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Mining in Wales

Index Mining in Wales

Mining in Wales provided a significant source of income to the economy of Wales throughout the nineteenth century and early twentieth century. [1]

111 relations: Abercarn, Abercynon Colliery, Aberpergwm, Abertillery, Abertridwr, Caerphilly, Avon Rubber, Barry, Vale of Glamorgan, Bedwas Navigation Colliery, Bersham Colliery, Big Pit National Coal Museum, Blaenavon, British Iron Age, Bryntail lead mine, Cardiff, Cefn Coed Colliery Museum, Chartism, Child labour, Cilcain, Clogau Gold Mine, Coal, Coal mining, Copper, Crynant, Cwm, Blaenau Gwent, Cwmfelinfach, Cwmystwyth Mines, Cymmer, Neath Port Talbot, Cynheidre Colliery, Deep Navigation Colliery, Dic Penderyn, Dolaucothi Gold Mines, Dreadnought, Drift mining, Ebbw Vale, Economics, Economy of Wales, Every Valley, Factory Acts, Ffos-y-fran Land Reclamation Scheme, Great Depression, Great Orme, Gresford Colliery, Gwydir Forest, Gwynfynydd Gold Mine, Hirwaun, Idris Davies, Industrial Revolution, Ironworks, Klondyke mill, Lady Windsor Colliery, ..., Lead, Maerdy, Mardy Colliery, Merthyr Rising, Minera Lead Mines, Miners' institute, Mines and Collieries Act 1842, Mining accident, Mining in Roman Britain, Mostyn Colliery, Museum of the Year, Nantgarw Colliery, National Coal Board, Nationalization, Newport Rising, Nine Mile Point Colliery, Oakdale Colliery, Open-pit mining, Parys Mountain, Pit pony, Poet, Point of Ayr, Politics, Public Service Broadcasting (band), Rhondda, Rhondda Heritage Park, Rhymney, Roman Empire, Roman engineering, Roman technology, Royal Navy, Senghenydd, Senghenydd colliery disaster, Seven Sisters, Neath Port Talbot, Silicosis, Silver, Sirhowy Valley, Six Bells Colliery, Slate, South Wales Coalfield, South Wales Evening Post, South Wales Miners' Museum, South Wales Valleys, Steam engine, Steam locomotive, Steamship, Sygun Copper Mine, The Citadel (novel), The Stars Look Down, Tower Colliery, Trehafod, Treharris, UK miners' strike (1984–85), Universal Colliery, Wales, Windsor Colliery, World War I, Wyllie Colliery, Ynysybwl, Zinc, 1926 United Kingdom general strike. Expand index (61 more) »

Abercarn

Abercarn is a small town and community in Caerphilly county borough, Wales, 10 miles (16 km) north-west of Newport on the A467 between Cwmcarn and Newbridge, within the historic boundaries of Monmouthshire.

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Abercynon Colliery

Abercynon Colliery was a coal mine located in Abercynon, South Wales.

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Aberpergwm

Aberpergwm is the site of a colliery in the Vale of Neath near Glynneath in south Wales.

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Abertillery

Abertillery (Abertyleri, meaning mouth of the River Tyleri) is the largest town of the Ebbw Fach valley in what was the historic county of Monmouthshire, Wales.

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Abertridwr, Caerphilly

Abertridwr (Welsh: the mouth of the three waters) is a village in the county borough of Caerphilly, Wales, situated about north-west of Caerphilly town.

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Avon Rubber

Avon Rubber PLC is a manufacturer of rubber-based products for the manufacturing sector.

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Barry, Vale of Glamorgan

Barry (Y Barri) is a town in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, on the north coast of the Bristol Channel approximately south-southwest of Cardiff.

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Bedwas Navigation Colliery

Bedwas Navigation Colliery was a coal mine in the small Welsh village of Bedwas, north of Caerphilly.

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Bersham Colliery

Bersham Colliery was a large coal mine located near Rhostyllen in Wrexham County Borough, Wales.

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Big Pit National Coal Museum

Big Pit National Coal Museum (Pwll Mawr Amgueddfa Lofaol Cymru) is an industrial heritage museum in Blaenavon, Torfaen, South Wales.

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Blaenavon

Blaenavon (Blaenafon) is a town in south eastern Wales, lying at the source of the Afon Lwyd north of Pontypool, within the boundaries of the historic county of Monmouthshire and the preserved county of Gwent.

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British Iron Age

The British Iron Age is a conventional name used in the archaeology of Great Britain, referring to the prehistoric and protohistoric phases of the Iron Age culture of the main island and the smaller islands, typically excluding prehistoric Ireland, which had an independent Iron Age culture of its own.

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Bryntail lead mine

Bryntail lead mine is a disused lead mine near Llanidloes in Powys, Wales.

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Cardiff

Cardiff (Caerdydd) is the capital of, and largest city in, Wales, and the eleventh-largest city in the United Kingdom.

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Cefn Coed Colliery Museum

Cefn Coed Colliery Museum is a former coal mine, now operating as a museum.

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Chartism

Chartism was a working-class movement for political reform in Britain that existed from 1838 to 1857.

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Child labour

Child labour refers to the employment of children in any work that deprives children of their childhood, interferes with their ability to attend regular school, and that is mentally, physically, socially or morally dangerous and harmful.

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Cilcain

Cilcain is a small community, near Mold in Flintshire, north-east Wales.

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Clogau Gold Mine

The Clogau (pronounced "clog-eye") Gold Mine (also known as Clogau St David's) is a gold mine near Bontddu in North Wales.

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Coal

Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock usually occurring in rock strata in layers or veins called coal beds or coal seams.

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Coal mining

Coal mining is the process of extracting coal from the ground.

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Copper

Copper is a chemical element with symbol Cu (from cuprum) and atomic number 29.

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Crynant

Crynant (or Y Creunant) is a village in the Dulais Valley in Wales.

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Cwm, Blaenau Gwent

Cwm is a former coal mining village and an electoral ward south of Ebbw Vale in the county borough of Blaenau Gwent, Wales, within the historic boundaries of Monmouthshire, United Kingdom.

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Cwmfelinfach

Cwmfelinfach is a small village located in the Sirhowy valley of south-east Wales.

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Cwmystwyth Mines

Cwmystwyth mines are located in Cwmystwyth, Ceredigion, Wales.

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Cymmer, Neath Port Talbot

Cymmer (Cymer) is a small village in Neath Port Talbot in Wales, set on a hillside in the Afan Valley near the confluence of the River Afan and the River Corrwg.

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Cynheidre Colliery

Cynheidre Colliery was a coal mine located in the Gwendraeth valley, in Carmarthenshire, South Wales.

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Deep Navigation Colliery

Deep Navigation Colliery was a coal mine in South Wales, that operated from 1872 until 1991.

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Dic Penderyn

Richard Lewis (1807/8 – 13 August 1831), known as Dic Penderyn, was a Welsh labourer and coal miner who lived in Merthyr Tydfil who was involved with the Merthyr Rising of 3 June 1831.

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Dolaucothi Gold Mines

The Dolaucothi Gold Mines (Mwynfeydd Aur Dolaucothi), also known as the Ogofau Gold Mine, are ancient Roman surface and underground mines located in the valley of the River Cothi, near Pumsaint, Carmarthenshire, Wales.

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Dreadnought

The dreadnought was the predominant type of battleship in the early 20th century.

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Drift mining

Drift mining is either the mining of an ore deposit by underground methods, or the working of coal seams accessed by adits driven into the surface outcrop of the coal bed.

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Ebbw Vale

Ebbw Vale (Glyn Ebwy) is a town at the head of the valley formed by the Ebbw Fawr tributary of the Ebbw River in Wales.

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Economics

Economics is the social science that studies the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services.

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Economy of Wales

The economy of Wales is closely linked with the rest of the United Kingdom and the wider European Economic Area.

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Every Valley

Every Valley is a studio album by British art rock band Public Service Broadcasting.

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Factory Acts

The Factory Acts were a series of UK labour law Acts passed by the Parliament of the United Kingdom to regulate the conditions of industrial employment.

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Ffos-y-fran Land Reclamation Scheme

The Ffos-y-fran Land Reclamation Scheme is a major opencast coaling operation to the north-east of Merthyr Tydfil in South Wales.

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Great Depression

The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression that took place mostly during the 1930s, beginning in the United States.

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Great Orme

The Great Orme or Great Orme's Head (Y Gogarth or Pen y Gogarth) is a prominent limestone headland on the north coast of Wales, next to the town of Llandudno.

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Gresford Colliery

Gresford Colliery was a coal mine located a mile from the North Wales village of Gresford, near Wrexham.

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Gwydir Forest

Gwydir Forest, also spelled Gwydyr, is located in Conwy county borough and the Snowdonia National Park in Wales.

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Gwynfynydd Gold Mine

Gwynfynydd Gold Mine is near Ganllwyd, Dolgellau, Gwynedd, Wales.

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Hirwaun

Hirwaun (Welsh "Long Meadow") is a village and community at the north end of the Cynon Valley in the County Borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf, South Wales.

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Idris Davies

Idris Davies (6 January 1905 – 6 April 1953) was a Welsh poet.

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Industrial Revolution

The Industrial Revolution was the transition to new manufacturing processes in the period from about 1760 to sometime between 1820 and 1840.

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Ironworks

An ironworks or iron works is a building or site where iron is smelted and where heavy iron and steel products are made.

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Klondyke mill

Klondyke Mill was an ore processing mill on the edge of the Gwydir Forest, near Trefriw, north Wales.

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Lady Windsor Colliery

Lady Windsor Colliery was a coal mine located in the village of Ynysybwl in South Wales.

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Lead

Lead is a chemical element with symbol Pb (from the Latin plumbum) and atomic number 82.

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Maerdy

Maerdy (Y Maerdy) is a village and community in the county borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf, and within the historic county boundaries of Glamorgan, Wales, lying at the head of the Rhondda Fach Valley.

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Mardy Colliery

Maerdy Colliery was a coal mine located in the South Wales village of Maerdy (Y Maerdy), in the Rhondda Valley, located in the county borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf, and within the historic county boundaries of Glamorgan, Wales.

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Merthyr Rising

The Merthyr Rising of 1831 was the violent climax to many years of simmering unrest among the large working class population of Merthyr Tydfil in Wales and the surrounding area.

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Minera Lead Mines

The Minera Lead Mines were a mining operation and are now a country park and tourist centre in the village of Minera near Wrexham, in Wrexham County Borough, Wales.

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Miners' institute

Miners' institutes, sometimes known as Workingmen's institute, Mine Workers' institute, or Miners' Welfare Hall are large institutional buildings that were typically built during the height of the industrial period as a meeting and educational venue.

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Mines and Collieries Act 1842

Mines and Collieries Act 1842 (c. 99), commonly known as the Mines Act 1842, was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

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Mining accident

A mining accident is an accident that occurs during the process of mining minerals.

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Mining in Roman Britain

Mining was one of the most prosperous activities in Roman Britain.

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Mostyn Colliery

Mostyn Colliery was a coal mine in Flintshire, North Wales, that was owned in the later part of its operating life by the influential Mostyn family.

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Museum of the Year

The Museum of the Year Award, formerly known as the Gulbenkian Prize and the Art Fund Prize, is an annual prize awarded to a museum or gallery in the United Kingdom for a "track record of imagination, innovation and excellence".

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Nantgarw Colliery

Nantgarw Colliery was a coal mine and later developed Coking coal works, located in the village on Nantgarw, Mid Glamorgan, Wales located just north of Cardiff.

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National Coal Board

The National Coal Board (NCB) was the statutory corporation created to run the nationalised coal mining industry in the United Kingdom.

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Nationalization

Nationalization (or nationalisation) is the process of transforming private assets into public assets by bringing them under the public ownership of a national government or state.

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Newport Rising

The Newport Rising was the last large-scale armed rebellion against authority in Great Britain, when, on 4 November 1839, almost 10,000 Chartist sympathisers, led by John Frost, marched on the town of Newport, Monmouthshire.

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Nine Mile Point Colliery

Nine Mile Point colliery was a coal mine at Cwmfelinfach in the South Wales Valleys, originally known as "Coronation Colliery", and constructed between 1902 and 1905.

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Oakdale Colliery

Oakdale Colliery was a coal mine located in the Sirhowy Valley, one of the valleys of South Wales.

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Open-pit mining

Open-pit, open-cast or open cut mining is a surface mining technique of extracting rock or minerals from the earth by their removal from an open pit or borrow.

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Parys Mountain

Parys Mountain (Mynydd Parys) – is located south of the town of Amlwch in north east Anglesey, Wales.

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Pit pony

A pit pony was a class of pony commonly used underground in mines from the mid-18th until the mid-20th century.

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Poet

A poet is a person who creates poetry.

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Point of Ayr

Point of Ayr (Y Parlwr Du) is the northernmost point of mainland Wales.

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Politics

Politics (from Politiká, meaning "affairs of the cities") is the process of making decisions that apply to members of a group.

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Public Service Broadcasting (band)

Public Service Broadcasting are a London-based pseudonymous musical group consisting of J. Willgoose, Esq.

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Rhondda

Rhondda, or the Rhondda Valley (Cwm Rhondda), is a former coal mining valley in Wales, formerly a local government district, consisting of 16 communities built around the River Rhondda.

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Rhondda Heritage Park

Rhondda Heritage Park, Trehafod, Rhondda, South Wales is a tourist attraction which offers an insight into the life of the coal mining community that existed in the area until the 1980s.

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Rhymney

Rhymney (Rhymni) is a town and a community located in the county borough of Caerphilly in South Wales, within the historic boundaries of Monmouthshire.

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Roman Empire

The Roman Empire (Imperium Rōmānum,; Koine and Medieval Greek: Βασιλεία τῶν Ῥωμαίων, tr.) was the post-Roman Republic period of the ancient Roman civilization, characterized by government headed by emperors and large territorial holdings around the Mediterranean Sea in Europe, Africa and Asia.

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Roman engineering

Romans are famous for their advanced engineering accomplishments, although some of their own inventions were improvements on older ideas, concepts and inventions.

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Roman technology

Roman technology is the engineering practice which supported Roman civilization and made the expansion of Roman commerce and Roman military possible for over a millennium (753 BC–476 AD).

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Royal Navy

The Royal Navy (RN) is the United Kingdom's naval warfare force.

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Senghenydd

Senghenydd (Senghennydd) is a village in the Aber valley, roughly four miles north-west of the town of Caerphilly.

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Senghenydd colliery disaster

The Senghenydd colliery disaster, also known as the Senghenydd explosion (Tanchwa Senghennydd), occurred at the Universal Colliery in Senghenydd, near Caerphilly, Glamorgan, Wales, on 14 October 1913.

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Seven Sisters, Neath Port Talbot

Seven Sisters (Blaendulais: source of the (river) Dulais) is a village in the Dulais Valley, Wales, UK.

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Silicosis

Silicosis (also known as miner's phthisis, grinder's asthma, potter's rot and other occupation-related names, or by the invented name pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis) is a form of occupational lung disease caused by inhalation of crystalline silica dust, and is marked by inflammation and scarring in the form of nodular lesions in the upper lobes of the lungs.

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Silver

Silver is a chemical element with symbol Ag (from the Latin argentum, derived from the Proto-Indo-European ''h₂erǵ'': "shiny" or "white") and atomic number 47.

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Sirhowy Valley

The Sirhowy Valley is an industrialised valley in the eastern part of the Valleys region of Wales.

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Six Bells Colliery

Six Bells Colliery was a coal mine located in Six Bells, Abertillery, Monmouthshire, Wales.

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Slate

Slate is a fine-grained, foliated, homogeneous metamorphic rock derived from an original shale-type sedimentary rock composed of clay or volcanic ash through low-grade regional metamorphism.

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South Wales Coalfield

The South Wales Coalfield (Welsh: Maes glo De Cymru) is a large region of south Wales that is rich in coal deposits, especially the South Wales Valleys.

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South Wales Evening Post

The South Wales Evening Post is a tabloid daily newspaper distributed in the South West region of Wales The paper has three daily editions - Swansea, Neath and Port Talbot and Carmarthenshire and is published by South West Wales Publications, part of the Local World group.

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South Wales Miners' Museum

The South Wales Miners' Museum is a museum of the coal mining industry and its workforce in the South Wales coalfield.

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South Wales Valleys

The South Wales Valleys (Cymoedd De Cymru) are a group of industrialised valleys in South Wales.

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Steam engine

A steam engine is a heat engine that performs mechanical work using steam as its working fluid.

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Steam locomotive

A steam locomotive is a type of railway locomotive that produces its pulling power through a steam engine.

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Steamship

A steamship, often referred to as a steamer, is a type of steam powered vessel, typically ocean-faring and seaworthy, that is propelled by one or more steam engines that typically drive (turn) propellers or paddlewheels.

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Sygun Copper Mine

Sygun Copper Mine is a Victorian copper mine that was closed in 1903, but was renovated and reopened by the Amies family as a tourist attraction in 1986, focusing on audio-visual tours of the underground workings.

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The Citadel (novel)

The Citadel is a novel by A. J. Cronin, first published in 1937, which was groundbreaking with its treatment of the contentious theme of medical ethics.

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The Stars Look Down

The Stars Look Down is a 1935 novel by A. J. Cronin which chronicles various injustices in an English coal mining community.

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Tower Colliery

Tower Colliery (Welsh: Glofa'r Tŵr) was the oldest continuously working deep-coal mine in the United Kingdom, and possibly the world, until its closure in 2008.

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Trehafod

Trehafod is a village and community in the Rhondda Valley between Porth and Pontypridd in the county borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales, although in administrative terms is split between the electoral division of Cymmer (Rhondda) to the West and Rhondda (Pontypridd) to the East.

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Treharris

Treharris is a small town and community in the Taff Bargoed Valley in the south of Merthyr Tydfil County Borough, South Wales.

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UK miners' strike (1984–85)

The miners' strike of 1984–85 was a major industrial action to shut down the British coal industry in an attempt to prevent colliery closures.

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Universal Colliery

Universal Colliery was a coal mine located in Senghenydd in the Aber Valley, roughly four miles north-west of the town of Caerphilly.

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Wales

Wales (Cymru) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain.

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Windsor Colliery

Windsor Colliery was a coal mine in the village of Abertridwr, Caerphilly.

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World War I

World War I (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.

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Wyllie Colliery

Wyllie Colliery was located in the Sirhowy Valley, South Wales.

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Ynysybwl

Ynysybwl (Ynys-y-bŵl) is a village in Cwm Clydach in Wales.

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Zinc

Zinc is a chemical element with symbol Zn and atomic number 30.

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1926 United Kingdom general strike

The 1926 general strike in the United Kingdom was a general strike that lasted 9 days, from 3 May 1926 to 12 May 1926.

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References

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