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Merthyr Tydfil Your Heritage Needs You! HERITAGE regenerating Merthyr Tydfil Edition 2 - Winter 2014 INSIDE... Cyfarthfa reborn Parry unplugged Penydarren loco! Iron Bridge found YMCA rescue? HERITAGE REGENERATION CONFERENCE Your Heritage Special Report Needs You! HERITAGE regenerating Merthyr Tydfil - an independent FREE magazine produced locally and supported by the Merthyr Tydfil Heritage Forum HERITAGE Merthyr Tydfiill 2 Regenerating Your heritage magazine CONTENTS Sion's farewell Canolfan Soar’s Heritage Soar's Sion farewell ...2 Officer Sion ap Glyn has left Merthyr Tydfil for new Iron Bridge found ...3 challenges – with thanks from local groups for his Cokeworks revealed ...4 efforts. Sion has played a major part Merthyr Tydfil Heritage Forum Cyfarthfa Leat & Tramway ...5 in heritage events and and SHARE project events. projects in the town over the Members of the Merthyr YMCA rescue plan ...6 last two years. Digital Heritage Group – in He organised a series of which he has played a lead HERITAGE CONFERENCE bilingual heritage events at role – paid tribute to his SPECIAL Soar - which has also hosted commitment. Merthyr Fights Back ...7 Penderyn Square Council chief Gareth ...8 Work continues on laying out of Penderyn Square in front of the Old Town Hall. Regeneration news ...9 Contractors Griffiths have been making rapid progress on the £900,000 project in High Street, How you can get involved ...10 Pontmorlais and along Castle Street. Trevithick's locomotive ...11 Patterns of Merthyr Huw's 'terrible tales' ...12 As Heritage Merthyr magazine goes to press the Patterns of Merthyr hoardings artwork is going up at the Vulcan House finds ...13 Old Town Hall. The work by Kartoon Kings is based Parry: unplugged at Soar ...14 on ideas from community groups. More Old Town Hall news on page 7. Old Town Hall: 'pride' ...15 Family History YOUR HERITAGE NEEDS YOU ...16 HERITAGE Martyn Johnes of Swansea University gave a talk on Christmas REGENERATING MERTHYR TYDFIL Past to the Merthyr Tydfil branch of Your heritage magazine is the Glamorgan Family History produced by buzzards-pr Society. and media. Contact us at The group meets on the second [email protected] Tuesday of every month at Canolfan Soar. HERITAGE Merthyr Tydfiill 3 Regenerating Iron Bridge rescued The Iron Bridge – for years the symbol of our lost heritage – has been saved and recovered for possible restoration. Well, parts of it, anyway. There was an outcry when the arched bridge – dating back to 1800 and one of the world’s oldest iron bridges – was demolished in 1963. The story goes that the council of the time had given an undertaking that the bridge would be dismantled carefully and the parts stored for possible restoration. Taking the structure to bits Remains of the 1800 Iron Bridge in storage - a parapet panel above and cross beams below. Above right - the bridge and Ynysgau Chapel. was no easy task – and large parts were damaged, lost or destroyed. The story of What survived was kept by the local authority – and for Merthyr Tydfil's the best part of the last 30 years this ironwork was left Iron Bridge piled up outdoors at various The old Iron Bridge was points in Cyfarthfa Park. commissioned and paid for Now the ironwork has been by ironmaster Richard retrieved, given a clean up Crawshay. and put into storage in It was designed and built by Pentrebach. Watkin George, the principal It's far from complete, of engineer at the Cyfarthfa Iron course. But heritage volunteers Works. have been surprised to find Work started in 1799 and was that so many pieces have completed in 1800 - making it survived one of the world's first iron "The Iron Bridge – much of it – loads that the bridge supports bridges. has been rescued. I was would have needed to bear. Together with the stone built amazed at how much of it They are also going to come Jackson’s Bridge upstream, it there is left," said Merthyr Tydfil up with ideas for putting the was the principal means for Heritage Forum's Joe England. remaining bits back together - crossing the River Taff Engineering students at The not in a bridge but perhaps in throughout the 19th century. College Merthyr Tydfil have an arched memorial that Black and white photo - been given the challenge of celebrates the original. courtesy of Alan George's Old working out the stresses and We'll bring you more news soon. Merthyr website. HERITAGE Merthyr Tydfiill 4 Regenerating Cyfarthfa miracle Over 1,500 local people took a once-in-lifetime opportunity to see some of Merthyr Tydfil’s industrial heritage unearthed by archaeologists. For one day only the excavations on the site of the old Thorn Lighting factory were opened up for visitors. On view were the remains of the Cyfarthfa ironworks - a canal, tram lines and the The foundations of the Cyfarthfa cokeworks sparked huge interest - foundations of the coke works 1,500 people visited the site in one day. with its massive hot air flues. Then the earth-movers roared back into action to cover up Crawshay's works the remains so a new DIY store and car park can be built on Opened in 1765 by industrialist the site. Anthony Bacon, the works Archaeologists from the were flattened to ground Glamorgan Gwent level after World War One. Archaeological Trust (GGAT) Richard Crawshay, who say the Cyfarthfa coke works is acquired the lease in 1786, one of the most important turned Cyfarthfa into the industrial revolution sites in greatest single ironworks in the Wales. world in just 20 years - The Cyfarthfa ironworks site providing the iron needed to extended far beyond the site fuel the industrial revolution. of the excavations. Below the Admiral Nelson paid a visit to coke works are the massive Cyfarthfa in 1802 – the works stone and brick remains of the supplied cannons and furnaces. survey first. cannonballs for the fleet. An A large plateau stretches to "Standing on the spoil tip artillery piece was fired in the river Taff whose banks are overlooking the works, you Nelson’s honour – but the shot realise they're truly vast,” said lined with high stone walls built landed in Abercanaid and the Trust’s Martin Tuck. tragically killing a youth. to channel the water as a The Trust has created a Crawshay is said to have source of energy for the works. ‘virtual’ 3D map of the sworn at his workforce because The upper site – the coking excavations and is covering they didn’t give Nelson his area - is now being cleared them up again to protect usual hero’s welcome. ready for a new DIY superstore. them for the future. He adopted a crest with a pile However, the planners Archaeologist Rowena Hart of cannon balls – the family’s stipulated that the Glamorgan said that this would preserve brand - to show his debt to the Gwent Archaeological Trust them for future generations to Royal Navy. carry out a full archaeological excavate again. HERITAGE Merthyr Tydfiill 5 Regenerating Tramway revived! Take a few steps along a new footpath in Merthyr Tydfil and you are carried back to a world of ambitious ironmasters and their toiling workers. There’s a secret valley with a fast-flowing river that’s concealed by birch trees. High overhead are the concrete spans of one of Wales’ busiest highways – the Heads of the Valleys Road. This - almost forgotten down the years - is the Cyfarthfa Leat and Tramway. Two centuries ago Richard Crawshay commissioned the Cyfarthfa Leat - restored. The old stone blocks were in danger of collapse at several places. Below - the stone 'setts' on the old tramroad. tram road to bring limestone from the Old Gurnos Quarry to After strolling down from his world famous Cyfarthfa Cyfarthfa Castle to the lake, Ironworks. leave the park and cross the Three decades later his road at the new pedestrian grandson William Crawshay II lights. built the leat – a stone channel An old wagon or dram marks hewn out of the rocky hillside – the start of the tramway and leat. to bring water to the furnaces At first there's little sign of the and mills at Cyfarthfa and past. The leat walls are now Ynysfach. lined with modern brick. A small A £1.6 million restoration wooden arch across the project, funded by the pathway would be more at Heritage Lottery Fund, has Below: the start of the leat at the old quarry - an A465 flyover home in a garden centre than rescued both the leat - its stone looms beyond the trees. an old ironworks. blocks were in danger of But after a short walk collapse - and the tramway. alongside the old leat the The result - a spectacular new pathway plunges down to the heritage walking route. bank of the Taf Fechan and Starting at Cyfarthfa Castle it the tram road. runs through the park and On one side there's rushing continues along the leat and water - on the other walls of tramroad before looping back solid stone work supporting the to the Cyfarthfa Furnaces on its leat waterway. return to the castle. Finally, the path emerges on This must be one of the most the open floor of the Old historic ironworks trails in Wales. Gurnos Quarry. HERITAGE Merthyr Tydfiill 6 Regenerating YMCA - a way back? The YMCA – one of Wales most inonic derelict buildings – may be preserved for future restoration. For decades the Edwardian building – one of Welsh architect Sir Percy Thomas most notable early works – has been left to decay and rot. But the Carmarthenshire Building Preservation Trust has stepped in – negotiating a deal to buy the YMCA from its private owner and submitting a listed building application The derelict YMCA at Pontmorlais.
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