High Street - Merthyr Tydfil: Page

High Street

Merthyr Tydfil

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

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General View of the High Street

(Photograph Courtesy of Mrs. Gill Thomas)

Webleys - Radio, Television & Electrical shop. Here you could have your accumulators (batteries)

charged to ensure that your wireless kept going to hear Jet Morgan's "Journey Into Space".

Upper High Street. - in the 1920's

Hasn't changed much to this day. Imperial Hotel on the right. The' in' place to be on weekends

in the 1960's

The Tiger Livery Stables.

(On the site now occupied by the Imperial Hotel)

That's why it was called the Tiger.

			1890 Advert for the TIGER LIVERY STABLES

John Lewis and Co Ltd

T.F.Vining Glass and China Dealer, No12 Pontmorlais. - 1900.

(Next door down to Wesley Chapel)

Tom Vining standing in doorway.

(Photograph courtesy of Tim Morgan, Tom Vining's Great Grandson)

Harris & Sons Photographers, No 13 Pontmorlais.

This is Rolf Harris' Grandfather's studio, this photograph was taken in 1946.

Pontmorlais

(Postcard Courtesy Of The Leo Davies Collection)


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High Street - Blind Institute.

Seidals Pawnbrokers

This site was eventually occupied by the Welsh Dairy.

The gentleman on the doorstep is probably the manager Arthur John Smith

(Photograph Courtesy of John Smith, Arthur's grandson)

The Cobden Coffee Tavern.

High Street in the 1920/30's

Does anyone know what the occasion is?

(Photograph courtesy Dr. T. F. Holly)

Next Door Down to Toomey's, at one time was The John Bright Refreshment Rooms.

Gay & Son - 97 High Street.

Humphreys the Ironmongers.

Upper High Street in the 1950's

The Electric Theatre.

High Street.

The building on the right is the original Castle Hotel, demolished in the mid 1920's

to make way for the Castle Cinema.

The original Hope Chapel from Castle Street, with the Castle Hotel to the Left.

The photograph was taken in the early 1890s, note the Town Hall has yet to be built.

Now the New Hope Chapel, this photograph taken in the late 1800s, before

the Town Hall was built.

A later photograph of Hope Chapel.

The Town Hall

The Original Castle Hotel,

The Castle Cinema now stands here.This hotel was the site of the 1831 riots

after which Dic Penderyn was hung for the alleged charge of killing a soldier.

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The Castle Cinema In 1956.


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Johnson's The Dyers, more or less where the Dic Penderyn is now.

Reading the Incorporation Charter at the Town Hall July 10th 1905.

(Postcard courtesy of the Leo Davies Collection)

The Town Hall


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Henry Seymour Berry, Baron Buckland Of Bwlch,

Honorary freeman of the County Borough of Merthyr Tydfil

Born 17th September 1877 Died 23rd May 1928

Note the Library has not yet been built.

The Library At Night.

(Postcard Courtesy Of The Leo Davies Collection.)


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The Library.

(Postcard courtesy of Gill Thomas, West Grove.)

Saint David's Church. (Postcard courtesy of Gill Thomas, West Grove.)

High Street the 11th Sept 1898 The Royal Welsh Fusiliers (The Old 23rd)

On their farewell parade to Divine Service at St David's Church, they were stationed

here during the Great Strike..

Saint David's Church. Before the Library was built. (Postcard courtesy of Mrs Thomas, West Grove.)