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Llanhilleth maps
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Memories of Llanhilleth
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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
Staying in Trinant
I am 46 and my nan lived in Trinant. Me and my sister used to visit her throughout the year but every summer for 2 week we stayed with her in her flat. We had working parents and to have a stay-at-home adult was bliss. Our cousin also lived in Trinant and our Uncle Brian and Auntie Nancy used to take us to Pontypool to the Lido. We also went to Cardiff and Southerndown. We lived in Swindon at the time and then at age 12 moved to Barry Island and these destinations were on our doorsteps. Such fond memories and feeling cared for, a special time. Walking down the Graig and the lanes around Trinant. The corner shops and going to get bananas for tea to have banana sandwiches. The chip shop opposite my nan's flat. The crane flies every summer, and nan swatting them for us. No TV or video games just freedom and love and feeling valued.... Read more
Nathan Hughes
Does anyone have any information about a Nathan Hughes who married someone called Jane Evans? I understand that he was from this area. He had a son named David Charles Hughes who was born in 1832. I am trying to track some relatives, Joannah or Jane Hughes, who married David Wynne in 1811, and find out what relation she was to Nathan Hughes.
Research Into Lost Knowledge Organisation
The Research Into Lost Knowledge Organisation is an organisation providing a platform for the dissemination of hidden knowledge incorporated in myth legend, number and geometry, art and music, architectural proportion, megalithic structures and the geomantic layout of cities and landscape.
Public meetings are held at the Theosophicl Society HQ, 50 Gloucester Place, London W1U 8EA on the last Friday of the month from September till April inclusive. Doors open at 6:45pm. For details contact: Bob Harris on email: bobharris@bobharris.plus.com
Llanhilleth
I was born in my aunt's [Ciss Smith] house in Caefelin Street, Llanhilleth, during late 1944, early in the morning. At the same time a girl named Angela [Simpkins] was born in the house opposite at the same time. My Aunt Ciss was holding me up at the front upstairs window to show the family that I was born whilst Angela's relations was doing the same thing in reverse.
One of my earliest memories was when I was aged about two/three years'. I was sitting in a pram outside Angela's house with my aunt and mother who were in conversation with Angela's mother. Angela and I leant out of our respective prams and started kissing each and our respective relations started laughing.
My parents and I moved to London a few years later so that my father could find a better job as he did not want to work in the local pit. My Aunt Ciss and her husband Charlie used to spend their summer and Christmas holidays... Read more
Rhaglen Cymdeithas Lenyddol
The Rhaglen Cymdeithas Lenyddol is a Welsh Society who meet at the address shown below:-
The Rhaglen Cymdeithas Lenyddol
C/o Eglwys Bresbytaraidd Cymru
289 Lewisham Way
Brockley
London
ENGLAND SE4 1XF
Tel: (020) 8300 6415 - Gywndaf Evans (Hon. Sec)
Email: Gwyndaf.sidcup@btinernet.com
We meet at 2 pm prompt on the first three Tuesdays of the month from October till March inclusive. Visitors welcome!
Gwent memories
Bynithel
I was born in Llanhilleth during 1944, but the last time I visited the place of my birth was during 1979 when my mother and I stayed with my Auntie Ethel who lived on the Hafodorthan estate. On one occasion I looked out of her front living room window across the valley for forty-five minutes. Auntie Ethel could not understand this and remarked that there was nothing to see. I had to remind her that I had lived in London for the past forty years' and all I saw was bricks and mortar from my flat: seeing all the greenary looking down the valley was quite refreshing and the air was cleaner too.
