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Abercanaid maps
Historic maps of Abercanaid and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Abercanaid maps
Abercanaid photos
We have no photos of Abercanaid, although we do have photos of these nearby places:
Merthyr Tydfil| Cwmbach| Aberfan| Merthyr Vale| Aberaman| Abercwmboi| Mountain Ash| Aberdare| Penrhiwceiber| Cwmaman| Vaynor| Rhymney| Cwmdare| Treharris| Abercynon| Ferndale| Hirwaun| Tredegar| Bargoed| Llanfabon| Gilfach| Ystrad| Pentre| Ton Pentre| Treorchy| Hengoed| Ystrad Mynach| Maesycwmmer
Abercanaid area books
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Memories of Abercanaid
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Evacuated to Wales
I cannot remember the exact year or town in the Rhondda Valley, Wales that my brother Nick Richardson and I lived. I was only 3 or 4 years old. I have slight memories... of a couple that we lived with..they were fantastic! My father Bill [Taffy] Richardson [Deal Bus Driver] was from Pontygwiath. I had numerous relatives there. Can remember a day Nick and I sat on a hill[?] sensed someone walking towards us, looked over and it was our Mum coming from Deal to see us!!
Abercanaid
My pal Stanley Ponting lived in Newton Street, Abercanaid. I visited there in 1960 and 1980, and more recently his daughter, after conferring with me, has fulfiulled her long held desire to see where her dad lived during his evacuation in WW2. Other boys including Roy Caterick, Norman Smissen, Ray Kennedy, Roy Partington, Ernest Cakebread and his brother all spent time in the Merthyr Valley. Memories both good and bad flood back to mind.
Evacuated to Abecanaid
My brother, Peter, and I were uprooted in 1939 from our home town of Deal in Kent, to live firstly in Troedyrhiw, then Pentrbach, and I had a short stay with Asaph Jenkins and his wife in Abercanaid. We sucessively attended schools in all those villages and Merthyr Vale. I left Troedyrhiw school [not the splendid place Afan Taf] the day before my 14th birthday to go to St Albans, Herts, to work for a small coach building firm. Our several upheavals more than interrupted our schooling but our studies, in later years, fitted my brother as undermanager at a colliery and I went on to become a Will writer and specialist in probate and administation of estates. Our memories of the folk in those valley towns live with us and we visit and keep in touch with those who opened their homes to a dejected and homesick family. My sister was born in Tydfil Lodge, Merthyr. Thank you all in the Merthyr valley.
Mid Glamorgan memories
Evacuated
In late 1939 I walked with my younger brother, Peter, through the main street. We had arrived as evacuees. We still have friends there.
Gwanffaren House, Merthyr
I was born in 1944 at a place called Gwanffaren House in Merthyr, my mother had been evacuated from London and was staying with my father's family in School Street, Tirphil. My father was in Italy in the Royal Marines and was unable to be there when I was born.
I was wondering if Gwanfarren House is still standing and if there is any photographs or photograph of it.
I still have family living in Wales in the Bargoed area, but they don't think that the house is still there.
If anyone can help I would be grateful.
Walks to Morlais
I was about 14 and my friend Alan Davies and I used to walk from Twynyrodyn on a Sunday morning to Morlais Castle. There we would wonder and speculate about its history and what battles were fought there. How many people died and on what spot. Were we standing on a patch of ground that had seen blood and gore?
That was a glorious summer in Merthyr as I remember it.
Bontnewtdd Hotel Trelewis
My Great Great grandfather used to manage or own this hotel in 1911. His name was John Green and his wife was Elizabeth Green, my great grandmother, (their daughter) was Verena Green. If anybody has any information on them I would love to hear it.
