i.c.i works

[tugnutter]

i,ve been doing a fair bit of rooting about in MERTHYR / DOWLAIS recently, my interest re-activated by reading MARIO BASINI,S excellent book.Can anyone tell me what is on the site of the old I.C.I. works ,and when the works finally finished?

[dairees]

The ICI works was on what's now known as Pant Industrial Estate, most people used to call the estate the ICI, in fact I only realised that wasn't really called that relatively recently.

I think the works was at the Pant end of the estate (rather than the Galon Uchaf end), in the area that's now called the Valleys Enterprise Centre.

I remember reading that it was built in 1939 as part of the war effort but can't recall a closing date, sorry.

[tugnutter]

thanks, dai,it,s amazing to think that so much was going on in such a relatively small area, mike

[dairees]

Hi Mike, look what I just found on the Old Merthyr site....



It's bigger than I thought!!