Sujet

Rhymney ironworks, Mid-Glamorgan, South Wales, 1870s. Creator: Alfred Freke.

Légende

Rhymney ironworks, Mid-Glamorgan, South Wales, 1870s. Furnaces (often erroneously referred to as "Egyptian" furnaces) situated on the Bute (West Bank) Ironworks site viewed from east north east. Four Whitwell stoves seen on the left. The furnaces were built 1825-1826 and subsequently numbered 4,5,6 in 1884 under the Rhymney Iron Company Limited.

Date

1870

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/©National Museum of Wales

Notre référence

HRM26A27_221

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

52.1Mo (2.5Mo) / 42.6cm x 30.6cm / 5029 x 3618 (300dpi)

Mots clés

transport transportation technology railways Wales industry valley British geography railway industrial railway lines railway line location century railway tracks mine Britain train track railway track company caerphilly B&W smelting furnace iron ore furnaces iron industry 19th century black & white black and white B W ironworks nineteenth century Bessemer process geographical feature TGN photograph landscape Rhymney Valley Alfred Freke Freke Alfred National Museum of Wales 19th-century iron ore mine Rhymney Rhymney Iron Company