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Dowlais

Merthyr Tydfil

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Saint John's Parish Church, Dowlais

Church Row on a snowy day in the 1960's

Upper Union Street - The Co-operative in the early 1900s.

The Neptune Inn.

(Opposite the Library)

(Photograph courtesy of Bob Wallis)

Dowlais Library in the 1960s

Church Street, Dowlais - The Cross Keys Inn.

Mr Atkins Ironmonger

Ferrari's Cafe, Union Street.

The White Swan Inn, Union Street.

On the doorstep Landlady Mrs O'Driscoll and daughter Eileen Driscoll (now Murphy)

Union Street, Mount Pleasant Inn - 1960s.

Bert Turvey Serving Behind the Bar at the British Legion.

(Photograph Courtesy of Jaccy Morgan, nee Turvey)

New Works Dowlais. The Goat Mill road on the right.

High Street 1896

High Street, as above but now the Trams have arrived .Picture dates from approx 1904-08.The Tram is approaching the terminus at the Bush Hotel.

Bush Hotel c1885. Stagecoach, now departing.

The Bush Hotel and to the right the Bush Cafe - May 1967.

With Church Street in between, running up to Dowlais Library

(Photograph courtesy of Robert Thomas)

Upstairs on a Tramcar, Bush Hotel - 1920s.

High Street 1890.

The Bush Hotel on the Left just above the pillar box.

High Street 1905

Prince of Wales Inn.

Horse Street.

The Forge & Hammer was here at one time. R. P. Rees the Chemist at the bottom, on the High Street.

The Whitey dominates the background.

(Photograph courtesy of Dr T. F. Holley)

Wind Street - 1960s.

The lady on the left is Catherine 'Cassie' Lee (later Jenkins). Does anyone know the other lady's name?

(Information Courtesy of Tony Lee)

Dowlais Crusaders - 1930's

Robert Pugh tells us:

"This [Dowlais Crusaders] was an organisation run from the Old Elim Pentecostal Chapel, which was situated at the bottom end of Ivor Stree

between the long gully and Jones the Tobacconist on the corner on the North Street junction opposite the Post Office and a shop called the

Hat House which was next door."

(Photograph Courtesy of Edward Hughes)

South Street in the 1960's, halfway down on the left is Bethania Chapel.

High Street in 1969

These two postcards show a similar view to above but taken circa 1905.

(Postcards courtesy of Mrs Gill Thomas, West Grove)

The Carmarthen Arms on the left.

The Carmarthen Arms

(Photograph Courtesy of Gill Thomas)

The same aspect as above thirty years later, what a sad picture.


Taken at the rear of the above buildings

The Pelican Inn.

The Dowlais Lapland Midgets - The Lord Raglan Pub Dowlais

A Tug of War team that won the seven competitions and Challenge Cup at Cyfarthfa Park in aid of Lifeboat Saturday.

Top Row: William Walsh, Timothy Connelly, Daniel Connelly, Daniel Murphy and Patrick Collins.

Middle Row: Joseph Burrows, Timothy Keefe, Edward Lee (Captain), Robert James and M. J. Daly.

Front Row: John Rees and Richard Jones.

(Photograph & Information Courtesy of Liam Hennessy)

	A Close up of the Plaque under the Cup:

The Victoria Cinema. With Manager W. H. Baker standing at the entrance. (Photograph courtesy of Clive Baker, W.H.Bakers Grandson)	High Street, The Victoria Cinema and The Victoria Inn.

Dowlais High Street looking up towards the Bush Hotel.

High Street

High Street. The Victoria Cinema and the The Prince Of Wales in the foreground, South

Street and Bethania Chapel on the Right.

Dowlais and the High Street March 1966.

(Photograph by Eric Warrilow)

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