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100 relations: Aberthaw, Argos (retailer), Associated British Ports, Atlantic Trading Estate, Bakkavör, Barrage balloon, Barry Dock Offices, Barry Island, Barry Railway Company, Barry Waterfront, Barry, Vale of Glamorgan, Batter (walls), Brecon and Merthyr Tydfil Junction Railway, Brewers Fayre, Bridgend, Bristol Channel, British Rail, British Transport Commission, Butlin's Barry Island, Buttrills, Cadoxton River, Cadoxton, Vale of Glamorgan, Caisson (engineering), Cardiff, Cardiff Docks, Causeway, Coal trimmer, Cogan, Cold Knap, Cowbridge, Dai Woodham, David Davies (industrialist), Dow Corning, Dry dock, Grangetown, Cardiff, Great Depression, Great Western Railway, Hafod, Halfords, Henry Marc Brunel, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, John Cory, John Crichton-Stuart, 2nd Marquess of Bute, John Wolfe Barry, KFC, Llanbradach, Llansannor, Llynvi and Ogmore Railway, M4 motorway, Manchester Ship Canal, ..., Marl, Medical Research Council (United Kingdom), Merthyr Dyfan, Morrisons, Newport, Wales, Normandy landings, Penarth, Penarth Dock, Pencoed, Penrhos, Monmouthshire, Penyrheol, Caerphilly, Peterston-super-Ely, Pets at Home, Pneumoconiosis, Port of Dover, Port of Durban, Port Talbot, Porthkerry Park, Porthkerry Viaduct, Poundstretcher, Premier Inn, Puddling (civil engineering), Rhondda, Robert Windsor-Clive, 1st Earl of Plymouth, Roll-on/roll-off, Severn Tunnel, Silicosis, Sound (geography), South Wales Coalfield, South Wales Miners' Federation, St Fagans, Steam shovel, Sully Island, Sully, Vale of Glamorgan, Surrey Commercial Docks, Swansea, Taff Vale Railway, Thomas Forster Brown, Tower Bridge, Transport Act 1947, Transport Act 1962, Transport Act 1981, Treforest, Walnut Tree Viaduct, Wells light, Wenvoe Castle, Woodham Brothers, World War I, World War II, 1926 United Kingdom general strike. Expand index (50 more) »
Aberthaw
Aberthaw (Aberddawan) is an area consisting of the villages of East Aberthaw and West Aberthaw and Aberthaw Cement Works, Aberthaw Lime Works, and Aberthaw Power Station, a coal power station plant that is linked to the South Wales Valleys via the Vale of Glamorgan Railway between Barry and Bridgend on the coast of South Wales.
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Argos (retailer)
Argos Ltd, trading as Argos, is a British catalogue retailer operating in the United Kingdom and Ireland, and a subsidiary of Sainsbury's.
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Associated British Ports
Associated British Ports Holdings Ltd owns and operates 21 ports in the United Kingdom, managing around 25 per cent of the UK's sea-borne trade.
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Atlantic Trading Estate
The Atlantic Trading Estate is an industrial estate in Barry, Vale of Glamorgan, south Wales, UK.
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Bakkavör
Bakkavör Group plc is an international food manufacturing company specialising in fresh prepared foods.
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Barrage balloon
A barrage balloon is a large kite balloon used to defend against aircraft attack by raising aloft cables which pose a collision risk, making the attacker's approach more difficult.
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Barry Dock Offices
Barry Docks Offices is a council building in Barry, Vale of Glamorgan in south-east Wales.
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Barry Island
Barry Island (Ynys y Barri) is a district, peninsula and seaside resort, forming part of the town of Barry in the Vale of Glamorgan, South Wales.
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Barry Railway Company
The Barry Railway Company was a railway and docks company in South Wales, first incorporated as the Barry Dock and Railway Company in 1884.
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Barry Waterfront
Barry Waterfront or Waterfront Barry, known locally as The Waterfront, is a retail park and neighbourhood of Barry, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, built from redeveloped land from the old Barry Docks, to the southwest of the town centre and to the immediate west of Barry Dock Offices.
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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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Batter (walls)
Batter in architecture is a receding slope of a wall, structure, or earthwork.
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Brecon and Merthyr Tydfil Junction Railway
The Brecon and Merthyr Tydfil Junction Railway (B&MR) was a railway company in Wales.
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Brewers Fayre
Brewers Fayre is a licensed pub restaurant chain, extending to 130 locations.
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Bridgend
Bridgend (Pen-y-bont ar Ogwr (Pen-y-bont), meaning "the end (or head) of the bridge on the Ogmore") is a town in Bridgend County Borough in Wales, west of the capital Cardiff and east of Swansea.
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Bristol Channel
The Bristol Channel (Môr Hafren) is a major inlet in the island of Great Britain, separating South Wales from Devon and Somerset in South West England.
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British Rail
British Railways (BR), which from 1965 traded as British Rail, was the state-owned company that operated most of the rail transport in Great Britain between 1948 and 1997.
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British Transport Commission
The British Transport Commission (BTC) was created by Clement Attlee's post-war Labour government as a part of its nationalisation programme, to oversee railways, canals and road freight transport in Great Britain (Northern Ireland had the separate Ulster Transport Authority).
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Butlin's Barry Island
Barry Island was a Butlin's, latterly Majestic Holidays, holiday camp located on Barry Island in Wales.
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Buttrills
Buttrills is a northwestern-central district of Barry in the Vale of Glamorgan, in south Wales.
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Cadoxton River
The Cadoxton River (Afon Tregatwg) is a short river in the Vale of Glamorgan, South Wales and with a length of about 5 miles/8 kilometres it is one of Wales's shortest rivers.
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Cadoxton, Vale of Glamorgan
Cadoxton (Tregatwg) is a district of Barry in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales.
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Caisson (engineering)
In geotechnical engineering, a caisson is a watertight retaining structure used, for example, to work on the foundations of a bridge pier, for the construction of a concrete dam, or for the repair of ships.
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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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Cardiff Docks
Cardiff Docks is a port in southern Cardiff, Wales.
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Causeway
In modern usage, a causeway is a road or railway on top of an embankment usually across a broad body of water or wetland.
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Coal trimmer
A coal trimmer or trimmer is a position within the engineering department of a coal-fired ship which involves all coal handling tasks starting with the loading of coal into the ship and ending with the delivery of the coal to the stoker.
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Cogan
Cogan is a surname of Gaelic origin (not to be confused with the surname Kogan of Russian-Jewish origin).
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Cold Knap
Cold Knap is a district of Barry in South Wales.
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Cowbridge
Cowbridge (Y Bont-faen) is a market town in the Vale of Glamorgan in Wales, approximately west of Cardiff (12 miles west of Cardiff Bridge).
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Dai Woodham
Dai Woodham, MBE, BEM (5 September 1919 - 12 September 1994), born David Lloyd Victor Woodham, is remembered by many steam railway enthusiasts as the man who saved over 200 former British Railways steam locomotives from the scrap heap.
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David Davies (industrialist)
David Davies (18 December 1818 – 20 July 1890) was a Welsh industrialist and Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1874 and 1886.
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Dow Corning
Dow Corning was an American multinational corporation headquartered in Midland, Michigan, United States.
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Dry dock
A dry dock (sometimes dry-dock or drydock) is a narrow basin or vessel that can be flooded to allow a load to be floated in, then drained to allow that load to come to rest on a dry platform.
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Grangetown, Cardiff
Grangetown (Welsh: usually Grangetown, also Trelluest) is a district and community in the south of Cardiff, capital of 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 Western Railway
The Great Western Railway (GWR) was a British railway company that linked London with the south-west and west of England, the Midlands, and most of Wales.
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Hafod
Hafod is a district of the city of Swansea, in South Wales, U.K., and lies just north of the city centre, within the Landore ward.
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Halfords
Halfords Group plc is a British retailer of car parts, car enhancement, camping and touring equipment and bicycles operating in the United Kingdom and Ireland.
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Henry Marc Brunel
Henry Marc Brunel (27 June 1842 – 7 October 1903) was the second son of the celebrated English engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel, and followed his father's footsteps in becoming a civil engineer.
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Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Isambard Kingdom Brunel (9 April 1806 – 15 September 1859), was an English mechanical and civil engineer who is considered "one of the most ingenious and prolific figures in engineering history", "one of the 19th-century engineering giants", and "one of the greatest figures of the Industrial Revolution, changed the face of the English landscape with his groundbreaking designs and ingenious constructions".
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John Cory
John Cory (18 March 1828 – 27 January 1910) was a British philanthropist, coal-owner, and ship-owner.
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John Crichton-Stuart, 2nd Marquess of Bute
John Crichton-Stuart, 2nd Marquess of Bute, KT, FRS (10 August 1793 – 18 March 1848), styled Lord Mount Stuart between 1794 and 1814, was a wealthy aristocrat and industrialist in Georgian and early Victorian Britain.
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John Wolfe Barry
Sir John Wolfe Barry (7 December 1836 – 22 January 1918), the youngest son of famous architect Sir Charles Barry, was an English civil engineer of the late 19th and early 20th century.
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KFC
KFC, until 1991 known as Kentucky Fried Chicken, is an American fast food restaurant chain that specializes in fried chicken.
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Llanbradach
Llanbradach is a village within the historic boundaries of Glamorgan, south Wales less than three miles north of the town of Caerphilly.
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Llansannor
Llansannor (Llansanwyr) is a small hamlet in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom.
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Llynvi and Ogmore Railway
In 1861 the Llynvi Valley Railway was opened in Glamorganshire, Wales, to convey mineral products to the Bristol Channel at Porthcawl.
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M4 motorway
The M4 is a motorway which runs between London and South Wales in the United Kingdom.
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Manchester Ship Canal
The Manchester Ship Canal is a inland waterway in the North West of England linking Manchester to the Irish Sea.
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Marl
Marl or marlstone is a calcium carbonate or lime-rich mud or mudstone which contains variable amounts of clays and silt.
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Medical Research Council (United Kingdom)
The Medical Research Council (MRC) is responsible for co-coordinating and funding medical research in the United Kingdom.
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Merthyr Dyfan
Merthyr Dyfan or Dyfan is a northeastern suburb of Barry in the Vale of Glamorgan, in south Wales, formerly an independent medieval village.
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Morrisons
Wm Morrison Supermarkets plc, trading as Morrisons, is the fourth largest chain of supermarkets in the United Kingdom, and is headquartered in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England.
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Newport, Wales
Newport (Casnewydd) is a cathedral and university city and unitary authority area in south east Wales.
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Normandy landings
The Normandy landings were the landing operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II.
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Penarth
Penarth is a town in the Vale of Glamorgan (Bro Morgannwg), Wales, approximately southwest of Cardiff city centre on the north shore of the Severn Estuary at the southern end of Cardiff Bay.
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Penarth Dock
Penarth Dock was a port and harbour which was located between Penarth Head and the River Ely, at Penarth, Glamorgan, Wales.
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Pencoed
Pencoed is a heavily urbanised community and town in the county borough of Bridgend, Wales.
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Penrhos, Monmouthshire
Penrhos is a village in the community of Llantilio Crossenny in Monmouthshire, south east Wales, United Kingdom.
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Penyrheol, Caerphilly
Penyrheol is a residential area of the town of Caerphilly, south Wales.
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Peterston-super-Ely
Peterston-super-Ely (Llanbedr-y-fro) is a village and community in the Welsh county borough of the Vale of Glamorgan on the River Ely.The community population taken at the 2011 census was 874.
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Pets at Home
Pets at Home is the United Kingdom's largest pet supplies retailer, with more than 370 stores and 6,000 employees.
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Pneumoconiosis
Pneumoconiosis is an occupational lung disease and a restrictive lung disease caused by the inhalation of dust, often in mines and from agriculture.
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Port of Dover
The Port of Dover is the cross-channel port situated in Dover, Kent, south-east England.
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Port of Durban
The Port of Durban, commonly called Durban Harbour, is the largest and busiest shipping terminal in sub-Saharan Africa.
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Port Talbot
Port Talbot is a town in the county borough of Neath Port Talbot, Wales.
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Porthkerry Park
Porthkerry Park is a large, public country park on the coast between Barry and Porthkerry in the Vale of Glamorgan in south Wales.
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Porthkerry Viaduct
Porthkerry Viaduct is a railway viaduct near Barry in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales.
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Poundstretcher
Poundstretcher (previously styled as £-stretcher or...instore) is a chain of discount stores operating in the United Kingdom.
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Premier Inn
Premier Inn is a British hotel chain and the UK's largest hotel brand, with more than 65,000 rooms and 750 hotels.
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Puddling (civil engineering)
Puddling is both the material and the process of lining a water body such as a channel or pond with puddle clay (puddle, puddling) - a watertight (low hydraulic conductivity) material based on clay and water mixed to be workable,.
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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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Robert Windsor-Clive, 1st Earl of Plymouth
Robert George Windsor-Clive, 1st Earl of Plymouth, (27 August 1857 – 6 March 1923), known as The Lord Windsor between 1869 and 1905, was a British nobleman and Conservative politician.
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Roll-on/roll-off
Roll-on/roll-off (RORO or ro-ro) ships are vessels designed to carry wheeled cargo, such as cars, trucks, semi-trailer trucks, trailers, and railroad cars, that are driven on and off the ship on their own wheels or using a platform vehicle, such as a self-propelled modular transporter.
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Severn Tunnel
The Severn Tunnel (Twnnel Hafren) is a railway tunnel in the United Kingdom, linking South Gloucestershire in the west of England to Monmouthshire in south Wales under the estuary of the River Severn.
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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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Sound (geography)
In geography, a sound is a large sea or ocean inlet larger than a bay, deeper than a bight, and wider than a fjord; or a narrow sea or ocean channel between two bodies of land (see also strait).
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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 Miners' Federation
The South Wales Miners' Federation (SWMF), nicknamed "The Fed", was a trade union for miners in South Wales. It survives as the South Wales Area of the National Union of Mineworkers.
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St Fagans
St Fagans (Sain Ffagan) is a village and community in the west of the city of Cardiff, capital of Wales.
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Steam shovel
A steam shovel is a large steam-powered excavating machine designed for lifting and moving material such as rock and soil.
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Sully Island
Sully Island (Welsh: Ynys Sili) is a small tidal island and Site of Special Scientific Interest at the hamlet of Swanbridge, Vale of Glamorgan, 400 yards off the northern coast of the Bristol Channel, midway between the towns of Penarth and Barry and 7 miles (11 kilometres) south of the Welsh capital city of Cardiff.
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Sully, Vale of Glamorgan
Sully (Sili) is a village in the community of Sully and Lavernock, in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales lying on the northern coast of the Bristol Channel, midway between the towns of Penarth and Barry and 7 miles (11.3 kilometres) southwest of the Welsh capital city of Cardiff.
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Surrey Commercial Docks
The Surrey Commercial Docks were a large group of docks in Rotherhithe, South East London, England, located on the south bank (the Surrey side) of the River Thames.
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Swansea
Swansea (Abertawe), is a coastal city and county, officially known as the City and County of Swansea (Dinas a Sir Abertawe) in Wales, UK.
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Taff Vale Railway
The Taff Vale Railway (TVR) was a standard gauge railway in South Wales, built to serve the iron and coal industries around Merthyr, and to connect them with docks in Cardiff.
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Thomas Forster Brown
Thomas Forster Brown (1835 – 23 October 1907) was an English civil and mining engineer who was known for his activity in South Wales.
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Tower Bridge
Tower Bridge is a combined bascule and suspension bridge in London built between 1886 and 1894.
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Transport Act 1947
The Transport Act 1947 (c. 49) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
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Transport Act 1962
The Transport Act 1962 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
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Transport Act 1981
The Transport Act 1981 was an Act of Parliament in the United Kingdom.
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Treforest
Treforest (Trefforest) is a village in the southeast area of Pontypridd, in the county borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales.
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Walnut Tree Viaduct
Walnut Tree Viaduct was a railway viaduct located above the southern edge of the village of Taffs Well, South Wales.
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Wells light
A Wells light was a large paraffin-fuelled (kerosene) blowlamp used for engineering work, particularly for illumination, in Victorian times.
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Wenvoe Castle
Wenvoe Castle was a castle and country estate between Barry and Wenvoe, in the Vale of Glamorgan, south Wales.
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Woodham Brothers
Woodham Brothers Ltd is a trading business, based mainly around activities and premises located within Barry Docks, in Barry, South Wales.
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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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World War II
World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.
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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
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Docks
