I don't know of any situations like this in Merthyr - where the Glamorgan canal was on the
lowest ground. There was a short canal linking some pits with the Cyfarthfa Ironworks,
but so far as I am aware this entered the coking yard on level ground and did not involve
shutes.
Tim
On 12 Aug 2013 at 14:25, Ian Graham wrote:
> Not quite what you asked, but:
>
> I know of two locations in Wales where a canal running along a hillside was
> related via the necessary stone revetment to an ironworks immediately below,
> with various installations incorporated into the wall. I live near one, in
> Ystalyfera, where the wall has been conserved resecntly as part of a new
> ASDA development, and I belive one of the Merthyr works had something very
> similar.
>
> The Ystalyfera site would date from 1838 on. The Merthyr example probably
> significantly earlier.
>
> Ian G.
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> > Dear List,
> >
> >
> >
> > Does anyone know of any published sources for the design and construction
> > of
> > orechutes, where they open either directly beside or under a railway?
> >
> >
> >
> > I'm in the process of producing an isometric reconstruction of the 1806
> > double orechutes at Morwellham Quay for my Tavistock Canal book. These
> > had
> > a pair of stone-constructed vertical chutes which opened directly under
> > each
> > of a pair of parallel lines.
> >
> >
> >
> > I just wondered how unusual they were and whether parallels existed
> > elsewhere?
> >
> >
> >
> > Robert Waterhouse
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