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Early 1900s: Life in a small Welsh mining town
How Green Was My Valley
What you need to know before your trail
Growing up in a mining community in rural South Wales, Huw Morgan is taught many harsh lessons – at the kitchen table, at Chapel and around the pit-head. Looking back on the hardships of his early life, where difficult days are faced with courage but the valleys swell with the sound of Welsh voices, it becomes clear that there is nowhere so green as the landscape of his own memory.
Travel Guide
From Wales to Middlesex
Richard Dafydd Vivian Llewellyn Lloyd (1906-1983) was better known by his pen name Richard Llewellyn. He always claimed to have been born in St David’s, Pembrokeshire, Wales but it was discovered after his death that he was born in Hendon, Middlesex to Welsh parents.
He is said to have researched the novel and been inspired to write it after visiting local mining families in Gilfach Goch – This was also the place he had said his father had worked and he was a miner’s son born in St David’s.
Booktrail Boarding Pass: How Green Was My Valley
Author/Guide: Richard Llewellyn Destination: Wales, Glamorgan Departure Time: Early 1900s
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