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| • | Blackwood is a small town in Monmouthshire, Wales.It is a regional shopping centre and market town. Much of its popularity as a retail centre is because it has an unusually wide main street due to the tramway that formerly ran through the centre of the town. The river that runs through the town is the Sirhowy. Blackwood was founded by John Hodder Moggridge who resided at Woodfield Park Estate and owned a number of collieries in the area in the early 19th Century. The first streets of Blackwood were built by Moggridge to house his workers to whom he leased the buildinds and land for growing food. They represented a breakthrough in early working class housing and was hailes as a successful social experiment. THe houses were considered of a high standard for the time.
This was not enough however and as the industrial revolution took hold, workers conditions became a prominant subject. Blackwood was central to the Chartist movement. The South Wales leaders, John Frost, Zephaniah Williams (a Blackwood man) and William Williams met regularly at the Coach and Horses in Blackwood planning their the march on Newport in 1839. Indeed when the insurrection erupted on a cold November night, a large contingent gathered at Blackwood and upon meeting their comrades who had arrived from the upper Sirhowy Valley, armed themselves and marched on Newport to take the town and demand the adoption of the peoples Charter. The Insurrection failed with the leaders being sentence to death, later commuted to deportment to Tasmania.
History touched the Valley once more in 1912 when the Titanic's distress signals were picked up by amateur wireless enthusiast R T More who resided at the Old Mill Gelligroes, just outside the town. R T More went on to work as a senior Scientist for Marconi and was involved with the invention of the transistor in telecommunications.
Finally the former Penllwyn house on the outskirts of the town, now a pub was originally part of the Tredegar Estates and is believed to be the original home of the family of Henry Morgan, Privateer and Governor of Jamaica.
People from Blackwood include the rock band Manic Street Preachers; 80's rock singer Steve Strange; David Alexander (singer) and Dame Margaret Price (international Opera singer); Alun Pask (rugby player); Alun Lewis ( rugby player)Caerphilly county borough[wikipedia: blackwood, wales]
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