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 all the more important.

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 all the more important.

Dunstonhill opencast pit was one of a number of derelict mining sites scarring the landscape of former coalfield communities Communities devastated by the collapse of coal mining have been given a ...