2018

ST0789 : The Man Engine at Pontypridd (1)

taken 6 years ago, near to Pontypridd, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales

The Man Engine at Pontypridd (1)
The Man Engine at Pontypridd (1)
Standing tall over the spectators.
Man Engine Cymru

Man Engine, named after a mechanism used to move miners to and from different mining levels, is the largest mechanical puppet, at 11.2 metres, ever constructed in Britain . The project was launched in 2016 to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape being created as a World Heritage Site.

In April 2018 the Man Engine visited 8 of South Wales’s most important industrial heritage sites. The visit to Pontypridd commemorated the establishment in the town of the Brown, Lenox & co. Ltd. manufacturers of anchors, cables, buoys and moorings, forgings and castings in iron and steel. The company made the launching chain for the Great Eastern that is shown in the background of the well known photograph of Isambard Kingdom Brunel LinkExternal link

For a picture on the original tour in 2016 see Link .


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Robin Drayton   (more nearby)
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Wednesday, 11 April, 2018   (more nearby)
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Monday, 16 April, 2018
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