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(Left) Part of Landore in 1916. This is an area
that saw considerable development between 1830 and 1870 as a residential area for the
workers for the Vivian's copper works and the associated industries developed alongside
the River Tawe. Mysydd Terrace was originally laid out on good farmland, it can be easily
identified as early housing for two reasons, the lack of rear projections on the rows, and
the large gardens, built in an age when industrial workers still grew vegetables and kept
pigs. Compare this plan with New
Street and Blaenavon to see how earlier houses were different.
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