In a matter of days, in an online auction run from Kent, the destiny of one of the most historic buildings in Wales will be decided.
If you browse the listing on the auctioneers’ website, however, you’d have little idea of the pivotal significance of The Rhondda Powerhouse.
There is no mention that this “former brick-built Welsh Colliery building in a derelict condition” was the “citadel” at the heart of the Tonypandy Riots – the seismic industrial battle etched on the Cymric psyche which infuriated Churchill and gave us the legacy of the national minimum wage.
