Stella & Rose's Books

Contents

• PART ONE
• Introduction-Rt. Hon. George Thomas, P.C., M.P.
• Salute to the Rhondda
• Mediaeval Valley-Our Lady of Penrhys
• 1. Change in the Green Valley
• Colliers from Llansamlet
• 2. The Dinas Pits with Walter Coffin
• Then Others Came
• 3. Taff Vale Railway Company 1850
• 4. Dinas Pits and the Door Boys
• 5. The mines Venturers Needed Mechanics
• Scotch Pit at Llwynypia
• (i) Archibald Hood
• (ii) Lord Davies of Llandinam
• (iii) The First and Only Viscount Rhondda
• 6. Toll of the Rhondda Coal Mines
• (i) Some Major Disasters
• (ii) Profile of a Collier (Rescue at a Rhondda Coalpit)
• 7. Mabon's Day
• 8. Churchill's Tonypandy
• 9. "The Miners' Next Step" of 1912
• 10. Miners' Leaders
• (i) Arthur Cook
• (ii) Will Paynter and Arthur Horner
• 11. The Young Paynter
• 12. Will Paynter-Rhondda Revolutionary
• 13. Court Action by Cymmer Colliery
• 14. Will Paynter-Trade Union Regular
• 15. What has the N.C.B. Achieved for Rhondda?
• (i) The Dust Problem-A Cruel Coal Hazard
• (ii) The Dust in Industry
• (iii) Sir Wilfred Garrett and Industrial Disease
• (iv) Mr. Ernest Bevin, Transport Workers Union
• PART TWO
• 16. The Borough Council of Rhondda
• 17. Aspect of Rhondda
• 18. Some Early Rhondda Characters
• (i) Joseph Dafis, Pant-yr-Eisteddfa, Heol Fach (Early Schoolmaster)
• (ii) Guto Nyth Bran (The Runner)
• (iii) Shon Waun Adda (First Rhondda Postman)
• (iv) Siamps Thomas, Ynyshir (Coal Owner)
• (v) Shoni (or Dai)
• (vi) William Evans of "T and E" (Early Chain Grocer)
• (vii) D'ye Ken John Williams of Penrhys (Valley Huntsman)
• 19. Rhondda Women
• 20. Rhondda to London
• 21. From Whitehall to Rhondda Valley
• 22. Two Great Rhondda Orators
• 23. Friends of Rhondda
• (i) Lord Davies-'Ovoids' to Save Petrol
• (ii) George Thomas, M.P. (Cardiff)
• 24. Voluntary Social Service
• The Government acts after Voluntary Trials
• The Quaker Mission to Rhondda
• The Blue Pilgrims
• 25. The Health Settlement
• 26. Christian Pilgrim
• 27. The Mobility Factor
• (i) The Native Never Returns
• (ii) The Mobility Factor from School
• (iii) The Mobility Factor in Community and Work
• 28. Professional Drift
• 29. The Drive to Get On, and to Get Out
• 30. Kaleidoscope
• 31. Further Notables
• 32. From Nebo and Cymmer Chapels-A dynasty of Doctors
• 33. Chapels and Choirs
• 34. The Poets
• 35. "Something Must be Done!" (King Edward VIII)
• 36. Regional Rescue
• List of Illustrations