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Wernddu maps
Historic maps of Wernddu and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Wernddu maps
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Caerphilly| Bedwas| Machen| Llanbradach| Rhiwbina| Taffs Well| Tongwynlais| Abertridwr| Radyr| Ystrad Mynach| Maesycwmmer| Maes-Y-Cwmmer| Pontywaun| Llandaff| Risca| Rumney| Church Village| Cardiff| Pontymister| Cwmcarn| Hengoed| Pontllanfraith| St Fagans| Pontypridd| Llanfabon| Abercynon
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Mid Glamorgan memories
I Was Born in Caerphilly in 1938
I left Caerphilly in 1955 to join the Royal Airforce. Prior to this I worked for AJ Marshall Wholesale Confectioners in Castle Street. I went to school at The Twyn Secondary Modern as it was then known. I remember coming on leave and having a few pints in the Clives Hotel, on leaving I took the short cut to Nantgarw Road via the Castle fields but unkown to me the moat had been filled so needless to say after running down the slope to the path I ended up in the water. After leaving the RAF I got married and moved to Swansea. I wonder if Brian Uphill and Mike Richardson are still about, we were all very good friends. That's about it for now. George.
Caerphilly
I used to live in Bartlett Street next to the bus station. My first job in Caerphilly was as a delivery driver for Harris & Ash DIY merchants, they were situated in a double fronted shop opposite the castle, although I came across a photograph recently that showed their shop as originally opposite the bus and railway station. That shop became an Italian cafe run by a brother and sister team, his name was Marco and her name was Rose, very nice people, we used to have our tea breaks there when on the buses. I was a conductor on the Carphilly Urban District Council when the buses were painted mid Brunswick green with cream banding and they looked very smart. I worked with bus driver Brian Jones from Abertridwr, wonder if he's still around? I also worked at Morfeds in Poplar Road just off Van Road, that was when Prime Minister Harold Wilson came to open the Harold Wilson Ind Estate...... I joined the Royal Air Force 1967 and left Caerphilly.... Read more
Bridge Cottage
Hi, Does anyone have any photos or memories of the Bridge House/Cottage in Bedwas that was an Indian restaurant for some time. We now own it and want to try and bring it back to the very early years. Many thanks if you do.
Bridge Cottage
Dear Tina,
Re Bridge Cottage/House
We re-named Bridge House when we bought it in 1977 to save it, as it was one of the few and oldest Welsh long houses in the area. It was boarded up vandalised and was about to be demolished to make a larger car park for the Bridge End Inn.
We re-named it Bridge Cottage as the original Bridge Cottage that stood on the opposite side of the road had been demolished as part of the road improvement for the Bedwas Bypass and the it was more in keeping as a 'cottage' than a house.
It was previously a catogory three listed building but the catogory three listing protection had been dropped and that was why it was possible to demolish it!
We had started the Bedwas and Trethomas Conservation Society to try and involve the community in improving the area, as a result we tried to get the protection for Bridge house reinstated but we were unsuccessful as none of the official bodies were... Read more
Jazz Band
Does anyone remember the Trethomas Jazz Band called the Novellettes around 1975? I've been searching for photographs but can't find any. We entered loads of competitions so I'm hoping someone somewhere will have one I could copy.
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 was can not be set in stone for indulgence in less frantic years as dotage descends, but would it not be fine if those one knew were still remembering too?
The great plant and colliery I once saw from my bedroom have gone, and the huge steam cloud at such regular intervals as the coke was cooled will not be seen again: are all others I knew gone too?
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.
