Dowlais

Dowlais was the site of Dowlais Ironworks, founded in 1759 by John Guest and later the largest ironworks in the United Kingdom. Guest's reliance on the exploitative "truck" (company shop) system contributed to the outbreak of the Merthyr Uprising. 

Of the hill "Dowlais Top," the poet Idris Davies (1905-53) wrote: 

Cardiff Market / Old Cardiff Gaol

The present-day Cardiff Central Market is a covered market. Built in the late 1800s, it features street food, a greengrocer, a fishmonger, clothes-sellers, an LP store with a statue of Elvis, and more. In 1831, however, this was the site  of the Cardiff gaol. After the 1831 Merthyr Uprising was suppressed, Lewis Lewisyn and Richard Lewis were incarcerated in the Cardiff Gaol. Despite an 11,000-signature petition demanding a reprieve for Lewis, on 13 August 1841 he was executed here, in the doorway of what is now the Market on St. Mary's Street. 

Cyfarthfa Castle

The Merthyr ironmaster William Crawshay II (1788-1867) had this neo-medieval "castle" built as his family seat. It was designed by the English architect Robert Lugar (1773-1855), built by local people out of local stone, and completed in 1825.

Six years before the Merthyr Uprising, Crawshay could look across the valley from his front lawn and see his employees' homes. 

Cyfarthfa Castle

The Merthyr ironmaster William Crawshay II (1788-1867) had this neo-medieval "castle" built as his family seat. It was designed by the English architect Robert Lugar (1773-1855), built by local people out of local stone, and completed in 1825.

Six years before the Merthyr Uprising, Crawshay could look across the valley from his front lawn and see his employees' homes. 

Cardiff Market / Old Cardiff Gaol

Cardiff Market (Welsh: Marchnad Caerdydd) is a covered market in Cardiff's City Centre. The current market building was built in the late Victorian area on the site of the former city gaol. It was there in June-August 1831 that Lewis Lewisyn and Richard Lewis were incarcerated. Eleven thousand people petitioned for Lewis to be reprieved. On 13 August, outside the St. Mary's Street entrance to what is now Cardiff Market, Lewis was executed. 

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