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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