David, What was the time frame for this article ("the living conditions were bad"). My Wall family worked at the Blaenavon Iron Works in the 1870's. Where can I find the Times (is it the London Times?) digital article? I would like to know as much as I can about life there for my family book that I will make one day for my children, and my nieces and nephews. Perhaps, those conditions were part of the reason that my great grandfather, William Wall, left his family and came to America to search for gold in California!!! God Bless, Janet Virginia, USA ************************************** AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at http://www.aol.com.

On 26 Mar 2007, at 22:46, JANLWH@aol.com wrote: > David, > What was the time frame for this article ("the living > conditions were > bad"). My Wall family worked at the Blaenavon Iron Works in the > 1870's. Where > can I find the Times (is it the London Times?) digital article? I > would > like to know as much as I can about life there for my family book > that I will > make one day for my children, and my nieces and nephews. > Perhaps, those conditions were part of the reason that my great > grandfather, William Wall, left his family and came to America to > search for gold in > California!!! > my father worked in Blaenavon in the National Provincial Bank as a trainee bank clerk guesstimate circa 1924 to about 1929 my mother told me what he saw there of how the mine owners treated their workers made him a life long socialist read How Green Was My Valley is a novel of 1939, by Richard Llewellyn. The author's claims to have based it on his own knowledge of the Gilfach Goch area were proven false, as Llewellyn was English-born and spent little time in Wales, but gathered his facts from conversations with local mining families. The title of the novel is taken from its last sentence: "How green was my valley then, and the valley of them that have gone." 1941 film is one of the films selected for preservation in the United States National Film Regis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_Green_Was_My_Valley also later versions for TV and cinema 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