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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What better way to unwind in these unusually balmy days than a prance around Aberdare Park playing peekaboo with the squirrels…
Click on the Photo and play Find the Squirrel in the Photo on Flickr…
It’s been three years since we first started blogging about Aberdare and now there are three thousand photos in the Gallery.
Put one foot in front of the other and repeat, and repeat, and repeat. Before you know it, you’ve trod your way so far down a path, it becomes easier to continue forward, than re-trace your steps backwards.
The photographic ‘themes’ in the Gallery started in Aberdare… honest guv! In a town rich with Chapels and Churches it was inevitable we would start taking photographs across the Valley, then across the Valleys, then farther afield.
And so the pattern is repeated with our other photographic themes. First Aberdare, then out there!
The word we are looking for here is serendipity. We have trod this path as accidental photographer making chance discoveries along the way. We have endeavoured to share some of this joy with you, the reader.
In the photograph : Character from a Mural at Rhondda Heritage Park
After far too much procrastination we have finally uploaded photos of the Ynysybwl Cenotaph war memorial.
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of Ynysybwl Cenotaph
The memorial is in the centre of the village, near the Post Office. The cenotaph is made of portland stone with a bronze relief (see photo on left) on front face depicting a soldier and sailor in a graveyard. A sword of sacrifice is carved on two faces of the cenotaph.
HRH Prince of Wales re-dedicated the Cenotaph in a ceremony that took place in May 2006.
Another day of chaos on the main Aberdare road leading north from the town…
Drivers experienced long delays today on the the A4059 road between Aberdare and Hirwaun due to a traffic collision.
A local grandmother driving home narrowly escaped with her life after being shunted from behind by a lorry.
Closure of the Llwydcoed by-pass road last week due to subsidence problems has caused an enormous increase in traffic on the A4059, leading to traffic tailbacks from Hirwaun to Trecynon during peak hours.
Local residents today expressed their concern that a fatality is inevitable unless Rhondda Cynon Taf Council re-open the Llwydcoed road as to matter of urgency to ease traffic congestion.
