Brynmawr, Gwent
Brynmawr maps
Historic maps of Brynmawr and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Brynmawr maps
Historic map of Brynmawr
Illustrated Victorian map of Gwent
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Brynmawr books
Displaying 2 of 2 books about Brynmawr and the local area. View all Brynmawr books
Chepstow Then and Now Photographic Memories
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Around Abergavenny Photographic Memories
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18 Brynmawr photos appear in 2 Frith book titles. You can read extracts and browse photos from these books.
Memories of Brynmawr
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Once the time had come for blackberry picking and whimberry picking, my lovely Uncle Fred took us down the valley roads, to get picking, ready for those lovely pies my grandmother would make. We would climb up beside these waterfalls, drink the pure water from them, lovely. Uncle Fred would walk for what seemed to me miles, me eating most of... [more]
Shared on 04 October 2006
Brynmawr is a quiet little town on the edge of the valley roads. These photos bring back memories of all the hills I climbed, picnics on the mountain, paddling in the pond across from our house in Warwick Road. Snow 6ft deep in Winter. I remember the old steam train passing our house, I would wave to the driver and he... [more]
Shared on 04 October 2006
Gwent memories
I was born here in Newton Green and lived in the house just visible on the left - the last one. It was called Cotswold. The village shop was run by Mark Wilson and that could be him in the photograph, tinkering with the car - he did anything for anybody and was a much loved character until he died unexpectedly.... [more]
Shared on 20 December 2008
My school days at Pontygof commenced 1950
Hey, it was the beginning of my learning on the journey of life, my gorgeous mum Rosie took me to Pontygof Infants in 1950, I remember looking over the wall as she walked away crying, I will never forget that, my dear mum. 7, Colliers Row boy born and bred. I remember Joe Richards, headmaster in Pontygof Primary, mixed feeling about... [more]
Shared on 23 February 2008
I used to live just around the corner from where this photo was taken in a place called The Crescent. Next door lived Stan Bowen on one side and Billy Comer (the fruit shop owner) on the other. Tommy Lloyd and Mr Rosser (can't remember his first name) both butchers in Ebbw Vale also lived in the same street. My art... [more]
Shared on 17 November 2009
My family lived in Post Office Row, Newtown, until 1939 then we left to travel to Derbyshire to find work. I was 14 years old. I started work at Langwith Colliery. Until the war started I was working on the surface, then ordered to work underground. When the war was on we had the first 1000 bombers forming up over our village,was... [more]
Shared on 13 October 2009
I understand my late uncle's father, Arthur Miles Beale, along with his wife Janet Beale, nee Stanley, owned and ran the Park Hotel, until he sadly died behind the bar of a heart attack, I think sometime in the late 1940s or early 1950s. It was before my time and now I have no one to ask about this. I would... [more]
Shared on 19 July 2009
Police Constable Charles Boughton
My Paternal Grandfather was a police constable for a short while in Dukestown whilst stationed at Tredeger,does anyone have any memory of him at all,he was quite a devil by all accounts.Please e-mail me if you can provide information
Shared on 20 January 2008
Extracts From Brynmawr & Gwent books
Displaying a selection of extracts from Frith books about Brynmawr, inspired by Frith photos.
Heads of the Valleys Photographic Memories
The most surprising feature of this busy shopping scene is the complete lack of any vehicles. Typically there is a group of young women on the left-hand side more interested in having a chat than in shopping, but two ladies look eagerly into the windows of F C Cable opposite. At the bottom of the street on the left stands the New Griffin... [more]
This is an extract from Heads of the Valleys Photographic Memories.
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Heads of the Valleys Photographic Memories
The Heads of the Valleys Road had not been built when this picture was taken, as it shows the A465 old Merthyr road leading into King Street, Brynmawr. The road on the left is the old tram road used in the time of Crawshay Bailey. The photograph does not quite capture the Bridge End Inn on the extreme right.
This is an extract from Heads of the Valleys Photographic Memories.
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Heads of the Valleys Photographic Memories
This photograph shows Llanelly Hill and the old lime kilns. The road on the right had an extremely steep gradient and was the old roadway before the Heads of the Valleys Road. Alongside it was the house belonging to the manager of the ironworks.
This is an extract from Heads of the Valleys Photographic Memories.
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