In this kaleidoscopic portrait, John Geraint captures with a filmmaker's eye the exuberant life of this former mining community in changing times. Comic and evocative, the book shows how the values the valley has lived by could guide the Rhondda - and the wider world - towards a better future.

• About the book:
• Rhondda Townships
• Foreword
• A Peculiar Sort of Hiraeth
• Up the Mountain
• Rhondda Place Names
• Ice Creams and Frothy Coffees
• The Price of Coal
• Will You Come to the Pictures with Me?
• Welsh
• Cambrian
• Corona!
• Tom Jones in Nantgwyn Street
• Porth County
• Central Hall, Tonypandy
• Phoning Home
• On a Rhondda Bus
• Dai Chips: A Rhondda Time Lord
• Treorchy’s Rugby Dream
• Why It’s THE Rhondda
• Libraries Gave Us Power
• The Promised Land
• Gateway to the Stars
• The Choir
• Llyn Fawr
• Streets Ahead
• Uncle Len: The Rhondda Working Man
• Druids Close to Home
• In the Magpie’s Nest
• Railway Lines
• Rhondda Billionaires
• Shopping at the Kwop
• Ponty
• Welsh Hills
• Rhondda Fach
• Treorchy: Higher and Higher
• Fair Play
• Black Tips and Pyramids
• Our Field of Dreams
• The Record Shop
• We Beat the All Blacks!
• Tonypandy Riots!
• Penrhys
• The Man Who Made Tommy Farr
• Sunday School
• Trimming the Coalface for Christmas
• Postscript: Legacy, Heritage and History
• Acknowledgements