 By its height in 1913, Wales was producing almost 61 million tons of coal.As well as in south Wales, there was also a significant coalfield in the north-east of the country, particularly around Wrexham.As Wales was reliant on the production of capital goods rather than consumer goods, it possessed few of the skilled craftspeople and artisans found in the workshops of Birmingham or Sheffield in England and had few factories producing finished goods – a key feature of most regions associated with the Industrial Revolution.