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Tranch Pyle maps
Historic maps of Tranch Pyle and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Tranch Pyle maps
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Kenfig Hill| Pyle| Maudlam| Newton| Nottage| Aberkenfig| Porthcawl| Cefn Glas| Merthyr Mawr| Tondu| Bridgend| Candleston| Margam| Ogmore-By-Sea| Bryncethin| Llangynwyd| Abergarw| Ewenny| Coity| Southerndown| Dunraven Bay| Maesteg| Blackmill| Pontycymer| Ogmore Vale| Wick| Aberavon| Port Talbot
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Memories of Tranch Pyle
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Mid Glamorgan memories
Evacuee With Thomas Family
The lovely Thomas family took me in as an evacuee during the war years, they had a daughter, Myra or similar. Sundays were special, we visited grandparents up on a hill. Moria C.M. Sunday School presented me with a Bible which I still have. Night chapel, the children had to go down the front and read a text in Welsh which I managed to get through. Mr Thomas was in the police force. I remember feeling very strange at first but they were such a lovely family I have nothing but fond memories of my stay. I have been living in Australia since 14 years of age, and am now a grand-mother of 7 grandchildren, and have three wonderful sons and daughter-in-laws.
Family in Sea View Terrace
I used to visit my grandparents Ike and Gwladys Morgan at 9 Sea View Terrace nearly every school holiday until I was 13. My sister and I loved to play on the witch's hat on the common - just across the road from our grandparent's house.
The Rail Line
I remember as kids we used to watch the trains go past Nottage Halt, to look at the old track now it is hard to imagine anything other than a tractor using it. One day we walked through the railway tunnel that used to go under Nottage, it's probably still there, though blocked off at each end.
Push And Pull
In the 1950s the push and pull train would stop at Nottage Halt if you put your handout I went frequently on the train to Pyle to watch the express trains come thundering through, I was only six and travelled on my own for the day. I remember playing on the Josephs farm on Stormy Down, happy days!
Upbringing
I went to school first at Tondu infants and then to the Primary school, I remember when we had the school photographs taken in the play yard (where are they now?). I had a really great and happy childhood there living with all the family at 15 Dunraven Street, and friends nearby. It was a great occasion when Franky Vaughn visited the boys club there and when the fair arrived at the field by the welfare hall. There used to be a truly marvellous scapyard around behind the old police station, I think it belonged to the Baker family who also had a shop at Bridgend road. If my memory serves me right, we had a street party at Dunraven Street, but that's quite a vague memory now. Also I remember when my father - Johnny Warner - worked on the railway at Tondu, as my elder brother did, and my father used to ride his pushbike to and from work, I would know more or less the time he finished... Read more
Parc Slip Explosion And my Memories of Aberkenfig
Parc Slip Exposion – 26th August 1892 and-My memories of home life and school On the morning of Friday the 26th August 1892 an explosion occurred at Parc Slip Colliery, The Fountain, Aberkenfig, near Bridgend in which my (Catherine Delahay’s) great grandfather Lewis Cockram aged 28 was killed together with his three brothers, George, John & Thomas Cockram. They were the sons of George and Elizabeth Cockram. Lewis Cockram’s widow Catherine, my great grandmother (perhaps I was named after her) was left with two small children, William Morgan Cockram (my grandfather) and Lavinia (known to us as Auntie Vin) who was married to Evan James. They were granted 6d for each child and 2 shillings (old money) per week for the widow from the Parc Slip Relief Fund.. I don’t know how they survived but my great grandmother brought up these two children on her own with the help from relatives, especially her brother and sister. (John Richards who kept the ironmongers at Bridgend Road, Aberkenfig and Lizzie... Read more
Growing up in Aberkenfig
Growing up and the family - Part 1 My grandfather William Morgan Cockram (son of Lewis Cockram) and grandmother (Mary Cockram) (granny and grandpa Cockram) took over the ironmongers after the death of John Richards. They were living behind the shop when I was growing up. I remember the shop very well. It was not a very busy shop – I remember my grandmother in the living room at the back of the shop and when the bell sounded as somebody opened the shop door, she would go into the shop to serve them. The shop was very dark and I remember little pigeon holes behind the counter full of nails, screws etc. Odd rolls of wallpaper and paint (during the war years the colours were bright green, brown and fawn) and other items were piled up in the rest of the shop. Children used to come into the shop to buy chalk which was sold for about 6d.a lump. (old money) This chalk was kept... Read more
