Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 162,257 pages of information and 244,498 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Doctor's Bridge (Treforest)

From Graces Guide

Doctor's Bridge or Machine Bridge at Pontypridd

This three-arched stone viaduct over the River Taff carried Dr. Richard Griffiths' Tramroad connecting collieries in the Rhondda Valley, via the Doctor's Canal with the Glamorganshire Canal. A weighing machine for coal trams was installed nearby hence the local name given to the bridge.

This has been extensively remodelled and now carroes one carriageway of a road,

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Sources of Information

  • [1] Coflein - Doctor's Bridge