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Last Pit in the Rhondda: The Final Cut

S3 · E6 · 08 Aug 1991 · 50 min

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On 20 December 1990, Mardy Colliery was closed, ending over 200 years of coal mining in the Rhondda valley. But the 300 miners have more to adjust to than the loss of their jobs. Since the strike of 1984/85 when miners' wives played a major part, women have become the breadwinners.

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Joanna Head · Producer