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4.2 Coast video extracts

  • Extract 1

  • The development of the port of Cardiff and the community of Tiger Bay (Coast, Series 1, Programme 3, 2005).

Video 1 (duration 4:08)

  • Extract 2

  • Conquering the Menai Straits: Edward I tried to dominate the Menai Straits by building Caernarfon Castle; the engineers Thomas Telford and Robert Stephenson did it by constructing the world's first suspension and box-girder bridges (Coast, Series 1, Programme 4, 2005).

Video 2 (duration 11:44)

  • Extract 3

  • The story of the Anglesey bonesetters and the birth of modern orthopaedics (Coast, Series 2, Programme 2, 2006).

Video 3 (duration 6:06)

  • Extract 4

  • ‘Copperopolis’: Swansea's rise and decline as the centre of the world's copper industry. (Coast, Series 3, Programme 4, 2007).

Video 4 (duration 6:59)
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