Nostalgic memories of Llanhilleth's local history

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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.

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MY first memory of"LLan"was driving down the hill from Swffryyd, to my new home at No.6 High Street. My father Thomas Hughes, with my mother Eileen, had purchased Barttlets Grocery Store,a long held wish of my fathers to own his own grocery business..after early years as a grocers 'lad' and enforced war years, ensconed in the centre of birmingham as a tool maker turning out precision parts for the war. I ...see more
I am 46 and my nan lived in Trinant. Me and my sister used to visit her throughout the year but every summer for 2 week we stayed with her in her flat. We had working parents and to have a stay-at-home adult was bliss. Our cousin also lived in Trinant and our Uncle Brian and Auntie Nancy used to take us to Pontypool to the Lido. We also went to Cardiff and Southerndown. We lived in Swindon at the time and ...see more
Does anyone have any information about a Nathan Hughes who married someone called Jane Evans? I understand that he was from this area. He had a son named David Charles Hughes who was born in 1832. I am trying to track some relatives, Joannah or Jane Hughes, who married David Wynne in 1811, and find out what relation she was to Nathan Hughes.
The Research Into Lost Knowledge Organisation is an organisation providing a platform for the dissemination of hidden knowledge incorporated in myth legend, number and geometry, art and music, architectural proportion, megalithic structures and the geomantic layout of cities and landscape. Public meetings are held at the Theosophicl Society HQ, 50 Gloucester Place, London W1U 8EA on the ...see more
The Rhaglen Cymdeithas Lenyddol is a Welsh Society who meet at the address shown below:- The Rhaglen Cymdeithas Lenyddol C/o Eglwys Bresbytaraidd Cymru 289 Lewisham Way Brockley London ENGLAND SE4 1XF Tel: (020) 8300 6415 - Gywndaf Evans (Hon. Sec) Email: Gwyndaf.sidcup@btinernet.com We meet at 2 pm prompt on the first three Tuesdays of the month from October till March inclusive. Visitors welcome!
I was born in my aunt's [Ciss Smith] house in Caefelin Street, Llanhilleth, during late 1944, early in the morning.  At the same time a girl named Angela [Simpkins] was born in the house opposite at the same time.  My Aunt Ciss was holding me up at the front upstairs window to show the family that I was born whilst Angela's relations was doing the same thing in reverse. One of my earliest memories was when I was aged ...see more