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In 1789, industrialists Thomas Hill and partners Thomas Hopkins & Benjamin Pratt were granted the lease to ‘the royalties, mines, minerals, coal and limestone, with power to work the same, and to erect furnaces thereon, in, under and over 12,000 acres, commonly called Lord Abergavenny’s Hills’. Agreed with Henry Nevill (Earl of Abergavenny), it was a risky venture but they succeeded in putting Blaenavon on the map.

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Seventeen eighty nine
Another world, another time
Forty thousand pounds
Just to get it of the ground

And three hundred men
A hundred to a furnace, three of them
Led by Thomas Hill
Hopkins, Pratt in Witley, with Nevill

There is a sense of the wealth
Influence and gravitas that came
With turning around this backwater town
And making your name
And the name of the game: pig iron

Heaps of ore and coal
Signs of land relieved of its soul
Napoleonic wars,
US Independence made it soar

So demand was high
Iron for the armaments to fight
Other people’s wars
Did they care what they were fighting for

There is a sense of the wealth
Influence and gravitas that came
With turning around this backwater town
And making your name
And the name of the game: pig iron

And as time went by
Profits grew with population rise
And it so became
The Ironworks that led the way

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from Lord Abergavenny's Hills, track released March 14, 2015
Darren Black: guitar/vocals

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Darren Black Winchester, UK

Darren Black is a Hampshire UK based musician, songwriter and composer whose songs are rooted in sociological and political observation. His latest album 'Empty Halls Can Feel Like crowded Rooms' was released in January 2023.

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