Nostalgic memories of Ebbw Vale's local history
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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 11 - 20 of 23 in total
I went to Ebbw Vale Tech College, worked in the roll shop at the steel works. I remember well RTS club, the dugout, tamplins the rythmacs. However I have lived in Australia for 40 years now, have been back lots of times ,but never found any of my old work mates which is a bit sad. But maybe someone will see this so I will leave my email address; alwork3@bigpond.com
Growing up in Ebbw Vale there was the best four Picture Houses and three dances a week,
great youth club r t b and had great time in school. Yea, it was special, used to love to have a pint in Tamplins in James Street or going to the Central Cafe. Had some great friends in Snowy Rolands and John Barnes and Mad Merv, yea they was special years and will live in my memory forever.
Well, the sixties and early seventies, really. We used to have a holiday with grandparents George and Ethel Hind. The house had been in the family for some years from Grandma's side, the Jones' - I used to love it! Ethel had an old range and a cooker and the Sunday roasts were heaven with the blackest gravy on earth. I used to love her shriek when sheep got in the font garden! Grandma ...see more
l was born in the Rookery, Ebbw Vale, lived in 19 Second Row, Newtown until l was eight. We then moved to a new housing estate called Garnlydan where I grew up before we moved to Newport. I worked at LLanwern steel works - and retired from there. I am now living in south west lreland. l have very fond memories of Newtown, Ebbw Vale.
I remember going to Pontygof from 1966 to 1969 then going on to Glyncoed Secondary as it was called then. I lived at 12 The Crescent before moving up to Beaufort in 1970. I have been trying to find anybody who also remembers going to RTBs youth club to play football. I remember us winning the local cup, played at Glyncoed playing fieds, I think it was a first for Pontygof as I can recall, back in those days most ...see more
Joe Richards went on to be Headmaster of Pontygof Boys School. I went there from 1958 to1962 and remember these teachers: Mr Davies, Mr Jones who always used to sell stamp approvels from the draw in his desk where he also always had a big bar of chocolate which he constantly nibbled through the day, Dapper Lewes who was an out and out bully, he always punished you with a dap or a length of flex across the ...see more
I was brought up the other side of the arch from this picture in Wesleyan Row. (No8)
My mother still lives there today. I remember when this was the main road from the Steelworks and all the heavy lorries used to struggle up the hill. It was a bit of a risky business cutting through the arch on foot, as you had to look for a gap in the traffic and dash through, hoping you didnt get hit! In the 1970s they built ...see more
My father was born in Alexandra Street in 1921 in the house owned by my great aunt Miss Ida Thomas who was a school mistress, my grandparents lived in Letchworth Road and my father's sister, Kathleen Jones, who was also a school teacher, lived in Hughes Avenue.
I stayed with my grandparents for much of 1958 after my brother was born and well recall the trains going through the main street, often with a man ...see more
I remember visiting my Uncle Martin who lived in this house that my Gran Hannah and Robert Scanlon formerly lived in, they had 10 children, although they were not all in the house at the same time, things must have been pretty tight. Two bedrooms upstairs, main room, with a fire etc for cooking and my grandparents room downstairs. The toilet was across the row, at the bottom of the garden, bit scarey on a dark windy ...see more
My memories as a son of a daughter of the valleys are:
Rugby allowed in for free a half time
Trains, lying in bed hearing the clang of the wagons moving coal and steel to and from the works
Armageddon when the furnaces blasted
Chasing and riding bare back on the wild ponies
Collecting all the keys from the privies and mixing them up, a lot of angry desperate people
Walking the hills with my ...see more