Thanks Richard for posting a video of a road with which I am familiar. Every Long Inch of it. As I trained for the Royal Navy and eventual Special Ops career. I cycled hundreds of times the Rhigos Mountain Road from Pentre , Rhondda to Hirwaun, down Mountain Ash to Pontypridd an back up the Rhondda Fawr. Love all your videos and enjoy them sitting in my office near Orlando Florida, as they provoke memories of my heritage and country. Thank You!!

What an insightful review of our South Wales area. Most enjoyable to watch and presented in a very appealing way. I trust you will continue to unearth interesting and or historical facts of Wales that many of us are unaware of.

Great job thanks for this to show my grand children where I grew up now live in Nz for 40 + years

Thank you for this invaluable documentary. I am the proud grand daughter and niece of miners from Hirwaun with links to Tower and the quarry nearby. I have saved it on youtube to my liked videos.

Well done. Love Wales. From Perth, Western Australia.

i know this lovely and interesting area, your enthusiasm, research and presentation is first class, keep it up sir, always interesting.

Thank you ever so much for this absolutely educative and entertaining video. We live in Treherbert but were not aware of the long and rich history of the area. (Moved here from Swansea) I tried to find out more about you and your work, found your book about Wales on Amazon (and ordered it). Is there another place where I can find more from you, by you and about you?

Where is Reba Payne ???

Yeah... I can see my house from here, The White House - Eileen Place...I wasn't there when you filmed - my car was gone....lol I know every bump in this road seeing as I used hammer mine (and friends) bikes over it in the seventies and eighties before they put that stupid kink in the straight on the other side, and before the 44-tonners ruined the road constantly by destroying the manholes. I also used to drive over it four times a day in a minibus for schools and all through all the other days I still do it in my car. Used to be a wonderful road, but now it's spoiled by arseholes who actually do the 40mph, lorries, cyclists, and the traffic lights that have been there for 30 months when they shouldn't have been there for six. But, now and again, if I'm lucky, I get to drive over it at 60 mph and with no car in front of me for the whole eight miles - and I ignore the lights too. Then - the Rhigos Road is wonderful again.

Who said Llyn y Fan Fach was anywhere near Y Rhondda? I believe the Celtic artefacts were found in the lake that once covered the (now) grass area just above Hen Dre'r Mynydd, not in Llyn Fawr. A nicely composed and presented view of the valley/s and its history. Diolch.