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Davies-Bhulson Family
You mention you know a lot about Pontlotyn, I was wondering if you remember a family whose mother died in 1940 and the children were taken to the homes? I am searching on behalf of a friend. Some names may help, older ones Frances, Elizabeth, Emlyn, Stephen, William, then Margaret, Maureen, Theresa, Winifred. Anything you can remember will be helpfil as most of them she has never found. The last three were in homes together. Hope you can help.
Lel Jenkins - The Barber
I was born 15.10.32 above the Barber's Shop in the Square and subsequently taken to Rothesay, Bute where I was brought up. Dad was a Master Mariner, lost at sea 19.10.35. My Mother was Leah Drury, born 17.06.07 daughter of Jemima Jenkins and Henry Edward Drury a Master Barber and apprenticed to Lel. He had been born in the Old Workhouse in Biddenden, Kent. In 1914 Jemima Died of Cancer and Henry remarried and had 2 more sons....His second son was born 31.12.17 which was a month after Henry was killed at Cambrai on 1.12.1917. Mother's family included Griffith Jenkins (The Rock) and a Welsh Bard...Jenkins and Lewis-Williams was the family line and shotgun weddings were popular! I don't know of any living relatives in or near Ponty...
Pontlottyn From 1943 to 1963
You mention the State Cinema run by the Price family, and then there was the newsagent, cafe, gents hairdresser, butcher etc. all around the area called the Square.
There was several chapels, Church, The Police Station & Court, Perrys Shop and the infants school plus the senior school headmaster Mr Issac. There is lot more I could mention about Pontlottyn and surrounding villages. I lived in Reform Street From 1939 - 1961. I would be interested to hear from anyone of that era.
Pontlottyn Cinema
I have great memories of Pontlottyn cinema, my mam didn't have much money but she always managed to give us sixpence evrey Friday to go to the cinema. I remember Mrs Jones coming around with her torch, if we so much as sneezed the light would be straight on us with a warning that if we didn't keep quiet we'd be out. And there was a few times we were put out. She later worked in Pontlottyn toilets and when we went in she was completely different, she'd call us into the little room she occupied with a little gas fire and talk with us and was very friendly, what a difference from the stern woman who petrified us at the cinema. Ahhh those were the days. We didn't have a lot but they were great days.
Sodom
My Nan Katherine Walters used to live in Sodom with her children Aunty Violet, Billy (my dad) and Aunty Betty. My Grandad Thomas Walters was killed in the Pit at a young age and she was left to bring up the children on her own. I Tanya Walters was born in 1951, we used to live in King Street, Pontlottyn and I remember walking from Pontlottyn past the cinder tip to my Nan's in Sodom. The cinder tip used to scare me because my older sister Carol told me that there was a village buried under there and sometimes if you listened carefully you could here a bell ringing. Lots of children used to play around the cinder tip, we used to build shops and things with all the rubbish we found. Sometimes I used to call into Aunty Joanna's and Uncle Emrys who lived on Crofts Row. I wonder if anyone reading this can remember anything about Sodom?
Pontlottyn Cinema
Hi there,
I will never forget the State Cinema in Pontlottyn, up to about 1951 I used to line up about 7pm on a Saturday evening with my mother, my aunt (her sister) and my cousin for our evening's entertainment. Wow, on the front of the building I recall the sign "Palace of Varieties". The kids in Pontlottyn School used to joke that the varieties were the rats, mice and fleas that inhabited the premises.
My life visiting that cinema twice a week made me live my own personal life thinking of those stars in Hollywood who transported me to a diffent world.
I will never forget that Cinema which no longer exists, but I give thanks to those persons of long ago which made it possible to view life in the United States, the UK and other places in the World from the State Cinema, Pontlottyn.
Davies Family , Pontlottyn, Rhymney
The family name is DAVIES, they lived in Penygraig, Pontlottyn and Clarendon Row, Rhymney in 1940, after the death of the mother they were taken to the Pontypridd Cottage Children's Home. Five of the children went to the home. If anyone has any information it will be appreciated.
Davies Family of Ppontllotyn or Rhymney
The family name is Davies, they lived in Penygraig, Pontllotyn and Clarindon Row, Rhymney. We belive they lived near the stone works. Five of the children went to the homes at Pontypridd owing to the death of their mother. If anyone reading this has any information, it would be appriciated.
