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Sebastopol| Cwmbran| Llantarnam| Pontypool| Caerleon| Abersychan| Pontymister| Risca| Allt-Yr-Yn| Cwmcarn| Garndiffaith| Pontywaun| Crumlin| Llanhilleth| Newbridge| Newport| Usk| Six Bells| Aberbeeg| Bassaleg| Chain Bridge| Abertillery| Cwmtillery| Machen
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Pontrhydyrun - Avondale Road
I am Roger Davies of 11 Avondale Road, DOB 19.09.43. Went to Sebastopol Infants school 1948 and then to Griffithstown Junior Mixed - Bryn Jones prior to 11+ ! West Mon 1954. - Harrison, Garnet, et al. Recall Pontnewydd and Cwmbran as was and have some photos. Recall Sebastopol and Pontrhydyrun stations functioning and accidents when tall vehicles hit railway bridge at Pontrhydyrun. Percy Pritchard was our neighbour and another Trevor John worked at Gwent Pipes. Recall the building of the 'New Town'. My good friend is Ernie Bradford - The Mountain Air - visited pub with my father in the 1940's - Ernie was there then and is now. I have some photographs showing pupils at Sebastopol and Griffithstown in my years. My uncles Jack & Ken Jones ran Jones Fashion Shop, George Street, Pontypool and Broad Street Blaenavon. Jack later had The Helmaen, near Usk. What say anyone ?
Pontnewydd as A Child From London on Holiday
As a child, up to the age of about twelve, we visited our grandparents at Godfrey Road during the summer holidays. This was probably between 1952 and 1960. My father, Ernest William Smith, was born in Godfrey Road but had moved to London in the 1930's. My strongest memories were of an allotment at the back of the house. I can remember the maroon bus pulling up towards Upper Cwbran and the hills beyond. We often went for walks along the canal with two children that we befriended next door. I wonder now how we all slept in that terraced house: the two sons, my mum and dad, uncle and aunt and grandmother and grandfather. My grandfather had worked at the steel works and I remember that there were green steam trains that were in the works.
Commercial Street
I lived at number 36 from 1936 for 11 yrs. and saw the changes that World War 11 brought to our village. I remember the milkman and his horse-drawn cart and mam asking for a gill as she searched her purse for the coin to pay for it. Someone would always rush out to collect the horse droppings for use on their garden. The blackouts and the sound of enemy aircraft overhead as they followed the mountain range from Blaenavon to Twyn Barllwm their dropping point for the bombs aimed at Newport Docks. The arrival of the Yanks based at Llantarnam and rides in jeeps to the Mountain Air pub when soldiers took our house neighbours' daughters out for runs. Jeff Saunders and the Rogers boys who lived opposite (where the OAP home is now). Jones and Porters shop at the top of the street and the Bridgend pub. The street party after VE Day. Charles' Funeral Site next to the canal and Tommy Arundle who drowned in the... Read more
Pontnewydd Church School
As I remember, the discipline there was tough, but at least you knew right from wrong and if you did something wrong you could expect punishment - nearly always the cane. We all had to attend the church for assembly once a week and were marched there from our lines in the playground. At other times, except in bad weather when the interior glass panelled walls were pushed back to form a huge hall, we stood in our class lines in the yard and sang our hymn - the words for which were on a colourful roll of material suspended from the high windows. Lessons were generally silent. The teacher would explain what was to be done in that lesson; give three examples on the blackboard, then tell us what page to turn to in our 1920's text books and told to get on with it. Each day two boys were dispached to deliver the milk, in third of a pint bottles, to each classroom. Once, after my return to the classroom, I... Read more
Re The Barbers Shop
I was born in 1935 so I was a bit too young to remember Mr Day. However I do remember seeing a row of cutters in a rack along the mantleshelf. I lived on South Street just out of picture on the right hand side, 3 doors up from Garrets shoe shop.
South Street, 1960's
Living on the outskirts of a large Midland city, and having Welsh parents, a visit to Sebastopol was also exciting and eventful. My grandmother had sold Hill Cottage and bought 21 South Street, which was more manageable, as my uncle was still in the RAF, and his visits were restricted. I loved lying in bed at the front of the terraced house listening to the bus driver select the gears as the vehicle powered up the street towards the 'Crown'. The canal was also a delight to visit although not much used at the time, but it was the railway at the bottom of south street that excited me the most, especially if it meant a trip to Barry Island! As the teenage years advanced I spent more and more time on the other side of the kingdom, eventually moving half-a-world away. To my surprise, I live a short distance from a village with the same name, and hopefully will visit soon.
The Barbers on The Crown Bridge
My great-great-grandfather owned the barbers on the Crown Bridge many years ago. Does anyone know what it was called?
