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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
A memory of Llanhilleth contributed by First Name Last Name

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!
A memory of Llanhilleth contributed by First Name Last Name

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 ...read more here
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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.
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Extracts From Crumlin & Gwent books

Crumlin, Viaduct 1893

Built to carry the Taff Vale Extension railway across the Ebbw and Kendon valleys to join the Taff Vale and Newport, Abergavenny and Hereford railways together, the 200 foot-high Crumlin viaduct was a 19th-century testimony to the economic power of coal. Designed by Thomas Kennard, the eight-pier viaduct was constructed by Charles Liddell, using castings from Falkirk and wrought iron from nearby Blaenavon. Construction began in 1853 and was finished in 1855, although the viaduct only came into service a year and half later. Demolished after the 1964 closure of the railway it carried, the elegant structure now exists only in photographs such as this.
An extract from from"Monmouthshire Photographic Memories".