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Castle Street

                                                                                     Merthyr Tydfil

           Glebeland, The Arch, Riverside, Ynysgau, Victoria Street and Canal Square.

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 Castle Street. From the High Street. on the right is the old Castle Hotel.
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Castle Street - Waterworks Offices -1938. Beyond it is the Beehive Inn.

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Taff Fechan Water Board Offices.

(Postcard courtesy of Mrs Gill Thomas West Grove.)

 
The Beehive Inn, Once the home of one of Merthyr's famous sons Owen Money.

 

B.Harris-Jones, Ladies dress shop.

(Photograph courtesy of the Leo Davies Collection)

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Back of the Lamb Inn - 1966, Note Besleys Showroom down Lamb Lane, and the Tyst sweet shop

and look at the greenhouse in B.Harris-Jones backyard.

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 The Lamb Inn. 
 
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A similar position, in the early 1900's
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The Rainbow Inn.

 

Taylor's Bakery & Confectionary Shop at No. 41 Castle Street.

Harry Taylor and his daughter Edna Taylor standing at the doorway of the shop.

(Photograph Courtesy of Sarah Larkin - Edna's Granddaughter)

 

Harry Taylor's New Van in  Castle Street.

This vehicle registration number is HB9, so obviously would have been one of the earliest baring the

 Merthyr Tydfil registration letters - HB.

(Photograph Courtesy of Sarah Larkin)

 
W.T.Barnes & Sons, Sports Outfitters.

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Castle Street, during the Celebrations of the 1937 Coronation.

(Photograph by Mrs Lilian Snow, Upper Thomas Street, courtesy of  Anita Farrell)

 
Lower Castle Street in the 1950s.
   

Richard Morgan outside the Ivy Bush.

  

 

 

 This picture is taken at the very  bottom of Castle Street looking up towards Glebeland Street.

The arch was removed in the early 1900's to allow  vehicular traffic through and over the Iron Bridge.

Ynysgau Street is to the left of the Parrot Inn. The pub was rebuilt facing out onto Castle Street at the 

bottom of the steps  just below Barnes sports shop  (see picture).   On the right of the arch is the New 

IronBridge Inn. The pub in the smaller picture is The Patriot,  at the side of which was the famous ARCH 

which led to Riverside.

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In order to clear the old archway at Lower Castle Street, The Parrot Inn and the New Ironbridge Inn were

demolished. The Parrot Inn was rebuilt in line with the roadway, as shown below.

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Mary Jane Davies (better known as Polly), outside her General Store in Ynysgau Street.

(Photograph Courtesy of Sarah Larkins)

 

The Iron Bridge Vaults.

At the junction with Ynysgau Street.

Lower Castle Street looking from Ynysfach. 

The picture dates from about 1930, a time of great hardship in Merthyr. In the centre of the 

picture is Ynysgau Chapel and to the left of it you can make out a group of people sitting  

outside the Parrot Inn, probably a few of the many unemployed. The canal appears to be 

filled in  (behind which is Raymonds Yard), and in the foreground are the railway lines that 

ran from the Cyfarthfa Works to the Plymouth Street Goods Yard crossing the Taff at a point 

between Rhydycar Leisure Centre and Castle Bingo. 

(Postcard Courtesy of Mrs Thomas, West Grove)

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