Pentrehafod School was opened in 1976 but from the 1860s, until the land was cleared in 1973, it was the site of a 60 metre high waste tip for the Hafod Copperworks.
When all of the tips in the copperworks and along the Tawe had reached their capacity, thenew waste tip was established to the west of the works, on land that had once been Pentre Mawr Farm
Powered by a stationary engine at the tip, a tramway ran on a wooden gantry, high above the Swansea canal and the mainline railway, hauling wagons of copper slag waste from the copperworks to be emptied at the tip next to the copper workers’ houses at Trevivian.
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Agorwyd ysgol Pentrehafod yn 1976 ond o’r 1860’au nes iddo gael ei chwalu yn 1973, ‘roedd yn safle domen gwastraff gwaith copr Hafod.
Pan lenwyd gyd o domeni’r gwaith copr ar hyd afon Tawe, dechreuwyd domen newydd i’r gorllewin ar dir a fu unwaith yn fferm Pentre Mawr.
Rhedodd ffordd dram dros bont pren, yn uchel uwchben camlas Abertawe a’r brif rheilffordd, yn cludo wageni o wastraff copr o’r gwaith i gael eu gwagu nesaf i dai y gweithwyr copr yn Nhrevivian.
