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The Turn of the Wheel

Turn of the Wheel Pt 3: Some notes about the Cardiganshire lead miner

The life of any miner is hard: Labouring underground in narrow openings from dusk until dawn. yet this was the work for thousands of men in Victorian times. Wales is well known for its coal mines, which dominated life in the South and to a degree, around Wrexham and Rhyl in the north. Metal miners […]