Abersychan was the birthplace of the politicians Roy Jenkins, Don Touhig and Paul Murphy ( MP for Torfaen ), and of the rugby footballers Wilfred Hodder, Candy Evans and Bryn Meredith.

On June 3, 1864 Abersychan was constituted a local government district, governed by a local board.

A community of Abersychan was formed in 1985, but to date no community council has been formed.

Born in Abersychan, Monmouthshire, in south-eastern Wales, as an only child, Roy Jenkins was the son of a National Union of Mineworkers official, Arthur Jenkins.

Jenkins was educated at Abersychan County School, University College, Cardiff, and at Balliol College, Oxford, where he was twice defeated for the Presidency of the Oxford Union but took First Class Honours in Politics, Philosophy and Economics ( PPE ).

Eight years later it was extended to meet the Great Western Railway ( GWR ) at Abersychan & Talywain.

Abersychan is a settlement and community north of Pontypool in Torfaen, Wales, within the historic boundaries of Monmouthshire.

The town includes three schools, Abersychan Comprehensive School and Victoria Primary School along with various shops and other amenities.

Abersychan now constitutes a community and electoral division of the county borough of Torfaen.

In 1894 Abersychan became an urban district and civil parish.

The Abersychan community includes Abersychan, Cwmavon, Garndiffaith, Pentwyn, Talywain, Varteg, and Victoria Village.

Pentwyn, Torfaen is a small village located in the district of Abersychan.

Victoria Village is a small hamlet located in the district of Abersychan.

Murphy attended St Francis Roman Catholic School in Abersychan, West Monmouth School in Pontypool.

It lies near Abersychan on the hills above the valley of the Afon Llwyd, between Pontypool and Blaenavon.

By 1880, the line had extended south to meet the Great Western Railway at Abersychan & Talywain.

It was a step in the right direction, but it took an additional act passed in 1958 to establish fully the thriving systems of today.

Londinium was a relatively new settlement, founded after the conquest of 43AD, but it had grown to be a thriving commercial centre with a population of travellers, traders, and, probably, Roman officials.

Archaeological findings in the Sarawak river delta reveal that the area was once a thriving trading centre between India and China from the 500's until about 1300 AD.

Carson City's development was no longer dependent on the mining industry and instead became a thriving commercial center.

At the time of its independence in 1960, DRC was the second most industrialized country in Africa after South Africa ; it boasted a thriving mining sector and its agriculture sector was relatively productive.

One particularity of the Regime was the claim to be thriving for an authentic system, different from Western, or Soviet influences.

The decaying, ruined scenery implies that at one time there was a thriving world.

In 1926 he was placed in charge of monitoring shops selling opium, noting regular irregularities and a thriving illegal trade in the controlled substance ; believing opium to be essentially harmless, there is evidence indicating that Gardner probably took many bribes in this position, earning himself a small fortune.

Polish independence had boosted the development of thriving culture and intellectual achievement was high, but the Great Depression brought huge unemployment and increased social tensions, including rising antisemitism.

Crete was under Venetian control from 1204 and became a thriving center of art with eventually a Scuola di San Luca, or organized painter's guild on Western lines.

The knitting of woollen garments was a thriving industry for Jersey during the 17th and 18th centuries.

Because rising tensions with the British resulted in President Jefferson's embargo of British trade, Audubon's business was not thriving.

Despite his reputation as a serious composer of large, complex musical structures, some of Brahms's most widely known and most commercially successful compositions during his life were small-scale works of popular intent aimed at the thriving contemporary market for domestic music-making ; indeed, during the 20th century, the influential American critic B. H. Haggin, rejecting more mainstream views, argued in his various guides to recorded music that Brahms was at his best in such works and much less successful in larger forms.

The work force was drastically impacted by the Civil War and the economy was thriving.

Standard Macedonian was implemented as the official language of the Socialist Republic of Macedonia in 1945 and has since developed a thriving literary tradition.

A thriving psychedelic music scene in Cambodia, influenced by psychedelic rock and soul broadcast by US forces radio in Vietnam, was pioneered by artists such as Sinn Sisamouth and Ros Sereysothea.

At this time, under the abbot Gilduin, Saint Victor was a thriving community and upon Gilduin ’ s death, the abbey had 44 dependant houses of canons.

During the 18th century there was a thriving trade bringing slaves from Sierra Leone to the plantations of South Carolina and Georgia where their rice-farming skills made them particularly valuable.

Liberty Bell was a huge success and spawned a thriving mechanical gaming device industry.

Skopje was a thriving trading settlement but fell into decline after being hit by another earthquake at the end of the 11th century.

The art was revived in the mid-20th century and natural trumpet playing is again a thriving art around the world.

Zanzibar now has an improved and thriving sea transport network, by which public owned ships and private speed boats serve the ports of Zanzibar, which was renovated by the help of European Union.

The Nazis knew this, of course, and while their chief quarry was the industrial centers, they let a few drop every time they went over, hoping for a lucky hit.

Economic analysis was never Trevelyan's strong point and the England of the industrial transformation cries out for economic analysis.

The issue was sufficiently potent in 1935 to spark secession from the American Federation of Labor of its industrial union members.

Local industry's investment in Rhode Island was the big story in 1960's industrial development effort.

To reach a still greater audience of location-minded manufacturers, our industrial advertising budget for the fiscal year was increased from $32,000 to $40,000, and the Industrial Building Authority's financial participation was upped from $17,000 to $20,000.

He was an ardent champion of the Brown & Sharpe Apprentice Program and personal counselor to countless able men who first developed their industrial talents with the company.

As the number of reported freight car loadings increased, this was taken to indicate increased industrial activity, and consequently increased stock earnings, implying fatter dividends, and implying therefore increased stock market prices.

The prevailing view in the industry was summed up in 1912 by a group of auto makers who told a Senate committee: `` The exceedingly unsatisfactory and uselessly expensive conditions, including delays surrounding legal disputes, particularly in patent litigation, are items of industrial burden which must be written large in figures of many millions of dollars of industrial waste ''.

Milton and Rosella Lovett of Cranston were awarded $55,000 damages from the state in Superior Court yesterday for industrial property which they owned at 83 Atwells Ave., Providence, and which was condemned for use in construction of Interstate Route 95.

And very, very few were lost when the final connection was made to the control panels of ship or industrial combine.

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The American Civil War was one of the earliest true industrial wars.

According to the National Statistical Service, during the January – August 2007 period, Armenia's industrial sector was the single largest contributor to the country's GDP, but remained largely stagnant with industrial output increasing only by 1. 7 percent per year.

The First Liberal government also established the basis of the later welfare state, with old age pensions, developed a system for settling industrial disputes, which was accepted by both employers and trade unions.

Aachen was the administrative centre for the coal-mining industries in neighbouring places to the northeast ; it never played any role in brown coal mining, however, neither in administrative or industrial terms.

Idar-Oberstein was one of the centers which made use of agate on an industrial scale.

In addition to this, the land the Ainu lived on was distributed to the Wajin who had decided to move to Hokkaido, who had been encouraged by the Japanese government of the Meiji era to take advantage of the island ’ s abundance of natural resources, and to create and maintain farms in the model of western industrial agriculture.

By the 1890s, the company was the largest and most profitable industrial enterprise in the world.

The buyout, secretly negotiated by Charles M. Schwab ( no relation to Charles R. Schwab ), was the largest such industrial takeover in United States history to date.

Frick was well known in industrial circles for maintaining staunch anti-union sensibilities.

The Auschwitz complex of camps was located administratively in Germany, Provinz Oberschlesien, Regierungsbezirk Kattowitz, Landkreis Bielitz, approximately 30 km south of Katowice and 50 km west of Kraków, encompassing a large industrial area rich in natural resources.