Rhondda Collieries Through Time

Name: Rhondda Collieries Through Time
Brand: Amberley Publishing
SKU: 9781445610641
Price: 2900 KES
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ISBN: 9781445610641

by Alun Seward , David Swidenbank

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Format Paperback / softback

Book Series Through Time

ISBN-10 1445610647

ISBN-13 9781445610641

Publisher Amberley Publishing

Imprint Amberley Publishing

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date May 15th, 2013

Print length 96 Pages

Weight 282 grams

Dimensions 23.10 x 16.60 x 1.10 cms

Product Classification: South Wales Extractive industries Mining industry Local history Places in old photographs

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This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which Rhondda Collieries have changed and developed over the last century.

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.

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