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Brecon Road

and area

Merthyr Tydfil.

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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.

Grawen Terrace in the 50's

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The Grawen Arms Inn - 1970's

 

Brecon Road 1984.

(Photograph courtesy of Ian Gravell)

Brecon Road -No Date

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Similar pic taken in 60's.

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Well Street from the Brecon Road 1984.

(Photograph courtesy of Ian Gravell)

 
A Tramcar from Cefn Coed on Brecon Road in the 1930's.

 
Brecon Road in the early 1900s.

Sunnybank in the 1950s

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Paul Lawrence Motors

Petrol Filling Station - 1960s.

 

Paul Lawrence Motors

Workshops - 1960s.

Sunny Bank again, the bottom end looking across the river towards Georgetown.

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Brecon Road, 1923

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.

It's the The Co-operative - 1967.

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  Then it's the Bethel Apostolic Church - 1980's.  
 

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Tabernacle Chapel, circa 1904.

(Photograph by Harris & Son, courtesy of the Leo Davies Collection)

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Band of Hope - 1942

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Courtesy of Don & Nesta Chamberlain

 

 

 
Giles & Harrap - Merthyr Brewery - Brecon Road.
  MerthyrTydfil_BreconRoad_GilesandHarrapsBrewery.JPG (99870 bytes) The Old Brewery Entrance - 2001
 
   
J.D.Lloyd & Sons - Grocers - No28 Brecon Road.

 
 

 

Brecon Road Circa 1910.

(Postcard courtesy of Mrs Gill Thomas, West Grove)

 
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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.

 

 
Garthnewydd House, Brecon Road, 1970

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The Glamorgan Arms and Abermorlais Terrace

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Bethesda Street.

 

Parade at Newfoundland Terrace - 1920's

(Photograph by Mrs L. Snow courtesy of Anita Farrell)

       

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!)