Sunday, 17 November 2019

Brethyn cartref - the forgotten cottage industry of Wales


Wool relate words and idioms in Cymraeg


Wool related words and idioms in English


1850s onwards


The impact on communities in Mid and North Wales


Woollen mills


Factories


Chartists uprising


Stories of abolition


The Sugar trade


Life on the plantations


The Plantation trade


The Slave Trade


Liverpool


London


Bristol


Shrewsbury


Welshpool


Oswestry


Llanidloes


Newtown


Machynlleth


Barmouth


Dolgellau


Moths


Overland transport and packhorses

Fulling


Weaving


Spinning


Carding


Shearing and sorting


Where was Welsh Plains produced?


Estates in Wales and the Enclosures act


Life on the hill farms in Wales 1650-1850


Timeline 1650-1850


Terms for cloth

Welcome

This blog has been set up as a repository for research for the Sheep to Sugar project which has been managed by Learning Links International with National Lottery Heritage funding. Our Community Research Volunteers have been finding out all sorts of fascinating information, maps, photographs, pictures etc. We needed a place to put all this research before we sort it out to go on the People's Collection and the Welsh Plains websites. I can be contacted through this blog by putting comments at the end of the articles. I will get an email to notify me of any comments. This is very much a working document. We hope it will be useful.