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Your local Heritage in Rhondda Cynon Taff:

Rhondda Heritage Park
Based at the former Lewis Merthyr Colliery site, Trefafod, from 1989 it has been open as a visitor centre that offers to explore valley life through the stories of three generations of local mining families. The exhibitions includes information about the 1977 Tynewydd Colliery disaster when 5 men were trapped underground for 9 days and the notorious Tonypandy riots when military troops were sent to quell public disorder in Tonypandy.

Spirit of the Rhondda Statue
Erected by the Rhondda Civic Society and funded by public and corporate donations this iconic statue of a miner, his wife and their baby pays tribute to the mining communities and families in the Rhondda

Shrine to our Lady of Penrhys
A place of pilgrimage over many centuries, this site was originally home to Cistercian monks. Legend goes that the monks discovered an ornate statue of the holy mother and built a chapel and shrine to house it – as a result Penrhys became a centre of pilgrimage.

The original statue was destroyed by Thomas Cromwell during the Dissolution. The present statue, which is built from Portland stone, was erected in 1953.

Haiku Heritage Poems by students from Maesgwynn Special School

Coalmine Chimney
Up and down the pit shaft
Wet day; no more coal

Way before I was born. A long time ago there was a small pox hospital here. The place was burnt down cause there was no cure. You can still feel it – small pox – spooky. It could have been your family. You weren’t alive when it happened, did any of them belong to you?