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Historic maps of Bryndu and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Bryndu maps
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Kenfig Hill| Pyle| Margam| Maudlam| Llangynwyd| Aberkenfig| Tondu| Nottage| Newton| Porthcawl| Cefn Glas| Maesteg| Bryncethin| Abergarw| Bridgend| Merthyr Mawr| Candleston| Coity| Pontycymer| Caerau| Aberavon| Port Talbot| Ogmore-By-Sea| Ewenny| Ogmore Vale| Dunraven Bay| Nantymoel
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Memories of Bryndu
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Mid Glamorgan memories
Evacuee With Thomas Family
The lovely Thomas family took me in as an evacuee during the war years, they had a daughter, Myra or similar. Sundays were special, we visited grandparents up on a hill. Moria C.M. Sunday School presented me with a Bible which I still have. Night chapel, the children had to go down the front and read a text in Welsh which I managed to get through. Mr Thomas was in the police force. I remember feeling very strange at first but they were such a lovely family I have nothing but fond memories of my stay. I have been living in Australia since 14 years of age, and am now a grand-mother of 7 grandchildren, and have three wonderful sons and daughter-in-laws.
Family in Sea View Terrace
I used to visit my grandparents Ike and Gwladys Morgan at 9 Sea View Terrace nearly every school holiday until I was 13. My sister and I loved to play on the witch's hat on the common - just across the road from our grandparent's house.
The Shops
Just off the main road was Jones Shop - I remember as we went there to get free sweets if we played the violin. All I could do was Tinkle Little Star. There was a clothes shop on the main road, a butchers, hairdressers, and post ofice - all from terraced housing. I remember Mr Morris, the first headteacher, and then Mr Phillips, then Mr Davies. I was scared of Mrs Lloyd!
The Old Mill,Coytrahen
My memories of Coytrahen go back to the 1930s and 1940s. I was born in 1931 at The Old Mill, home of my Grandparents and spent many summers visiting there. The Old Mill was rather off the beaten track ,getting there from the village of Coytrahen involved a walk through the woods beside a watercourse, over a style and across the railway tracks, then down into the dell. The accommodation lacked running water and the toilet was down the garden ,however, I loved being there. My visits all came to an end during WW2, have since returned to visit my birthplace but sadly the Old Mill is no longer standing and is just a ruin of what used to be. The memories though still live on.
Happy Memories
My parents, Thomas and Lily Evans, made their first home in a tiny house called the Lamb and Flag in Llangynwyd, just above Cwmfelin. It was, and still is, the most beautiful place. My father worked down the pit, life was very hard, but my parents went on to have eight children, Ivy, Tommy Letty, Haydn, Phylis, Dillwyn, and Billy. They moved to Cwmfelin and lived in No 12 Maiden Street, where I was born in 1932. We moved again just a bit further down the road to Mill Street. A lady called Mrs Lee had a shop on the corner. My Aunty Harriet and Uncle Gwilym lived just up the road with their son Oswald, and Aunty Mary Jane lived near the school.
Upbringing
I went to school first at Tondu infants and then to the Primary school, I remember when we had the school photographs taken in the play yard (where are they now?). I had a really great and happy childhood there living with all the family at 15 Dunraven Street, and friends nearby. It was a great occasion when Franky Vaughn visited the boys club there and when the fair arrived at the field by the welfare hall. There used to be a truly marvellous scapyard around behind the old police station, I think it belonged to the Baker family who also had a shop at Bridgend road. If my memory serves me right, we had a street party at Dunraven Street, but that's quite a vague memory now. Also I remember when my father - Johnny Warner - worked on the railway at Tondu, as my elder brother did, and my father used to ride his pushbike to and from work, I would know more or less the time he finished... Read more
Parc Slip Explosion And my Memories of Aberkenfig
Parc Slip Exposion – 26th August 1892 and-My memories of home life and school On the morning of Friday the 26th August 1892 an explosion occurred at Parc Slip Colliery, The Fountain, Aberkenfig, near Bridgend in which my (Catherine Delahay’s) great grandfather Lewis Cockram aged 28 was killed together with his three brothers, George, John & Thomas Cockram. They were the sons of George and Elizabeth Cockram. Lewis Cockram’s widow Catherine, my great grandmother (perhaps I was named after her) was left with two small children, William Morgan Cockram (my grandfather) and Lavinia (known to us as Auntie Vin) who was married to Evan James. They were granted 6d for each child and 2 shillings (old money) per week for the widow from the Parc Slip Relief Fund.. I don’t know how they survived but my great grandmother brought up these two children on her own with the help from relatives, especially her brother and sister. (John Richards who kept the ironmongers at Bridgend Road, Aberkenfig and Lizzie... Read more
