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John James Hughes (1814 – 17 June 1889) [1] was a Welsh engineer, businessman and founder of the city of Donetsk.The village was originally named Yuzovka (Hughesovka, Russian: Юзoвка) or Yuzivka (Ukrainian: Юзівка) after Hughes, ("Yu z" being a Russian and Ukrainian approximation of Hughes), formally becoming a town in May 1917 and later, in 1924, being renamed to Stalino ...
Aberfan is situated toward the bottom of the western valley slope of the Taff Valley, on the eastern slope of Mynydd Merthyr, approximately four miles (6 km) south of Merthyr Tydfil. When the Merthyr Vale Colliery was sunk on 23 August 1869 by John Nixon and partners, Aberfan consisted of two cottages and an inn frequented by local farmers and ...
Location of Merthyr Tydfil County Borough in Wales. The list of standardised Welsh place-names, for places in Merthyr Tydfil County Borough, is a list compiled by the Welsh Language Commissioner to recommend the standardisation of the spelling of Welsh place-names, particularly in the Welsh language and when multiple forms are used, although some place-names in English were also recommended to ...
The East Merthyr Reclamation Scheme was the initiative of the former Merthyr Tydfil Borough Council and Mid Glamorgan County Council, in partnership with the Welsh Development Agency in the mid-1980s and was launched by the Secretary of State for Wales following the grant of planning permission. The aim was to extract coal from the area of East ...
Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney (Welsh: Merthyr Tudful a Rhymni) was a constituency ... Mark Hughes 4,904 11.1 −0.8 Plaid Cymru: Alun Cox 2,704 6.1 +1.4 Majority
The Hoover Factory, situated in Pentrebach, Merthyr Tydfil, Wales, opened on 19 October 1948 in order to manufacture Hoover washing machines. The initial workforce consisted of only 350 people but throughout the years, the growth of the company saw this figure rise to 5,000 in the 1960s and 70s.
Welsh international footballer Charlie Jones, who played for Nottingham Forest and Arsenal in the 1920s and 1930s, was born in Troed-y-rhiw in 1899.; His Welsh international colleague Willie Davies, who played for several clubs, including Cardiff City and Tottenham Hotspur in the 1920s and 1930s, was born in Troed-y-rhiw in 1900.
Merthyr Tydfil County Borough is located in the historic county of Glamorgan in Wales and takes its name from its largest town. The county borough covers an area of 111 km 2 (43 sq mi) [ 1 ] and had a population of approximately 58,900 in 2021.