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Bargoed 1956 78
I lived at 31 East View, from 1956 until I went to college. I was the son of Edgar Howells and Myfannwy [in fact they were my guardians from 1956 onwards]. My story really unfolded big style in 1992-2001, and I made some fantastic ...Read more
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My Childhood Memories Of Menai Bridge
My father was born in Talwrn near Llangefni and each year we would go by train to Liverpool and then go to the pier head and board St Tudno which sailed at 10 30 am, dropping people off about 12 in Llandidno ...Read more
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East View And Munich
I lived at East View, Number 31 with Edgar and Myfannwy Howells from 1955 onwards. They were my aunt and Uncle. They looked after me when my parents died when I was 5 years of age. East View was a great street to be brought up ...Read more
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Cargo Fleet
When I look back, they were probably the best years of my life though I didn't think so at the time, my mam had parted from my dad, I was 12, had never heard of Cargo Fleet, had lost my dad and was taken to this place Id never heard ...Read more
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Cargo Fleet
I lived in Cargo Fleet as a young child, having moved from Australia. My grandmother was born in Cargo Fleet, and she ended up returning with my grandfather, where they purchased a shop on the corner of Bristol Street. We lived up the ...Read more
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Early Days In Bargoed
I was born, in 1945, in the front room of my parent's rented house in Bristol Terrace, Bargoed. Open the front and you were on the pavement!!. We had no central heating, no double glazing, no indoor bathroom (tin bath hanging ...Read more
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A Child Was Born In Bargoed
Born on the 15th April 1950 in my grandparents front room in Bristol Terrace I didn't realize until now what we had in those " good old days". I am a self made millionaire but I would trade all what I have now for those ...Read more
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Cyril Henry Heath And The Heath Family.
I have been told of old troedy many times and been driven through it to Bargoed, not much there now just a post office. My step father Cyril Heath was born there in September 1934, quite a large family so ...Read more
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Heolddu Comprehensive School.
I attended Heolddu Comprehensive school from September 1980 to May 1985. For the first two years I was going to the one that was in Park Cresent, formally known as Bargoed grammar school. Mr Keri Edwards was the head ...Read more
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Rekindle Your Cargo Fleet Friendships
I would just like to add another note...there is a site on Facebook I have just joined..it's great..Cargo Fleet Times..a lot of people and memories and also people most of you have mentioned on here are also on there..you can rekindle your friendships
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This picture, taken just where the A469 road to Bargoed turns to the left, shows what a diversity of shops and amenities existed in a town of barely 5,000 inhabitants.
Bargoed was once a village; it is situated in a long valley. The population grew in the 19th century, especially after the opening of the colliery here in 1897.
An excellent example of co-operation between bargees on the busy canal network. The two central barges have been lashed together in order to bypass those moored alongside the canal bank.
St Peter Street had several rows of cottages, some in great dilapidation, occupied by river workers such as ferrymen, bargees and wharfingers.
On the right is an Ind Coope pub, The Old House at Home, a landmark for bargees on the River Medway. The pub had been rebuilt in 1914 and had been in the family of Captain Ruthvens for 102 years.
The Plough Inn (right) would have offered a welcome stop to the bargees carrying coal to the pumping station at Stretham.
Here at Lock 39 the Lower Icknield Way crosses the canal beside the White Lion pub, which was built to slake the thirst of bargees in the mid 19th century.
Both are now prosperous middle-class towns, and the ripe language of the former bargees, fishermen and wharfinger inhabitants would not be welcome.
The tumbledown cottages, now long gone, were occupied by bargees, wharfingers, brewery labourers and others, while the Fisherman's Retreat, the house with the blinds, was popular with anglers and pleasure
Under the magnificent spreading canopy of the Cassiobury Park trees, just beyond the keeper's cottage, the barge horse and his female driver enjoy a brief rest while waiting for the Iron Bridge lock
From the river bank near the Leander Club we can look across to the river front of Henley and imagine its bankside wharfs alive with the shouts of bargees and watermen loading their barges, with
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