Does anybody in Leeds(anywhere?)speak Welsh?

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Catweazle wrote: Welsh miners got around a fair bit when their local pits closed, and certainly migrated up to the Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire and Yorkshire coal fields. There is a St Davids Society in Bradford: http://www.communigate.co.uk/brad/stdavidssociety/I believe thousands of Welsh miners came to Yorkshire in the early part of the 20th century to work in the pits.I worked for Parcelforce at Rotherham in the early part of the millenium and remembering delivering a package to an ex-miner in Elsecar near Barnsley who was in his late-80s and had come to Barnsley as a young man in the early 1930s. He'd therefore lived in the area for over 60 years but had the strongest Welsh accent I'd ever heard. I had a chat to him and he said the Welsh community had been so strong in the Barnsley/Rotherham area that only a few decades earlier there had still been a Welsh speaking chapel in Maltby, South Yorkshire. While it was being demolished it told the demolition crew of its unique ability. Unfortunately they didn't understand Welsh.