Caerleon
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Caerleon books (5 available)
So You Think You Know? Abergavenny
Hardback
- 10 photos on Caerleon appear in 6 Frith books - View photos of Caerleon
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Ancestors
James and Charlotte Brooker and son Harry (born 18.09.1869).
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A memory of Llantarnam contributed by susan rogers
Commercial Street
I lived at number 36 from 1936 for 11 yrs. and saw the changes that World War 11 brought to our village. I remember the milkman and his horse-drawn cart and mam asking for a gill as she searched her purse for the coin to pay for it. Someone would always rush out to collect the horse droppings for use on their garden. The blackouts and the sound of enemy aircraft overhead as they followed the mountain range from Blaenavon to Twyn Barllwm their dropping point for the bombs aimed at Newport Docks. The arrival of the Yanks based at Llantarnam and rides in jeeps to the Mountain Air pub when soldiers took our house neighbours' daughters out for runs. ...read more here
A memory of Pontnewydd contributed by Lance Ford
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 ...read more here
A memory of Upper Cwmbran contributed by Lance Ford
Channel View
I've seen this photo in several places and it's always captioned as being 1965 - it's got to be before that because I lived in Channel View from 1960 to 63 just below those garages on the right of the photo - and in this photo the building hasn't even started.
I can remember playing behind those garages - even creating a little "graveyard" there for my deceased pet white mice. There's a path up to the canal from behind the garages (which is where this photo is taken from) and there was a great tree-swing with a death defying drop if you swung all the way out from the bank - I imagine there were quite a few injuries, ...read more here
A memory of Risca contributed by Terry Evans
Extracts From Caerleon & Gwent books
This is a grand view of
the River Usk, which
winds its way through
Caerleon. The solitary
horse-drawn carriage in
the middle of the road
hints at quieter, perhaps
gentler times, even if
life was in many ways
harsher too. A well-
developed town for the
time of this picture, it
also shows the
magnificent rural
surroundings, as yet
unencroached upon by
20th century development.
An extract from from"Monmouthshire Photographic Memories".
This church stands in an area with a long-standing Christian heritage: it is recorded that in 314 the Bishop of Caerleon was present at the Synod of Arles, the first general council of western Christianity. The bishopric was later removed to St Davids by Dewi Sant (St David) himself - legend proclaims that this was foretold by Merlin.
An extract from from"South Wales Photographic Memories".
This church stands in an area with a long-standing Christian heritage: it is recorded that in 314 the Bishop of
Caerleon was present at the Synod of Arles, the first general council of western Christianity. The bishopric was
later removed to St Davids by Dewi Sant (St David) himself - legend proclaims that this was foretold by Merlin.
An extract from from"South Wales Photographic Memories".
A solitary figure wanders towards the common in a Wales slowly recovering from the Second World War. The attractive mixture of village vernacular and Victorian buildings suggests a sleepy backwater, yet Caerleon has been an important site since Roman times, when they turned it into a major fortress, and the town now possesses the only remains of the legionary barracks in Europe, home of the Second Augustan Legion.
An extract from from"Wales Living Memories".
The arch is not the genuine article: it is in fact a folly built by one Miss Elizabeth Morgan in 1820, using stone recovered from the remains of Roman buildings. The priory which we can see through the arch was built in about 1179, and is currently a hotel.
An extract from from"South Wales Photographic Memories".