Thanks Hugh Regards Dawn dawn.cumbley@virgin.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "Hugh Watkins" <jonesraglan@aol.com> To: <monmouthshire@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, March 26, 2007 2:19 AM Subject: Re: [MON] Blaenavon > > On 25 Mar 2007, at 23:03, Jeff Coleman wrote: > >> You get [ or now used to get, as far as most of South Wales except >> Margam is >> concerned] quite a glow if coke ovens are being emptied at night, >> so you >> might not be talking about a blast furnace. >> >> I recall looking down into the Garw valley in Glamorgan from the >> slopes of >> Mynydd Caerau or Mynydd Werfa at dusk and seeing red-hot coke being >> pushed >> out of the ovens, somewhere near Blaengarw I expect. That would >> have been >> early 1960s. If there weren't any coke ovens in the Garw valley >> maybe it was >> Nantymoel ..... > > or even any old local gas works > > Hugh W > > -- > a wonderful artist in Denmark > http://www.ingerlisekristoffersen.dk/ > > Beta blogger > http://snaps4.blogspot.com/ photographs and walks > > old blogger GENEALOGE > http://hughw36.blogspot.com/ MAIN BLOG > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > MONMOUTHSHIRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.446 / Virus Database: 268.18.18/734 - Release Date: > 26/03/2007 14:31 > >