A Drowned Valley, a Buried School and 239 Miners Who Bought Their Pit | Living in Wales | 4K
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A Drowned Valley, a Buried School and 239 Miners Who Bought Their Pit | Living in Wales | 4K
There is a country where children were once made to inform on each other for speaking their own language. Today 538,300 people still speak it, the lowest share ever recorded, and the government has written down a target of one million by 2050.
Welcome to Wales: green mountains that run straight into the sea, more than 600 castles, 8.8 million sheep and lambs, and 3.1 million people with a very long memory.
This film stands in three places. A reservoir in the north, where 35 of the 36 Welsh MPs voted against drowning a village and it was drowned anyway. A school in a mining village, where at a quarter past nine on an October morning in 1966 the mountain came down. And a colliery gate in the south, where 239 miners walked back in to a pit they had bought with their own redundancy money.
Three places. One question. Why do people here hold on?
In this film:
00:00 Intro: Why do people here hold on?
02:34 A small country that stands on end
04:34 A language older than English
06:24 1847: The Treachery of the Blue Books
08:05 The Welsh Not
10:20 The map of who speaks Welsh
12:06 Tryweryn: the valley Liverpool drowned
14:04 Cofiwch Dryweryn
15:57 Coal: the valleys fill up
18:21 Aberfan, 21 October 1966
20:09 Who was held responsible
22:06 The end of coal
23:55 Tower Colliery: the miners who bought their pit
25:49 600 castles and the Iron Ring
28:00 Snowdon becomes Yr Wyddfa
29:28 Second homes and the 150% tax
31:13 Cymraeg 2050: one million speakers
32:41 Why they hold on
Which of the three places stayed with you: the valley that was drowned, the school under the tip, or the men who bought their pit back? And if the language of your own country were down to its last few counties, would you learn it? Tell me in the comments.
Every figure in this film was checked against official sources: the 2021 Census, Welsh Government statistics and the Aberfan Tribunal report.
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A Drowned Valley, a Buried School and 239 Miners Who Bought Their Pit | Living in Wales | 4K
Far From Anywhere 66
18 views
A Drowned Valley, a Buried School and 239 Miners Who Bought Their Pit | Living in Wales | 4K
There is a country where children were once made to inform on each other for speaking their own language. Today 538,300 people still speak it, the lowest share ever recorded, and the government has written down a target of one million by 2050.
Welcome to Wales: green mountains that run straight into the sea, more than 600 castles, 8.8 million sheep and lambs, and 3.1 million people with a very long memory.
This film stands in three places. A reservoir in the north, where 35 of the 36 Welsh MPs voted against drowning a village and it was drowned anyway. A school in a mining village, where at a quarter past nine on an October morning in 1966 the mountain came down. And a colliery gate in the south, where 239 miners walked back in to a pit they had bought with their own redundancy money.
Three places. One question. Why do people here hold on?
In this film:
00:00 Intro: Why do people here hold on?
02:34 A small country that stands on end
04:34 A language older than English
06:24 1847: The Treachery of the Blue Books
08:05 The Welsh Not
10:20 The map of who speaks Welsh
12:06 Tryweryn: the valley Liverpool drowned
14:04 Cofiwch Dryweryn
15:57 Coal: the valleys fill up
18:21 Aberfan, 21 October 1966
20:09 Who was held responsible
22:06 The end of coal
23:55 Tower Colliery: the miners who bought their pit
25:49 600 castles and the Iron Ring
28:00 Snowdon becomes Yr Wyddfa
29:28 Second homes and the 150% tax
31:13 Cymraeg 2050: one million speakers
32:41 Why they hold on
Which of the three places stayed with you: the valley that was drowned, the school under the tip, or the men who bought their pit back? And if the language of your own country were down to its last few counties, would you learn it? Tell me in the comments.
Every figure in this film was checked against official sources: the 2021 Census, Welsh Government statistics and the Aberfan Tribunal report.
Subscribe, and we will keep going. One country at a time.
#livinginwales #wales #traveldocumentary
1 — Capel Celyn, the valley that was drowned
2 — Aberfan, the school under the tip
3 — Tower Colliery, the 239 miners who bought their pit back
Just reply with the number.
And if you're from Wales: did you grow up speaking Welsh at home, learn it at school, or not at all? I'd really like to hear how it was for you.
Diolch am wylio 🏴