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Nostalgic memories of Trethomas's local history

Share your own memories of Trethomas and read what others have said

For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our web site to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was when the photographs in our archive were taken. From brief one-liners explaining a little bit more about the image depicted, to great, in-depth accounts of a childhood when things were rather different than today (and everything inbetween!). We've had many contributors recognising themselves or loved ones in our photographs.

Why not add your memory today and become part of our Memories Community to help others in the future delve back into their past.

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Many A Happy Time In Trethomas
I don't know how I arrived at this website but I found it amazing that what I found awakes so many memories about Trethomas. My gran lived at 13 Bryn-y-fran Avenue, together with my uncles Ron and Trevor Evans. I lived in Llandrindod Wells but spent most of my School holidays with my parents at Gran's house in Trethomas. The name Wedlock meant something to me, was the daughter Joan married to Ron White ...see more
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Added 25 September 2015

Yortk Stores
I was born in the corner grocer's shop at 8 Newport Road formerly know as 'York Stores' my father, Don Northover, used to manage it for a man called WJ Greene who also had shops at Bargoed and Abertwsswg - a very early form of Tesco's ! The shop is now the Trethomas post office. My family, my Father Mother my older brother Ray my younger sister Pamela younger brother Don and youngest sister Ruby, lived at the shop ...see more
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Added 11 December 2013

Working On Taxi
I worked in Caerphilly in the 70s - self employed taxi driver with Bee Line Taxis, if anyone can remember them. I have good memories of the people I met there, I worked there for 6 months and then started my own firm. I now live in Bridgend.
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Added 02 April 2013

Bee Line Taxis
I worked in Caerphilly in 1972 for a firm called Bee Line Taxis, I enjoyed it very much. It was hard work because I worked in the day, and then on the weekends I worked for Bee Line. I remember seeing Ken Dod in the Double Diamond, Frankie Vaughan, and a couple of others when waiting for a customer. I remember a driver called Peter Thomas, and the owner's son was Terry, I worked there part time for a short while. ...see more
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Added 19 March 2013

Trethomas [Fishshop ]
Hi Tony, I remember the Fish Shop in Trethomas, really great chips. I remember your mum very well. Your father, when he came home on leave, used to help in the shop in his uniform. It was always a busy shop. I am sure that your parents moved back to Machen and lived at the Croft at the top of Church Street. Be good if we could get in touch. You could try the website that a group of us put together in Machen. Please send me a private message for details.
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Added 19 March 2013

Trethomas Or Bedwas Pit

I too remember looking through the bedroom window of my Auntie Olga's house in Bryn Y Fran Ave and watching the clouds of steam rising from the coke oven in the skyline. I also remember going to meet my Uncle 'Herbie' Wedlock as he walked home from the pit. At night one could see the glare from the coke before it was cooled. Does anyone remember the 'Rec' behind the cinema and the lovely bowling green which my uncle loved? The area is now a school I think.
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Added 09 January 2012

Pit Village
Born in Machen, moved to Thomastown as war began, my parents opened a shop at 7 Newport Rd. and sold fish and chips there until long after I became a physician, and found a specialist career in hospitals in S Wales, and then the Miidlands. In the many years of exile, regret that separation from a past so well remembered and so inspired by the best of neighbour and local worthy has been increasingly felt. However, what ...see more
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Added 28 June 2011