I have had this amazing find from Ebbw Vale Steel works

I started my annual holidays friday just gone, if the weathers nice going to paint my shed and repoint my patio, I hadn't booked any holidays this year, just glad to have time off work.

Friday although on holidays had to go into work for our quarterly health and safety forum, but it only took about two hours of my time so wasn't that bad.

Amanda my girlfriend had asked could i help her grandmother, so we popped there on friday evening, she had just recieved a grant to insulate her attic, and her attic was full of junk, old toys from the kids and grand children the usual stuff, but there was an amazing find,

Bernad, Amanda's late grandfather who was a manager at the Ebbw Vale Steel works in the 60's and 70's had 300 maybe 350 black and white photos, all catergorised in a dairy form, taken between 1953 and 1956 of the then Ebbw Steel works, refit program, they were knocking buildings down and rebuilding to modernise the huge steel works,

I'm going to scan some of them into my photo bucket and then take them to a local museum, because these photo's are absolutely awsome and have lots of heritage value? They have old lorries, vehicles and highlight the lack of health and safety in those days, a jacket with a flat cap, no high viz and hard hats or saftey ropes of the men bolting the new girders together 

i've now added photos and an update in my blogg on 9th august here