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Tom Coleman

In search of George Baker, the forgotten 1958 Wales World Cup squad member who never made it onto the plane

On their own, there's nothing all that noteworthy about these houses.

Each one clambers behind the last, marching up the steep hills towards the sun like concrete dominoes burrowed into the landscape.

But together, the rows of terraces cemented into the slopes of the Rhondda Valley are among the nation's most iconic sights, nestling down alongside the luscious greenery that appears to billow up to the sky above.

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