The Golden Valley

The Golden Valley is an exploration and a celebration of a small south Wales valley. The site of ancient tombs and settlements, its rural life was for just over a century taken over by the brutal occupation of coal mining before abandonment once more to nature. In well-chosen words and stunning photographs this is the story of one place, and many.

Cardiff-born Phil Cope is a photographer, writer, and exhibition and book designer. His stand alone books include a series of photographic books about wells: Holy Wells Cornwall; Borderlands; Holy Wells Scotland; and The Living Wells of Wales. Among his other publications are: Creating Meaning: a book about culture and Democracy; The Price of Coal: the Tynewydd Colliery Disaster, April 1877; four books on Haiti and vodou; two books about Liverpool, and The Dancing Pilgrimage of Water, a book on the rivers and lakes of Wales, with Dewi Roberts.