Tredegar
Tredegar maps (2 available)
Map of Gwent
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Tredegar books (4 available)
So You Think You Know? Abergavenny
Hardback
- 4 photos on Tredegar appear in 3 Frith books - View photos of Tredegar
- Read extracts and see photos from these books on Tredegar and Gwent
Tredegar memories
Read and share memories of Tredegar and Gwent inspired by Frith photos
Charles Street in the 1910's
My grandma was born Eleanor ('Nellie') Roberts at Back 62 Charles Street on the 27th November 1911 to Lillian Elizabeth and Richard John Roberts, she was the second eldest of 6 girls, Lillian 1908, Florence May 1915, Sarah Ann 1917, Florrie 1920 and Lydia Doreen 1923. Grandma remembers that the cottage had 2 rooms, one up and one down, the upstairs was divided with heavy curtains instead of walls and the girls shared beds.
Grandma has very few memories left about Tredegar as she hasn't lived in Wales since 1936, she remembers her dad used to go out with a brown sack up the lanes in Tredegar to collect elderberries to make wine from, when it was brewed he ...read more here
Contributed by Lee Hutchings
The 60s in Tredegar
I would travel to Tredegar to go to the bigger shops, bigger than Brynmawr. I loved the fashions of the 60's, and sometimes could get what I liked in Tredegar. It is just a small town but I had good times there. I especially liked going to the dance held in the Working Mens Club on a Sunday night - good times Tredegar, thanks. Also I gave birth to my first daughter in St James’ Hospital in 1968.
Contributed by jackie haynes
Gwent memories
Charles Street in the 1910's
My grandma was born Eleanor ('Nellie') Roberts at Back 62 Charles Street on the 27th November 1911 to Lillian Elizabeth and Richard John Roberts, she was the second eldest of 6 girls, Lillian 1908, Florence May 1915, Sarah Ann 1917, Florrie 1920 and Lydia Doreen 1923. Grandma remembers that the cottage had 2 rooms, one up and one down, the upstairs was divided with heavy curtains instead of walls and the girls shared beds.
Grandma has very few memories left about Tredegar as she hasn't lived in Wales since 1936, she remembers her dad used to go out with a brown sack up the lanes in Tredegar to collect elderberries to make wine from, when it was brewed he ...read more here
A memory of Tredegar contributed by Lee Hutchings
The 60s in Tredegar
I would travel to Tredegar to go to the bigger shops, bigger than Brynmawr. I loved the fashions of the 60's, and sometimes could get what I liked in Tredegar. It is just a small town but I had good times there. I especially liked going to the dance held in the Working Mens Club on a Sunday night - good times Tredegar, thanks. Also I gave birth to my first daughter in St James’ Hospital in 1968.
A memory of Tredegar contributed by jackie haynes
Extracts From Tredegar & Gwent books
Aneurin Bevin, Tredegar’s most famous son, wrote of the coalminer’s lot: ‘In other trades, there are a thousand diversions to break the monotony of the work - the passing traffic, the morning newspaper, above all the sky, the sunshine and the rain. The miner has none of these. Every day for eight hours he dies, gives up a slice of his life and buries himself’.
An extract from from"Wales Living Memories".
Although pig iron was being produced in
the area in the late 18th century, it was
the setting up of the Tredegar Iron Works
in 1800 that gave the town prosperity,
growth and its name. In 1801 the
population was 619, but by 1811 it had
reached 2,200. In 1850 3,000 men were
employed at the works. This view
overlooking the town provides a classic
view of industrial Wales, with the terraced
houses and industrial workings which so
typified the 19th century. Just a few years
after this picture was taken only waste tips
were to be seen. In common with many
similar communities, the people of
Tredegar lost their livelihoods when the
industries on which they depended were
closed down.
An extract from from"Monmouthshire Photographic Memories".