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St Johns colliery
Always remember my grandfather (Bryn George) stating all through my child hood that he had worked in st johns for 44 and a half years
A memory of Caerau contributed by Darrell George
coinant collary
Always when my gran (Cath Hatton) was working in the canteen I would go up and have a drink and a piece of cake, and she would shout at me for bringing my friends up. On a couple of occasions a man used to show me a trick by moving his fingers. Until 3 months ago I remembered him and as I saw him in Caerau bus stop I looked at his hands and saw fingers missing - what a trick.
A memory of Caerau contributed by paul hatton
A busy street
My mother Joan Marion Jones nee Gibson from Nantyrychain Terrace worked in the Home and Colonial Stores (on the right hand side of this photo) during the war and has many memories and stories, especially about rationing. She also knows many of the shops.
Starting on the left corner was Peglers (grocer) - now a Chinese, I see from another memory, then Morgan Hughes (ladies outfitters), Powell (butcher), Wellingtons (newsagent and greengrocer), Bethel Chapel with the British restaurant where Mrs Jones from Meadow St. was the Cook. (This later became a canteen for Garw Grammar School boys in Forms 4-6 who walked from the school to take their lunch here. I know because I was there! Mrs Fricker was the ...read more here
A memory of Pontycymer contributed by Eric Jones
I was there.....
Some years ago my mother came across this postcard and looking carefully saw herself! She is the woman, Joan Marion Jones, nee Gibson, carrying a child on the corner by what was a barbers. That child is my sister, Christine Jones (now Howell) and the boy by the side is myself. The other lady with her is my Auntie Beat. We were on our way to the railway station in Pontycymer to catch the train to Porthcawl.
Christine was born in Dec 1950 and I was born in Nov 1947.
A memory of Pontycymer contributed by Eric Jones
Extracts From Maesteg & Mid Glamorgan books
Llantwit Major stands on the Afon Colhugh, and the place is said to have once been a port. It is also said to be the
place at which St Illtyd landed after his journey from Brittany - without the assistance of this lighthouse, of course.
An extract from from"South Wales Photographic Memories".
Previously known as ‘Bowrington Street’ after Dr John Bowring, Commercial Street is still home to the
Sawyers Arms.
An extract from from"South Wales Photographic Memories".
Maesteg is a town defined by its one time principal industry - coal. By the mid 1980s, most of the mines had shut, with dire consequences for the communities here. However, all that was still to come at the time when this photograph was taken. Here there is little to suggest the upheavals that would come as the people of the town go about their business. Growing trade in the town had led to the building of Talbot Street in the 1890s. The King Alfred pub, which is situated on the junction with Commercial Street, belies the fact that new leases for Talbot Street excluded public houses.
An extract from from"Wales Living Memories".