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A Photographic History of Mining in South Wales
- Britain in Old Photographs
Engelsk Paperback
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A Photographic History of Mining in South Wales
- Britain in Old Photographs
Engelsk Paperback

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The South Wales Valleys once boasted the richest coalfields and the best anthracite coal in the world. Before the dawn of the twenty-first century all but one of the hundreds of coal pits were closed, destroying jobs and whole communities. Only Tower Colliery at Hirwaun continued to produce coal, thanks to the bid by the miners to keep working. Miners were news at the time of the strikes and disasters but not when they risked life, limb and lung in the bowels of the earth to keep industry turning and the home fires burning. Cardiff, once the biggest coal exporting port in the world, is the magnificent city it is today because of the mine owners who made millions and the miners who worked in damp, dusty and dangerous conditions underground. Cardiff hailed the miners when they gave them the Freedom of the City in 1995. This book also salutes those to who Wales – and the world – owes so much.

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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
128
ISBN-13:
9780752459417
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0752459414
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Udg. Dato:
17 feb 2011
Længde:
8mm
Bredde:
165mm
Højde:
234mm
Forlag:
The History Press Ltd
Oplagsdato:
17 feb 2011
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