Memories of the Rhondda valley from the 1926 general strike and the 1930's. Extract from a programme made in 1965 looking back at the history of the Rhondda valley during the 1926 general strike ...

Head up the valley via a ... You'll find signs of the old coal industry all along here and it wasn't long before we found an old slag heap, littered with real-life Rhondda coal.

The first incident to take more than 100 lives occurred in Cymner in the Rhondda Valley in 1856: 114 dead ... the Hetty shaft was closed in 1926. Other old shafts closed too and although new ...

At the head of the Rhondda Valley, where Maerdy Mountain overlooks the old proud industrial village that shares its name, locals tell of a place that has lost its purpose. At Maerdy Road leading ...

Our guide for the day was Kerry Rees, an Outdoor Education Officer with Rhondda ... where the old railway tunnel used to run into the side of the mountain, emerging in the Afan Valley.