Catch up - Wales This Week: The Last Welsh Miners?

It’s one of the greatest stories ever told. In Wales, the rise and fall of the coal industry goes hand in hand with the growth and the decline of many of our communities.

But that industry which once employed over a quarter of a million people in Wales has now dwindled to such a point that only seven Welsh deep pit miners remain.

After decades of closures and thousands of redundancy notices, many of our mine workers were forced into an almost nomadic lifestyle, travelling the length and breadth of the UK to find work.

It is this which brought a group of Welsh deep pit mine workers to the Kellingley Colliery, in North Yorkshire

Wales This Week: The Last Welsh Miners is available to watch online here