Told in narrative flashback by the youngest of seven children (5 young men and a young lady) it begins when the coalmines are new, the valley still green, and the village cohesive and close-knit. As economic times worsen, the family and community fray and slowly disintegrate. The back...
How Green Was My Valley: Con Stanley Baker, Siân Phillips, Nerys Hughes, Keith Drinkel. The mini-series is set in South Wales during the reign of Queen Victoria. It tells the story of the Morgans, a respectable mining family of the South Wales Valleys
In the late 17th century, England faced a timber crisis as shipbuilding and firewood consumed forests. The ships were necessary for trade and defense, but coal was a suitable substitute for firewood. However, producing more coal meant digging deeper coal mines, which increases the likelihood of ...
It is the story of a young boy from a hardworking, coal mining family growing up in the South Wales Valleys during the late Victorian era. The movie opens with a monologue of the grown boy saying: “And I'm going from my valley. And this time, I shall never return." The valley ...
After High School I went to the surface coal mines and at times I would help load unit trains at our load out. I thought it was always great to talk to the train crew and back then we would have to walk the train to make sure all the hopper doors were latched shut and ...
t before its empire left its sooty footprint around the world. Its legacy can also be seen at home, where many of the mining and port towns in the north of England and parts of Wales and Scotland once buoyed by coal now languish, and abandoned mines and heaps of waste and debris s...
with 85 companies that ran 200 of the 580 coal mines in South Wales forming the Monmouthshire and South Wales Coal Owners' Association.When the miners gave six months' notice of an end to sliding scale, the pit owners responded by giving notice to terminate contracts on or around the same ...
The salt diffuser helped to clear the congestion. Not completely but enough that it was easier to breathe in the morning. These devices were developed when it was discovered that people working salt mines had almost no respiratory problems. ...
Armed with these lessons, we began work on THE BIG HEWER, a Radio Ballad about the miners of the Northumberland, Durham, South Wales and East Midlands coalfields. On the second or third day we encountered, for the first time, the legend which gave the programme its title: "the Big Hewer...
As workers moved away from agricultural work to factories, mines and other hard labor, many faced terrible working conditions: long hours, low pay and health risks. Many children worked in factories, and women and children generally received lower pay than men. The government did little to ...