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Now it sits broken and forgotten in a concrete cell, a mute reminder of the lost industry it was hewn to celebrate.
Brooding
Brooding
December 7, 2024 at 11:05 AM
Now it sits broken and forgotten in a concrete cell, a mute reminder of the lost industry it was hewn to celebrate.
Brooding
Brooding
a 20 ton block intended to proudly represent the might of the Welsh coal industry in the 1851 Great Exhibition.
However disaster struck on its journey, its great weight buckled the train tracks beneath it, and a 5 ton block sheared off.
It never completed its journey.
However disaster struck on its journey, its great weight buckled the train tracks beneath it, and a 5 ton block sheared off.
It never completed its journey.
December 7, 2024 at 11:04 AM
a 20 ton block intended to proudly represent the might of the Welsh coal industry in the 1851 Great Exhibition.
However disaster struck on its journey, its great weight buckled the train tracks beneath it, and a 5 ton block sheared off.
It never completed its journey.
However disaster struck on its journey, its great weight buckled the train tracks beneath it, and a 5 ton block sheared off.
It never completed its journey.
Imprisoned in a cube of concrete and steel bars in a forgotten corner of the parkland of a minor Welsh stately home sits the world's largest single block of coal
It was hewn by the master collier John Jones (known as 'Collier Mawr' ) at the Yard Level, Tredegar.
It was hewn by the master collier John Jones (known as 'Collier Mawr' ) at the Yard Level, Tredegar.
December 7, 2024 at 11:02 AM
Imprisoned in a cube of concrete and steel bars in a forgotten corner of the parkland of a minor Welsh stately home sits the world's largest single block of coal
It was hewn by the master collier John Jones (known as 'Collier Mawr' ) at the Yard Level, Tredegar.
It was hewn by the master collier John Jones (known as 'Collier Mawr' ) at the Yard Level, Tredegar.