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Working life and the vast changes experienced by employers and employees alike are recorded here - most significantly the disappearance of collieries that once dominated the landscape and the lives of the Rhondda people. Leisure time is enjoyed to the full; in sport (including rugby, cricket and darts) and music (including choirs and operatic societies) and many local events. Places familiar in memory, though perhaps unrecognisable today, are revisited through the pages of this book; hotels and public houses, chapels and churches, shops and schools.  On this second fascinating journey through Upper Rhondda the older inhabitants of the area are granted a further opportunity to remember the rich heritage of their home, with younger residents given a chance to discover their roots.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49540751524113,"sku":"GOR004079006","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49621754052881,"sku":"GOR013597729","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/075241609X.jpg?v=1761041147"},{"product_id":"rhondda-book-emrys-jenkins-9780752430096","title":"Rhondda","description":"This book is part of the Images of Wales series, which uses old photographs and archived images to show the history of various local areas in Wales, through their streets, shops, pubs, and people.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49546483368209,"sku":"GOR007928781","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0752430092.jpg?v=1750849202"},{"product_id":"rhondda-revisited-book-emrys-jenkins-9780752433882","title":"Rhondda Revisited","description":"A history of Rhondda.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49547021582609,"sku":"GOR006516983","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0752433881.jpg?v=1751042347"},{"product_id":"upper-rhondda-treorchy-and-treherbert-book-emrys-jenkins-9780752410166","title":"Upper Rhondda - Treorchy and Treherbert","description":"Using the images captured by the camera lens over the last hundred years, Emrys Jenkins and Roy Green have reconstructed the broad canvas of past life in the Upper Rhondda Fawr valley - in Cwmparc and Treorchy through Ynyswen and Penyrenglyn, Treherbert and Tynewydd finishing in the often-forgotten corners of Blaenrhondda and Blaenewm.  The selection is a wide-ranging one: from colliers to carnivals, soup kitchen to champion gardeners, hospital queens to blacksmiths. Many readers will be able to spot the faces of friends and relatives, to relive long-forgotten events, and revisit once-familiar scenes. Much nostalgia will doubtless be evoked in the older generation and the pictures should provide a useful introduction to the area's fascinating past for the young. The book will be of particular interest to those who have left the valley to make new lives overseas, or in other areas of Britain, but who still retain a love for their homeland.  In consecutive years from 1990 to 1993, and in 1995, exhibitions of local photographs and old documents were held in Treherbert's OAP Hall. 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