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Building Electric Mountain

Dinorwig power station, also known as Electric Mountain, is the largest pumped storage hydro-electric scheme in Europe. It was regarded as one of the world's most imaginative engineering and environmental projects on its opening in 1984. 

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  • 'NC Bloody B': The National Coal Board in south Wales

  • 'NC Bloody B': The National Coal Board in south Wales

  • Date added 22/09/2011
  • The dismal history of the coal industry between the world wars, government control during the Second World War and the need for coal in post-war Britain made nationalisation of the British coal industry almost inevitable after the election of a Labour government in 1945.
  • 200 Years of Industrial Innovation at Ebbw Vale

  • 200 Years of Industrial Innovation at Ebbw Vale

  • Date added 03/03/2010
  • In the mid 19th century the Ebbw Vale Steel, Iron & Coal Company was one of the largest iron producers in South Wales. It was of international importance, not only in terms of size, but also for technical innovation.
  • Building Electric Mountain

  • Building Electric Mountain

  • Date added 21/09/2011
  • Dinorwig power station, also known as Electric Mountain, is the largest pumped storage hydro-electric scheme in Europe. It was regarded as one of the world's most imaginative engineering and environmental projects on its opening in 1984. 
  • Children in Mines

  • Children in Mines

  • Date added 22/09/2011
  • Until the mid-nineteenth century, the British state accepted that children as young as five years old were an acceptable part of the industrial workforce

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