The Miners of LLay Main
Vic Tyler-Jones, HB.200 x 290mm, 177pp, 177 illustrations, hardback, sewn,
dust jacket, indexed, endnotes - £19.99 + P&P
This is a very interesting study of the development of the Colliery and a
Model Village , the book features many underground photographs and details
inter linked with a social history. It follows the history of the Pit
through the ages and as such all aspects of the colliery are detailed. It
is an exceptional and well produced volume
Mike
( Publishers notes as follows)
The model village of Llay was built during the early part of the twentieth
century, on agricultural land four miles north of Wrexham, to serve the
newly constructed Llay Main colliery. This community of mineworkers and
their families (who originated from various parts of Britain) was
established in north-east Wales on what had previously been farm and park
land, a landscape far-removed from that of their fellow colliers who lived
in the terraces of the south Wales valleys. Llay Main became the largest
colliery in Wales and the deepest in Europe.
This book concentrates on three main areas:
· the founding of the mine and the creation of the miners’ village;
· the development of social structure and social activities;
· the mutual dependence of colliery and village
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