Looking up the Valley from the bottom of Mount Pleasant, this photograph shows, in the foreground, Vale Cottages. This group of buildings was one of the first to be built in the Valley and was situated at the site of the roundabout today. The lower photograph (taking looking in the opposite direction) shows a small section of the cottages that remains to this day. Although extensively modernised and looking quite different, it is easy to recognise it by the shape of the chimney.

John Nelson