Cwmcarn
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Cwmcarn books (6 available)
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Pont-y-waun
This is a view of Pont-y waun from Pont-y-waun bridge. If you look closely you can just make out the canal that ran parallel to the railway line. In the background is the Rhwsg mountain which I had the pleasure to climb frequently as a kid and even recently on my mountain bike!
A memory of Pontywaun contributed by Richie Gibbon
Growing up in Abercarn
Memories of walking to school, which was then West End Junior School, sited above the west end of Abercarn. Walking from Mount Pleasant, through Richard Thomas & Baldwin's Office yard, past Williams's stores, under the railway bridge, over the River Ebbw bridge and past the Fire Station brought me into the West End.
There I past The Crown Hotel, The Railway Station and into the shopping area.
The shops consisted of two butchers, three general stores, hardware shop and a milleners. Also in the West End were the Nant Pennar Club and two very productive bakeries. What a busy community this must have been!
I can remember the early morning noise and smells coming from one of the bakeries, sited behind ...read more here
A memory of Abercarn contributed by Brian John Watkins
The good old days!!!!
John's Cafe - 10p for a single ciggy and space invader games, the snooker hall, old man's park. - Julie Tovey
A memory of Cwmfelinfach contributed by First Name Last Name
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 Cwmcarn & Gwent books
These memorials, found in nearly every town in both England and Wales, tell of the
terrible consequences of the two World Wars to the small communities from which
the men named on them were drawn. This figure, head bowed and rifle turned
upside down, is a common sight.
An extract from from"Monmouthshire Photographic Memories".