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Author: David Swidenbank Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited ISBN: 1445637057 Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 189
Book Description
This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which Rhondda Collieries have changed and developed over the last century.
Author: David Swidenbank Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited ISBN: 1445637057 Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 189
Book Description
This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which Rhondda Collieries have changed and developed over the last century.
Author: David Swindenbank Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited ISBN: 1445610647 Category : Transportation Languages : en Pages : 189
Book Description
Rhondda' - even now, the name evokes the turbulent times when Rhondda (actually two valleys, the Fawr and Fach) was synonymous with the deep-mining of steam coal. This is a story of pioneering deep-mining and unbridled capitalism: the prospecting of two valleys, unfettered by health and safety, amid divisive industrial relations and scarce health-care. The result fired railways, steam-powered shipping and the engines of the Industrial Revolution across the world. Using a mixture of historical and modern photographs, coloured by personal testimony and memories, this book reveals the vibrant, turbulent, often tragic record of Rhondda: from pastoral vale via 'black gold'-rush to grimy industrial prime, followed by the twentieth-century economic slide, the demise of all its fifty-three collieries and today's valleys - a mainly residential landscape of green hills.
Author: Philip Jenkins Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1317872681 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 405
Book Description
Rich in detail but vigorous, authoritative and unsentimental, A History of Modern Wales is a comprehensive and unromanticised examination of Wales as it was and is. It stresses both the long-term continuities in Welsh history, and also the significant regional differences within the principality.
Author: John Hodge Publisher: Casemate Publishers ISBN: 1526726610 Category : Transportation Languages : en Pages : 420
Book Description
A photo-filled history of this part of Welsh coal country and its freight and passenger service. Following the first volume dealing with the Llynfi Valley, this book provides details on individual aspects of railways operation focusing on the Ogmore, Garw, and Porthcawl branches in this area of South Wales. The books give a history of the railway, coal mining, and other industrial aspects of each Valley that combine to make up the Tondu Valleys, with detailed comments on the operation of the railway, passenger and freight, and details of each colliery within the area and their place within the South Wales coalfield. The study of Porthcawl traces its development from a dock to a seaside resort with supporting photographs of both aspects. Each location is studied in detail with abundant photographs of railway and colliery activity. This is the first time such a study of this area has been undertaken in such detail.
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