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On one of my all to rare visits to town of my birth, casually walking around Merthyr town centre one night I happened to take a short cut down and an alley way to the bus station. Much to my joy I discovered the man with the Red Flag (now where have I seen this before, why in this blog!) had been painted up as a mural, fantastic! but would it not be much better to see this mural painted up much bigger and in a more public space. Whatever, lets be thank full for this, it's a beginning I hope?
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For perhaps with all the money being provided to Merthyr as part of the South Wales Valleys Heritage Tourism Initiative, I hope Merthyr will spend not a small sum on promoting the Insurrection of 1831 as both public information and as an Heritage Tourism attraction. What, did I hear Herian say? it strikes me as rather odd that they have left this most significant event off their illustrated poster of Southern Wales 'Industrial Revolution' history.
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One could start thinking there is a conspiracy to ditch and dump the Merthyr Rising 1831, given its revolutionary theme and instead go more on Chartism believing that can be sold on as a sound step towards Political Democracy and Industrial Trade Unionism. Thus more marketable, sad if true and hopefully there are those in Merthyr who can think and act beyond such narrow dimensions of commercialising Heritage Tourism as someones sanitized, maybe politically censored view.
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If what I am saying above is only half true, then that's still bad enough to warrant a modern day Workers History Revolutionary Reaction asap and why not meet at the Court of Requests, now a public House (see info below) to discuss matters presented in this post. People living in Merthyr will have to take the initiative, if it is determined to prepare an 1831 Initiative to take advantage of the millions being made available to South Wales Heritage Tourism Regeneration Initiatives (see web for further info). See Link to Cordell Country Merthyr Tudful Accommodation in Tour Four Area The Court of Requests (12) is the next pub on the left a short distance down Dynevor. This was the hated Court of Requests........administered by a certain ...www.cordellcountry.org/flash/tourm.html - Cached - Similar -.
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.In the first instance I would myself consider more public 1831 sinage around and about is needed asap, not least leading into Merthyr Tudful, the naming of area around site of Castle Inn as PLAS 3 MEHEFIN 1831 with there being presented a Large Mural depicting the Massacre and later a sculpture depicting that tragic event. C'mon Merthyr, Newport as more that one sculpture depicting their 1839 Rising, and let us see Lewis Lewis being remembered as much as Dic Penderyn, the Welsh need to stop being Martyrs all the time.
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Now if there are those who might think this is no good for tourism, I suggest you view below links to just see how the Australian Town of Ballarat deals with the Eureka Stockade Miners Rising as an Heritage Tourism project, they are far from being so shy as our 'Timid Taffs'.
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Now if there are those who might think this is no good for tourism, I suggest you view below links to just see how the Australian Town of Ballarat deals with the Eureka Stockade Miners Rising as an Heritage Tourism project, they are far from being so shy as our 'Timid Taffs'.
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Eureka Centre Ballarat Eureka - Eureka Stockade Gardens - 16:16 3 Dec 2004 ... The Website for Ballarat's Eureka Centre. Home of the Eureka Stockade. ... The Eureka Stockade gardens is the site set aside by the people of Ballarat East in the ... The first an interpretive artwork was commissioned. ...www.eurekaballarat.com/index.php?option=com... - Cached - Similar -
Eureka Centre Ballarat Eureka - Eureka Stockade Gardens - 16:16 3 Dec 2004 ... The Website for Ballarat's Eureka Centre. Home of the Eureka Stockade. ... The Eureka Stockade gardens is the site set aside by the people of Ballarat East in the ... The first an interpretive artwork was commissioned. ...www.eurekaballarat.com/index.php?option=com... - Cached - Similar -
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Eureka Centre Ballarat Eureka - The Eureka Precinct - 16:16 The Eureka Centre, at the Eureka Stockade, is a unique architectural masterpiece, one of Ballarat's icons. Its huge Eureka Sail, symbolising the flag of the ...www.eurekaballarat.com/index.php?option=com... - Cached - Similar -
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Eureka Centre Ballarat Eureka - The Eureka Precinct - 16:16 The Eureka Centre, at the Eureka Stockade, is a unique architectural masterpiece, one of Ballarat's icons. Its huge Eureka Sail, symbolising the flag of the ...www.eurekaballarat.com/index.php?option=com... - Cached - Similar -
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The Eureka Centre and Stockade Gardens, Ballarat, Victoria The Eureka Centre and Stockade Gardens, Ballarat, Victoria - At the beautifully designed Eureka ... Coach Parking; Interpretive Centre; Interactive Centre ...australia.shopsafe.com.au/.../ballarat/the_eureka_centre_and_stockade_gardens-historical_sites_heritage_locations.htm - Cached - Similar -
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Anne Beggs Sunter Contested Memories of Eureka : Museum ... The paper analyses the development of the Eureka Stockade Centre in Ballarat, and compares this public interpretation to other attempts to present the story ...www.historycooperative.org/journals/lab/85/sunter.html - Similar -by AB Sunter - 2003 - Cited by 1 - Related articles
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Rough guide to Australia - Google Books Result by Margo Daly - 2003 - Travel - 1232 pagesThe site of the Eureka Stockade (see box opposite) is in Eureka Memorial Park, and the nearby Eureka Stockade and Interpretation Centre (daily 9am-4.30pm; ...books.google.co.uk/books?isbn=1843530902... -
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Victorian Heritage Database - EUREKA STREET BALLARAT EAST ... The prime above ground elements are the Eureka Monument, Drinking Fountain, Memorial Gates, and Eureka Interpretive Centre. The Eureka Stockade Monument is ...vhd.heritage.vic.gov.au/places/heritage/7032 - Cached - Similar -
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Victorian Heritage Database - EUREKA STREET BALLARAT EAST ... The prime above ground elements are the Eureka Monument, Drinking Fountain, Memorial Gates, and Eureka Interpretive Centre. The Eureka Stockade Monument is ...vhd.heritage.vic.gov.au/places/heritage/7032 - Cached - Similar -
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Eureka Stockade Interpretive Centre - Cox Architects : The Eureka Stockade Interpretive Centre commemorates one of the defining moments in ... over the roof and is aligned on an axis with Ballarat's main street. ...www.cox.com.au/projects.aspx?projectId=2368...3096 - Cached - Similar -
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Last but not least and most important, an annual 1831 Merthyr Rising Commemoration, please and , a big one. The below link might give you some ideas as other posts in this blog may.
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Last but not least and most important, an annual 1831 Merthyr Rising Commemoration, please and , a big one. The below link might give you some ideas as other posts in this blog may.
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Eureka Rising - celebrating a rebellion is a time of tyranny, Jan 2005 The mission of our Eureka Rising culture collaboration, as presented to the Mayor of Ballarat David Vendy at a meeting on 30 October and later confirmed in ...www.peacebus.com/Eureka/Eureka150.html - Similar -
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Why not an annual dawn walk from Cefn Coed to Merthyr Town Centre, to mark anniversary of the 3 June 1831 Massacre but let us not make this represent a 'March of Victims' but more a march representing a people with the commitment and courage to fight for what they believed in:
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Why not an annual dawn walk from Cefn Coed to Merthyr Town Centre, to mark anniversary of the 3 June 1831 Massacre but let us not make this represent a 'March of Victims' but more a march representing a people with the commitment and courage to fight for what they believed in:
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Liberty over Tyrrany,
Justice over Oppression
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Freedom from Exploitation.
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Justice over Oppression
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Freedom from Exploitation.
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I might be up for doing this myself next year as an informal walk, if no ones up for organising proper. Will let you know if this Merthyr 1831 Dawn Walk looks like getting anywhere, if interested contact me. Please note my email system is off line at moment but hope to correct soon ok.
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