No. 6 pit, Victoria, sank in 1838 provided coke for the Victoria Ironworks Type Item Uploaded by Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales
4. The Ebbw Vale Company built many rows of homes for its workers, Gantra Row, intended for colliers, accommodated one family in the upper two floors of each house and another in the basement. Type Item Uploaded by Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales
Tredegar Iron Company's locomotive 'St David' in 1854. Type Item Uploaded by Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales
Abersychan Ironworks shown here in 1866 was bought by the Ebbw Vale Company in 1852. Type Item Uploaded by Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales
Much of the company's pig iron production was converted to wrought iron in 100 puddling furnaces. Type Item Uploaded by Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales
1. The four furnaces of Ebbw Vale were rebuilt in 1871-72, increasing production to 800 tons per week per furnace Type Item Uploaded by Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales
The last act of expansion was the rebuilding of the two Victoria Furnaces in 1882. Type Item Uploaded by Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales
The Bessemer steel converters kept the works going through the 1880s. Type Item Uploaded by Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales
The shaft of Victoria No. 5 (Prince of Wales) Colliery. Type Item Uploaded by Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales
In 1897 a spring making shop was built to make railway carriage springs. Type Item Uploaded by Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales
Two open-hearth steel furnaces were built in 1898, followed by a further three in 1905-06. Type Item Uploaded by Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales
A new American design blast furnace was built at Victoria in 1903. Type Item Uploaded by Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales
Ten hours output of steel billets from the Bessemer Steel Works. Type Item Uploaded by Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales
2. In 1907 the company owned 524 coke ovens and was producing 200,000 tons of coke a year. Type Item Uploaded by Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales
Victoria Foundry, rebuilt in 1902, produced 18,000 tons of castings a year. Type Item Uploaded by Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales
The company owned four wharves at Newport to import iron ore and pit props and to export iron and steel Type Item Uploaded by Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales
In 1907 the company built a third brickworks and production reached 14 million a year. Type Item Uploaded by Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales
The Prince of Wales during his visit to Victoria No 5 pit in 1918. Type Item Uploaded by Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales
During the industrial disputes of the 1920s and the depression of the 1930s jazz bands provided fun and just as important, kept up spirits. Type Item Uploaded by Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales
On St David's day 1927, 52 miners at Marine Colliery were killed in an explosion. Type Item Uploaded by Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales
On St David's day 1927, 52 miners at Marine Colliery were killed in an explosion. Type Item Uploaded by Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales
