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My husband George nicholas worked at penrhiwcieber colliery for 40 years.

A memory of Penrhiwceiber in 1965 by First Name Last Name

I was born and lived at Longdon Green. I started work at West Cannock Colliery No.5 in 1951. I used to cycle to Rugeley every morning and store my bicycle in Jack Hill's shop doorway along with other miners' bikes, then catch the ...Read more

A memory of Rugeley in 1951 by Carl Linney

My Grandma - Bertha Lanaghan - lived in Third Street for over 50 years. She made hookey rugs as big as a room from old blankets, coats, etc whatever she could get, to sell for extra money. She dyed the wool three ...Read more

A memory of Blackhall Colliery by Kathy Ames

I was born at Newton On Ouse in March 1928. At the age of five I attended the local school whose headmaster was Alf Bradbury. Also at the age of five I began visiting Village Farm that was owned by ...Read more

A memory of Newton-on-Ouse in 1930 by Guy Jefferson

My father was an overman at the Trane Colliery in 1955, the valley was alive at that time with lots of shops, two cinemas, two buses to Penygraig each hour and the wonderful dance hall in Tonyrefail called the Central. Even ...Read more

A memory of Gilfach Goch in 1955 by Joyce Jones

I have now done some detective work regarding the origin of the Tip that we knew as Mount Pud, which was located between Station Road and the canal. It was obviously some kind of industrial waste dump but, as there ...Read more

A memory of Hollingwood in 1947 by Don Rawding

I have the photo of my fathers time at Fluer De Lis school in 1919 just before he and the family immigrated to Australia. Pop worked at Britania Colliery which I also have a photo of the workman's committee 1919 with all the names of the men

A memory of Fleur-de-lis in 1910 by Phillip Grant

I lived at what is now Old County View at Hett Hills from 1959 to 1963. My sister and her husband - Sam Wears, had a house built in the garden next door to us. There was a square of about 6 houses behind us which were demolished ...Read more

A memory of Hett Hills in 1959 by John Crawford

I was born at 32 Pisgah Road which was the bottom end cottage of a row of three opposite Pisgah Chapel. The cottages had no back entrances. There was a pathway running in front of the three cottages with an outside toilet ...Read more

A memory of Talywain in 1945 by Brian Smith

My mum was born in Gilfach Goch (Red Nook) in 1930. Her mother was born Catherine Ann Leyshon and her father Reginald Bernard Assinder, which changed over the years to Assender. My grandmother passed away in ...Read more

A memory of Gilfach Goch in 1930 by Catherine Capener