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"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)
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Walking Cyfarthfa 3: The signs in the new digital landscape
In today's world in which GIS meets the Web, the new geoweb, we add a whole new layer of i… Continue
Posted on October 24, 2008 at 3:30pm —
Walking Cyfarthfa 2: Towards the "Cyfarthfa Heritage Landscape"
Posted on October 21, 2008 at 9:00am —
Walking Cyfarthfa 1: The landscape of the Cyfarthfa iron works
THE LANDSCAPE OF THE CYFARTHFA IRON WORKS
"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
Posted on October 17, 2008 at 5:00pm —
Deference in Dowlais?
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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Lecture summary | Deference in Dowlais? Lady Charlotte Guest and the Chartists
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Posted on October 16, 2008 at 3:00pm — 1 Comment
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