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Brecon Road & Area |
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Merthyr Tydfil |
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Tramcar at Brecon Road
The conductor is Tom
Havard. |
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The Lamb & Flag. C1900.
L:R :- Glyn Edwards, Phyllis
Edwards, David Edwards (Landlord), Mary Ann Edwards (Landlady).
The Lamb and Flag
was situated opposite and a little further north than the Cyfarthfa Arms. |
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| Cyfarthfa Arms - Brecon Road |
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| Looking Over Caepantywyll from
the Brecon Road |
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| Grawen Terrace in the 50's |
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The Grawen Arms Inn - 1970's |
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Brecon Road 1984.
(Photograph
courtesy of Ian Gravell) |
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| Brecon Road - No Date |
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Photograph Taken in 60's |
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Well Street from the Brecon
Road 1984.
(Photograph
courtesy of Ian Gravell) |
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Georgetown Tips from Brecon
Road
Looking over Brychan Place (on
the bottom left) towards the old Cyfarthfa Cinder Tips. |
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| A Tramcar from Cefn Coed on
Brecon Road in the 1930's. |
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| Brecon Road in the early 1900s. |
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| Sunnybank in the 1950s |
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Paul Lawrence Motors
Petrol Filling Station - 1960s. |
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Paul Lawrence Motors
Workshops - 1960s. |
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| Brewery Street |
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Brewery Street - Coronation Party for King George VI - 1939
(Photographs Courtesy of Barrie Jones) |
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Brecon Road, 1923 |
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Taken from
Sunny Bank area, a view of Vulcan Road showing rear of the Co-op (in
pic above),
and the old
Giles & Harraps Brewery, later to become Hancocks, and finally a
Merthyr Council Depot.
(Photograph
Courtesy of Michael Donovan). |
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15, Brecon Road - J.H.John
Provision Mechant.
Earlier this premises had been
the Dyffryn Arms Public House.
Later it became the Cooperative
Store. |
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| The
Co-operative - 1967. |
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Tabernacle
Chapel, circa 1904.
(Photograph by Harris & Son, courtesy of the Leo Davies Collection) |
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TabernacleChapel
Band of Hope - 1942
Click on to enlarge and see names |
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Courtesy
of Don & Nesta Chamberlain |
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| Giles
& Harrap - Merthyr Brewery - Brecon Road. |
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The Old Brewery Entrance - 2001 |
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| J.D.Lloyd & Sons - Grocers -
No28 Brecon Road. |
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| J.V. Williams - Butcher - 52
Brecon Road |
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Brecon Road Circa 1910.
(Postcard courtesy
of Mrs Gill Thomas, West Grove) |
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| Brecon Road 1911
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The Round House. - 1894.
At the junction with the Walk, this Round House was once a Lodge House for
Penydarren House, and
the area behind it was known by the Locals as "Homfray's Field" and later
as "Penydarren Park". It
was demolished not long after the Catholic Church was built. |
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Garthnewydd House, Brecon Road, 1970
The YWCA (Young Women's Christian
Association) used to meet at Garthnewydd House. |
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| The
Glamorgan Arms and Abermorlais Terrace |
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| Bethesda
Street |
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Parade at Newfoundland Terrace
- 1920's
(Photograph by Mrs
L. Snow courtesy of Anita Farrell) |
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The Circus Travelled to
Merthyr by Train and Would Parade up to Cyfarthfa Park.
(Photograph
Courtesy of Clive Arthur -Spain, Clive is in the photograph as a little boy
in short trousers
that the Elephant
Man appears to be glaring at!) |
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