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| The same scene as above but some
30 years later. |
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What appears to be a cellar
garage is actually the entrance to a tunnel once used by the old
tramway shared by the Dowlais
Ironworks and the Penydarren Ironworks on it's way to the
Glamorganshire Canal. |
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| The Glamorgan Arms. |
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Bethesda Street in the Snow
(Showing Abermorlais School)
(Photograph
Courtesy of Pam Jenkins) |
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The Catholic Rooms
(Photograph Courtesy of Mike
Donovan) |
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Looking towards Pontmorlais in
the 1950s
The Ford Consul car is parked on
what was the where tramway exited the tunnel shown above
and continued to the Glamorganshire Canal at
Pontystorehouse, Georgetown. |
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| Bethesda Street in the 1970's |
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| Bethesda
Chapel. |
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Bethesda
Chapel.
(Photograph
by Harris & Son from the Leo Davies Collection) |
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| Bethesda Street, looking up
towards Bethesda Chapel. |
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| Bevan's Place 1 - 4. |
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| Looking up Bethesda Street from
outside the Old Comrades Club, now The Lantern. 1967 |
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| Vulcan House & The Lantern - 1984 |
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| The Vulcan Foundry and The
Lantern in the 1980's. |
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Vulcan House - 1990's
(Photograph
Courtesy of Dr. T.F. Holley) |
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| The Tanyard. |
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| Bethesda
Street at the junction of Vulcan Rd looking towards Georgetown roundabout. |
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Similar View to Above - 1979. |
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R. H. Willis. Family Grocer.
42-43, Bethesda Street.
(Photograph
courtesy of Mrs Anna Tigwell - Grandaughter) |
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| Morton's the Butcher. |
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| Bethesda Street Shops in the
1970's |
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Baker's
Garage, Dixon Street. This early photograph is marked to show where
the
petrol pumps
were to be situated. |
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Pontstorehouse Shop
This photograph from the 1890s
shows the Pontstorehouse Shop, which was situated approximately near the
entrance to Dixon Street, and the archway (which can be seen on the left
hand side) appears to be one of the few ways of entry from Bethesda Street to
'China'. |
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The Band of the Local
Defence Volunteers (later the Home Guard)
Taken outside the Drill Hall in
Georgetown, 1939 or early 1940.
Ernest Morgan is third from the
left in the front row - with the euphonium
(Photograph
courtesy of Tim Morgan, Ernest Morgan's son)
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