One night, a German bomber dropped a bomb just to the south of Llay (just alongside the cemetery) where Jarvis grazed his horse over night. (Jarvis was the local coal merchant). The bomb was obviously ...

Fox Photos Would the south Wales valleys now be made up of farmland and holiday homes if coal had not been discovered? Even steelworks at Port Talbot and Ebbw Vale, tin in Llanelli and copper in ...

As a labor lawyer and community advocate in Southern West Virginia, I was inspired recently by visiting the coalfields in the ...

After the loss of French and Belgian coalfields to the Allied war effort, Welsh coal was all the more important. This meant that the war saw some form of prosperity return to the south Wales ...

After the loss of French and Belgian coalfields to the Allied war effort, Welsh coal was all the more important. This meant that the war saw some form of prosperity return to the south Wales ...