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  • During the 1920s and 1930s, the coalmining communities of Wales experienced great hardship as a result of the economic depression. With no money to buy coal for heating and cooking, many families were forced to resort to the dangerous practice of scrabbling for coal on tips.
Scrabbling for small coal at Bagillt, c.1930s
  • The last Rhyd-y-car house has been furnished as it could have been in 1985. The Museum has adopted the all-too common scenario of a middle-aged couple where the man has been made redundant, and the redundancy payment has been used to improve their home. Grant-aid would have enabled them to re-roof the house with the concrete tiles which are literally changing the colour of the valleys, but here metal windows, plastic rainwater pipes and new doors have transformed the outside while the inside has been totally re-decorated and re-furnished within the constraints imposed by the old fabric.
Interior of 1985 house, Rhyd-y-car, Museum of Welsh Life