Article: THE VIEW FROM HERE: Town built on copper waits to shine again THE VIEW FROM HERE; Ian Parri casts his eye over the old Anglesey port of Amlwch.(Features)

T seems somewhat inaccurate to describe Mynydd Parys as a mountain compared to its white-capped Snowdonian cousins on the mainland standing to attention against the horizon. But to the people of northern Anglesey this clump of barren rock, that struggles to make it much more than pimple-height, is more than just a mountain.

It was the ore extracted from its belly these last 4,000 years that made the area what it is.

In the 19th century the small town of Amlwch standing in its shadow could boast that it was the world's biggest copper-exporting port and Wales' second largest town. In its wake came three breweries, 70 pubs, and its own tobacco industry that ...

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