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Croespenmaen maps
Historic maps of Croespenmaen and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Croespenmaen maps
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100 Year Old Mum
My mother just turned 100 October 6th. Her name is Brenda Preece (Walters) and was born in Brynhyfrydd 29 Hillside, Crumlin. My Nana once owned the grocery store opposite and the house was next to the church. Her first cousin was Iris Collier who owned the boot shop further up the hill. My memories were coming to stay with my nana during the summer from London and being so impressed with the Colliers having a car and them taking me to Blackwood to the movies.l They always owned a pair of Scottish Terriers. I used to hop on a bus and go to my Aunty Gwen's farm in Newbridge and climb up the winding roads to her place. Today there are all homes built. Went to Crumlin three years ago, shop in a rubble as is the church, motorway running at the bottom of the hill. I remember my mother going back in 1986 and my sister... Read more
Sidney George Moon
I am trying to trace my family's history and wondered if anyone can help. My Grandfather, Sidney George Moon lived at 114 Lewis Street according to the 1911 census. He worked down the Crumlin pit. He went on to father 12 children and my father Kenneth C. Moon was the youngest born in 1920 in Crumlin but they may have moved into Rectory Road by then. According to the 1911 census Sidney and his wife Florence already had 7 children living at home including a Sidney jnr. Father always talked of "crossing the branch" to go to school. Was this reference to the viaduct? We visited Crumlin this weekend. Is Lewis Street still the same houses but renovated that existed in 1911? My mother (Ken's wife) has some photos which may mean something now that we have been to Crumlin. Any help would be much appreciated Joy Johnson (nee Moon) e-mail Ivan.johnson@homecall.co.uk
The Empire
Any information or memories of the Empire cinema? I remember it as fairly run down in late 50's but you could always get in to see the the horror films, even if you were only 11 to see over 16 films! Other names ring a bell - "the flea pit" (probably shared by many cinemas) and " dirty dicks".
My Childhood Walks
Me and my Uncle Antony always went nut picking in early September and would be gone for hours, that for me is a good childhood memory. Also my late Uncle Jack used to walk me most Saterdays down to the old Hanbury pub where we would have a glass of coca cola and a bag of pork scratchings. We would wait for the old red and white bus to come from Abertillery to take us home.
THE CIRCUS!
I was born in 1941 and can remember hiding under the stairs when the Germans were trying to bomb Crumlin Viaduct, and after the war the thrill of the park at the top of our street filling with strange people, large tents being erected and the aroma of strange and wonderful happenings. Widsor Park was now an erotic theatre of faraway places and strange animals, all at the top of the avenue, what a thrill to see elephants, tigers, lions and various other species in reality. Can anyone else remember these times?Clive Walker, Micheal Cooke, Ossy Lewis, Hadyn Persie, we all tried to get in for free in one way or another but to no avail. Fun times when the sun shone throughout the holidays and when the circus eventually left we had the the fairground with dodgems and carousels. Fun times that left the war forgotten in the tumultuous excitement of pleasure for a short period.Those days are long gone and I wonder if you can remember the name... Read more
Old Times
Does anyone remember going to the pictures in the “Memo” run by Mr Jones? He always stood in the foyer. After queuing outside, up the slope, through the glass doors and straight in front was the shop, 3d for some “woodies” (woodbine cigarettes). We always sat down stairs at the back for 9d. and two films. I can also remember Mr Salisbury’s hardware shop which smelt wonderful. Looking at the photographs it brings it all back even going to Greenfield Secondary Modern. Really good to see the old buildings.
Childhood to Marriage
MY first memory of"LLan"was driving down the hill from Swffryyd, to my new home at No.6 High Street. My father Thomas Hughes, with my mother Eileen, had purchased Barttlets Grocery Store,a long held wish of my fathers to own his own grocery business..after early years as a grocers 'lad' and enforced war years, ensconed in the centre of birmingham as a tool maker turning out precision parts for the war. I was 7yrs old, my sister Janice 5. As a lad from "Brum"being accepted into a close welsh society was difficult to say the least, and many an altercation was on the cards in the first few months. Junior School for both of us was at LLanhilleth Junior, high on the hill behind the main street, good days, but still ruled in the old manner,by cane and slipper, but with no lasting harm. Secondary for me was Brynhyfryd , there only for a year before ,on failing my 11 plus, won a scholarship to AbertilleryTtechnical, which was to give me one of... Read more
