Energy bills could be cut by low carbon heat schemes which use water from abandoned Welsh coal mines. One in five properties ...

Owing its industrialization to coal, its mining has shaped the destiny of this small nation of 3.1 million inhabitants. But today, the Welsh valleys are threatened by the massive pollution generated ...

Coal was central to the war effort. It not only kept people warm but powered industry, railways and shipping. After the loss of French and Belgian coalfields to the Allied war effort, Welsh coal was ...

When Prof JC Niala started collecting stories for a new project, she did not expect to hear about how Welsh people once walked all the way to Oxford. The writer and historian has curated Journeys to ...

The popularity of the engine made Watt a very wealthy man. An engraving showing child labour in a Welsh coal mine. The child on the left is a 'trapper' - they were responsible for opening and ...

Ffestiniog and Welsh Highland Railway runs trains run from ... It is one of a dozen heritage railways in Wales. Ffos-y-fran coal mine near Merthyr Tydfil was supplying the railway with coal ...

F. Isherwood, Chief Engineer, U. S. N., it appears that the Collin's steamers use anthracite on the voyage to Liverpool, and Welsh coal, also an anthracite, on the return voyage. The Welsh coal ...

She added that the government's Disused Mine and Quarry Tips (Wales ... In response, the Welsh government said: "We want to ensure our coal tip communities are safe, both now and in the future ...

The Welsh Government also asked the Law Commission ... the number one fossil fuel driver of climate change. And more coal mining to fix the issues of coal mining is as nonsensical as it sounds." ...

25,000 Welsh workers left mining for the armed forces and other jobs between 1938 and 1941. The coal industry moved from having tens of thousands of unwanted men to a serious labour shortage.