"Merthyr Tydvil, a place never to be forgotten when once seen. The blackest place above ground; I suppose, the Non-plus-ultra of Industrialism wholly mammonish, given up to shopkeeper supply-and-demand;—presided over by sooty Darkness physical and spiritual, by Beer, Methodism and the Devil, to a lamentable and supreme extent!" | Thomas Carlyle (1854)
"Cyfartha Iron Works were founded in 1765, and by 1806 had become the largest in the world, thanks to its having been the first in the area to change to the production of bar iron and adopt… Continue
Deference in Dowlais? Lady Charlotte Guest and the Chartists | A Public Lecture by Professor Angela V. John | Merthyr Tydfil Central Library, 15 Oct 2008 | Organised by THE MERTHYR CHARTIST FORUM and the Dic Penderyn Society
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