The district was formerly part of the Mid Glamorgan County Council. Yet the MGCC Council Hall and employees were actually headquartered outside the county, in Cardiff, South Glamorgan. The administration department was formerly located in Greyfriars Road, Cardiff until the county borough was formed on April 1, 1996 by the merger of the former districts of Cynon Valley, Rhondda and part of Taff-Ely.
Industry
The district developed from the discovery and mining, primarily for export, of high quality welshcoals, such as Anthracite, via Cardiff and [[Barry] docks. The landscape was dominated by coal waste heapsand deep mine pit-heads. Many of the roads sre lined with semi-ribbon development of closely packed Victorian terraces of houses which have given the Rhondda valleys their distinctive appearance. In the 1980's privatisation of British Coal resulted in the closure of many of the coal mining activites in the valleys, devastating the local economy.
As deep mines closed , a number of very large open-cast coal mines were created and remain in operation especially towards the north of the area.
The Welsh Development Agency, which was formed in 1976 to help reverse the economic down-turn in Wales caused by the recession in both the coal and Steel industries, has been very active in the Rhondda Cynon Taff area in supporting and encouraging industrial and commercial re-generation.
Environment
The Coal industry has had major adverse impacts on the quality of the environment such that most of the rivers were severely polluted to the exclusion of all fish life. Recent decades have shown great improvement with Salmon recorded from the River Taff and the River Rhondda but the continued presence of man-made obstacles in the rivers is inhibiting their return to their pre-industrial condition.
The best spot in the rhondda, is in penygraig down the flats, loads of cool things to do and take.
Well there is one hook up spot in the Rhondda where we all have fun and that is the Melon in Ystrad.
Comeing from the Rhondda I have come to the conclusion that the place has completely fuck all to offer young peaple in the way of employment or entertainment.I have,nt seen a great deal of the world but in comparison this place has,nt got a great deal going for it.So in a nut shell fuck you.
Wherever in the world Welshmen and women gather, one of the hymns always sung is to the tune "Cwm Rhondda" (the Valley of the Rhondda).
The Rhondda is really two valleys, Rhondda Fawr (including Treherbert, Treorchy, Tonypandy, and Porth) and Rhondda Fach (including Maerdy, Ferndale, and Tylorstown) separated by the nearly 2000 ft high Cefn Rhondda Ridge.
The decline of the coal industry beginning in the 1930's brought tremendous hardship to the whole valley, dependent as it was upon one main industry, and the government has been very concerned and involved in the setting up of light industries to alleviate one of the highest unemployment levels in Britain.
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