Nostalgic memories of Cwm's local history
Share your own memories of Cwm and read what others have said
For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our web site to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was when the photographs in our archive were taken. From brief one-liners explaining a little bit more about the image depicted, to great, in-depth accounts of a childhood when things were rather different than today (and everything inbetween!). We've had many contributors recognising themselves or loved ones in our photographs.
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Displaying Memories 1 - 10 of 14 in total
i am now eighty plus years old and i will do all i can to find my mam and dad. i know they will be together so it will not be hard to find them !!! if i can only get a cuddle from my mam and a arm around my dad i will let god keep them till the two sons and a daughter that they gave life to by the grace of god !!! my brother gone already so my sister and myself are both alive and to be with ...see more
I TRAVELLED FROM HAFODYRYNYS TO CWM EBBW VALE IN THE EARLY 1950 MY NAME THEN WAS CYNTHIA EDWARDS ,SEVERAL OF MY FRIENDS THEN WE'RE SHEILA SMITH WHO LIVED AT SOFFRYD, AND LINDA HARRIS ,SHE LIVED IN CWM HER FAMILY HAD A GREEN GROCERS SHOP ON MARINE STREET,
can any body remember the dairy farm in BRUTON !SOMERSET. I used to go there on my holidays to my uncles farm ! he was the local milk man. I used to sit up next to him on the horse and cart delivering the milk out of big churns , filling up the jugs for all the people as we went along . the cream on the milk was an inch thick and very good to get stuck into ! until you were caught !! If any one can remember any ...see more
I remember playing on the sports ground when I was living in Cwm; my house was in 13 Elm Street, just near the field. Dad had a little garden plot just nearby and he grew some vegies there.. We had a sports day at school and somehow I was the winner at the high jump and I got my picture jumping over the rope, it was printed on the front page of the local paper! It would be good if I could find a copy of that to show my adult ...see more
Hello there David. "Old" Stonejar Morgan from Woodville road was a mining instructor in No. 2 Pit in the Blackvein seam at the Marine Colliery. Between them the team of 8 instructors taught all aspects of coalmining, albeit very old fashioned methods. For instance, one of the instructors was Dai " Ponty" Davies who favoured a cloth cap whilst working, but when he was actually hewing coal he hung his cap complete with electric ...see more
My wonderful dad passed away last October. He was born in Cwm in 1934 and left aound 1955 when he moved to Corby, Northants. he was so very proud of his welsh roots and was over the moon when we took him back to Cwm a couple of years ago and he visited all the places that meant so much to him: the church my parents were married at, Marine Street where he was born and the cemetery (one of the prettiest I have ever been to ) to ...see more
I was born in 1955 and lived in Cwm. I went to Dyffryn Secondary School before going on to the North Monmouthshire College of Further Education to study a Secretarial course. My friends at the time were Georgina Griffiths, who used to live in Stanley Street and Susan Holyoake whose parents used to live and own a butchers in Marine Street. My name back then was Wallace and I had two sisters, Dianne and Sylivia, ...see more
My mam had died not so long ago when I was 8 years old. Me and my brother and sister, and my dad, we lived in Elm Street, near the wall at the river that came out of the Ebbw Vale steel works, a nasty smelly water way that would change color over night.
I went to first school over the bridge, left turn and up the road a little bit, and then I went to school at the bottom of Marine Street, Dyffryn. It was very hard ...see more
My grandfather David Parfitt, worked in the colliery - he is sadly missed. He passed away in 1982 - he had black lung, but it was a heart attack that took him. His wife Glenys Mable Parfitt (my nan) passed away in 2006. Most of my family lived and work in and around the steel works. My father, drove the lorries bringing down the limestone to the kilns.
Is there anybody who would remember my mother Dawn Parfitt? I know very ...see more
Hi, I was looking on the site reminising about my father, Malcolm LLoyd who lived at 156 Marine Street with my grandparents, Walter and Dilys LLoyd until he married my mother, Monica Buckley (from Newtown, Ebbw Vale) in the 50's. I think this photograph shows him in the foreground (In the black suit). Unfortunately, the Frith watermark covers the detail of the woman he is walking with, but I ...see more