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| | Wales on the Web Blackwood — A Movie of the Town (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) |
 | | Wales on the Web Blackwood Movie - wales flash movie Blackwood, in the Sirhowy Valley, developed as a C19th settlement around the Sirhowy Tramroad, which like the later railway for many years ran through its main street. |
 | | Blackwood, central to the coalfield, was a convenient Chartist meeting place, and it was from its now demolished Coach & Horses public house that in 1839 John Frost led the Sirhowy Valley column, on a disastrous march against Newport. |
 | | The Manic Street Preachers, pop group, formerly pupils of Oakdale School, where one of their platinum discs is exhibited, gave some of their early performances in the Institute, before going on to win international acclaim. |
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