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    The South Wales Miners' Museum is a museum of the coal mining industry and its workforce in the South Wales Coalfield. It is located at Cynonville within...
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    heritage of the coal mining industry in Wales are at: South Wales Miners' Museum near Cymmer Cefn Coed Colliery Museum near Crynant Rhondda Heritage Park near...
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    and Development Centre. The South Wales Miners' Museum is located in Cynonville, Cymmer. The nearby Margam Stones Museum has early Christian inscribed...
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    Big Pit National Coal Museum (Welsh: Pwll Mawr Amgueddfa Lofaol Cymru) is an industrial heritage museum in Blaenavon, Torfaen, Wales. A working coal mine...
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    they met the miners, joined pickets and raised funds. The songs of the South Wales Striking Miners' Choir and the speeches of Kent miner Alan Sutcliffe...
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    Miners' institutes, sometimes known as workingmen's institutes, mine workers' institutes, or miners' welfare halls are large institutional buildings that...
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    New South Wales (commonly abbreviated as NSW) is a state on the east coast of Australia. It borders Queensland to the north, Victoria to the south, and...
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  • Hywel Francis (category Academics of the University of Wales)
    was a trustee of the Paul Robeson Wales Trust and the Bevan Foundation he founded. He was the South Wales Miners' Museum president. He authored many peer-reviewed...
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    Three miners were immediately able to escape to the surface. Despite extensive efforts to rescue the remaining miners, on 16 September South Wales Police...
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    Room Summerlee Miners' Row 1910 Summerlee Miners Row, 1840 Summerlee Miners Row 1940 kitchen Summerlee Miners Row Gardens Summerlee Miners Row interior...
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    the South Wales Coalfield, and their number declined further in the years following World War II. This number is now very low, following the UK miners' strike...
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  • Wikimedia Commons has media related to Museums in Wales. This list of museums in Wales contains museums which are defined for this context as institutions...
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    with miners". Socialist Worker. Fisher, Emily (29 September 2014). "Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners material at the People's History Museum". PHMMcr...
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    Abergavenny Museum is a museum situated in the grounds of Abergavenny Castle, Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, south east Wales. The museum is housed in the...
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    the museum was that the north-east of Wales does not host any "national museum" of Wales, with the others based in north-west, south-west and south-east...
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    anti-Chinese miners attacked Chinese gold miners in the area, now known as the infamous Lambing Flat riots. As gold became scarce, European miners began to...
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    "Durham Miners' Gala 2009". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 24 July 2023. "Durham Mining Museum: Durham Miners' Gala". Retrieved 4 May 2009. "Durham Miners' Gala...
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    Far North Queensland through New South Wales and Victoria to Tasmania and southeastern South Australia, the noisy miner primarily inhabits dry, open eucalypt...
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    the 1919 coal miners' strike was a key factor in destroying support for the Liberal party in south Wales. The industrial workers of Wales began shifting...
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    royalty-lessees. In South Wales, the miners showed a high degree of solidarity. They lived in isolated villages where the miners comprised the great majority...
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    Lambing Flat riots (category Riots and civil disorder in New South Wales)
    Similar events occurred in New South Wales, which was just feeling the impact of significant Chinese immigration. European miners drove Chinese off the diggings...
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    Silverton is a small village at the far west of New South Wales, Australia, 26 kilometres (16 mi) north-west of Broken Hill. At the 2016 census, Silverton...
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    Lightning Ridge is a small outback town in north-western New South Wales, Australia. Part of Walgett Shire, Lightning Ridge is situated near the southern...
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    area of New South Wales, Australia. It was designed by Walter Liberty Vernon and built from 1902 to 1909. It is also known as Mining Museum (former), Earth...
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    Rothbury riot (category Riots and civil disorder in New South Wales)
    16 December 1929 New South Wales Police drew their revolvers and shot into a crowd of locked-out miners in the New South Wales town of Rothbury in Australia...
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    opposition to the gold licensing system in New South Wales at the time. A considerable number of the miners were Chinese. Sofala Public School was established...
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    Mostyn (gallery) (category Art museums and galleries established in 1901)
    Mostyn is a public art gallery in Llandudno, North Wales. It was previously called Oriel Mostyn ('Oriel' is Welsh for 'Gallery') but was rebranded as...
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  • Ganz (1936–2015) was a Welsh artist, known for her paintings of South Wales coal miners. Ganz grew up in Mumbles of Swansea. She studied art in Swansea...
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    house miners and their families. Coal was transported by rail from the mine to Bulli Jetty at Sandon Point where it was loaded onto ships. The miners were...
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    Cefn Coed Colliery Museum is a former coal mine, now operating as a museum. It is located at Crynant near Neath in the South Wales Valleys. Coal mining...
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