Llansamlet

[[File:Scott's_Pit_Engine_House_-_geograph.org.uk_-_3015079.jpg|thumb|upright=0.8|Engine house at Scotts Pit]]

[[File:Scott's_Pit_Engine_House_-_geograph.org.uk_-_3015079.jpg|thumb|upright=0.8|Engine house at Scotts Pit]]

One of the few surviving remains of the coal industry is Scotts Pit. The pit has a Cornish-style pumping engine house. Its construction can be dated to about 1823/1824. John Scott, the owner of the colliery, was a London solicitor who had taken a lease of the property in 1816. Coal was produced from 1819. In the same year, a locomotive was supplied by [[George Stephenson#Locomotives|George Stephenson]]; however , it did not prove successful, and was soon withdrawn.{{cite journal |first=Paul |last=Reynolds |title=George Stephenson's 1819 Llansamlet locomotive |editor-first=M.J.T. |editor-last=Lewis |journal=Early Railways 2: Papers from the Second International Early Railways Conference |location=London |publisher=Newcomen Society |date=2003 |pages=165–76}} Scott was unable to operate the pit profitably and pulled out in 1828.{{cite web |url= http://himedo.net/TheHopkinThomasProject/TimeLine/Wales/Coal/CoalMining.htm |title=Early References to Coal Mining History |accessdate=15 December 2014}} The pit then reverted to Charles Henry Smith. It continued in use, sometimes for coal winning, sometimes for pumping, until 1930. It was restored in the 1970s. It is often stated that the pit was sunk in the 1770s by a Captain John Scott, but there is no truth in this: it probably derives from a garbled oral tradition.{{cite journal |first=Paul |last=Reynolds |title=Scott's Pit: new evidence from the north of England |journal=Bulletin of the South West Wales Industrial Archaeology Society |volume=74 |date=February 1999 |pages=11–19}}

One of the few surviving remains of the coal industry is Scotts Pit. The pit has a Cornish-style pumping engine house. Its construction can be dated to about 1823/1824. John Scott, the owner of the colliery, was a London solicitor who had taken a lease of the property in 1816. Coal was produced from 1819. In the same year, a locomotive was supplied by [[George Stephenson#Locomotives|George Stephenson]]; however, it did not prove successful, and was soon withdrawn.{{cite journal |first=Paul |last=Reynolds |title=George Stephenson's 1819 Llansamlet locomotive |editor-first=M.J.T. |editor-last=Lewis |journal=Early Railways 2: Papers from the Second International Early Railways Conference |location=London |publisher=Newcomen Society |date=2003 |pages=165–76}} Scott was unable to operate the pit profitably and pulled out in 1828.{{cite web |url= http://himedo.net/TheHopkinThomasProject/TimeLine/Wales/Coal/CoalMining.htm |title=Early References to Coal Mining History |accessdate=15 December 2014}} The pit then reverted to Charles Henry Smith. It continued in use, sometimes for coal winning, sometimes for pumping, until 1930. It was restored in the 1970s. It is often stated that the pit was sunk in the 1770s by a Captain John Scott, but there is no truth in this: it probably derives from a garbled oral tradition.{{cite journal |first=Paul |last=Reynolds |title=Scott's Pit: new evidence from the north of England |journal=Bulletin of the South West Wales Industrial Archaeology Society |volume=74 |date=February 1999 |pages=11–19}}

==Modern Llansamlet==

==Modern Llansamlet==