Introduction: I recently found an article on the “Fairies of Neath Vale” whilst searching the British Newspaper Archive. The article was in the The Cambrian newspaper on the 21st August 1891 under the heading The Fairies of Neath Vale, with a sub heading of Roman and...
Introduction: The Pit head baths' were built in 1939 and were demolished in 19986, and therefore was in use by the miners and sometimes the people of the village for a total of 47 years. In this time many memories of the bath's were made, the older generation can...
Introduction: This is a video of the History of the Cwmgwrach and Aberpergwm pit head bath's in pictures. Both bath's were built in 1939 and were demolished, on the closure of the pits, in 1986. YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-I6u4-xpNdk Resources and...