2013
SO1103 : View across Parc Cwm Darran Lake (1)
taken 11 years ago, near to Deri, Caerphilly/Caerffili, Wales
View across Parc Cwm Darran Lake (1)
Parc Cwm Darran
A country park built on the site of Ogilvie Colliery and its spoil tips Link . Ogilvie Colliery was the largest of the collieries in the Darran Valley and at its peak employed up to 1,500 men and boys. The first coal was raised in 1923 and the colliery closed in 1975.
The colliery was the location for a 1973 episode of Dr Who, The Green Death, with Jon Pertwee.