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  • Thomas Tudor's sketch of New Weir on the River Wye is unfinished: the pencil outlines of figures at work on the top of the weir may indicate that repair work was underway. The iron forge, seen here in the background, which was powered by the water diverted from the weir, was abandoned some time before 1820. The weir became delapidated, but the lock continued to be used, making it necessary to keep the weir in reasonable repair to maintain water level for the lock. This weir was the only one allowed to remain on the Wye following government legislation to improve navigation at the end of the seventeenth century. The owner of the weir was obliged to install the pound lock, seen here being negotiated by a trow, to enable the passage of vessels. Source: Nelson Museum & Local History Centre
The New Weir, River Wye, by Thomas Tudor
  • Llangenny village, bridge, and weir in the valley of the fast-flowing Grwyne Fawr river, photographed around 1885. Pendarren House is among the trees at the centre of this view and the parish church of St Ceneu is on the left.
Llangenny village, c. 1885
  • Photographed by John Thomas.
Workers at the weir, Newcastle Emlyn, c. 1885