Bronfloyd Mine ~ Welsh Mines Preservation Trust

This is part of Graham Levins’ Photo Archive.

Bronfloyd Mine (SN 659 835)

In 2007 the Trust undertook an in depth survey of Bronfloyd Mine, the following photographs are from that survey.

Bronfloyd Mine Map1 — 2nd Ed 6 inch OS Map. People’s Collection Wales.

2nd Ed 25 inch OS Map.

Some details omitted for clarity. 2nd Ed 25 inch OS Map

Bronfloyd Mine 2007

Open working with adit, Bushell’s workings?

Old adit entrance.

Old shaft.

Metalwork near the old adit entrance, agricultural?

No 2 Shaft.

No 2 Shaft.

No 3 Shaft.

No 3 Shaft.

No 3 Shaft, King Post cap.

Looking down incline from No 3 Shaft.

Looking down incline.

Tram-wagon body at foot of incline.

Tram-wagon body close to 1859 Adit.

Balcombe’s 1859 Adit entrance.

20 foot wheel-pit (1) that pumped No 2 Shaft.

Wheel-pit (1), note tram-wagon body in bottom.

Tram-wagon body in bottom of wheel-pit (1).

Ore chute, note team-wagon body.

Second ore chute.

Ore chutes, stone breaking floor.

Ore chute detail.

Twin Crusher Houses viewed from above, 40 foot wheel-pit (2) between.

40 foot wheel-pit (2) between Crusher Houses, from above.

40 foot wheel-pit (2) between Crusher Houses, from below.

Crusher Houses looking southwest.

Crusher Houses looking southeast.

Mine Office.

Carpenter’s Shop and Blacksmith’s Shop.

Blacksmith’s Shop and forge.

Saw-pit.

24 foot wheel-pit (3), that powered the Dingley Patent Pulveriser and Hodkinson’s Patent Tramway.

Axle of 24 foot wheel (3).

Crusher House viewed from wheel-pit (3).

Remains of the building that housed the Dingley Patent Pulveriser, beside Nant Silo.

Drum-pit for Hodgkinson’s Patent Tramway (which was in fact an aerial ropeway).

The 28 foot wheel-pit (4) beside Nant Silo, this was the wheel that wound from No 3 Shaft.

Tail race of wheel-pit (4).

28 foot wheel-pit (4) with axle in situ, note drum-pit to right.

Close up of axle.

Pulley wheels and rollers in bottom of wheel-pit (4)

Axle viewed from below.

Looking south at the cable route from wheel-pit (4) to No 3 Shaft.

35 foot wheel-pit (5), that pumped No 3 shaft.

Wheel-pit (5).

Wheel-pit (5).

Read about the Trust’s work at Bronfloyd on our project page here.

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