Stories of Coal - A history of mining in South Wales

[@alunhughes2632]

At the beginning '1-05' Lodge banner for 'Cwm Llantwit Lodge'. I worked in Cwm Colliery, Beddau and was on one side of that banner as we carried it back into work after the 1984/85 strike.

[@maaan8494]

Respect to the miners throughout history. I can't imagine how tough that job was. Also great documentary thanks!

[@bteuben-faber8215]

A great efford was made by this students to make history alive for us. It was an important part of Welsh, national and international history of common people. Incredible workers and a lively monument in this document. I am a Dutch teacher and appreciate the huge proces to do this! 🌷 Love from Holland

[@michaelbritton9778]

Absolutely brilliant. What a wonderful way to show and explain Wales greatest heritage. Well done to the children and everyone else involved.

[@rachelsmith9093]

Well done you are all a credit to your school and families it is important to know your history

[@ghl3488]

the pupils deserve a huge amount of praise. You have restored my faith! If only all could be like you, what a wonderful thing that would. Da iawn, diolch yn fawr.

[@gerry9011]

The welsh have given us vital resources. My hats off to them lads.

[@johnhowes164]

I really enjoyed the history or south Wales,being a Welshman formarly from Gilfach Goch and a mining family it brings back memories,also of Pontypridd which i visited often just like i did Tonypandy where i worked as a young man.

[@ianmitchell4827]

My GF was frm that way and started in the pits in 1912

[@helenashdown4838]

I'm very proud of my Welsh coal-mining ancestry - the Iles and the Sherriff families - my great grandparents and their sons who mined in Pontypridd, Trehafod colliery - Bertie Pit and Trefor. The wives and mothers, sisters all worked just as hard. I don't forget that.

[@bradleymilton9372]

Brilliant documentary these were real men hard working and proud as punch

[@ZimbaZumba]

I remember the huge rail sidings filled with coal trucks at Gabalfa and Radyr waiting to go to Cardiff docks. The docks at Cardiff were magnificent. The valleys looked like Mordor from Lord of the Rings, with massive coal tips everywhere.

[@gabyroberts9601]

From victor ny thank you very much for all your effort we enjoyed it it was very informative please make more

[@alicejones8867]

Beautiful project ❤

[@manicmaniac_]

Currently watching this for a school project

[@CharlesTimothy-en7to]

I am fascinated with anything to do with mining. I come from the East End of London and the nearest to a mine there was the underground/tube network.

[@sunroad7228]

"In any system of energy, Control is what consumes energy the most. Time taken in stocking energy to build an energy system, adding to it the time taken in building the system will always be longer than the entire useful lifetime of the system. No energy store holds enough energy to extract an amount of energy equal to the total energy it stores. No system of energy can deliver sum useful energy in excess of the total energy put into constructing it. This universal truth applies to all systems. Energy, like time, flows from past to future".

[@goff8128]

I enjoyed this so much. Godfrey Llewellyn Day

[@SuperBC10]

Well done. Most of the information here, is from people who are passing on first hand knowledge of things as they were. Mainly it seems from around the 1950’s onwards? However, there was a time from around the 1850’s when there was a mass exodus of people from places like the West Country and Carmarthenshire. This time was even more significant. It was the time when the Rhondda, for example was being born as it were. The vast differences in accents, traditions, lifestyles and colloquialisms all came together to form the way of life which still exists in some form today. There was hardly a truly “Welsh” person in the Rhondda during these formative years. We are a meld of different peoples all brought together under a common cause; Coal mining. This is why the Rhondda and the valleys are a unique culture all of their own.

[@petrasant5495]

My father Gwyn Jones started work at fourteen, at Abercynon colliery. On his first day there he was put to work with an older experienced miner, within the first hour of work, the older miner was killed by a roof cave in. My dad, just fourteen and black with coal dust walked home after his shift, with two white streaks caused by the tears running down each cheek. God Bless all you ex coal miners.

[@eileenpritchard9154]

ABSOLUTELY, I second that, GOD BLESS them all.

[@NicholasCobb-q8m]

Happened to my father as well same age first day, his older step brothers had to drag him to work the next day he did forty six years underground . Those men were built different to today’s

[@illumencouk]

Might I offer you the thought that sprang to my mind whilst I was watching this? I'm a Liverpudlian, making us neighbours, long in standing too and yet even I couldn't distinguish what was being spoken at times and that's when it occurred to me 'how much more difficult' it must be for everyone not English. CC captions on the YT platform fail miserably with accents and regional dialects, rendering it useless. I hope this is helpful because it isn't a criticism.

[@phillipbeeke6395]

Brilliant chwarae teg

[@d4fm4n]

Valerie is a legend

[@ianjones6423]

In the except by Valerie Thomas there is a film playing behind her of some school children, what are they doing facing each other and moving from side to side?

[@ladylindajohnson6513]

My grandad owned two slant mines, steam coal mines, in Craig Cefn Parc, his name was Tom James.... would love any information from anyone please or lead me in the right direction

[@intherealworld7705]

I’m around the corner….still some remnants visible in the area today

[@hunterluxton5976]

Da Iawn, diolch yn fawr iawn I chi gyd.

[@richardevans7035]

The price of coal the Aberfan kids found that out

[@fiskrond9212]

Darn good video... all credit due b(*_*) Note: this is NOT produced by your average 'high school' (or grammar/comp/sec-mod, etc) in the Pontypridd area...

[@The8224sm]

Thank God for the unions.

[@janebrown1092]

💞😥🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

[@Shytot-1]

Pontypridd is pronounced Pontypreeth.

[@daveroberts1]

Ponty, surely 😊 My grandparents were born there....me down the valley in Cardiff

[@Shytot-1]

@@daveroberts1 Ponty is the familiar term.👍 My best mate was from Ponty and he was a genius, we worked for Marconi, he designed computers that designed computers.

[@daveroberts1]

@Shytot-1 Not I hope the Dragon...my first computer...which just blinked at me so I turned it off and gave up! All the best people come from Ponty 😉

[@Shytot-1]

@@daveroberts1 That can't be true because I'm from Cardiff.