On Oct. 21, 1966, it had been raining for days, a miserably cold, dark, soaking downpour that fell on the coal-begrimed mining village ... Aberfan, like all Welsh mining towns, lies at the ...

The anthracite coal dubbed “black diamonds” has been synonymous with Welsh ... “Mining stretched from Saundersfoot to St Brides and Hook was the closest thing we had to a super pit.” The ...

But even the most avid of DIY fanatics might have trouble with this Victorian terraced house in the old mining village of Nantymoel, South Wales - which is going under the hammer for absolutely ...

to name just a few—Pride tells the story of a group of London-based LGBTQ activists who raise money to support the struggling strikers and then head out to a Welsh mining village to build ...

Inhabitants of the Welsh mining village of Aberfan attend the mass funeral for 81 of the 190 children and adults who perished when a landslide engulfed the junior school. Photo by George Freston ...

Growing up in a Welsh mining village, he remembers how the community withstood the after-effects of the General Strike in the previous decade. He recalls a sense of hope behind the strike that was ...

LONDON – It was 9:15 on a Friday morning when a towering mound of mine waste collapsed at the Merthyr Vale Colliery in the Welsh town ... for one small coal-mining village in Wales which kept ...

Above the village of Tanygrisiau and within the rolling, windswept Snowdonia National Park landscape near Blaenau Ffestiniog, there was once a village called Cwmorthin that was bo ...