Location of former Lever Bros rest home
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Amy Dillwyn, who transformed the fortunes of her late father's spelter works, is commemorated by the latest purple plaque for remarkable women in Wales. The plaque is in the park named after her last year, and beneath it is a HistoryPoints QR code ...
[More]Slate waste from the quarry at Porthgain, Pembrokeshire, was dumped into the sea before a large brickworks was built in the late 19th century to turn the waste into bricks. The large building near the harbour was built for machines which pulverised ...
[More]The concept of steam-powered railway locomotives was pioneered in Merthyr Tydfil in 1804. By the end of the century many companies had built railways into the town to tap into the area's industrial output. There were three passenger trains per day to Cardiff in 1850 ...
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