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Pontypridd Through Time
Alun Seward
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Description for Pontypridd Through Time
Paperback. This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which Pontypridd has changed and developed over the last century. Series: Through Time. Num Pages: 96 pages, 188, 102 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKWS; WQP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 163 x 9. Weight in Grams: 308. 96 pages, 188 illustrations, 102 in colour. This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which Pontypridd has changed and developed over the last century. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1DBKWS; WQP. Dimension: 234 x 163 x 9. Weight: 308.
Pontypridd Through Time portrays the history of this iconic market town that sits at the gateway to three historic valleys of the South Wales coalfield. It also illustrates some of the changes that have contributed across centuries to the everyday life of a place that transformed from pastoral, drovers' river-crossing into a town that embodied a thriving conduit to capitalist mineral prospecting on a prodigious scale. A hamlet transformed from its rural obscurity in the eighteenth century to ride the wild, mechanical horses of the industrial fuel revolution to become a bustling market town. A town encapsulating all the ... Read more
Pontypridd Through Time portrays the history of this iconic market town that sits at the gateway to three historic valleys of the South Wales coalfield. It also illustrates some of the changes that have contributed across centuries to the everyday life of a place that transformed from pastoral, drovers' river-crossing into a town that embodied a thriving conduit to capitalist mineral prospecting on a prodigious scale. A hamlet transformed from its rural obscurity in the eighteenth century to ride the wild, mechanical horses of the industrial fuel revolution to become a bustling market town. A town encapsulating all the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Amberley Publishing
Number of pages
96
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Series
Through Time
Condition
New
Number of Pages
96
Place of Publication
Chalford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781445600321
SKU
V9781445600321
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-38
About Alun Seward
Alun Seward, a semi-retired estate agent, was born and bred in Rhondda. Although he has lived for over 25 years in Radyr on the outskirts of Cardiff, he has a great love of Rhondda and its heritage and feels it should be celebrated. An aspiring novelist, he wrote all the text for this book. He has two children and four ... Read more
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