Home / Series / The Story of Wales / Aired Order / Season 1 / Episode 5

A New Beginning

It's boom time as Wales becomes known, the world over, for one particular product - Welsh steam coal, the best you can get. In the space of 50 years, 'black gold' builds a new Wales. The coalfield pulls in hundreds of thousands of migrants with a different language and culture, becoming a bustling modern world of its own. Yet no sooner has Wales found itself at the centre of global trade, than the Depression causes an industrial crash with a bitter social fallout.

English
  • Originally Aired March 19, 2012
  • Runtime 60 minutes
  • Network BBC One
  • Created November 18, 2014 by
    Administrator admin
  • Modified November 18, 2014 by
    Administrator admin