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Ten hours output of steel billets from the Bessemer Steel Works.

The tapping hole of the "Yankee" furnace at Victoria

2. In 1907 the company owned 524 coke ovens and was producing 200,000 tons of coke a year.

Victoria Foundry, rebuilt in 1902, produced 18,000 tons of castings a year.

The Smith Shop in the Engineering Department.

The company owned four wharves at Newport to import iron ore and pit props and to export iron and steel

In 1907 the company built a third brickworks and production reached 14 million a year.

Pit Bottom. Marine Colliery, Cwm, c.1907.

The Prince of Wales during his visit to Victoria No 5 pit in 1918.

During the industrial disputes of the 1920s and the depression of the 1930s jazz bands provided fun and just as important, kept up spirits.

On St David's day 1927, 52 miners at Marine Colliery were killed in an explosion.

Ar ddydd Gŵyl Dewi 1927, cafodd 52 o glowyr yn y Glofa Marine eu lladd mewn ffrwydrad.

The new Nos. 4 and 5 blast furnaces at Victoria produced 2,750 tons a week each.

The Roughing Mill at the Steel Works.

Ebbw Vale's inland location necessitated a huge fleet of railway trucks to haul iron ore from the Newport wharves to the furnaces

In 1929 a new 1,500 ton hot metal receiver, then the largest in the world, was installed.

The new stripmill produced high quality strip steel at 20 miles per hour

The new works started production in 1938 and prosperity returned to the town of Ebbw Vale.

Underground timbering competition at Cwm Betterment Society Carnival 1956

Abercarn Colliery site in the 1970's

Fettling an open hearth steel furnace at Ebbw Vale in about 1962.

The no 2 electrolytic tinplating line was the fastest in the world when installed in 1961.

Demolition of the blast furnaces, August 1978.

The Double Reduction Mill installed in 1978 produced very thin strip steel for making drinks cans

An air view of the works in August 1957

Coal mining and its landscape, Waunlwyd, 1950s

On 30 October 1929 the works were closed. In 1936 they were demolished.

Digging for coal at Llangynidr Road during the 1926 miner's lockout.

750-ton hot metal receiver in the Bessemer Steel Works