By Trevor M. Thomas Excluding its inactive Pembrokshire extension the South Wales coalfield has an approximate coal-bearing area of 808 square miles, and of the exposed British coalfields is second in extent to the major Yorkshire, Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire fields. Physical conditions of mining in South Wales are difficult, but the coalfield assumes special importance because […]
Economy-minded officials of the British railways designed a short form ticket which would accomodate only an abbreviation of the 58-letter name of a Welsh town. Under pressure from Welsh nationalists, the railroad backed down and produced a ticket six inches long and two inches wide bearing the full proud name, Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch. The translation of the […]
By Wyn Griffith If you look at a map of Britain, you will find that the land, midway along the western side of the island, juts out into the sea in the form of a rectangle about 120 miles long and 60 miles wide. To the north of it is the large port of Liverpool, and […]
By R. Llewellyn The first thing I saw was the slag heap. Big it had grown, and long, black, without life or sign, lying along the bottom of the Valley on both sides of the river. The green grass, and the reeds and the flowers, all had gone, crushed beneath it. And every minute the […]
By R. Llewellyn Going in to a new school is a lot worse than drawing teeth, I am sure. That morning I would have given anything to grow wings and be a dragon fly, or anything without a tongue and hands. But Bron was with me so I could do nothing only follow behind, past […]
By J. B. Priestley Margaret was saying something, but he could not hear a word. The downpour and the noise of the engine were almost deafening. Suddenly he stopped the car and leaned back, relieved, relaxed, free for a moment from the task of steering a way through the roaring darkness. He had always felt […]
