And for all
those Cardiff residents saying this is what Valleys folk are like and complaining they
ruin their City on weekend, here’s a great last paragraph to an article from
award winning author Rachel Tresize on the cynical exploitation of MTV with The
Valleys
‘After the 1794 opening of
the Glamorganshire Canal, constructed to float iron and coal from the valleys
to the nearest coast, (which happened to be Cardiff), international trade
encouraged a dock and then a dockland to spring up around the canal’s mouth. Without
it we’d find ourselves in a very different Wales: the valleys town of Merthyr
Tydfil its capital and Cardiff a mere ‘hamlet’.
The full article is HERE
The full article is HERE
1 comment:
good to see MTV and Viacom being targeted, but Trinity Mirror's Walesonline website is as bad it's given this show a lot of of publicity in the run up to the launch and first episode are the paper's Editor's in Wales worried about the poor image of the Valleys they are continuing to promote?
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