talking point - Rhondda Cynon Taf
talking point - Rhondda Cynon Taf
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Tour 5<br />
QUEEN OF THE VALLEYS<br />
Discover where the Coal, Iron and …Film Industries Began<br />
<strong>talking</strong> <strong>point</strong><br />
In the opening years of the twentieth century, Aberdare was<br />
briefly the centre of World Cinema. Film pioneer William<br />
Haggar challenged sedate Edwardian society by sending up<br />
figures of authority and making his murderous villains likeably<br />
human; there are hair-raising police chases on trains and<br />
groundbreaking use of camera techniques much copied in<br />
France and the USA.<br />
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www.rhondda-cynon-taf.gov.uk/visiting Tel. 01443 424085<br />
The River <strong>Cynon</strong> is born on a high saddle of land between the<br />
southern edge of the Brecon Beacons and the northern<br />
escarpment of the Blaenau Morgannwg or Glamorgan Highlands,<br />
and flows south-east to join the <strong>Taf</strong>f at Abercynon. The <strong>Cynon</strong><br />
Valley was famous for iron as well as coal, the furnaces of Aberdare<br />
and Hirwaun dating from the start of the Industrial Revolution in<br />
the late 1700s.
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