Well done for venturing into the mines and communities, not enough people recorded these things, despite the vast scale of the coal industry here. You've made a valuable contribution.
@TheWelshGirly I will never ever forget the miners in south wales. My family were miners and it is deep in my blood. i am proud to be from the valleys and proud to be Welsh.
For the coal and the dust faces of the past, memories of the celynen, the photos you took are snapshot of lives that worked the black for "cannon" thanks Roger
Worked in the small mines up till the late 1990s in south wales.The man was right,boys used to work all day shovelling twenty tons of coal and then go training in the winter nights or play rugby on a saturday afternoon after work.They were doing this in the 1990s never mind the 1950s.Been told that conditions were a lot better in 1950s mines compared to the small mines of the 1980s and 1990s.
Every welsh Man , Woman & Child should be proud of family members who lost lives for the price of coal . Go into that dark Night ,Go into that dark Night Wales is true land of my fathers , Father , Grandfather & Great Grandfather.. Pat from Australia
@moonwitch1981 Thanks for the comments. I went to Cwmcarn Secondary school. I will never forget taking photos of the miners in the south and north Celynen. I photographed the picket lines there too. It means so much to me to have had the privalege of meeting the miners. They made me what I am today.
good evening, my grandfather,great grandfather and my uncle worked the north and south, my uncle was on those lines , would it be possible to see those photos, I was in my last year of school and can remember the pickets but wasn't bright enough to get photos. many thanks Dai
