Coming from Eastbourne and moving to the Rhondda in the mid 70s, I had not even heard of this place until last week, this was when one of my customers said about it and he used to go there with the local Boys Club when he was a child. I searched this site and found a few have been down there and it looked like somewhere I would like to have a look around. I went and found it the other night and decided as the other posting were nice and bright and I nearly always use black and white, I would go when it was raining. It rained nearly all day yesterday and straight after work (5pm) I made my way down to find it had not been raining down there.
I spent well over a hour there and took 160 photos with only about 5 I did not post on flickr. I did it as a walk through, starting from my right as I entered the site and worked around the buildings. You will notice that I have got the church in many of the photos, it was the nicest building there and its a shame it in such condition. The basket ball hall and the black and white tiled floor building with the tiled pillars must have been quite impressive when being used.
(I am sorry about the quality of the photos, but my laptop is being repaired and I am using my daughters which is very very slow, it took me over 4 hours to download onto here and then onto flickr. Its also taken me over a hour just to post this )
http://www.flickr.com/photos/100221036@N06/sets/72157636066253343/
I have posted a few photos on here with the rest on flickr.
I spent well over a hour there and took 160 photos with only about 5 I did not post on flickr. I did it as a walk through, starting from my right as I entered the site and worked around the buildings. You will notice that I have got the church in many of the photos, it was the nicest building there and its a shame it in such condition. The basket ball hall and the black and white tiled floor building with the tiled pillars must have been quite impressive when being used.
(I am sorry about the quality of the photos, but my laptop is being repaired and I am using my daughters which is very very slow, it took me over 4 hours to download onto here and then onto flickr. Its also taken me over a hour just to post this )
http://www.flickr.com/photos/100221036@N06/sets/72157636066253343/
I have posted a few photos on here with the rest on flickr.