This is such an eye opener on the past of Swansea. Thank you so much!!

My family were coalminers from Merthyr Tydfil. They immigrated to the southern part of Utah, USA (a desert area,) where again they were miners. Their next generation moved on to many other occupations. My Great Grandfather became a farmer and politician in Idaho. Thank you for this film. In loving memory of those who lived, died and worked so hard in those caverns.

Disgraceful. You should be ashamed of yourselves. Heads will roll for this behaviour in the future, literally

Very interesting. I had a good look round the quarry recently.

This looks great!

So much history all now sadly gone

Really nice graphics, very explanatory.

47:23 ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ bravo.

WALES no longer bows to England ❤

DESTROYING WALES with ENGLISH slavery. 😢😢😢

ROMANS ; friend of Wales England and Scotland. ❤

I seem to have trouble in being convinced that the Romans were ever here at all, I think a few ancient kings got greedy and solicited Rome, Bath or Cardiff - I totally buy it, the Roman presence is obvious and clear. Everything else that is called Roman here in south Wales - It seems strange how everything is called Roman, even though the Romans never really invented anything other than the raggy bum wipe stick. Even the chariot for which the Romans were famous, their battleships with the ramps and even their aqueducts - all invented by peoples that Rome saught to conquer. The Romans invaded us and stuck their little flags in every single one of our achievements, structures and ideas. Everything else was destroyed or buried as much as possible. Flat stone walling is evidence of what happened to our history. Farmers who moved onto old destroyed settlements had two choices, work around all the rocks and ruins or stack them on the edge of the fields. All Roman structures in Rome are built o top of older structures, megalithic or neolithic & sometimes possibly even older. Other than Bath or Cardiff I have yet to see a Roman structure here in south Wales that looks Roman at all, I need more than a few Roman coins found nearby to convince me. In Bath the statues show both Roman and Celtic Gods, not the behavior of conqueror, but rich collaborators who were inviting in Rome to help expand territories.

Too anyone who's interested in this go to Llanberis slate museum it's really good

Diolch yn fawr iawn. Collais y darn cyntaf yn fyw ond wedi mwynhau’r gweddill yn arw - yn arbennig cael gwybod gymaint o gerrig afon a thraeth a gariwyd i fyny’r bryn i’w defnyddio yn y fryngaer - Fel chithau rydw innau’n synnu, gan fod cymaint o gerrig yno’n barod! Ond roedd hi’n braf cael gwylio a gwrando ar y cyfan.

Diolch yn fawr. Diddorol iawn ac mor bwysig i ddeall hanes Cymru ac Aberystwyth. Oedd pobl yn byw ar ben Pen Dinas ac yn y dyffryn? During the occupation of Pen Dinas, did people also live in the valley too, and, if so, was there a societal difference or 'just' choice? Did they have livestock up on Pen Dinas?

Excellent talk very well delivered.

Nice video. One should have seen Wales's proud industrial heritage at Abergynolwyn before the bloody forestry commission flattened the whole slate miners village and slate processing complex there, the goddamn philistines. I pull no punches for the vandals.

Anhygoel!

I live 1/4 of a mile from it so cross it regularly, at each end where the rails bend around the towpath, you can see where the ropes from the towing horses have rubbed grooves into the railings.

Really appreciate these lectures being online 😊👌

The first Bessemer converter to make Steel was at Dowlais Ironworks ....

Finally, we get officially acknowledged from the heritage sector. My Dad worked for Cwmbran Development Corporation until moving on. His window overlooked Twmbarlwm and he kept a diary record of sunsets over its pimple for years - a phenomenology and psychogeography of Crow Valley. Too many green sites have been built on - Henllys, Hollybush jr school, the border between Pontnewydd and Pontypool along the canal, take your pick. The price of progress? Shout out to Fairwater shops, the height of brutalist and minimalist architecture,.especially the chippy of my childhood and Joe’s barber (part of the local Taffia with Natale’s and Kings).

Nice video

Very cool! It might be worth editing this a little, so the links to next videos and the subscription button come up a little later, they cover about half of the video in it's current form. Epic little resource though.

bless, it's tiny 💖

Very interesting... I`m visiting Merthyr Tydfil in March with my son .

We are doing a narrowbiat rude in Oct ober of this year. Thanks for showing will appreciate it more tThank You

Really enjoyed seeing the Llandegely Bale mounds and trackways on the Radnor slopes. Thanks for sharing - a real eye opener. Mark

Very interesting! 😎

Great animation! Though some of the architect's and builder's choices would not have been mine, the build is truly impressive. What does this aqueduct connect which makes it necessary?

How do they stop the bridge rusting?

Do we call Call Crawshay , a Marthyr , who created the the Iron Town ,of Merthyr .?

Good to see WW1 getting its due.

well done!!

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Chester Landscape History Society This was really appreciated by those members who could not attend the recent talk you gave to us

My 5 great grandparents lived there just before 1830, Robert Osborn was a Blacksmith there. Not sure yet what housing area. 3 of their children were baptized in St Peters in 1830. I just learned about this connection.

Good job!! Do not waste another day > P r o m o s m !!

Selling it to America probably what killed it of Foreign ownership of British companies is the source of most of Britain's economic problems Any profit the company made probably got invested into modernising a similar factory in the us If it had been British owned all the investments could have favoured the site it might even still be open today if private companies and government of the time had ceard about British economy and it's industry.

My 3rd great grandfather was on board the HMS Penshurt Walter Williams he died march 17th 1917 and was buried in Plymouth, England in 1917.

I hope that the Royal Commission coverage of these workings means they, too, won't be 'untopped', i.e. completely blown up for some slate chippings for people's gardens?

Very nice and useful presentation

Pedantic, I know, but the river is shown flowing the wrong way!

My grandmother lived in Bunkers Row when she was a little girl, along with her five siblings, and their mum and dad. Eight of them living in two small rooms !! And her older sister, Roseanne, worked and lived in the Riflemans Arms

Glad the Snowdonia Slate Trail was mentioned in the Q and A. We walked the Slate Trail in winter 2019/2020, well recommended.

loved watching this , my late nan& gramps , Rose & Dan Waite and my late dad Mike Waite lived in Bunkers Row in the late 60,s - early 70,s

that's the county hall not the town hall

Excellent !

Excellent video.

Masha Allah mubarak