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DOWLAIS

Merthyr Tydfil

 

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Alma Street.  - In the winter of 1947

Outside No 26 Alma Street The lady with the black hat is Elizabeth Jones and the lady next to her is her daughter

Margaret Griffiths.(nee Jones).

(Photograph and information courtesy of Valerie Griffiths)

 
Alma Street.

 
The Oxford Hotel, Sand Street.
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Dowlais - High Street

(Photograph Courtesy of David Thomas)

 
High Street.
   
   
 
High Street , Lower Gate.      

 

Same Place, from a different angle in the 1960s.    Hoover occupied

the factory when this photograph was taken, but it was at one time B.S.A. 

Guns.

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 Taken in 2002.
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Busmen at High Street ,Lower Gate. (photograph courtesy of Miss Ballam)

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The Dowlais Inn.

 

 

Dowlais. Top of the New Road outside Barum House. 

Lower Gate in background.

(Photograph courtesy of Miss Ballam)

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The Welfare Clinic, At the rear of the top of the New Road.

This was the first building to be constructed as a Clinic in the Borough.

 

Top of the New Road, Baram House, home to the Ballam family. 

At one time an ironmongers shop.

(Photograph courtesy of Miss Ballam.)

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The New Road in the early 1900s.

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The bottom of the New Road in the 1960s.
   
 

Bottom Of Dowlais.

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Upper Penydarren - The Bont - Lower Dowlais - 1951.

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