and so this is where much of the earliest mining took place. The method adopted was the bellpit and the coal was raised u...
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Pottery production was associated with the mining industry in the Morda Valley as the area was rich in clays. The row of cottages towards the top ...
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This aerial photograph shows the remains of the Trefarclawdd collieries. The main period of mining at Trefarclawdd was between the 1780's till aro...
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The earth works visible in this field are the remains of tip dumps and old mine shafts of the Trefarclawdd collieries. The pits were abandoned dur...
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Within a small area just south of Oswestry, over 50 archaeological sites still remain as evidence of a once small but thriving coal mining industry...
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In its day Penylan Mill did a brisk trade. The mill would have been in operation night and day, employing teams of wagons delivering flour over a ...
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From the late 18th and throughout the 19th century the Morda stream provided the necessary water power to drive the machinery for a range of factor...
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