Ystrad Mynach, Mid Glamorgan
Ystrad Mynach maps
Historic maps of Ystrad Mynach and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Ystrad Mynach maps
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Memories of Ystrad Mynach
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My grandparents lived in one of the houses at the station, I have some older photos than shown on your site. My grandfather worked for the railway and I have lots of fabulous memeories of the area since the 1960s to 1985 or thereabouts. One of my brothers was schooled in Ystrad. I loved going back there. I stayed with my... [more]
Shared on 19 July 2009
I was born in Ystrad Mynach in 1931. I remember: the soccer field, watching Dai the goalie, the abattoir, Blackriver, cinema, arcade, Bottom Ystrad, the junior school, pre-war days. We were adventurous, often playing up on the rocks and in the pine plantation. My grandparents lived in Hill Street nd Bryn Mynach. Sadly we left Ystrad in 1939 to live 4... [more]
Shared on 16 December 2008
MY MEMORIIES OF YSTRAD PARK AS A CHILD ' MY MOTHER AND HER FRIENDS WOULD GATHER ALL US CHILDREN AND WALK TO THE PARK WHERE WE WOULD HAVE A PICNIC AND PLAY ALL DAY MOST PEOPLE GOING BACK TO 1958 WILL REMEMBER THE SWIMMING POOL THAT NOW SADLY IS FILLED IN AND SHRUBS PLANTED .... [more]
Shared on 06 December 2007
Mid Glamorgan memories
Unless the school burned down twice, it definitely happened in half term of 1980. I was on the school pitch behind my house at the time. I was well-chuffed because I had reached the top class with Mr Thomas and was allowed to use a fountain pen. Then one day - so we heard - workmen in the school dropped... [more]
Shared on 22 October 2009
I moved to Hengoed when I was 6 years old. I lived in Hawthorn Avenue when the houses were first built. The first winter there was very bad, I have not seen a winter like it since, not in Hengoed anyway. It was a close-knit community there, 24 steel houses and policeman always lived in No 24. Everybody knew everybody and... [more]
Shared on 17 February 2009
HENGOED SCHOOL INFANTS AND JUNIOR
I HAVE GREAT MEMORIES OF A GREAT SCHOOL WHICH SADLY WAS DESTROYED BY FIRE 1960 S I REMEMBER THE DAY WITH SADNESS; AS I WATCHED WITH MY PARENTS AS IT WAS COMPLETLY DESTROYED. HOWEVER SHORTLY AFTER A NEW SCHOOL WAS BUILT AND MY CHILDREN WHO ONLY ATTENDED THE OLD SCHOOL FOR... [more]
Shared on 12 November 2007
It's not a memory of mine but, she was my great grandmother and I am not sure of her first name although I know her surname was Powell. She was a mother to grandad, who's life so tragically ended, she died in a fire, a caravan fire, in Hengoed. I would like to know about her, and would like even to... [more]
Shared on 19 August 2007
The first time my father took me under the Hengoed viaduct I remember looking up and said to my dad that one day I would like to walk across it and wondered how long it would take us. When I got a bit older and a bit more interested in the viaduct, me and a mate got over the fence on... [more]
Shared on 06 June 2006
Extracts From Ystrad Mynach & Mid Glamorgan books
Displaying a selection of extracts from Frith books about Ystrad Mynach, inspired by Frith photos.
Mid-Wales - Ceredigion and Powys Photographic Memories
This picture, taken just where the A469 road to Bargoed turns to the left, shows what a diversity of shops and amenities existed in a town of barely 5,000 inhabitants. On the left is the RAOB meeting hall with a solitary figure on the pavement in the ubiquitous flat cap. On the right are Arnott's the chemist's in the foreground, with... [more]
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Porthcawl Photographic Memories
Here we see the entrance to the harbour. The wooden posts on the right are all that remains of the two original piers. The white wooden huts on the left were used by the local air-training
This is an extract from Porthcawl Photographic Memories.
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Porthcawl Photographic Memories
This is one of the earliest photographs of the new dock after the work was completed in 1867. It shows the coal hoists and also the Jennings Building, which was a warehouse and sawmill. The small building on the extreme left was the Customs House. On 5 July 1867, Robert Howell, the landlord of the Harbour Inn, fell into the old dock and was drowned. His body was recovered, and at the inquest... [more]
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