Comisiwn Brenhinol Henebion Cymru (CBHC) Mae tirwedd a threftadaeth adeiledig Cymru’n ffrwyth rhyngweithiadau pobl â byd natur dros filoedd o flynyddoedd. Ers iddo gael ei sefydlu ym 1908, mae’r Comisiwn Brenhinol wedi bod ar y blaen o ran esbonio ac ymchwilio i olion y rhyngweithiadau hynny, sef yr archaeoleg a’r adeiladau hanesyddol a welwn ni o’n cwmpas.
Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales (RCAHMW) The landscape and built heritage of Wales result from people’s interaction with the natural world over thousands of years. Since it was established in 1908, the Royal Commission has led the way in researching and explaining the remains of that interaction - the archaeology and the historic buildings we see around us.
All but one of the U Copper works were in Copperopolis in the Swansea valley. All Uk copper imports came into Swansea Bay. 'The odd one out' was Red Jacket works at Red Jacket Pill - on the Swansea side of Brit Ferry
Thank you Roland for your helpful comment. It was much appreciated. There is more about the Red Jacket Pill Copper works and Tennant Canal (including images) on our online database, Coflein: coflein.gov.uk/en/search/?term=Red+Jacket+
My family were coalminers from Merthyr Tydfil. They immigrated to the southern part of Utah, USA (a desert area,) where again they were miners. Their next generation moved on to many other occupations. My Great Grandfather became a farmer and politician in Idaho. Thank you for this film. In loving memory of those who lived, died and worked so hard in those caverns.
I seem to have trouble in being convinced that the Romans were ever here at all, I think a few ancient kings got greedy and solicited Rome, Bath or Cardiff - I totally buy it, the Roman presence is obvious and clear. Everything else that is called Roman here in south Wales - It seems strange how everything is called Roman, even though the Romans never really invented anything other than the raggy bum wipe stick. Even the chariot for which the Romans were famous, their battleships with the ramps and even their aqueducts - all invented by peoples that Rome saught to conquer. The Romans invaded us and stuck their little flags in every single one of our achievements, structures and ideas. Everything else was destroyed or buried as much as possible. Flat stone walling is evidence of what happened to our history. Farmers who moved onto old destroyed settlements had two choices, work around all the rocks and ruins or stack them on the edge of the fields. All Roman structures in Rome are built o top of older structures, megalithic or neolithic & sometimes possibly even older. Other than Bath or Cardiff I have yet to see a Roman structure here in south Wales that looks Roman at all, I need more than a few Roman coins found nearby to convince me. In Bath the statues show both Roman and Celtic Gods, not the behavior of conqueror, but rich collaborators who were inviting in Rome to help expand territories.
Diolch yn fawr iawn. Collais y darn cyntaf yn fyw ond wedi mwynhau’r gweddill yn arw - yn arbennig cael gwybod gymaint o gerrig afon a thraeth a gariwyd i fyny’r bryn i’w defnyddio yn y fryngaer - Fel chithau rydw innau’n synnu, gan fod cymaint o gerrig yno’n barod! Ond roedd hi’n braf cael gwylio a gwrando ar y cyfan.
Diolch yn fawr. Diddorol iawn ac mor bwysig i ddeall hanes Cymru ac Aberystwyth. Oedd pobl yn byw ar ben Pen Dinas ac yn y dyffryn? During the occupation of Pen Dinas, did people also live in the valley too, and, if so, was there a societal difference or 'just' choice? Did they have livestock up on Pen Dinas?
Nice video. One should have seen Wales's proud industrial heritage at Abergynolwyn before the bloody forestry commission flattened the whole slate miners village and slate processing complex there, the goddamn philistines. I pull no punches for the vandals.
I live 1/4 of a mile from it so cross it regularly, at each end where the rails bend around the towpath, you can see where the ropes from the towing horses have rubbed grooves into the railings.
Finally, we get officially acknowledged from the heritage sector. My Dad worked for Cwmbran Development Corporation until moving on. His window overlooked Twmbarlwm and he kept a diary record of sunsets over its pimple for years - a phenomenology and psychogeography of Crow Valley. Too many green sites have been built on - Henllys, Hollybush jr school, the border between Pontnewydd and Pontypool along the canal, take your pick. The price of progress? Shout out to Fairwater shops, the height of brutalist and minimalist architecture,.especially the chippy of my childhood and Joe’s barber (part of the local Taffia with Natale’s and Kings).
ps our street had families and individuals from - Swansea, Newport, Birmingham, Wolverhampton, Yorkshire, Lancashire, London, Dublin, Armagh, Essex, Goa, Melbourne, Warsaw, Lisbon = techno valleys, only skyscraper in Wales….
Very cool! It might be worth editing this a little, so the links to next videos and the subscription button come up a little later, they cover about half of the video in it's current form. Epic little resource though.
Great animation! Though some of the architect's and builder's choices would not have been mine, the build is truly impressive. What does this aqueduct connect which makes it necessary?
Sadly, very little. There were coal mines and Iron works at Raubon at the Northern End of the aquaduct and a navigable feeder branch from the River Dee at Llangollen supplied water for the rest of the canal, but the proposed link to Wrexham and onwards to Chester was never built. The canal now terminates in a basin at the head of the aquaduct. It was started in 1795 and by the time it was complete, Britain was in the middle of the Napoleonic Wars and money was not as readily available for the construction of the remainder of the planned route.
It was intended to carry the Llangollen feeder canal from Llantysilio, first and foremost. It was never a connection in a literal sense. Any use after that was an after thought.
My 5 great grandparents lived there just before 1830, Robert Osborn was a Blacksmith there. Not sure yet what housing area. 3 of their children were baptized in St Peters in 1830. I just learned about this connection.
Selling it to America probably what killed it of Foreign ownership of British companies is the source of most of Britain's economic problems Any profit the company made probably got invested into modernising a similar factory in the us If it had been British owned all the investments could have favoured the site it might even still be open today if private companies and government of the time had ceard about British economy and it's industry.
I hope that the Royal Commission coverage of these workings means they, too, won't be 'untopped', i.e. completely blown up for some slate chippings for people's gardens?
My grandmother lived in Bunkers Row when she was a little girl, along with her five siblings, and their mum and dad. Eight of them living in two small rooms !! And her older sister, Roseanne, worked and lived in the Riflemans Arms
