Wales of Old
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Blaenllechau, Ferndale, Glamorgan
Photograph submitted by Ellyn Harries of Ammanford, Carmarthenshire (formerly of Alberta, Canada)
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The picture above, taken around 1910, shows a coal delivery at Long Row, Blaenllechau near Ferndale.
Ellyn says, This is my personal favourite. Long Row circa 1910 is exactly where and when some of my people lived and I bet there's one of them posing. Imagine getting the coal dumped off like that! I can see where the expression 'two doors down but one' developed.
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Treorchy, Glamorgan
Photograph submitted by Ellyn Francis of Ammanford, Carmarthenshire (formerly of Alberta, Canada)
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The picture shows the opening ceremony of the Eisteddfod at Treorchy in 1928. The bald-headed gentleman raising the Welsh flag is David Davies (later Lord Davies of Llandinam), mine-owning philanthropist. He was the grandson of David Davies, of Llandinam, one of the great Welsh pioneers of the Rhondda coalfield, and founder in 1887 of the Ocean Coal Company.
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Acknowledgement
Many thanks to Ellyn Harries for allowing me to use her photographs. Contact Ellyn through her Heritage Hunters website at http://www.heritagehunters-wales.co.uk/
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