This scene is totally transformed today, the collieries and track long gone and a new housing estate built on the site. The overbridge that this photo was taken from still exists as a nasty bend in the Maindy road. ... This loco went to Wern Tarw later on and latterly Austerity locos worked at this colliery. The terraces on the hillside, the lorries collecting the coal, the wooden wagons, all very atmospheric. I presume thats the loco crew talking to the men in the fourth ...
Llanelli, as an example, in the 1880s was home not only to Llanelli RFC, but also to Gower Road, Seasiders, Morfa Rangers, Prospect Place Rovers, Wern Foundry, Cooper Mills Rangers, New Dock Strollers, Vauxhall Juniors, Moonlight Rovers ...
