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Blaenclydach maps
Historic maps of Blaenclydach and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Blaenclydach maps
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Blaenclydach area books
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Memories of Blaenclydach
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Railway Terrace
I will always have happy memories of spending most of my school holidays with my grandparents, Tom and Emma Howley, in Railway Terrace. I can still remember the smell of the bakery at the end of the road. I know we also had relatives over 'bush' named Howley. Travelling from Oxfordshire by train to Tonypandy was an adventure in itself in the early to late 1940s. As the school holiday times didn't match I often spent a week or a few days at the big school near Maddox Street. The days were then spent mostly up the mountain, at mealtimes my gran would tie a teatowel to a broom handle so we would know it was time to go back. My main friends then were the Adams, and the Morgan children. Trips to the cinema in Clydach and Pandy and the Empire theatre were further treats. I remember there was a shop that sold fantastic ice-cream in Pandy Square. There was also the swings and round-a-bouts set partly under Monkey... Read more
Mid Glamorgan memories
Llwynypia General
I lived with my parents in two rooms in a house on Church Street near Partridge Square. I had a small mongrel dog called Spot who used to go down to the bus shelter and wait for the bus to Porth, get on it and ride to Porth and back. My father was a miner and my mother worked in Llwynypia hospital and was there when the wounded soldiers were brought back from Dieppe. We "adopted" three of the wounded soldiers and they used to visit us regularly. I only remember one of their names - Jack Sargent - but they are all remembered with fondness. I went to Pontrhondda school and had music lessons (playing the piano accordian). I was in fact a member of "Joy Clark's Accordian Band" - happy memories. By the way the single storey shop in the pictures was always known as "The old man's".
My Birth Place
Dear readers,
Llwynpia was where I was born at the Hospital, 8th August 1947. My Mom was taken there in labour with me and I should have been born at my grand-parents house which was in Gilfach, Bargoid. At 6 weeks old my parents moved me to Birmingham where I have lived ever since. One day I hope to go and see the place where I was born
Thankyou for the memories x
My Memoires
Dear readers,
My name's Steve Hopkins and I was born in Llwynypia hospital in late 1957. My mother's a Liverpudlian evacuated during wartime to Malpas in Cheshire and my father’s from Rhydfelin near Pontypridd. I was readmitted to the hospital when I had tonsillitis at the tender age of three. I remember my parents bringing me a big green helicopter, eating loads of ice cream and my uncle Vernon popping in to say hello along with the tall, dark and handsome young Tom Jones and Keith the guitarist with the band. My uncle was the bass player and then leader of the Senators. They were exiting times with Tom hitting the big time and we were receiving postcards from all over the world, blah blah blah.
I grew up in Ferndale till the age of 7 and my best friend was another famous Ferndalian the alias Mike Curtis, author of CQB (Close Quarter Battle). He joined the Para regiment and later... Read more
Edward Carpenter
Does anyone remember my great grandfather, Edward Stanley Carpenter? Does anyone know someone who remembers him as a lay preacher there towards the beginning of the twentieth century? I would love to hear the recollections.
Caroline Scot.
Teacher
Sometime between 1900 and 1940 Thomas Arthur Livingston taught in Tonypandy. He had children, is there anyone out there who can provide a clue as to what happened to him, or a photo of the school with or without him.
Faggot & Peas Shop - Dunraven Street
My great-grandparents and great-great grandparents owned and ran the Faggot & Peas Shop in Tonypandy, Dunraven Street.
Does anyone remember the shop? It was owned by Reuben Smith and his wife, and was passed onto their daughter. Can anyone remember who owned it? I would love to hear your memories!
