Roberts, R.O.

About the authors: R. O. Roberts graduated at the University College of North Wales, Bangor. He worked for a period in Oxford and London, and was a lecturer and then a senior lecturer in the Department of Economics in the University College of Swansea. He has a wide range of publications. J. Elizabeth Hall, a graduate of the Universities of Leicester and Wales, worked for a period in the University Department of Economics at Swansea. She teaches Business Studies and Statistics at the West Suffolk College, Bury St. Edmunds.

Building Industry in the Upper Swansea Valley and Its Economic and Social Ramifications, C. 1750-1975

2000 0-7734-7788-8
This study starts with the economic history of the Upper Swansea Valley, including an account of the provision of the canal, tramroads and railways which made possible the extensive exploitation of the mineral resources of the district by firms large and small. It then gives an account of the building industry whose story was linked in many ways to all other aspects of the economic and social life of the district. The reports of the Medical Officers of Health were valuable source of information for the study. A final chapter traces the hundred-year history of a distinguished building firm, Davies and Son, Allt-wen. With illustrations.