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    The Monmouthshire and South Wales Coal Owners' Association (MSWCOA) was an association of mine owners in South Wales that was active between 1873 and 1955...
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    Senghenydd colliery disaster (category Coal mining disasters in Wales)
    joined at the end of April. The Monmouthshire and South Wales Coal Owners' Association refused to replace the scale, and the strike ended on 1 September...
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    The Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal (Welsh: Camlas Sir Fynwy a Brycheiniog) is a small network of canals in South Wales. For most of its currently (2018)...
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    119 in 2022. Historically in South Wales the Western Mail has always been associated with its original owners, the coal and iron industrialists. Often this...
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    were eight hours and thirty nine minutes. The Monmouthshire and South Wales Coal Owners' Association had published figures for South Wales collieries that...
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    the focus of coal exports from the eastern South Wales Valleys. Newport was the largest coal exporter in Wales until the rise of Cardiff in the mid-1800s...
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  • the owners were open to this if they could get sufficient compensation. Evan Williams, chairman of the Monmouthshire and South Wales Coal Owners' Association...
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    Clifford Cory (category High sheriffs of Monmouthshire)
    proprietors and coal exporters of Cardiff. At one time he had been chairman of the Monmouthshire and South Wales Coal Owners Association and of the Welsh Coal Trade...
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    Glamorgan (redirect from Glamorgan, Wales)
    nineteenth century. The Welsh coal owners had failed to invest mechanisation during the good years, and by the 1930s the South Wales Coalfield had the lowest...
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  • of Wales Colliery, Abercarn, Monmouthshire, in an explosion of 11 September 1878. 266 deaths in the Gresford Disaster near Wrexham in North Wales on 22...
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  • industrialist. As Chairman of the Monmouthshire and South Wales Coalowners Association and later President of the Mining Association of Great Britain, he exerted...
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  • at a conference of its Monmouthshire and South Wales Council, in 1876. Mabon had been the AAM's last agent in South Wales, and he was elected as president...
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    and the presence of iron ore, limestone and large coal deposits in south-east Wales meant that this area soon saw the establishment of ironworks and coal...
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    [ˈhɪrwai̯n] ) is a village and community at the north end of the Cynon Valley in the County Borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf, South Wales. It is 4 miles (6 km)...
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    1893 United Kingdom miners' strike (category 1893 labor disputes and strikes)
    At the same time, mine owners in County Durham proposed a 10% reduction in wages, and when the Durham Miners' Association's (DMA) members voted strongly...
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    was the period of the coal boom in South Wales, when population growth exceeded 20 per cent. By 1911, Glamorgan and Monmouthshire contained 63 per cent...
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  • and Resident Colliery Agent. In 1897 he was President of the Colliery Managers Association and in 1899, a member of the South Wales and Monmouthshire...
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    pardoned, and his discovery of coal on that island earned him a fortune. Williams was born near Argoed, Sirhowy Valley, Monmouthshire, Wales, with much...
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  • sections of the South Wales Miners' Federation already held membership of the MFGB. The Monmouthshire and South Wales Miners' Association joined in 1889...
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    Thomas Prothero (category British businesspeople in the coal industry)
    developed business interests in the coal mining area of north-west Monmouthshire, on the eastern edge of the South Wales Coalfield. His holdings came to include...
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    England and Other Religious Bodies in Wales and Monmouthshire, appointed in 1906, presents its report. The first Girl Guides company in Wales is formed...
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    southeast Wales, situated in the Caerphilly county borough, within the historic boundaries of Monmouthshire. It neighbours Bedwas and Machen, and forms a...
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  • with those in Monmouthshire to demand an advance in wages. The early 1870s was a time that saw frequent industrial disputes in South Wales and there is evidence...
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    Cardiff (redirect from Cardiff, Wales)
    port for coal when mining began in the region helped its expansion. In 1905, it was ranked as a city and in 1955 proclaimed capital of Wales. Cardiff...
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  • of coal') is a village in the ancient parish of Aberystruth and county of Monmouth situated deep within the South Wales Valleys between Blaina and Brynmawr...
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    Aneurin Bevan (category Councillors in Wales)
    history. Raised in Monmouthshire, in modern day Blaenau Gwent, by a Welsh working-class family, he was the son of a coal miner and left school at 14....
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    material... Mill owners were not always men. There are records of three women mill owners in Wales in 1840, Mary Powell with 16 looms and 8 men, Ann Harris...
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    Sir John Beynon, 1st Baronet (category High sheriffs of Monmouthshire)
    of a number of other iron, steel and coal concerns. He was also chairman of the South Wales Coal Owners' Association. During the First World War he served...
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    House in Wales was first developed by Cyril Fox and Lord Raglan in their study of the Vernacular architecture of Monmouthshire, Monmouthshire Houses, which...
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    Morgan, Thomas (1887). Handbook of the Origin of Place-names in Wales and Monmouthshire. Wales. p. 141. ISBN 1333014007.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location...
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