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Bevan was born to anger in the coal-seamed Ebbw Vale district of South Wales. He was one of the seven surviving children of a coal miner, grew up in a cramped, mud-floored cottage in the grimy town of Tredegar. At 13 Nye left school and went into the mines himself...
...with the thoughtless world of privilege that allowed his father to choke to death of a miner's lung disease and never offered a tuppence in workmen's compensation. In 1929 he burst upon Parliament "like some great disturbance of nature" as the new member from Ebbw Vale...
...Thirteenth Apostle, Vale...
...wonder whether you may have had tongue in cheek when you explained Cwthmas as "an abbreviation of 'Commonwealthmas'; the 'w' is pronounced like that in the town of Ebbw Vale." I'm lost...
...Ebbw Vale is pronounced Ebboo Vale, so Cwthmas is Coothmas. Both are more easily said with the tongue out of the cheek...