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Crickhowell, The Market Place c.1930
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The bus advertising E A Beveridge & Co and the cars are of an earlier vintage, but the buildings still look much the same. Centre left stands the Bear Hotel, a lovely old coaching inn dating back to 1432. The shop next door to it sold fishing tackle— fishing is one of the area's most popular pastimes. The public house on the right, the Corn Exchange, advertises stabling.

An extract from Around Alton Photographic Memories.

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A Selection of Memories from Crickhowell

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Church Weekend
there used to be i believe old house in Crickhowell it was refurbished to meeting place the men breakfast weekend was used and then ladies breakfast weekend was held there. it certainly was old house it still had bars on the windows? what it was used for I have no idea. it was just stone throw from Usk river.it was great weekend and my friend jean and I was to cook dinner for over 40 people .great fun.
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My Home Town
I was born on New Road, Crickhowell in the year of your photograph of 1931 and I love the town. I left there in the late 1930s, only to return in 1949, leaving in 1955, but I return each year to visit old places and tend the graves in the St Edmund's church where my grandparents and parents are buried.
Crickhowell, in the Village c1930
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My Young Days At Crickhowell
I was born in the War Memorial Hospital in 1954 my mother and father lived at 35 Ffynnonau, my father was born at Crickhowell on New Road. We visit every August and visit our grandparents' grave in St Edmund's church where my parents were married in 1952. I love the town and try and visit as often as possible as I now live in Cardiff.
Crickhowell, Youth Hostel c1955
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