Mining in Cilfynydd and the Rhondda

Before Cilfynydd and Rhondda were mined in 1850, Cilfynydd was a very different place. The population increased dramatically, it was crowded before 1850 and rural areas were crowded after 1850. Prior to 1850, the road was cloudy and the river was pure and beautiful. Prior to 1850, due to narrow conditions and overcrowding, the disease spread more widely. Since 1850, the population has increased from 1,000 to 120,000. People came to South Wales to work in the pit, housing situation is better than where they came, but their living standards are still very poor.

For over a century, the Ronda Valley was at the center of South Wales' mining area. As thousands of locals and transplant workers, coal mines fill the valley. Prior to the Industrial Revolution, the population of the valley was about 1,500 people, increased to 180,000 at the peak, now it has decreased to about 85,000 people. The lush hills of the Rondada valley are reviving. Most do not have trees, but reforestation has started in several areas. Nature takes over, the rest of the burning block, reminds the past, slowly covered with the richest green grass and naturally growing Heather

There are several coal mines in the Rhondda valley, the most famous of which is the Lewis Merthyr coal mine, Trehafod. As shown in the diagram of Source B2, there are three mines in this mine. You can still see the smoke rising from the high chimney so you can see the mines they are working on. The Trehafod site was first opened in 1850 and the Hafod and Coedcae coal mines sank to the upper asphalt joint. Then between 1880 and 1881, the three "wonderful" steam pits sank Berti, Treforce and Hafod pit. By 1900, the three "wonderful" power coal pits were under William Thomas Lewis' sole control. Production is growing at nearly 1 million tons per year, and Lewis Mercer Coal Mining Co., Ltd. is one of the UK's most important mining problems. During his term as owner of the Trehafod pit, William Thomas Lewis became Mercer Lord. In 1983, the government closed the Lewis Mercer mine.

Ronda coal was the best coal in the world at that time. From the rise of the 1950s to the fall of 1983, Ronda became a place of hope and desperation. Workers and their families in Little South Wales are standing there for basic rights and payment and insist on what they think is right. There are many reasons why the coal industry is "prospering" in the Ronda Valley, but according to Clarke of GT Dowlais, thousands of square acre of general coal is called "manufacturing, starting, the best aim of war" It is. This comment was made when everything was moved by a steam engine, so it was very right. However, this was a fact of the time, but it was not so later. Due to the development of diesel engines and the slow modernization of things, demand for coal is decreasing.