Navigation Colliery, Crumlin

Here are my pics from the former Navigation Colliery in Crumlin.

Mrs Crash setting up a shot




I guess it's private property, nice way of putting it lmao


Foxy Lady looking through the gate




Looking over the roof of one of the lower buildings


Not much left of this building, but lovely all the same


Not a very good pic of the very pink bath house building :O


The lovely and very tall chimney


Everyone walking down from the bath house building




Ready for the next area


Looking at a fire place through the bars


The boys discussing where to go next


A former jeep and a landrover left there

That place looks fantastic.

Love the private property sign. Short and to the point.

Some of the buildings almost look like chapels - maybe it's the Welsh Methodist influence pervading even the workplace.

Loads and loads of tyres - everywhere


Those lovely white glazed tiles


Nature reclaiming one of the buildings




Nature reclaiming again


Another view of that gorgeous chimney


An old car seat blocking the way


Sheep going around the corner


oooooooooh one of two morris minors


hehehe, transport for the next meet lmao


King Al looking down one of the two shafts


Great, I travel all the way down to Wales, and find a notice with a code on from my area

the number doesn't work btw, we tried it lmao



and the last one from me

I just have to make it clear at this point that I don't normally look like Michelin Man!!! It was so cold that several layers of clothing were necessary...I even wore my jimjams under everything else to try and stay warm.

Unfortunately many of my pics of the colliery were out of focus...probably a combination of shivering from the cold and eye fatigue.
Here's a few of the best.



















Cheers

Yes, I didn't realise i could get so many layers of clothing on including 3 fleeces and an annorak on in one go. Felt like a tellytubby lol.

Just found a link to it with a pic complete with the headstocks. Would have loved to have seen it with the headstocks there.

http://www.welshcoalmines.co.uk/Gwent/NavigationCrumlin.htm

Sal