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| Pentrebach 1947 | |||||||||||||
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| The Triangle, Long Row, The Technical School, Hoover, See the Petrol Station near Hoover Gates. | |||||||||||||
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The old and the new Pentrebach. The old parts being Long Row and the Triangle houses built for the workers of the Plymouth Iron Works. Behind the Triangle is the new factory of Kayser Bondor which employed, at its peak, over 1000 people in the manufacture of Lingerie. On the other side of the road is the Hoover factory, established on this site in 1948, and still the largest employer in the area. On the hillside in the distance you can see the chimney of Castle Pit, one of the mines that supplied the Cyfarthfa Iron Works with coal for the furnaces. In the foreground is the old Pentrebach School which became a training centre for secondary school leavers. (See Close-up below) |
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Pentrebach - Aerial View - 1970s. Showing Hoovers, Kayser Bondor & The Triangle. |
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| Pentrebach Technical School. | |||||||||||||
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| The Filling Station near the Hoover Gates. | |||||||||||||
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| Aerial View of the Hoover Factory in the 1950's. | |||||||||||||
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| The Hoover Factory, Pentrebach | |||||||||||||
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| Kayser Bondor Factory. - 1950's | |||||||||||||
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| The Triangle, Pentrebach. | |||||||||||||
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| Long Row - 1973 | |||||||||||||
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| Duffryn Houses, | |||||||||||||
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| Main Street, Pentrebach. | |||||||||||||
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Pentrebach House. Built for Anthony Hill owner of the Plymouth Ironworks. It later became a home for the elderly and is now that fine hostlery Brewsters and Travel Inn. |
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Wernlas House. (Photograph courtesy of Doug Price, Abercanaid.) |
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| Poplar Terrace and School. | |||||||||||||
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| Ceredig Street. | |||||||||||||
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| The Duffryn Ironworks and Colliery. | |||||||||||||
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