Rhondda Heritage Park - A Miss HubNut Review - Welsh Mining History!
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- čas přidán 30. 06. 2023
- A very pleasant visit to Rhondda Heritage Park in South Wales allowed a look at Welsh mining history, and a trip underground! That bit was quite hard to film as it was very dark, but the tours do allow you to see one of the winding engines in action and a look at explosives...
Rhondda Heritage Park is FREE to visit, with guided tours costing £9.95 per adult, £6.75 per child or a family ticket is £28.40 (at the time of video release).
What a wonderful video Miss. H! I’m Rhondda born and bred and proud of my heritage. My uncle used to work for mines rescue and had many tragic encounters with the dangers of mining. You have worked hard to bring the Rhondda Heritage Park to the attention of the masses and for that I thank you.
Gosh your Uncle must have been so brave. There really weren't many safety standards in place for them. It's a wonderful place and well worth a visit
I see miss hubnut, I see big machines, I click. It's that simple. Great vid, looks like a lovely day out.
Those engines were utterly phenomenal!
Thanks for the tour of the colliery,it brings back memories of the book and TV series,How Green was my Valley.
There was a little girl on the tour that exclaimed 'I watched how green was my valley!' - I was most impressed!
I really enjoyed this Miss H. I remember the Aberfan disaster, today people have no idea how dangerous getting coal to the surface was, and is. As a child I lived near a place called Coalpit Heath. We climbed the slag heaps and found fossils, we had no idea of the danger. Thank you.
Aberfan was just horrific, such a tragedy. The stories are heartbreaking
My grandad was a South Yorkshire miner. Many memories of hearing tales of working in a fog of coal dust and the sheer physical labour of swinging a pick on his knees for hours on end. He died of lung disease, decades before his time, because of inhaling coal dust for so many years.
It was such tough work. That is so sad about your grandfather, I'm sorry
@misshubnut he was philosophical about it. He valued the friendships he made, and "it paid me enough to look after my wife and child, so I can't complain". The kind of man I want to be when I grow up. (I'm a mere 60 at present lol) xxx
Miss HubNut videos are a rareity, but always special and never disappoint. * I was not paid to say this!
Awww thank you...hopefully becoming less of a rarity
Awesome video. We took our kids to Big Pit last year and they loved it. It was a great experience and something we can not experience here in New Zealand.
Thank you. I think Big Pit is now on our to do list
You make a good history teacher. Thank you for another entertaining video. And I do remember Aberfan.
Thank you, glad you enjoyed it. Aberfan was such a terrible tragedy
Been down a few slate caverns in Wales, not done coal mines, so this is something I must do. Thanks for the great vid.
Well done Carly a very interesting video and I would love to visit that museum much like the Rhondda my area of the Black Country is coal mining country and many welsh miners moved here to work a fact reflected in the surnames and culture of this area and sadly all gone here too but these museums do much to preserve our history for future generations
All the best to you all Daniel
Thank you Daniel. The area is well worth a visit. There is this mine and Big Pit which are both now tourist attractions which give a fantastic insight into mining life
Your knowledge of your local history is incredible. Really enjoyed and appreciated the video, thank you for sharing Miss Hubnut. 😊👍
Thank you, glad you enjoyed it
Hello miss hubnut thanks for this amazing review
Thanks again for another great video. I shall definitely be visiting this summer.
Thank you. It's well worth a visit
Brilliant Video Carlie, very informative, reminds me of our local mine at Newtongrange in Midlothian ,came here first instead of watching Ian's car show report 😂.
I won't tell him 😉. It was a brilliant day out but some very tragic history
Thank you this was really interesting, it's made me want to visit now as I wasn't aware of this centre before
Another one of those places I keep meaning to go and visit but have never done so. Thanks Carly I going to go.
Definitely worth a visit 😁
Very good video miss hubnut glad you mentioned the tragedy of Aberfan
Thank you, it is such an important and tragic part of the history
Great video. Look forward to the next
Thank you. Next one coming soon!
Thank you Carly really interesting video.
Thank you Alan, glad you enjoyed it
Very interesting thank you Miss HubNut 👍
Thank you for watching
another great video has always miss hubnut and ian hublets and hubmutts 👍
Thank you for watching
As usual another great video from Wales, and Miss Hubnut. 1966 I was 10 years old and remember very well the Aberfan Disaster.
Thank you. It was such a terrible tragedy
We are looking forward to your next video, you can be sure of that!
Thank you, should be another soon!
Wonderful !!!!!!
I went down a coal mine (The Bradford Colliery Manchester) on a school trip back in about 1964. It cerainly was an unforgetible experience. The mine was still working at the time.
It's fascinating but haunting
Tremendous video, thank you 👍
Thank you Shane
Great video thanks 👍
Thank you for watching
Good to see you back doing your videos Carly
Loving the professional microphone 🎤
We are loving the microphone. I feel like a roving reporter!
@@misshubnut looks like Devon enjoyed the day as well
@@itsmephil2255He was utterly bouncing!
@@misshubnut looking forward to the next 1.....hope you posted on The Gram???
@@itsmephil2255I'm behind the scenes on his at the moment!
Very touching to watch. My Great, grandfather worked in the mines in that area (and was also part of the choir). He moved the family (including my grandfather) down to the Bournemouth/Poole area in the 1920’s
Thank you for sharing that family history. It's an amazing but humbling place to visit
Very good! It really made me want to go there. I grew up near to the Hartley pit in north east England. There was a disaster there when the beam engine broke and half of the beam fell down the shaft, trapping the miners. Your commentary is very fluid and articulate. I think the lower camera angle at the end works much better.
That must have been terrifying for all involved. Thank you for the positive feedback
11 minutes, no notes, statistics more packed than that custard slice......You should consider becoming a politician.
I would vote for you.👍
I sorely missed Welsh or British Anthracite when it became unavailable, the stuff from Eastern Europe or elsewhere didn't quite burn the same in the range, smoked a bit and did not burn as hot. Manufactured smokeless fuels were rubbish, ended up burning well seasoned hardwood which was as expensive as Anthracite was as burnt far faster, very fast when maintaining Bread or Pizza oven temps for a longish day. At least it warmed one twice, once when burnt and once when one split and cut it.
The clean burn was why it was so very very popular. Thank you for watching Tony
Another Excellent video from Miss Hubnut. It is nice to have a video on Wales Industrial Past told to us by a Wonderful Hostess. I look forward to seeing what Miss Hubnut's episode is going to be about. (Nice to see Mini Hubnut as well)😊😊
Thank you, glad you enjoyed it
Mini Hubnut is lucky not to have been born in that era otherwise he'd probably be toiling down in that mine everyday. Sad, hard times for the youth, especially the poor.
He'd have been down the mine for years already having got his education certificate. What a tough world
Apparently this is our White Privilege, according to the indoctrinated liberals out there. Apparently we Whites never experienced harsh times. 🙄🤡
@@misshubnutThe children yearn for the mines!
Lovely. 😊
Thank you
Every heavy industry is dangerous in one way or another, but mining, especially coal mining, is very dangerous. I'll have to add this to my "must see" list for when I have the means to come for another visit. I still have a clear memory of the Aberfan disaster, even though I was quite young myself, in the same age range as the school children that were lost.
Absolutely worth a visit. Aberfan was just so very tragic, must have felt more so to be of a similar age
I wish you talked about tonypandy riots, was a huge event in the Rhondda
lovely video 🙂
my late mum was born in Ynyshir in the Rhondda and lived there until moving to Swansea at a young age before WW2. my grandad (who sadly died just before I was born) moved there from Anglesey and worked down the mines and was quite high up in the communist and union movements. the connection means I have lots of family in the area and used to love our visits there as a child - particularly to visit my grandmother's sister, my Aunty Rosie :-) . It was not so great when I went to college there (at the old Polytechnic of Wales in the early 80s) and would bump into aunties, etc while out in Pontypridd trying to enjoy myself!!
Oh dear I can relate to the everyone knowing you when you're out and about - the joys of a close community! Thank you for sharing your family history
There's a lot of history shared there with up here in County Durham, where mining was the most common job, fuelling a lot of industry including steel & iron that also built a lot of the ships along the north sea coast, but, also was brutally stripped away by a certain political party (no prize for guessing who, considering they're still at it today), a good place to visit round here is Beamish, which a lot of people will have seen in period dramas like a number of Catherine Cookson stories, and more recently in Downton (the motor works being used as the car dealership in the show), there's plenty of history there, aswell as buildings transplanted from various places around the north east, bringing their own bit of history with them too... :)
And, they have a chip shop where they cook everything in dripping, as it should be!! :D
Chips cooked in dripping? I am there!
@@misshubnut Sounds like a Bob-on-tour visit to Beamish is needed then, Davy's Fried Fish Shop in the 1900s Pit Village in the museum, cooked using coal-fired ranges, there's also Middleton's Quality Fish & Chip Shop too in the 1950s town area too, though not sure if they do it in dripping... :D
Wedding dress? But, Elly is already married ;)
Ah yes...the other woman...
My nan was from Merthyr Tydfill. Her father was a miner and had 10 children. My nan left Wales in 1928 ,along with 4 of her sisters, to come up to Berkshire/Buckinghamshire to work in a hotel.
Thank you for sharing. How brave of them to make that change
Ah Wish I had known I would have popped down to say hi.
Aww, I'm sure there will be other chances to come and say hi 🙂
Thanks, that was super interesting.
Sad that those working conditions and treatment of workers and environment still exist around the world today.
Battery materials mining comes to mind amongst other things.
It's tragic that this is still reality in some countries
👍👏👏👏
Nye Bevan was a local lad of course.
This looks like an excellent place. Why haven't I been there?! The Big Pit is also worth a visit. Perhaps a video Miss H?
Absolutely worth a visit. They have some fantastic events. I've not been to Big Pit but everyone keeps recommending it. We'll have to go
@@misshubnut At Big Pit you're not allowed to take anything metal or electronic down the mine, so no keys, watches or cameras. Presumably the same here?
@@caw25sha You are allowed on this one because it's some old mines and some recreations and not so deep
I've had jobs that were so awful they filled me with dread on a sunday evening, but the thought of going down that mine every day is off the scale?
Six days a week of hard toil. But people were so proud to do it, just amazing
Did any women work below ground?
@mentalextra I can't remember what year but they did until that point. Then women and girls under 12 were prohibited from working down the mine
Wow they even exported to countries like Australia and South Africa where seemingly didn't need coal to be imported!
Welsh coal is special - it burns to a fine white Ash so it was prized
Anybody who complains about their work day in an office 9-5 you are lucky you never had to go down a mine. My Uncle Stan did it in the Rhondda and then on the GWR walking the rail lines tapping them with a hammer. His Dad my great grandad worked for GWR with horses way before cars came along. My Uncle Stan died at 48 never had a life apart from work and drinking, so liver failure killed him .
We are very very lucky to live in a different world to this. I can't even imagine what their lives were like
Lewis Merthyr not Merthyr Lewis sorry Miss Hub Nut. 😁
I kept getting it mixed up, sorry
You need to find a new name for Mini Hubnut soon. "Mini" seems no longer appropriate 😉
I know nearly as tall as me!
I thought it was funny, that the place to end was the advocation of slave labour lol
Absolutely not. Apologies if it came across like that. Just terrifying to think he would have been down the mines already
@@misshubnut Sorry Miss HubNut. I never ment my comment to come across as a slight on what you mentioned at the end. Just like the miners wellfare, my comments let me down badly, appologies. Just to add on though; it's great too see your videos of Wales and it's History.
@gingerwolfam2010 It's ok, I was just worried I'd come across wrong! Glad you're enjoying the videos
Like many others commenting, I’m proud of my family heritage in mining in this area, most notable was my great great grandfather who started work aged *seven* as an air-door keeper at Cyfarthfa colliery, Merthyr Tydfil and went on to become active in politics and the unions as a Miners’ Agent including being jailed, sentenced to two months hard labour for picketing! Apparently, there’s a bust of him in Aberdare library to commemorate his work on behalf of the local people🥹
Thank you for sharing that fascinating family history. I can't imagine being my age down the mine, let alone seven. Sounds like an amazing man