Rhondda Collieries Through Time
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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 WalesExtractive industriesMining industryLocal historyPlaces 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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