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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;rhiwfield, post: 74783, member: 924&quot;]I&#039;m a sucker for ceramics that tell a story.</p><p><br /></p><p>Blaenavon is an old industrial site in South Wales that is now a World Heritage Site (see wiki for Blaenavon Ironworks) and you can still go down Big Pit coal mine which is now a museum.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Blaenavon Workmen&#039;s Hall and Institute was built in 1895 and was paid for from voluntary pay deductions from miners and ironworkers. We recently sold this mug, from 1912, from which it is clear that the Institute was part financed with debt, the mug commemorating the date when the Institute became debt free. And it is still open serving the community.</p><p><img src="http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i31/rhiwfield/054_zpsit1xvu1i.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><img src="http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i31/rhiwfield/055_zpstbfbewrq.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><img src="http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i31/rhiwfield/056_zpsm9cbsosc.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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