RHONDDA MY VALLEY BRAVE
Written by Emrys Pride, George Thomas
Published by The Starling Press
in 1975
ISBN: 0903434059
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RHONDDA MY VALLEY BRAVE
Written by Emrys Pride, George Thomas.
Stock no. 1319632
1st.
1975.
Hardback.
Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.
Blue cloth, gilt titles. B/w photos. Introduction by George Thomas. ISBN: 0903434059. Spine bumped at head and tail. Top edge of textblock slightly grubby else contents fine. Dustwrapper is slightly edge worn, has white marks and original price-label to front panel.
Front cover
Contents
- PART ONE
- Introduction-Rt. Hon. George Thomas, P.C., M.P.
- Salute to the Rhondda
- Mediaeval Valley-Our Lady of Penrhys
- 1. Change in the Green Valley
- Colliers from Llansamlet
- 2. The Dinas Pits with Walter Coffin
- Then Others Came
- 3. Taff Vale Railway Company 1850
- 4. Dinas Pits and the Door Boys
- 5. The mines Venturers Needed Mechanics
- Scotch Pit at Llwynypia
- (i) Archibald Hood
- (ii) Lord Davies of Llandinam
- (iii) The First and Only Viscount Rhondda
- 6. Toll of the Rhondda Coal Mines
- (i) Some Major Disasters
- (ii) Profile of a Collier (Rescue at a Rhondda Coalpit)
- 7. Mabon's Day
- 8. Churchill's Tonypandy
- 9. "The Miners' Next Step" of 1912
- 10. Miners' Leaders
- (i) Arthur Cook
- (ii) Will Paynter and Arthur Horner
- 11. The Young Paynter
- 12. Will Paynter-Rhondda Revolutionary
- 13. Court Action by Cymmer Colliery
- 14. Will Paynter-Trade Union Regular
- 15. What has the N.C.B. Achieved for Rhondda?
- (i) The Dust Problem-A Cruel Coal Hazard
- (ii) The Dust in Industry
- (iii) Sir Wilfred Garrett and Industrial Disease
- (iv) Mr. Ernest Bevin, Transport Workers Union
- PART TWO
- 16. The Borough Council of Rhondda
- 17. Aspect of Rhondda
- 18. Some Early Rhondda Characters
- (i) Joseph Dafis, Pant-yr-Eisteddfa, Heol Fach (Early Schoolmaster)
- (ii) Guto Nyth Bran (The Runner)
- (iii) Shon Waun Adda (First Rhondda Postman)
- (iv) Siamps Thomas, Ynyshir (Coal Owner)
- (v) Shoni (or Dai)
- (vi) William Evans of "T and E" (Early Chain Grocer)
- (vii) D'ye Ken John Williams of Penrhys (Valley Huntsman)
- 19. Rhondda Women
- 20. Rhondda to London
- 21. From Whitehall to Rhondda Valley
- 22. Two Great Rhondda Orators
- 23. Friends of Rhondda
- (i) Lord Davies-'Ovoids' to Save Petrol
- (ii) George Thomas, M.P. (Cardiff)
- 24. Voluntary Social Service
- The Government acts after Voluntary Trials
- The Quaker Mission to Rhondda
- The Blue Pilgrims
- 25. The Health Settlement
- 26. Christian Pilgrim
- 27. The Mobility Factor
- (i) The Native Never Returns
- (ii) The Mobility Factor from School
- (iii) The Mobility Factor in Community and Work
- 28. Professional Drift
- 29. The Drive to Get On, and to Get Out
- 30. Kaleidoscope
- 31. Further Notables
- 32. From Nebo and Cymmer Chapels-A dynasty of Doctors
- 33. Chapels and Choirs
- 34. The Poets
- 35. "Something Must be Done!" (King Edward VIII)
- 36. Regional Rescue
- List of Illustrations