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Evacuee in Cefn Hengoed
During the Second World War my family were evacuated to Cefn Hengoed. Two of my brothers were with the Hughes family, two with the Palmers and two of my sisters with the Jones Famly. We arrived in 1941. Being one of the youngest, I was with my youngest sister, my mother and my father and we stayed on Haywards Farm. Dad was working in an ammunition factory at Glasscoed. When I was old enough I started school at the Derwendaeg Primary school. Before the end of the war the whole family was living at number 5 Chaple Terrace. After the war we stayed until 1947 returning to London on the 31 August. It is now almost 60 years since we left. I passed through the village in 1984, the farm had gone and houses had been built on the site. I hope to return again this year, I have many happy memories of those days.
My Past Memories Are of Gilfach Visits to my Gran And Grancha
i was 5 years old at that time , my mum would take myself and my sisters on the bus from hengoed . every week to visit gran and granch. my grandparents lived in gilfach street oposite the old fire station where we would sit in the window waiting for the engine to appear. good times.
i later in 1969 married a boy from gilfach and then went to live in the very same house my grandparents lived in. i now have left gilfach and living in hengoed.
my husband still as family there and we visit regular.
Living in Cefn Hengoed
The Kemp family lived in Cefn Hengoed from about 1920 to 1938, I was born there in my grand parents James and Rose Kemp’s house, No.64 Gelligaer Road in 1934.
My memories of the village start from about 1937
I remember seeing a bus go flashing by down Gelligaer Road with its interior lights on, when I questioned my Dad, Thomas John Kemp (also known as Jack) he said it was the St John’s Ambulance Brigade’s bus going to a disaster, some workmen had been erecting an Electricity Pylon nearby which had collapsed and they were going to help. He and my Uncle Jim were very involved with St John’s Ambulance Brigade in the village and I suppose he was on the bus.
Another memory of life in the village was playing in the field at the top of the village near the Cross-Keys Pub, whilst waiting for Dad to come out of the pub, my elder brother Harry and I were playing on the wall and Harry fell... Read more
Family
My nana Winnie Williams has lived in Cefn Hengoed for a very long time and is now nearly 103 years old. Her late husband was Cled Williams who was a councillor in the surrounding area who died before I was born. They had 5 children: Cled, Gwyneth, Howell (known as Robin - my dad), Sheila and Gwyneth. As I am from Scotland I don't know a lot of my family history and would like to know more, especially about my Nana. I visit her as often as I can and have many happy childhood memories of Nana and extended family and she still live in Hengoed Avenue. I am hoping to take my children there in October although the place has changed with less farming area and more new houses and I hope to give them happy memories too!
Terry Carney
Look up the Hengoed pages of this website, I left a memory there you may be interested in.
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