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Friday Night
Keen's fish and chips and liquorice pipes from the bar opposite. Need I say more. Happy days.
Pontypool
My family lived in The Globe in Crane Street from 1973 until I guess 1980, although I had left in 1979, John and Kitty, ran a fab pub which was always very busy with many customers working in the council and police station. The pub was headquaters for the police rugby team which was very popular. I can remember many after hour drinking sessions going on. I think the decline in pub trade happened when the pits started to close down. I have to say I was very shocked at the state of the town when I drove through it yesterday to have a look. I can't believe that a bypass road has been put in place to avoid the town - why ? That has taken away so much trade by the looks of things. I can remember when it was a thriving town, I recall the cafe next to Woolworths that was good, also the chip shop owned by the Italians in Crane Street, I remember their... Read more
Thoughts From Long Ago
I've put the year as 1949 but I was born in 1947 at the Ashtree Houses, number 3, the one with the tap outside. I went to the Varteg Infant School, not for long though as we moved to Coventry in the early 1950s. There was Mam, Dad, brothers Emrys, Graham, Billy, myself and my youngest brother Granville. We had relatives in Blaenavon and Tinklers and Bates and Jones's and Bates on the Garn. When we left Wales we lived on the corner of PembrookTerrace and Salisbury Teerace. Had a great time living there. Old Mrs Fluke lived in the row, also the Smallcomes and Webbs. Mrs Fluke had Ivor Williams living with her, he also moved to Coventry. If you think you know me or any of the names I've written about I would be glad to here from you. PS I was the steward of the Garn Workingmens Club if that helps. From April 1978 till December 1979.
Nightingale Terrace
I lived in Nightingale Terrace, off Hanbury Road, until I was eleven. I remember Chatham's shop, with the wooden bung in the cracked window - it was like that for many years. My sisters and I used to spend our sixpence pocket money in there every week. There were two families of Morgans in the row and I remember a little girl named Geraldine Jones who we used to play with. There was a row of 'privvies' at the top end, which we weren't allowed to use. In the summer we would go up 'The Tump' and slide down it on cardboard boxes. Those were the days!
Llanover Row, Pontnewynydd.
Does anyone remember Llanover Row in Pontnewynydd? I believe the row of cottages were adjacent to Hanbury Road and the Forgehammer Inn. Apparently they were knocked down in the early 1970s and the site is now grass land. My great-grandparents, surname Morgan, lived in No. 2, and I remember a boy named Freddie Bustin lived in one of the cottages in the 1950s! I wondered if anyone had any photographs of Llanover Row and infomation of the people who lived there! Kind regards, Philip Taylor.
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