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Article: Townspeople take stance on their fighting statues; CAST OF HEROES: When it comes to monuments, Merthyr honours its world class boxers above its socialist visionaries.(News)
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- Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales)
- Article date:
- July 3, 2002
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Byline: TONY TRAINOR
HEROES of the industrial revolution are apparently few and far between in a town that sparked the modern socialist movement.
A visitor to Merthyr Tydfil might expect a statue to working class hero Dic Penderyn or the town's first Labour MP, Keir Hardie.
How about Richard Trevithick, the Cornish engineer whose pioneering steam railway journey in 1804 changed the way we live and communicate?
Instead, the last three years has seen the town honour not its great thinkers who inspired social change, but a trio of men who ...
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