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Bridge Cottage
Hi, Does anyone have any photos or memories of the Bridge House/Cottage in Bedwas that was an Indian restaurant for some time. We now own it and want to try and bring it back to the very early years. Many thanks if you do.
Contributed by tina morgan
Mid Glamorgan memories
Bridge Cottage
Hi, Does anyone have any photos or memories of the Bridge House/Cottage in Bedwas that was an Indian restaurant for some time. We now own it and want to try and bring it back to the very early years. Many thanks if you do.
A memory of Bedwas contributed by tina morgan
Double Diamond
Hi, my family members spent many a year in the Double Diamond and have big birthdays coming up, so I would be grateful for any photos if anyone has any. Thanks xxx
A memory of Energlyn contributed by First name Last name
LLANBRADACH PUB ON THE CORNER
My grandparents, Ben & Polly Thomas, ran the pub opposite the Miners Welfare. I was evacuated there and I can remember on Saturday night, the US Servicemen would come along with their band and play in the pub. My grandparents had a white haired terrier called "Tim". Tim would come into the bar, the bottom bar where the widows of miners were allowed in on Saturday nights. Tim would go into the middle of the bar carrying an enamel bucket with a wooden handle. He would swing the bucket around and then let it go, run and jump over the bar and race out the back. There was the bottom bar, the top bar (posh bar) and the Snug out the ...read more here
A memory of Llanbradach contributed by john rooke
Extracts From Bedwas & Mid Glamorgan books
The poster on the extreme right of this picture is advertising the forthcoming local District Council elections. This
has obviously not caused too much of a stir in sleepy Bedwas. Even the dogs are nonplussed - and the fact that
they are happily standing in the middle of the road suggests that any traffic hazard in such a quiet backwater was
probably very limited. The road works warned of by the sign were never likely to be the cause of too many traffic
jams when car ownership was still quite low and the availability and use of public transport correspondingly high.
An extract from from"Monmouthshire Photographic Memories".
Co-operative stores sprang up everywhere in places
like Bedwas to bring affordable shopping to the
valley areas, where they were often the main or only
source of groceries and goods. The Co-ops were set
up in conjunction with the workers (hence their
name). Note the women catching up on all the
gossip outside the shop, and the boy resting from
the strains of pushing his wheelbarrow. The few
aerials on the chimneys in Newport Road show that
TV ownership - or rental - had made little impact by
1960. What other services that we now take for
granted might have just arrived via the large recently
covered trench in the road?
An extract from from"Monmouthshire Photographic Memories".