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High Street

Merthyr Tydfil

 

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of Merthyr Town in the 1960's before major alterations.

 
 

Howfield's during the Blackout, World War 2.

Even the Gas window display lights have been removed.

       

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On Howfield & Sons

 

   

Another 60's view of the High street,

showing Woolworth's,  Howfield's, and James Radio House.

( Postcard courtesy of Mrs Gill Thomas, West Grove).

Golden Valley Butter, Docton's, The Gas Board Showrooms, 1967.

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Ye Old Globe, in the 1950s.

 

 

High Street in the early 1900s.

 

 

Fine Fare Supermarket in the 1960's

Built on the site of Ye Old Globe.

 

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Docton's Plumbers early 1900s.

 

High Street in the 1970's

Peacock's has taken the place of the Fine Fare Supermarket shown above

 

February 1916. This newsagents shop later became B.J.Price & Sons, now a Hairdressing Salon.

(Photograph courtesy of Geof Matsell)

 

Circa 1910

Circa 1930's

(Photograph Courtesy of Pam Jenkins)

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  Lower High Street Circa 1910.

 Showing the Court Arms, and few doors  up the Crawshays Arms, and on the right the Eagle.

 

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Lower High Street in the 1980s.

 

The Crown Inn, March 1981

(Photograph courtesy of Dennis Bennett O.B.E.)

 

 

The Angel Hotel and Three Salmons Inn.

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Angel Hotel

 
 
Wales Gas Board Showroom and Offices in the 1960s

 
27, High Street - Tommy Horton's Rubber Goods (Tommy in the Trilby Hat) - 1946

 

The Angel Inn, Broad Street.

Note: Peter Griffiths' the builder and undertaker, (Abermorlais Terrace) Ex-Army truck is shown in the foreground.

This shot from the graveyard of St. Tydfil's Church

shows the old Boot Inn, on the High Street.

This montage of three photographs show what you would have seen from the promenade outside the Parish Church in the 1960's, showing Conway's Dairies, Gittings China shop, and Tom Evans & Son (Bespoke Tailors).

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Conways Dairies

 

Conway's took over the old Boot Hotel in the High Street,

This photograph taken in the early 1900s shows a delivery cart and staff outside the building

 

The Boot Inn

(Photograph courtesy of John Griffiths, Bath)

 Saint Tydfil's  (The Parish) Church.

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General view taken from the top of the Parish Church Tower

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Another view from the Parish Church Tower, looking up the High Street.

(Photograph courtesy of the Leo Davies Collection)

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Looking up Lower High Street, the Parish Church on the left, the Angel Hotel can be seen in the distance.

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Similar shot as above, but 70 or so years later.

(Photograph courtesy of John Davies, St Tydfil's Avenue)

                        

 
 
Sterling Frozen Foods.

 

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