Wales – J.L. Jarvis

Cardiff mining disaster is being made into a film

By Jody RCostume Dramas, UK HistoryHow Green Was My Valley, Lan Colliery, mining, Wales, Welsh

I love Welsh mining stories. (I’ve watched How Green was my Valley a few too many times.)

(via A grandmother’s story about Cardiff’s mining disaster is being made into a film – and Catherine Zeta Jones has been approached to star in it – Wales Online)

Lan Colliery then and now

Lan Colliery then and now

By Jody RUncategorizedmist, Wales

Beddgelert, Wales

By Jody RUncategorizedDick Cavett, Men of My Dreams, mining, Richard Burton, Wales

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkddEkM7FQw

Two things I love: Richard Burton and mining.

Richard Burton on mining.

(Source: http://www.youtube.com/)