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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 ...
Aberfan (Welsh pronunciation: [ˌabɛrˈvan]) is a former coal mining village in the Taff Valley 4 mi (6 km) south of the town of Merthyr Tydfil, Wales. On 21 October 1966, in the Aberfan disaster , a colliery spoil tip collapsed into homes and a school, killing 116 children and 28 adults.
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 ...
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.
Heolgerrig (Welsh for "stony road"; formerly "Pen-yr-Heolgerrig") is a small village in Merthyr Tydfil County Borough, Wales. It is part of the community of Cyfarthfa. [1] Calfaria Welsh chapel in Heolgerrig, Merthyr Tydfil. It lies just west of Merthyr Tydfil, and is separated from it by the main A470 trunk road.
Merthyr Tydfil Rhondda Cynon Taf Caerphilly Preserved county of Mid Glamorgan: Status: Non-metropolitan county (1974–1996) Preserved county (1996–) Government: Mid Glamorgan County Council • HQ: County Hall, Cathays Park, Cardiff (extraterritorial) [2] Coat of arms of Mid Glamorgan County Council: Subdivisions • Type: Non-metropolitan ...
The weekly Merthyr Pioneer was launched by Keir Hardie in 1911 with Thomas Evan Nicholas (Niclas y Glais) as its Welsh editor. [1] Nicholas was a socialist bard and an Independent minister. [2] The paper was associated with the Independent Labour Party (ILP), and helped promote Hardie as ILP member of parliament for Merthyr Tydfil. [3]