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Port talbot during the industrial revolution was good for making tin and limestone. The housing was good and illness was not a severe as in merthyr. Port Talbot also had a better standed of life and the wealthy talbot family built the docks to transport coal to other countries. The population grew, people had more money, kids could go to school, better conditions and better equipment

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