http://www.flickr.com/photos/peterdenton/tags/headshaft/ Wed, 09 May 2012 05:45:29 -0700 Wed, 09 May 2012 05:45:29 -0700 http://www.flickr.com/ http://farm2.staticflickr.com/1057/buddyicons/12220922@N05.jpg?1201301001#12220922@N05 http://www.flickr.com/photos/peterdenton/tags/headshaft/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/peterdenton/7164388362/ <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/peterdenton/">Peter Denton</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/peterdenton/7164388362/" title="Rhondda heritage"><img src="http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5071/7164388362_56864de1e2_m.jpg" width="240" height="160" alt="Rhondda heritage" /></a></p> <p>The long-silent Bertie and Trefor headshafts at the former Lewis Merthyr Colliery at Trehafod in South Wales. <br /> <br /> These days the colliery is part of the Rhondda Heritage Park - a living museum which offers an absorbing insight into the culture and character of the Rhondda Valley. <br /> <br /> At its peak in the 1930s and ‘40s, the Rhondda hosted 53 working collieries, in an area just 16 miles long. It was the most intensely mined area in the world until the 1950s – after which the industry gradually went into decline. <br /> <br /> Production at the Lewis Merthyr pit ceased in 1983 – and by 1990 not a single productive colliery remained in the Rhondda. But the spirit of the Valley’s proud past has been preserved at this Heritage Park.</p> Wed, 09 May 2012 05:45:29 -0700 2012-05-05T11:24:59-08:00 nobody@flickr.com (Peter Denton) tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/7164388362 Rhondda heritage <p>The long-silent Bertie and Trefor headshafts at the former Lewis Merthyr Colliery at Trehafod in South Wales. <br /> <br /> These days the colliery is part of the Rhondda Heritage Park - a living museum which offers an absorbing insight into the culture and character of the Rhondda Valley. <br /> <br /> At its peak in the 1930s and ‘40s, the Rhondda hosted 53 working collieries, in an area just 16 miles long. It was the most intensely mined area in the world until the 1950s – after which the industry gradually went into decline. <br /> <br /> Production at the Lewis Merthyr pit ceased in 1983 – and by 1990 not a single productive colliery remained in the Rhondda. But the spirit of the Valley’s proud past has been preserved at this Heritage Park.</p> Peter Denton uk tourism museum wales europe cymru eu bertie coalmine pontypridd heritagepark trefor socialhistory rhonddavalley trehafod headshaft canoneos60d ©peterdenton