Nightingale Terrace

A Memory of Pontnewynydd.

I lived in Nightingale Terrace, off Hanbury Road, until I was eleven. I remember Chatham's shop, with the wooden bung in the cracked window - it was like that for many years. My sisters and I used to spend our sixpence pocket money in there every week. There were two families of Morgans in the row and I remember a little girl named Geraldine Jones who we used to play with. There was a row of 'privvies' at the top end, which we weren't allowed to use. In the summer we would go up 'The Tump' and slide down it on cardboard boxes. Those were the days!

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