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welshgog
Retired metallurgist/engineer/teacher.
Likes: photography, walking, good food, real ale, single malts.
Dislikes:curry, politicians, polution
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- 2011
- abandoned
- Beam engine
- colliery
- disused
- farm
- hamlet
- industrial heritage
- old
- Pantegasseg
- Plasycoed
- Pontypool
- rural
- scenery
- South Wales
- tiny village
- UK
- valley
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I'm old, and local enough to remember them working this site :-(
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Autumn evenings can be magical up in this secluded valley :-)
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I was lucky enough to catch a nice evening up there.
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Relax !!!!!!! Like
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Sans aucun doute, celle que je préfère! Le cadrage, la couleur, et quel point fort que ce héron!
Un mari de l'AQ du CRAW ;-)
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Hello Dragon 64, It's very pretty down there on the meadows. I have a reciprocal shot from Blorenge down onto Abergavenny too. It's shown as Abergavenny and Skirrid Fawr.
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Hmm? Photogenic slag heaps!
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The interesting 'rock' formation in the background is actually a weathered slag heap.
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It's deep in the valley there and the sun is often high overhead, making the lighting flat and uninteresting for most of the day; but if you can get there in when the sun is low over the hills it looks great, you can get some good reflections off the lake.
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Woodbine Cottage is the property set back above the road; the hamlet remains relatively unchanged since I left there in 1963, except for the removal of a small colliery spoil heap. The houses on the distant hillside are part of Trevethin.
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