Harcourt Terrace Methodist Church

“Two people may meet, two mountains won't”
Carl Llewellyn
Birthday treat number two, a trip to Tredegar to hear a talk on Lusitania and the Welsh Male Voice Choir, at Bedwellty House. Some showers around but mostly bright and sunny. Entertaining, enjoyable talk and had a walk around the town after, to see what progress on the health centre (I was involved with QS’ing on it during the first lockdown and carried on much as usual throughout Covid). Also wandered over to Harcourt Terrace Chapel, where my parents were married. It’s showing signs of neglect, broken windows, missing roof slates – in contrast to nearby Saron Chapel which has been renovated and looks pristine with its’ fresh lick of paint. As I walked back through Bedwellty Park I came across the block of coal, which I’d looked for on previous visits but been unable to find. How could I have missed it, a 15-ton slab of coal isn’t easy to hide! It was cut at the Yard Level, an Adit which made it easier to get out (couldn’t see that being lifted up a shaft) with the intention of displaying it at the Great Exhibition of 1851. Apparently it’s Grade II Listed, can’t be many big lumps of coal to claim that.