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Blaengwynfi, Western Colliery 1938
Blaengwynfi, Western Colliery 1938 Ref: 88714
Memories of Blaengwynfi, Western Colliery
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Year: 1968
Afan Colliery
This is the old afan colliery in full swing until the late 60's early 70's. This picture was taken from the Bwlch Road looking over Jersey Road. The lone white building is the old vicarage. Posted: 31/12/2007 00:36 by Philip Loveday |
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 Blaengwynfi, Western Colliery 1938 (ref: 88714) |
Year: 1968
Afan Colliery
This is the old afan colliery in full swing until the late 60's early 70's. This picture was taken from the Bwlch Road looking over Jersey Road. The lone white building is the old vicarage. Posted: 31/12/2007 00:36 by Philip Loveday |
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 Blaengwynfi, General View c1955 (ref: B42301) |
Year: 1957
Home Base
This pic was taken from Tunnel Terrace looking over the old iron bridge coming from The Tunnel Hotel. The building closest after the slag heap is the old Police station with the Bandroom next door to it. My Grandmother and Grandfather Loveday lived in number 5 Tunnel Tce. Sadly no longer there. Posted: 31/12/2007 00:24 by Philip Loveday |
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Year: 1953
I grew up here A memory of Abergwynfi, West Glamorgan My first recollection of living in the valley was at Duffrin where my sisters Pat and Pam Smith also lived, later we moved to the Gwynfi, and that is where I lived and was educated in the local infants school at the bottom of the hill near the river and bowing green, then to the local Secondary Modern at the top of the hill, from there to Cymmer, left there in 1953, memories for me was one of poverty and like most a true sense of pride. Poverty even if you were in full time employment, the weekly wage just about got you through the week. Pride even on men with ashen faces who could no longer work, and came from the fact that they were miners and had the respect of other men, whose lives depended on each other when in the body of mother earth, but they were hard men, strong in the arm and of their skills. I worked after my training in Mastag in South Pit, Glencorrwg for about two and a half years, I was down the mine when the panzer division blew up and helped carry out the injured. I will be returning to Wales in the next few weeks to visit for the last time, and hope to visit the local mining museum. Last edited: 28/07/2008 15:19 by Kenneth Smith |
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 Abergwynfi, Avon Colliery c1965 (ref: A170002) |
Year: 1953
Days of long ago. A memory of Abergwynfi, West Glamorgan My father had a very good friend who was a coal miner in this colliery, they lived in Abergwnfi. The name was Ad & Ivor Morgan. Last edited: 14/04/2008 12:25 by Brenda Vanderwert |
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 Abergwynfi, St Gabriel's Church 1938 (ref: 88715) |
Year: 1976
No Longer a Church A memory of Abergwynfi, West Glamorgan This church had been derelict for many years and was still derelict when I returned home on R & R. I believe it is now a business premises. Shame a waste of a lovely church. Posted: 31/12/2007 00:31 by Philip Loveday |
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