Tag: Caerphilly

Caerphilly County Borough sits in an area which changed significantly during the Industrial Revolution, when the economy based on livestock husbandry gave way to the dominance of coal production. In the 20th century, another vast change occurred as the coal fields shut down, one by one, and communities found a new place in the globalised…

Caerphilly is today famous for its medieval castle and Caerphilly cheese. But old footage shows how important mining once was to this town in South Wales.