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The Conway Works, Cwmbran
The Conways opened a tin plate works here in 1806. Little of it remains today, but there are some derelict buildings left. The middle building is said to have been used as a chapel for the workers, George Conway being a very religious man (he built Pontrhydrun Baptist Chapel at the top of Chapel Lane)
The yard area to the right is now full of fly tipped rubble, but this has yielded several interesting bricks, tiles and marked pipe fragments!
George Conway opened two tinplate works in Pontnewydd, the first in 1802 on the Avon Llwyd at Lower Pontnewydd (later the Gwent Pipe and Fore Brick Works, now a housing estate Stonebridge Park), the second further upstream on Chapel Lane in 1806, known as the Edlogan Works. A race (known locally as "The Dyke") took water from the river, and fed it over the 14 ft x 3 ft wheel which powered the mill. The Lower Pontnewydd (Conway Terrace) works was dismantled in 1885, The Edlogan Works continued until the slump of the 1930s, having been taken over by Richard Thomas & Co in 1908. It was one of the last rolling mills in Wales to convert from water to steam power. The yard was requisitioned by the Ministry of Supply during WW2 and much of the works was demolished from 1946-1949 although some of the original buildings remain today, derelict and decaying, one of the few relics of Cwmbran's industrial heritage,
The Conways opened a tin plate works here in 1806. Little of it remains today, but there are some derelict buildings left. The middle building is said to have been used as a chapel for the workers, George Conway being a very religious man (he built Pontrhydrun Baptist Chapel at the top of Chapel Lane)
The yard area to the right is now full of fly tipped rubble, but this has yielded several interesting bricks, tiles and marked pipe fragments!
George Conway opened two tinplate works in Pontnewydd, the first in 1802 on the Avon Llwyd at Lower Pontnewydd (later the Gwent Pipe and Fore Brick Works, now a housing estate Stonebridge Park), the second further upstream on Chapel Lane in 1806, known as the Edlogan Works. A race (known locally as "The Dyke") took water from the river, and fed it over the 14 ft x 3 ft wheel which powered the mill. The Lower Pontnewydd (Conway Terrace) works was dismantled in 1885, The Edlogan Works continued until the slump of the 1930s, having been taken over by Richard Thomas & Co in 1908. It was one of the last rolling mills in Wales to convert from water to steam power. The yard was requisitioned by the Ministry of Supply during WW2 and much of the works was demolished from 1946-1949 although some of the original buildings remain today, derelict and decaying, one of the few relics of Cwmbran's industrial heritage,