phil.c Posted December 14, 2020 Author Share Posted December 14, 2020 Overall view of Pen-y-Bryn Colliery. 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
phil.c Posted December 15, 2020 Author Share Posted December 15, 2020 Coal loading area with three new figures. 11 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
phil.c Posted December 24, 2020 Author Share Posted December 24, 2020 Dobson hydraulic roof props made from plastic tube, wire and card ready to be dropped into a Pen-y-Bryn cameo. 8 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
phil.c Posted January 4, 2021 Author Share Posted January 4, 2021 Getting props ready for repair. 16 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ponthir28 Posted January 4, 2021 Share Posted January 4, 2021 Very nice modelling. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
phil.c Posted January 4, 2021 Author Share Posted January 4, 2021 Thanks. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
phil.c Posted January 4, 2021 Author Share Posted January 4, 2021 (edited) Here's a few more. Edited January 4, 2021 by phil.c 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
phil.c Posted January 6, 2021 Author Share Posted January 6, 2021 I couldn't resist adding a few things, just for fun of course 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KingEdwardII Posted January 6, 2021 Share Posted January 6, 2021 Phil, I'm curious to see "Ashford Cables" on the drums rather than the more local "Aberdare Cables" - I was born a couple of miles away from their works. Yours, Mike. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
phil.c Posted January 6, 2021 Author Share Posted January 6, 2021 Mike, To be honest I just searched cables, Aberdare Cables would have looked better, but having said that, I guess that all cables used at South Wales Collieries might not have been local, but I could be wrong? Phil Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
phil.c Posted January 21, 2021 Author Share Posted January 21, 2021 (edited) Pen-y-Bryn Colliery Houses. These are based on the houses where I grew up, two up and two down and a lean-to kitchen. Stairs in the corner of a room so small that all bedroom furnature had to be put in through the upstairs windows, the bedrooms were walk through, originally, no electric or central heating, but fires in downstairs rooms only, and of course, outside toilets. Edited January 21, 2021 by phil.c 11 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted January 21, 2021 Share Posted January 21, 2021 Brilliant stuff, the whole post puts me in mind of my paternal great grandparents house in the Midlands. He had been wounded in WW1 and used the lean to as a workshop, no PIP payments then! The attic was Scots boarded as another bedroom and six people shared the house, of which eight were built by a small brewery. Running water was a tap in the yard shared between two houses as was the outside toilet. They were condemned in 1939, but still lived in c1960 and not demolished until about 1975. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
phil.c Posted January 21, 2021 Author Share Posted January 21, 2021 Outside each house was a small steel hinged plate housing the water stop cock. Grooves were cut in the pavement stones so that the rainwater could run from the drainpipe to the drain. At the back, Mr. Evan's receives orders from his wife to "Tidy up that garden!" Pity she wouldn't clean that front door, she just polishes the brass number plate 6 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted January 21, 2021 Share Posted January 21, 2021 Looks like Evans needs a couple of pints of 2 stroke mixture and a box of matches. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
9C85 Posted January 21, 2021 Share Posted January 21, 2021 Just stumbled across this thread. I grew up in the Rhondda. All I can suggest to improve your layout is more drizzle... incessant, soul destroying drizzle. Other than that, it's tidy 2 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post phil.c Posted January 22, 2021 Author Popular Post Share Posted January 22, 2021 This is Martin Street formally Martins' Row that my houses are based on, no electric or gas, the drains seem to have been just put in but no tarmac on the road with this early picture. I was born in No.18 which is near the top on the left, I grew up at No. 25 which is on the right with the woman in the doorway. The street was demolished in the early 70's. For those interested, here's some build pictures I've found. 9 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
phil.c Posted January 23, 2021 Author Share Posted January 23, 2021 (edited) Pen y Bryn Scrap Yard. Edited January 23, 2021 by phil.c 9 2 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ponthir28 Posted January 23, 2021 Share Posted January 23, 2021 Robert Wynns lorry could be my uncle driving it lovely. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gopher Posted January 23, 2021 Share Posted January 23, 2021 Some wonderful modelling. My uncles and grandfather were miners in the Rhymney valley. I remember the valleys when the pits were working. Staying with my Aunties in terraced houses like the ones you model (although they had electricity and gas at that time). Outside loos, no bathroom but a tin bath hanging on the back wall and just one coal fire downstairs to keep the house warm. Bloody freezing in winter. My main memory (and not a criticism in anyway), is one of grime. Grass on the hills always seemed almost dead, paintwork on houses always had a film of dust (despite the best efforts of the households living there). Change of shift at the pits when the miner's buses would bring the men home and take others to work. Loads of chapels and pubs (both very busy, although pretty sure pubs were closed on a Sunday) . Slag heaps surrounding the valley's towns and villages. Of course rain and drizzle, and haze from numerous coal fires. Tough way of life and wonderful communities. Sadly now gone. I think you have done a brilliant job modelling this. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
phil.c Posted January 23, 2021 Author Share Posted January 23, 2021 Thanks Gopher. I live in the Darran Valley which is a stones throw from the Rhymney valley, I grew up here, also worked in two collieries when I was young, all your observations are correct. The small village with my previous post and where I grew up had a church and four chapels, I had to go to chapel three times on a Sunday which was not great for a young kid who just wanted to go out and play! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gopher Posted January 23, 2021 Share Posted January 23, 2021 2 hours ago, phil.c said: Thanks Gopher. I live in the Darran Valley which is a stones throw from the Rhymney valley, I grew up here, also worked in two collieries when I was young, all your observations are correct. The small village with my previous post and where I grew up had a church and four chapels, I had to go to chapel three times on a Sunday which was not great for a young kid who just wanted to go out and play! Blimey Phil and I thought I suffered having to go to the Baptist Sunday school once a day. The valleys have changed, more picturesque now without the pits and slag heaps, but definitely not the communities they were. Great to see how you are capturing the past with your modelling Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
phil.c Posted January 23, 2021 Author Share Posted January 23, 2021 Pentecostal chapel, 11:00am to 12:00 then Sunday school 2:00 to 3:00, then 7:00 to 8:00 unless the preacher got carried away for another half hour! But stuck in your best clothed all day was no fun! As a painter in the pit, I sometimes had to go to the managers house which was overlooking the pit to work, the pit has now been replaced by a country park and I now live in that managers house Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ponthir28 Posted January 23, 2021 Share Posted January 23, 2021 I thought getting dragged to church once on Sunday morning was bad enough. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted January 23, 2021 Share Posted January 23, 2021 Primitive Methodist. At least I dodged the evening services too. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gopher Posted January 23, 2021 Share Posted January 23, 2021 2 minutes ago, MrWolf said: Primitive Methodist. At least I dodged the evening services too. My attendance at Sunday school did not last long. My memory of the evening services as a child is my father falling asleep whilst the minister droned on. Luckily I did not go to many. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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