Deepest Shafts in the Coalfield: Nantgarw Colliery
Nantgarw Colliery was once the deepest pit in the South Wales Coalfield. It had a troubled start, a model rebuilding and a closure in 1986. Today the site is a business park.
Wales
Welsh castles, abbeys, standing stones, piers and pit villages, with the people and stories behind them, from Tintern's ruins to the drowned village of Capel…
Bonnets in the Moonlight: The Story of the Rebecca Riots
Between 1839 and 1843, farmers in West and Mid Wales put on women's clothes, blackened their faces and tore down toll-gates. This is the story of Rebecca and her daughters.
From Pit Boy to Parliament: David Watts Morgan
David Watts Morgan began work underground at eleven and ended his career as a Labour MP and decorated lieutenant-colonel. His life reflects the changing politics of the South Wales coalfield.
Medicine at the Castle Gate: Little Castle House, Monmouth
At the end of Castle Hill in Monmouth, a whitewashed house sits beside Norman ruins. It began as a dispensary, offering free medicine to the town's poor.
The Enigmatic Standing Stones of Gors Fawr: Mysteries of the Past
Journey to Gors Fawr in Pembrokeshire, where Neolithic standing stones hold secrets of ancient life and folklore.
Water in the Valleys: The Lost Lidos of Wales
Miners and volunteers built open-air pools across South Wales in the 1920s and 1930s. Most have gone, but Pontypridd shows what a revival can achieve.