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Timber loader Rogers – Glyndyfrdwy

This is a holding page, shortly to be updated with the full life story of timber loader Rogers. For now, an outline sketch is included. Please check back again soon.

 

Today Glyndyfrdwy looks very quiet – but in the late 19th century, the valley had industrial workings: quarries, slate works and timber production. A tram road fed down the valley, to the railway, which took items further on.

Ordnance Survey map of Glyndyfrwdy, showing the railway line following the course of the river Dee. The station sits in the centre of the map extract, and the village slightly to the south. Another line leaves the station yard area and runs to the bottom of the map - this was a quarry tramway, bringing goods to the mainline station for onward travel.
1914 Ordnance Survey map of Glyndyfrdwy and surrounding area.
Courtesy National Library of Scotland Maps.

 

On 18 December 1914, timber loader Rogers was working at Glyndyfrdwy. At 11.30am his arm was injured by a crane handle. As a result he was off work for three days.

Posed staff safety photographs warning of the dangers of cranes. The first shows a man about to be thrown off a hand-cranked crane as it gets out of control due to the weight descending too rapidly and without braking. The second shows the man on the ground, having been thrown off by the crane.
Posed 1930s staff safety photograph warning of some of the dangers of loading and unloading goods by hand crane.

 

No other details have survived about his accident. With so little information it’s proven impossible to find out more about Rogers.