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Aberdare and Athletic
Aberdare Athletic F. C.
They played their football league games at the Aberdare Athletic Ground and were known as the Darians.
The reserve team carried on as Aberaman and Aberdare Athletic for one more season but are now known as just Aberaman Athletic F. C.
Aberdare Athletic Football Club were a Welsh football club founded in 1893 and based in Aberdare.
Aberdare Athletic, Cardiff City, Merthyr Town, Newport County, Swansea City and Wrexham have all been members of the Football League.
Inspired by Stanley Cowie, the title was clinched in early May, and yet hopes of Barry being able to play in the Football League were scuppered just a month later, when their application failed and Charlton Athletic and Aberdare Athletic were elected instead.
Two new clubs are elected to this division: Aberdare Athletic ( 1921 – 1927 ) and Charlton Athletic.
The exceptions to this were Crystal Palace, who were promoted to the Second Division, Grimsby Town who transferred to the Third Division North and Aberdare Athletic and Charlton Athletic who joined for the first time.
By 1928 after three years in the wilderness football enthusiasts in the town including the groundsman / caretaker of Stebonheath Park Jack Goldsborough who had joined the club in 1922 as a player / trainer resolved the resurrect the club once more and fate decreed that they were able to succeed when they took over the fixtures of Aberdare Athletic in the Welsh League, another club by this time who were in dire straits and themselves had had to resign from the Welsh League for the same reason as Llanelli.

Aberdare and was
Hirwaun moor, 4 miles to the north west of Aberdare, was according to tradition the scene of a battle at which Rhys ap Tewdwr, prince of Dyfed, was defeated by the allied forces of the Norman Robert Fitzhamon and Iestyn ap Gwrgant, the last Welsh prince of Glamorgan.
Coal mined in Aberdare parish rose from in 1844 to in 1850, and the coal trade, which after 1875 was the chief support of the town, soon reached huge dimensions.
Steam coal was subsequently found in the Rhondda and further west, but many of the great companies of the Welsh coal industry's Gilded Age started operation in Aberdare and the lower Cynon Valley, including those of Samuel Thomas, David Davies and Sons, Nixon's Navigation and Powell Duffryn.
Aberdare, during its boom years, was considered a centre of Welsh culture: it hosted the first National Eisteddfod in 1861, again in 1885, and in 1956 at Aberdare Park where the Gorsedd standing stones still exist.
Aberdare was the birthplace of the Second World War poet Alun Lewis, and there is a plaque commemorating him, including a quotation from his poem The Mountain over Aberdare.
Lord Aberdare was one of the ninety-two elected hereditary peers that were allowed to remain in the House of Lords after the passing of the House of Lords Act 1999. the title is held by his son, the fifth Baron, who succeeded in 2005 and was elected to the House of Lords in 2009.
Henry Austin Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare GCB, PC, FRS ( 16 April 1815 – 25 February 1895 ) was a British Liberal Party politician, who served in government most notably as Home Secretary ( 1868 – 1873 ) and as Lord President of the Council.
Henry Bruce was born at Duffryn, Aberdare, Glamorganshire, the son of John Bruce, a Glamorganshire landowner, by his wife Sarah, daughter of Reverend Hugh Williams Austin.
From 1847 to 1854 Bruce was stipendiary magistrate for Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare, resigning the position in the latter year, when he entered parliament as Liberal member for Merthyr Tydfil.
In 1873 Bruce relinquished the home secretaryship, at Gladstone's request, to become Lord President of the Council, and was raised to the peerage as Baron Aberdare, of Duffryn in the County of Glamorgan, on 23 August that year.
Lord Aberdare, who in 1885 was made a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath, presided over several Royal Commissions at different times.
Lord Aberdare died in London on 25 February 1895, aged 79, and was succeeded in the barony by his only son from his first marriage, Henry.
Lady Aberdare, born 1827, died in April 1897 and was a proponent of women's education and active in the establishment of Aberdare Hall in Cardiff.
The first Labour MP, Keir Hardie, was elected as junior member for the Welsh constituency of Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare in 1900.
Perhaps Wrench ’ s most remembered achievement as editor of The Spectator was his campaign to ease unemployment in the mining town of Aberdare, one of the worst hit by the crisis of 1928, when joblessness reached 40 % in South Wales.
Alun Lewis was born on 1 July 1915 at Cwmaman, near Aberdare in Cynon Valley in the South Wales Coalfield.
An abbreviation of this work, which as a book of travel is even more delightful than its predecessors, was published in 1894, shortly after the author's death, with a brief introductory notice by Lord Aberdare.
In 1900, Hardie, representing Labour, was elected as the junior MP for the dual-member constituency of Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare in the South Wales Valleys, which he would represent for the remainder of his life.

Aberdare and first
Biology block of Main Building In 1885, Aberdare Hall opened as the first hall of residence, allowing women access to the university.
The Welsh Football League's history stretches back to 1904 when the competition was first formed and Aberdare were crowned first champions of a seven-team First Division.
They undertook a week's intensive coaching in Leeds to bring them up to speed, and after playing a number of touring matches the first true rugby league test was played, with the team going down 8-9 to Wales in Aberdare on 1 January 1908.
And it was a touring New Zealand side that Wales first played against in 1908, winning 9-8 at Aberdare.
The Welsh rugby league team were contesting their first national fixture, and managed to beat the touring Kiwis 9-8 in Aberdare in front of 20, 000 spectators.
* 1907 Wales play their first international match – won against New Zealand in Aberdare ( 17, 000 ).
In 1937, Aberdare was appointed chairman of the National Fitness Council, the first attempt at a Sports Council in England.
While African natives have been familiar with the animal and Europeans have been reported seeing spotted lions since roughly 1904, the first documentable encounter by a European was in 1931 when Kenyan farmer Michael Trent shot and killed two individuals in the Aberdare Mountains region at an elevation of.
At first Nixon only sold the coal on commission, but eventually acquired what appeared to him a prospective field for steam-coal in the Aberdare valley, and after seven years ' working at last struck a rich seam.
The first Wales international league game took place at Aberdare on 1 January 1908 played against the All Golds.
Wales participated in the first ever rugby league international when they beat New Zealand 9-8 in Aberdare in 1908.

Aberdare and rugby
Aberdare Rugby Football Club are a rugby union team formed in 1890 which still play in Aberdare today at the Ynys Stadium.

Aberdare and international
* Arthur Brown ( footballer born 1903 ) ( Arthur Ivor Brown, 1903-1971 ), Welsh international goalkeeper who played for Aberdare, Reading and Crewe Alexandra.

Aberdare and between
There are several cairns and the remains of a circular British encampment on the mountain between Aberdare and Merthyr.
The town is situated about 150 km ( a two hour drive ) north of Kenya's capital Nairobi, in the country's densely populated and fertile Central Highlands, lying between the eastern base of the Aberdare ( Nyandarua ) Range, which forms part of the eastern end of the Great Rift Valley, and the western slopes of Mount Kenya.
The line is also used as a diversionary route for trains to Merthyr, Aberdare and Treherbet when the line between Cardiff Queen Street and Radyr is closed for engineering work.
The Great Western Railway ( GWR ) 2600 Class or Aberdare Class was a class of 2-6-0 steam locomotive built between 1900 and 1907.
They were a freight version of the 3300 and 4120 classes designed for hauling coal trains between Aberdare and Swindon.

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