Nostalgic memories of Risca'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 grandmother was born at 10 Crescent Road in 1916. In 1927 the family moved to West Drayton,. Lorraine Hawkins, (my nan) was a lively character. She passed away in 2006. I miss her dearly. In her final months, she'd sing the Welsh Anthem to me to get her pills and a cup of tea.
my grandparents lived in mount pleasant rd my father was born in Risca. Moriah hill my great grandfather kept The Western Valleys Inn, in the early 1900's
any information on pub named The Western Valleys Inn
I lived in Ty Isaf, Park Avenue from 6mths old till 1964. I lived with a Mr and Mrs Macey. I was Underwood then, my friends were Jayne Vaughan, Barbara Walters, Janet Williams, Julie Rees and Gwyneth Clements. I have contact with Barbara now. I am looking for Jayne Stephens nee Vaughan - she is married to Phil. All I remember she lives on Tysign but lost address. If anyone knows her please e mail me on SUSANWARMAN@hotmail.co.uk
This picture is of my family home just under the quarry to the left. My father Glyndwr 'Pancho' Parry was one of the council machine drivers that had to fill in the canal between the Darren bridge and 'the now' cycle path entrance. He did not enjoy doing that as it was so close to home for us and we missed the scape of things!
Other than that I loved living there and thought I would live there for the rest of my ...see more
This shot brings back a hell of a lot of memories. We used to play on the canal bank here and fish for sticklebacks in the shallow bit under the bridge. I even had had my first real snog in the graveyard (nice!) over the bridge on the left. You can just see the Prince of Wales pub through the arch. The gate in the hedge on the left was the back gate to my garden.
I spent many happy days here with my brother and sister. Playing in home-made boats made from corrugated tin, catching tadpoles and skating on very thin ice in the winter. I lived in Woodview Road and my grandparents lived in Mount Pleasant.
The public telephone in this picture of Tredegar Street was outside my father's butcher shop. There were only two buttons to press: button A and button B, but people were terrified of pressing the wrong one. My father, Gomer Mumford, used to do the phoning for lots of people. Sometimes coins would jam in the mechanism so he would release them using a butcher's knife and pocket the money! Next door, to the butcher shop my ...see more
I was born in a house on, and have lived in, Channel view for my entire life. I now live in a house built to the left of the garages in the forground. as a kid I played behind those garages and made den's with my mates and sailed down and sunk in the canal on home made rafts.
I've seen this photo in several places and it's always captioned as being 1965 - it's got to be before that because I lived in Channel View from 1960 to 63 just below those garages on the right of the photo - and in this photo the building hasn't even started. I can remember playing behind those garages - even creating a little "graveyard" there for my deceased pet white mice. There's a path up to the canal from behind ...see more