Lewis Merthyr Colliery

Now the Rhondda Heritage Centre but then a working mine in NCB ownership. We were there to see the John Fowler steam winding engine that was then running on compressed air. The air receiver for it is seen in the right foreground. We were made most welcome at many collieries with steam winding engines in the early 1980s and it is sad to think that it's all a distant memory now.