tarboat's photos with the keyword: carmarthenshire

Glazed tiles on the frontage of a shop on Upper Inkerman Street in Llanelli. Sadly these have now been painted over.

Pant y Ffynnon Limekilns in the Black Mountains of Wales close to Foel Fawr. The OS map surveyed in 1885 shows seven kilns in a line below this quarry. Four of the kiln sites can be seen in the centre of this view with their tips spread out to the right with the lighter coloured calcareous kiln waste material below them.

Large commercial intermittent limekilns remains at Clogau Bach, Pen Rhiw-ddu, Carmarthenshire. The mounds below each kiln comprise the ashes and waste material from each burning. The track for the carts that carried away the burned lime runs between kilns on the left and the waste tips on the right. The hillsides in this area are just a mass of limeburning remains and must have been a very busy place around 1800.

With the opening of the Llanelly Railway in 1857 the quarries at Llandybie were developed on a large scale. The bank of six ornate kilns were built in 1856 by the surveyor and architect R K Penson who was heavily involved in the development of the quarries. Later extensions took the number of kilns in production to nine by 1900. The ecclesiastical influence of R K Penson is clearly seen here in the six kilns of 1856.