Nostalgic memories of Caerau's local history
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Displaying Memories 11 - 20 of 49 in total
I believe Annie Evans was my grandmother's sister. I also have fond memories visiting Caerau and my cousins in Surrey at Gwyneth's house, we lived in Slough until 1954.
Last family visit was 1950 when they all went to the pub while I babysat, who I believe were Gwyneth's children. Would like to contact the family, we now live in West Australia lots of memories to share, billbarton.barton@gmail.com
I have very fond memories of Caerau. I was born 1946 and I loved Caerau. We had real fun times in the summer picking whimberries and your mam making delicious tarts, families gathering on the mountain for picnics, spending hours on end in the park and making up our own concerts. Picking flowers from the woods and pushing each other down the slopes in the park and see who rolled down the furthest. We played cricket in ...see more
I am looking for information on the Rogers and Price families that lived in Caerau. My grandfather Thomas Ivor Rogers lived at 15 Victoria Road in 1911. My great grandfather Philip Jones lived at 51 Hermon Road and my mother said that he would listen to comlaints? I think he was a coal examiner. Joseph Price married my great aunt and ran a pub in Maesteg called the Garn Inn upto 1960....My grandfather and grandmother ran the Coytrahen Arms also in Maesteg.
Hello - I am searching for William James Winn//Wynn/Wynne born 1885. He is listed as living at that time in Station Road, Nantyfyllon and was a clerk when he married my gran in 1917. He then moved to Caerau. After 1920 I have no further trace of him. My gran remarried later. Can anyone help - perhaps he remarried? Even the slightest detail may set me off in the right direction!!!
Does anyone know of the family of WILLIAM JAMES WINN he lived in STATION ROAD, NANTYFYLLYLON and worked as a clerk. He married ANNIE TOWNLEY of CAERAU in 1917. We cannot trace him and would like to have any information to complete our family tree.
In Kelly's directory, 1923, it shows a Joseph Parkinson as a confectioner, living at 123 Caerau Road, Caerau. I think this may be my Grandad who previously lived in Swansea where my father and aunt were born. Joseph was then a builder but by the time my parents were married he is listed as a baker and confectioner.
Does anyone have memory of Joseph, or his wife Agnes Jane? Or indeed of my father, Norman and his sister Annie? My parents died young and I have no idea about Dad's background.
I have many memories of Caerau. I lived at no 40 Railway Terrace from 1942 until 1963, when I got married to Linda Jukes.Wwe left Caerau in 1965 to Luton where I went to work for Vauxhall Motors. It is nice reading about the 50's and 60's in Caerau; Mrs Morts fish shop, the dances in the library. When I think back, Caerau was quite a thriving community with three Cooperative stores, at least five butchers, two cinemas ...see more
Born in 7 George Street, in 1963. So many great, wonderful memories of Caerau. Mort`s the fish shop. Tom the Barber. Wendels.Station Cafe. Library, Monkey Hotel. Con club, where every year during the summer they would run buses to either Porthcawl or Barry. Brewers running bus trips in the summer as well. Every year on 5th November we all gathered what we could to build a bonfire. Denzil Brewer and his ...see more
I'm Glynne Lewis. I was born in Co. Durham but the Lewis family lived at 26, Gelli St. for many years. We visited the family during the 1950s and 60s although several of the sisters had moved to other parts of the UK by then.
My father, Stanley Lewis, was born in no. 26 in 1916 and went to school in Caerau before attending grammar school further down the valley. The family was large, as most were in those days and ...see more
My grandmother, Florence Helen Clarke grew up in Caerau. She was born there on 25th April, 1915. Her father and her brothers all worked in the coal mines and she was brought up in poverty. Eventually she made her way to england and then immigrated to Australia in the late 50's as a "ten pound pom". I am her granddaughter and was born in Melbourne (Australia) in 1963. I've visited Caerau a couple of times and am fascinated with its history and proud that my grandmother was Welsh.