Link: Tonypandy Riots

[Morganllan]

Here is a website to mark the Centenary of the Tonypandy Riots of 1910:

Commemorating the 100th Anniversary in 2010 (sadly this website is only an archive copy)
http://web.archive.org/web/20100621064316/http://www.tonypandy2010.com

Some related threads which mention the riots:

James Maloney
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,464314.0.html

Blacksmith in a coal mine?
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,354315.0.html

[malverntrail]

Thanks. I'd been thinking of visiting Tonypandy area, and looks like I now have even more of an excuse. My granddad (Levi 'Len' Watkins) was a miner in the area approx 1906 to 1926 (when he became an insurance agent) along with many relations, so must have had some involvement.

[sarah]

BBC reports on the 100th Anniversary of the Tonypandy Riots in 1910.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-11655470

Churchill and the Tonypandy Riots
http://www.rootschat.com/links/01eah

Winston Churchill's memo for Auction
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/churchill-memo-tonypandy-riots-up-6677339