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15th October 2024

St Fagans, the open-air museum inspired by Skansen, is a marvellous introduction to Welsh life as told by the forty-plus historical, but often very ordinary and mostly rural buildings which have been moved to site over the years. Of interest to readers who enjoy picturing characters' fictional domestic settings are the six houses from the Rhyd-y-car Terrace built in 1795 by the owner of a Merthyr Tydfil ironworks for his workers. They were moved to St Fagans in the early 1980s and the interiors are furnished to reflect different periods of their history from 1805 to 1985. Next to them is a communal bread oven identical to the three which served the terraced houses.  

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