Post by Administrator on Dec 18, 2015 19:10:39 GMT
Born 1818 in Llandinam, Montgomeryshire
David Davies - the much respected coal baron and industrialist.
Davies left school at 11, to work with his father at a sawmills. He then began organising labourers for the railway lines that were starting to appear all over Wales, before turning his attention to the rapidly growing coal industry. He invested all of his money into leasing land in the Rhondda in the hope of striking coal, however he failed initially to find profitable seams and was facing financial ruin, when his workers showed incredible loyalty and faith in him, by working without wages for one last attempt to find coal. The breakthrough came at the Cwmparc mine, near Treorchy, from which Davies's fortunes rose.
He established the Ocean Coal Company Ltd and was exporting so much coal through Cardiff docks, that when the docks owner, the Marquess of Bute, started to raise his charges, Davies was instrumental in the building of the rival docks at Barry.
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David Davies - the much respected coal baron and industrialist.
Davies left school at 11, to work with his father at a sawmills. He then began organising labourers for the railway lines that were starting to appear all over Wales, before turning his attention to the rapidly growing coal industry. He invested all of his money into leasing land in the Rhondda in the hope of striking coal, however he failed initially to find profitable seams and was facing financial ruin, when his workers showed incredible loyalty and faith in him, by working without wages for one last attempt to find coal. The breakthrough came at the Cwmparc mine, near Treorchy, from which Davies's fortunes rose.
He established the Ocean Coal Company Ltd and was exporting so much coal through Cardiff docks, that when the docks owner, the Marquess of Bute, started to raise his charges, Davies was instrumental in the building of the rival docks at Barry.
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