A Photographic History of Mining in South Wales

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Roedd yng nghymoedd de Cymru rai o’r meysydd glo gorau’n y byd. Erbyn cyrraedd yr ugeinfed ganrif fodd bynnag, roedd cannoedd o’r pyllau glo, ac eithrio un, wedi cau, gan greu diweithdra enbyd a difetha cymunedau cyfain. Mae’r gyfrol hon yn gofnod ffotograffig o’r cyfnod rhyfeddol hwn yn hanes Cymru.
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. This book provides a photographic record of the coalfield during this extraordinary period in Welsh history.