Griffs Shop I Think That Is What It Was Called Its Still There

A Memory of Gilfach Goch.

I can remember the fan, what a noise, you get used to it. Also the racket the trams made on the way up the mountain. The shop I refer to is at the top end of the valley, they had someone who belongs to them live in an end house that's still there, this person I can recall used to sell cockles. Also when the pit was going I used to be afraid of the compresser which you could feel and the noise of the steam engines. Most of my father's relations are from Gilfach,  families' names WHITE AND SAMUELS.