Sean of Wales
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After seeing pictures of it on here, me and my friend decided to trek up there and check it out. After a stint of walking along a wooded road without any path (had to clamber onto a muddy bank to avoid cars!) we found it.
The house was built in the 1800s by an industrial magnate, and from the 1950s-1980s was used as the miners' library, though that later got its own site right next to the mansion. Since then it was owned by the Swansea university that used it as a teaching facility for a while before it was boarded up and left to rot.
We didn't get to go inside as it was sealed pretty tight, but a guy who worked for the university was parked outside in a van, and he was nice enough to tell us about the history of the place, and the current state of it. It was a relief because I was expecting some douche who didn't give a shit, or a disgruntled gorundskeeper yelling at us to get off the site.
And a...gathering of... chairs?
The house was built in the 1800s by an industrial magnate, and from the 1950s-1980s was used as the miners' library, though that later got its own site right next to the mansion. Since then it was owned by the Swansea university that used it as a teaching facility for a while before it was boarded up and left to rot.
We didn't get to go inside as it was sealed pretty tight, but a guy who worked for the university was parked outside in a van, and he was nice enough to tell us about the history of the place, and the current state of it. It was a relief because I was expecting some douche who didn't give a shit, or a disgruntled gorundskeeper yelling at us to get off the site.
And a...gathering of... chairs?
