Nostalgic memories of Talywain's local history

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My Early Chidhood

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 opposite each front door. We were five in family, my dad, Fred Smith, was a miner and worked at Blaensychan Colliery. My mother, Nellie Caroline, had, at one time worked at Jones and Porters ...see more

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Added 27 January 2013

8, Llanover Road, Abersychan, Pontnewynydd

This is going back a bit - but I wonder if anyone knows or remembers a family with the surname 'English' who lived at this address in the 1890-1900's? My great grandmother was born here - Elizabeth Magretta English, her mother Mary English and her parents Mary and John Mancle English. Please, please get in touch if you know anything at all about this or have ever lived at this address? Thanks, Nichola

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Added 01 July 2012

Thoughts From Longago

I've put the year as 1949 but I was born in 1947 at the Ashtree Houses, number 3, the one with the tap outside. I went to the Varteg Infant School, not for long though as we moved to Coventry in the early 1950s. There was Mam, Dad, brothers Emrys, Graham, Billy, myself and my youngest brother Granville. We had relatives in Blaenavon and Tinklers and Bates and Jones's and Bates on the Garn. When we left ...see more

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Added 25 October 2011

Pontypool

My family lived in The Globe in Crane Street from 1973 until I guess 1980, although I had left in 1979, John and Kitty, ran a fab pub which was always very busy with many customers working in the council and police station. The pub was headquaters for the police rugby team which was very popular. I can remember many after hour drinking sessions going on. I think the decline in pub trade happened when the pits started ...see more