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The Miners and Coal Levels of Gwent (Britain in Old Photographs)
The Miners and Coal Levels of Gwent - Britain in Old Photographs Author:Colin Spencer This absorbing collection of photographs and ephemera illustrates life as it was for the coal-level miners of Gwent throughout its industrial past. Accompanying the images are detailed and informative captions that allow the reader to fully understand levels mining in the region. The book begins by examining the coal levels that were operational... more » in the 1980s, including their owners, numbers employed, wages and deaths. The final chapter takes a look at the last remaining working levels in Gwent, and reminds us that the current generation may be the last to extract coal using the methods of their forefathers.« less