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Fond Memories of my Chidhood
My name is Gary Wilson. I moved to 12 Stiels court, Coed Eva from Scotland, my mum's name was Jannete Wilson, she worked at the Blinken Owl pub, and my dad's name was Robert Wilson. I went to Coed Eva primary school and was at Fairwater high school for 1 year as we moved back to Scotland, appromximately 4 years we lived at Coed Eva. I can remember the Blinken Owl pub being built, we use to play on the building site! I am 48 so names of some friends have been forgotten, a name I remember is Andrew Toggle, his dad coached Coed Eva under 10s, Coed Eva split into 2 teams, I then played for Coed Eva United, also played for a team called Race, also I had a trial for Cwmbran under 10s. I have been back to Coed Eva twice in 37 years and still have the memories as it was yesterday. It's old looking but I will always remember my childhood in Coed Eva.... Read more
Station Road
Hi, I used to lived in Tynewydd Road as a small child. My name is Hook. I then moved to number 28 Station Road, I lived next door to Mr and Mrs Gazzi who ran the coffee bar in Pontnewydd. My father's name was Brinley Charles Hook(deceased) and my mother's name is Alice. My grandparents were Betty and William Charles Hook, my grandfather was known as Charlie (both deceased).
My brother's name is Nigel, he still lives in London and has his own business as a theatrical designer, my sister's name was Sharon (she sadly died in 2007) and my baby sister is Tracy who lives next door but one to me in Southville area.
I can remember the station in Pontnewydd, and playing in the fields at the back of Station Road/ Tynewydd Road as a child, I think there is a complex on the area now.
Growing up in Croesy
I grew up in Croesyceiliog at Raglan Court next to the playing fields and I went to Abyschan Grammer School. There was no bypass road then, and the railway was still was bringing coal from the valleys down to the docks in Newport. I used to lie in bed as a child and hear the train shunting past. In summer was the sun was still high and, though it was bed time, it was too light to sleep. I used to lay in my bed and listen to the sounds of people still up and playing in the fields outside.
I remember the woods in spring and the bluebells. My grandmother used to love the bluebells and my siblings and I would pick them for her. Mountains of them, of course.
My usual childhood troubles were often met by an escape to the woods, and I still can see the sunlight shining through the trees, filtering through the wooded paths I used to know so well.
Its been such a... Read more
Ty-Pwca Road, Upper Cwmbran
Born in Church Rd, Pontnewydd, in 1935 we moved to Ty-Pwca Rd in 1947. I attended Upper Cwmbran School and well remember the fun we had there. Gardening lessons with the Head, Mr Jones - "Clear the weeds boys and sow the seeds carefully in straight rows", he would say. The friends made then are still friends though some have, sadly, departed this life. Siloam Chapel, the golf links, Slippery Path, the Mountain Air pub and games with friends in the wood behind Ty-Pwca Rd. The fun we had as the steel houses were erected. The arctic winter of '47/8 and having to walk along a single track in the snow of four feet deep up Trappers Hill and into Pontnewydd village centre to buy bread. Many,many,many memories. Those were good, 'honest' days. Are there any more of the '47/8 school rugby team still with us? I have the team photo, but my scanner's on the blink at the moment.
Pontnewydd as A Child From London on Holiday
As a child, up to the age of about twelve, we visited our grandparents at Godfrey Road during the summer holidays. This was probably between 1952 and 1960. My father, Ernest William Smith, was born in Godfrey Road but had moved to London in the 1930's. My strongest memories were of an allotment at the back of the house. I can remember the maroon bus pulling up towards Upper Cwbran and the hills beyond. We often went for walks along the canal with two children that we befriended next door. I wonder now how we all slept in that terraced house: the two sons, my mum and dad, uncle and aunt and grandmother and grandfather. My grandfather had worked at the steel works and I remember that there were green steam trains that were in the works.
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