Wednesday, 4 February 2009
Snow Day Walk on the Cycle Track.
With our first bit of heavy snow in years I took a walk along the Clyne Valley Cycle track from Gowerton to Dunvant, after a while it just felt like I was mindlessly taking pictures of the snow but as I only ever see it every few years I was quite enjoying myself. Hope you enjoy.
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Forgive my ignorance -but do you have any info. re. the mining disaster.I lived in Dunvant from 1947 to 1966 but never heard of it
I did start researching this last year for a blog entry and was hoping to go round and photograph all the old mining building I found when I was a kid, but sadly nearly all of the building I found had been collapsed by the coal board a few years ago, bit of a shame really.
Heres a site which sort of relays the events that lead upto the closure of Killan Colliery and it names the people who died.
http://www.welshcoalmines.co.uk/GlamWest/killan.htm
To be honest I think that the memorial is pretty poor and remember there was controversy when it was unveiled as the plague was more like a name plate for the councilors unveiling it and the plague was eventually replaced with whats there today, this could have been great memorial; displaying the heritage of the area and giving people an insight of how the village of Dunvant was created as without the mines I doubt that it would exist.
Many thanks for the info.some great photos-cheers
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