Carl Difford

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NOSTALGIA: The roots of coal mining in Torfaen

By the mid-eighteenth century (1750s) the Torfaen valley’s wooded slopes had largely disappeared – most of the trees had been felled to turn into charcoal to fuel the iron forges (about 18 mature trees were needed to make one tonne of iron).