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1965
Working life in Dinas, among the coalfields of the Rhonnda Valley The Rhondda was once a green and wooded valley, whose scattered villages were home for a sparse rural population. When the first pit was driven into the earth at Dinas in the first decade of the 19th century, it revealed seams of the best steam coal anywhere in the world. Fifty years later, demand for the fuel to drive from the growing global network of railways and steamships was huge. The Rhondda's pastoral origins were lost. The valley had become a densely populated industrial area, with streets of terraced houses built to accommodate the thousands of families that flocked into the valley searching for work.
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From The Long Street first broadcast 01/12/1965
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