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A history of Rhondda.

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This book is part of the Images of Wales series, which uses old photographs and archived images to show the history of various local areas in Wales, through their streets, shops, pubs, and people.

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This new selection of over 200 photographs and postcards from Rhondda’s past continues the work of the previous publication in chronicling the rich pictorial history of these two famous valleys. The abundance of excellent images is striking, but unsurprising, since life and labour in Rhondda offered a range of subject material that modern-day photographers can only gape at. The townships of the Fawr and Fach are again treated separately but unifying and distinctive themes emerge clearly: the economic mastery of coal; the fierce sense of community; the energy of the people which has been expressed in a myriad of social activities organised often in spite of a poverty of resources. The people of Rhondda are captured at work and at leisure in their sporting clubs, their choirs and bands and even by the pigeon cote, and also at more serious times such as the 1910-11 Cambrian Combine Strike, the 1926 Miners’ Strike or the aftermath of landslides and flooding. Through its pages, this book leads the reader the length and breadth of the two valleys, gradually revealing a world lost, but never to be forgotten.

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Using the images captured by the camera lens over the last hundred years, Emrys Jenkins and Roy Green have reconstructed the broad canvas of past life in the Upper Rhondda Fawr valley - in Cwmparc and Treorchy through Ynyswen and Penyrenglyn, Treherbert and Tynewydd finishing in the often-forgotten corners of Blaenrhondda and Blaenewm. The selection is a wide-ranging one: from colliers to carnivals, soup kitchen to champion gardeners, hospital queens to blacksmiths. Many readers will be able to spot the faces of friends and relatives, to relive long-forgotten events, and revisit once-familiar scenes. Much nostalgia will doubtless be evoked in the older generation and the pictures should provide a useful introduction to the area's fascinating past for the young. The book will be of particular interest to those who have left the valley to make new lives overseas, or in other areas of Britain, but who still retain a love for their homeland. In consecutive years from 1990 to 1993, and in 1995, exhibitions of local photographs and old documents were held in Treherbert's OAP Hall. Now with many of those images published here for the first time, local people will be able to take a stroll 'down memory lane' each time they open the pages.

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