“I went down the mine when I was 18 hoping I’d be down there until I retired,” says the 63-year-old who worked at Maerdy Colliery until it closed in 1990 five years after the strikes.

It consists of the pitwheel of Maerdy Colliery, along with masonry from ... From here, after passing part of the old railway line, you will shortly arrive at the Castell Nos reservoir, a beautiful ...

It consists of the pitwheel of Maerdy Colliery, along with masonry from ... From here, after passing part of the old railway line, you will shortly arrive at the Castell Nos reservoir, a beautiful ...

A once thriving village is now run down and deserted according to locals, with barren streets punctuated with cans of Carling and Strongbow. Residents of Maerdy, in south Wales, think they have ...