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To this day, the streets of London are illuminated by a Welsh miner who decided he'd had enough of the dark. Richard Bracey, from Mountain Ash, Rhondda Cynon Taf, worked down the Tredegar mines in the 1940s. After "hating" the work, he travelled to London by horse and cart and his neon signs soon became a fixture of Soho's notoriously seedy nightlife. Now owned by his grandson, the company Richard started 70 years ago ships signs to all corners of the world and runs Walthamstows 'God's Own Junk Yard' displaying some of the iconic sings. Matthew Bracey, Richard's grandson and son of the late Chris Bracey spoke to Â鶹Éç Radio London's Salma El-Wardany.