Easily Wales’ most DRAMatic sculpture is Andy Hazell’s Wheel of Drams near the Hengoed Viaduct, Maesycwmmer, a village near Caerphilly.
Andy Hazell was commissioned to create a landmark sculpture to celebrate the refurbishment of the Hengoed Viaduct and its inclusion into the National Cycle Network. Wheel of Drams is a dramatic eight metre high circular sculpture of six curved steel coal drams that commemorate the original haulage companies that operated on the goods line that passed over the viaduct. The circular shape also represents the move from the route being used by coal drams to bicycles.
Although this is an eye-catching landmark sculpture it is slowly being obscured by trees growing in front of it.
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A collection of photographs of the closed, bricked-up and boarded-up Ebenezer Welsh Baptist chapel, at Cefn Coed y Cymmer.
Cefn Coed y Cymmer is a small village at the crossroads of the A465 (Heads of the Valley) and A470 roads, about two miles north of Merthyr Tydfil town centre.
The most famous - and unmissable - landmark in Cefn Coed y Cymmer is the curved viaduct built in 1866 to carry the Brecon and Merthyr Railway line.
Ebenezer was built in 1838 and rebuilt in 1861 but when did this chapel close ?
Who owns the building and what are the plans for the future of the site ?
The photos reveal a chapel slowly de-constructing : becoming derelict, revealing constituent parts and architectural detail.
It seems to be held together precariously by the addition of some breeze blocks as...
Part of Penywaun’s History is on display this week… A model of the Dare Viaduct and Gamlyn Viaduct which traverses Penywaun is on display at Pontypridd Museum.
The model was made by Phil Moates of Cynon Valley Model Railway Society. The actual viaduct was built in 1855 by world famous Victorian engineer Brunel and it was built on the Dare and Amman branch of the Vale of Neath Railway.
The viaducts were both timber structures - click on the photograph to see further detailed photographs. The Dare or Cwm viaduct was 70 feet high and 450 feet long while the Gamlyn (Penywaun) viaduct was 70 feet high and 600 feet long. These two constructions were the last of Brunel’s timber structures to remain in active use. They were closed to traffic in 1939 and demolished in...
