|
Georgetown |
|
Merthyr Tydfil |
|
|
| |
|
<Click
on the photograph to enlarge it>
|
|
|
Cyfarthfa Church. Postcards courtesy of Clive Bevan.
|
|
|
| Bridgefield Terrace. In the 60's |
|
 |
|
|
|
|
A
1970,s view of Aberdare Road and the Colliers Arms.
(Now
the site of the Vets). |
Pine
end view of the Colliers Arms
(photo
by Dr Holley).
|
|
 |
 |
|
|
| The Colliers Arms from the the
other direction. |
|
 |
| |
|
Aberdare Road, the point
where the brook Cwm-Pant-Bach enters the culvert that carries it to the Taff
can be seen in the centre of the
photograph. On the right is the weighbridge that belonged to the Coal
Trading Company.
(Photograph is
courtesy of Brian Wall) |
|
 |
Weighbridge |
 |
|
| |
|
Georgetown - Coal Trading's
Weighbridge
(Photograph from
the Merthyr Express) |
|
 |
| |
| Aberdare Road - Pulman's Yard. |
|
 |
|
|
Coal
Trading Company (PullmansYard ) - 1970s.
|
|
 |
|
|
|
Bethel
Street in the 1960s. |
Looking
up Bethel Street, with the old
Catholic
church on the Left.
|
|
 |
 |
|
|
|
Georgetown
Boys, In the 1960's, spending their Pocket Money wisely:-
Black Jacks and Fruit Salad - 4 for a Penny
Honeycomb
Bar
- Thruppence
Swizzle Lolly
- Tuppence
Flying
Saucers
- 2 for a Penny |
|
|
|
|
|
Bethel Chapel 1972. An exterior and interior view.
(Copyright photograph by permission of Howard
Denner).
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
George Street.
(Georgetown roundabout in the distance.)
|
|
 |
|
|
|
Hill House.
Top of George Street, One of the largest houses in Georgetown,
occupied by the
Williams
family for several generations. The Williams' were Grocers and Bakers,
with several
shops, in
Merthyr. |
|
 |
|
|
|
Hill House C1898. Three generations of the Williams Dynasty.
|
|
 |
|
|
|
George Street and the
Old Ship Vaults, (Photograph taken from the roundabout.)
|
|
 |
| |
| George Street - V.E. Day Party |
|
 |
|
|
|
The Old Ship
Vaults, George Street, Landlord Leslie Price and
Landlady
Kitty Price (both deceased), on the last night of trading,
31st
July 1973, (detail kindly provided by their
daughter Mrs Valerie Edwards)
|
|
 |
|
|
|
Accident at George Street 1965.
Lorry sheds its' load.
|
|
 |
|
|
|
|
|
|