Our local library allows access to the Times Digital Archive. The Article is dated Monday 5 August 1929. I can only seem to save the whole page, so the image is a 1Mb pdf file. If anyone would like please email offline and I can send you a copy. David -----Original Message----- From: Dawn Cumbley [mailto:dawn.cumbley@virgin.net] Sent: 26 March 2007 21:48 To: dave@hodgson-brown.co.uk; monmouthshire@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [MON] Blaenavon Thanks David Yes, conditions must have been horrendous - could you tell me which article you are referring to as it may be interesting for me to read. Regards Dawn dawn.cumbley@virgin.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Hodgson-Brown" <dave@hodgson-brown.co.uk> To: <monmouthshire@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, March 26, 2007 5:59 PM Subject: Re: [MON] Blaenavon >I have just read an article in The Times digital archive. It was about how > bad the living conditions were at the time. In the article it mentions > that > Steel production stopped in 1921. > > David > > -----Original Message----- > From: monmouthshire-bounces@rootsweb.com > [mailto:monmouthshire-bounces@rootsweb.com]On Behalf Of Hugh Watkins > Sent: 26 March 2007 02:20 > To: monmouthshire@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [MON] Blaenavon > > > > On 25 Mar 2007, at 23:03, Jeff Coleman wrote: > >> You get [ or now used to get, as far as most of South Wales except >> Margam is >> concerned] quite a glow if coke ovens are being emptied at night, >> so you >> might not be talking about a blast furnace. >> >> I recall looking down into the Garw valley in Glamorgan from the >> slopes of >> Mynydd Caerau or Mynydd Werfa at dusk and seeing red-hot coke being >> pushed >> out of the ovens, somewhere near Blaengarw I expect. That would >> have been >> early 1960s. If there weren't any coke ovens in the Garw valley >> maybe it was >> Nantymoel ..... > > or even any old local gas works > > Hugh W > > -- > a wonderful artist in Denmark > http://www.ingerlisekristoffersen.dk/ > > Beta blogger > http://snaps4.blogspot.com/ photographs and walks > > old blogger GENEALOGE > http://hughw36.blogspot.com/ MAIN BLOG > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > MONMOUTHSHIRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > __________ NOD32 2144 (20070325) Information __________ > > This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. > http://www.eset.com > > __________ NOD32 2144 (20070325) Information __________ > > This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. > http://www.eset.com > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > MONMOUTHSHIRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.446 / Virus Database: 268.18.18/734 - Release Date: > 26/03/2007 14:31 > > __________ NOD32 2145 (20070326) Information __________ This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. http://www.eset.com __________ NOD32 2145 (20070326) Information __________ This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. http://www.eset.com