Sep 26, 2014 ... Welsh History Month: Most of the towns and villages of the South Wales ... Even today, with the disappearance of coal mining as a major ...
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May 4, 2016 ... The retired miners and factory workers at the working men's club in the Welsh town of Merthyr Tydfil are no strangers to hard times. "Our second ...
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South Wales is probably best know for industry and coal mining. ... The Town of Blaenafon is also worth a visit and includes attractions such as The Big Pit, ...
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Mar 22, 2014 ... Blaenavon's Big Pit tells the fascinating story of coal mining and what it ... to the production of coal, the town is a perfect place to learn what was ...
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Cardiff and Barry developed as ports to export coal, and the South Wales mining villages and towns grew up because of the demand for coal. In the First and ...
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Jun 25, 2013 ... The town, like the mine, feels abandoned. ... When the site of the former Ebbw Vale Steel Iron and Coal company was finally flattened in 2002, ...
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Jun 19, 2014 ... Former coal mining communities across south Wales are still blighted by poverty and unemployment following pit closures, a new report claims.
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Mar 4, 2013 ... Scholars are looking at Wales, which lost its coal economy in the ... By the turn of the 20th century the population of the mining towns had ...
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Jan 6, 2015 ... Living in a coal town is hazardous to your health. ... the exploitation blighting the South Wales coal town has been left in the distant past. ... showed that emergency rooms in coal-mining towns had higher admission rates for ...
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Aug 9, 2014 ... The South Wales Valleys, the Big Pit Museum and Caerphilly Castle. ... best preserved example of a traditional South Wales iron-making town. ... There were many coal mines around Blaenavon, and Big Pit was one of them.
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Nov 15, 2016 ... Photographer Richard Jones's Energy+Notion project tells the story of energy in Wales, from the remnants of coal mining that shaped its towns ...
Get A Free QuoteDec 7, 2008 ... Just how far can tourism help to rejuvenate economically depressed areas? The former coal mining communities of South Wales may be about ...
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Oct 14, 2016 ... The 1966 event that killed 144 people in a small Welsh town is still ... from other coal mining communities felt particularly touched by the Welsh ...
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May 4, 2018 ... Coal Society - A History of the South Wales Mining Valleys 1840-1980 ... The South Wales Coalfield: Major Valleys & Towns; A. Places ...
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The South Wales Coal Mining Trail takes you to sites that have been preserved ... was constructed in 1854, which ran along the other side of town, at Forgeside.
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Dark Inner Landscapes: The South Wales Coalfield. Christopher S. Davies ... Abstract: This essay documents the underground coal mining scene which is being cancelled out from the .... people and towns, not only in the. United Kingdom, but ...
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Aug 15, 2008 ... An article about coal mining in Wales in the nineteenth century, on the BBC Wales History website.
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Welsh miners cast their votes in a strike ballot, they are demanding a reduction in ... Prince With Miners AKA Coal Mining Town Visited By Prince Of Wales ...
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Sep 1, 2004 ... Today the coal mines are silent, unprofitable in the modern economy. ... the people remain in populous, serpentine towns lining the vales.
Get A Free QuoteAug 3, 2011 ... Memories of mining in north Wales, where a century ago there were 60 pits, are being published by Big Pit, the National Coal Museum.
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Jun 19, 2014 ... Former coal mining communities across south Wales are still blighted by poverty and unemployment following pit closures, a new report claims.
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The last of the coal miners of South Wales emerge from a drift mine in the Upper ... Herman, a Polish artist who settled in and portrayed the Welsh mining town.
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Mining in Wales provided a significant source of income to the economy of Wales throughout the nineteenth century and early twentieth century. It was key to the Industrial Revolution. Wales was famous for its coal mining, in the Rhondda Valley, the South .... It was recorded in the former steelworks town of Ebbw Vale, Wales, and ...
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Apr 5, 2011 ... Yet there was a special character to the pit towns which made them ... ... into the often humourous but always proud history of Welsh mining.
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Aug 15, 2008 ... An article about coal mining in Wales in the twentieth century, on the BBC Wales History website.
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