Blackwood & Around Through Time
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A01=Ewart B. Smith
Art Architecture & Photography
Author_Ewart B. Smith
Category1=Non-Fiction
Category=NL-WQ
Category=WQH
Category=WQP
COP=United Kingdom
Cultural History
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Format=BC
History
HMM=234
IMPN=Amberley Publishing
ISBN13=9781445633084
Language_English
Local & Urban History
PA=Available
PD=20131115
Photography
POP=Chalford
Price=€10 to €20
PS=Active
PUB=Amberley Publishing
Subject=Local Interest- Family History & Nostalgia
WG=306
WMM=165
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- ISBN 9781445633084
- Weight: 306g
- Dimensions: 165 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 15 Nov 2013
- Publisher: Amberley Publishing
- Publication City/Country: Chalford, GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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Looking at the local place names leaves no doubt that Blackwood and its environs were, at one time, 100 per cent Welsh. Situated within the historic boundaries of Monmouthshire, now Caerphilly, the advent of the iron and coal industry at the head of the valley changed all that; but more important, perhaps, was the construction of the Sirhowy Tramroad, linking Tredegar with Newport. The area originally called Coed Duon soon became known as Blackwood. It was a centre of Chartist organisation in the 1830s and the Newport Rising was planned here. The decline of the mining industry in the twentieth century reduced the population of the area and several rejuvenation schemes have now restored the pictorial landscape to its former glory, although there is still evidence of this former industry.
Ewart B. Smith is a well-respected and prolific author with more than one hundred school and college textbooks to his credit as well as several previously published titles such as the Blackwood Yesterday series and The Shipperke. His family has been resident in Blackwood, where Ewart still lives, since the 1800s.
