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Pontycymer, Park View c1955
Pontycymer, Park View c1955 Ref: P227001
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Waun Bant Cricket
I spent the vast bulk of my childhood in this area. The centre of the cricket pitch is a strip of concrete that was used for boys club and school's cricket matches. Mostly, a game of soccer or rugby was played either side of it too. Down the grass bank is now the "Swings" at Waun Bant. These were built in about 1968/1969. In the foreground is the rubbish tip that became Lawrence Park rugby ground in 1970 and at the top of the photo is St Theodore's Church which is now gone and a bungalow is in its place. To its right are the houses in Church Street that are now demolished. The Mem is also visible on the far right. Last edited: 18/03/2008 13:52 by David Jones |
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 Pontycymer, Oxford Street c1955 (ref: P227010) |
Year: 1960
Doctor's clinic....
I well remember the doctor's clinic referred to - it was halfway up the hill on the same side as the Squirrel. I have unpleasant memories of getting "the needle" there when I was about five or so. The smell of that purple meths/alcohol stuff (can't remember the name) that they used for wiping the puncture site of your arm/leg still reminds me of that evil place. Anyone remember the pictures/bingo hall that was at the junction of Alexandra Road where it met Meadow St? Last edited: 20/10/2008 10:01 by Clive Jones |
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Pontycymer, Oxford Street c1955 (ref: P227010) |
Year: 1940s
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 Cook then.) Over to the RHS - Joe Polledri (Italian cafe) - he used to breed corgis and show them. Next a shoe shop kept by ? for whom Morgan Roberts worked. He later took over the shop and his son Clive still runs the shop, I believe. Hodges(men's outfitters), The Meadow (grocer), (Mr James, manager), then Rupert Pugh (butcher), Hughes the Jeweller, Home And Colonial, The Star (grocer), J.O Thomas (shoe shop), ? Martins (sweet shop and ice cream). Last edited: 01/04/2008 15:10 by Eric Jones |
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 Pontycymer, Oxford Street c1952 (ref: P227008) |
Year: 1952
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. Last edited: 02/04/2008 10:58 by Eric Jones |
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 Pontycymer, Park View c1955 (ref: P227001) |
Waun Bant Cricket
I spent the vast bulk of my childhood in this area. The centre of the cricket pitch is a strip of concrete that was used for boys club and school's cricket matches. Mostly, a game of soccer or rugby was played either side of it too. Down the grass bank is now the "Swings" at Waun Bant. These were built in about 1968/1969. In the foreground is the rubbish tip that became Lawrence Park rugby ground in 1970 and at the top of the photo is St Theodore's Church which is now gone and a bungalow is in its place. To its right are the houses in Church Street that are now demolished. The Mem is also visible on the far right. Last edited: 18/03/2008 13:52 by David Jones |
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Pontycymer, Oxford Street c1952 (ref: P227008) |
Post Office
This photograph has changed little I think apart from the demolishing of the public toilets on the right. The wooden notice board on the railings advertised the weekly films featured in the "Mem" and always drew my attention as I walked past it. The Squirrel is visible just up from the post office and was formerly called "The Pontycymmer Hotel" but I am not sure as to when this pub changed its name. Just past the toilets on the right was "Sid's", the gent's hairdresser. He was there for years. Last edited: 18/03/2008 13:53 by David Jones |
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