2018

SO0607 : Former blast furnace blowing engine house - Dowlais

taken 6 years ago, near to Merthyr Tydfil/Merthyr Tudful, Wales

Former blast furnace blowing engine house - Dowlais
Former blast furnace blowing engine house - Dowlais
This magnificently preserved industrial building is now a community project building and used for indoor sports. The building was built for Guest, Keen & Nettlefolds in 1905-7 to house the blowing engines for new blast furnaces completed in 1909. It is 54 m long and 15 m high and had a single internal space for three very large blowing engines. These were inverted vertical cross compound 'quarter crank' blowing engines with Corliss valves on the steam cylinders. Iron and steel making stopped in 1930 and most of the works closed in 1936. Fortunately this magnificent building survived and is Listed II*.

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Geographical Context: Historic sites and artefacts Place: Merthyr Tydfil Dowlais other tags: Former Iron Works Former Engine House Sports Hall Community Project Click a tag, to view other nearby images.
This photo is linked from: Automatic Clusters: · Dowlais Iron Works [6] · Blast Engine House [5] · Steel [3] · Blowing Engines [2] ·
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SO0607, 38 images   (more nearby 🔍)
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Chris Allen   (more nearby)
Date Taken
Saturday, 5 May, 2018   (more nearby)
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Saturday, 5 May, 2018
Subject Location
OSGB36: geotagged! SO 0690 0773 [10m precision]
WGS84: 51:45.6293N 3:21.0208W
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OSGB36: geotagged! SO 0688 0772
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East-northeast (about 67 degrees)
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