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Dowlais

Merthyr Tydfil

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Union Street, Dowlais

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Farmer's Arms - Union Street, Dowlais

Stan and Fora Morgan pictured outside their pub, which they kept for 25 years.

(Photograph Courtesy of Jeff Morgan)

 

Farmer's Arms - Union Street, Dowlais - Decorated for an Investiture.

(Photograph Courtesy of Jeff Morgan)

Upper Union Street.

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North Street. D.Jones.Dickinson building is almost centre of the picture.

North Street No 2.

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Mary Street. - 1960's

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North Street in the 1970's.

North Street. D. Jones, Dickinson & Co , Famous cake manufacturers in North Street.

Later moved to Goat Mill Road Estate trading as Delberrys , suppliers of cakes to Marks & Spencers.

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The Oddfellows Hall

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The Goat Mill Road      

Dowlais from above the Goat Mill Road

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Lower Union Street.

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Old Berry Square, Dowlais (In the 70's)

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This is Appletree Court, at the top of the photo is Watercourse St

and just to the right is Brynseion Ct. The gentleman in the picture is Dick Edwards with his 1957 Hillman Minx. Dick was an engine driver in the Works until it closed, his last job was as a boilerman with Conways Dairy, finally retiring at 72 years of age .

(Info kindly provided by Dave Thomas of Yew Close Gurnos)

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The Carmarthen Arms.

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A summer afternoon in Walter Street.

 

No 20 Mary Ann Street  at the Junction with Mount Pleasant Street.

(Thanks to Keith Watts for identifying this pic)

   
 

Same scene a little later.

 

 

 
Vaughan Street, The Old Corner Shop (Watkin's).

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Elizabeth Street, and David Street.

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Russell Street in the 1960s.

 

Wyndham Street in the 1970's.

(Photograph courtesy of Val Griffiths)

 

 
 
             

 

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