|
Penydarren |
|
Merthyr Tydfil |
|
<Click on the photograph to
enlarge> |
|
|
Go to:
 |
 |
|
|
|
|
|
High Street, in the 1960's.
|
|
 |
|
| A Slag Pot from the Ifor Works,
on it's way to Scunthorpe. |
|
 |
| |
| Howells the Grocers - in the mid 1970's. |
|
 |
|
|
|
Lower High Street
|
|
 |
| |
|
High Street.
(Postcard courtesy of Gill
Thomas, West Grove) |
|
 |
|
|
|
No 284, High Street.
Jack Laycock
(Fletcher) Snr. standing outside his Confectionary and Fruit Shop in the 1920's. |
|
|
| |
|
Lower High Street in 1972.
(Photograph
courtesy of Robert Thomas) |
|
|
|
|
Lower
High Street, 70 years earlier than above.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Lower High Street, and The Penydarren Inn.
|
|
 |
| |
| Penydarren Inn prior to being demolished.
|
|
 |
|
| High Street, from Waterloo
Bridge - 1946 |
|
 |
| |
|
Penydarren Road, with a
tramcar passing the Musical Hall.
(Photograph courtesy of Gill
Thomas, West Grove) |
|
 |
|
|
|
A view across Trevethick
Street to Penydarren Lower High Street and the County School. |
|
 |
| |
| The Old Tramroad, and the
Musical Hall. The
Musical Hall later became
Griffs bed & breakfast accommodation (see below),
|
|
 |
|
|
Griffs Transport Accommodation.
Owned by Mostyn Williams. Catering for the long distance
lorry drivers who
parked their lorries
on the waste ground near
Waterloo Bridge. |
|
 |
|
|
High Street.
This
was the lowest part of Penydarren, situated on the main road just
above the
County School. Just out of sight on the right hand side is the Musical
Hall , The high
ground in the back of
the picture was occupied by John Evans (grocers) warehouse, later the site
of the Penydarren
Club.
|
|
|
|
|
Penydarren,
Plantation Street 1973.
Mr Whippy arriving outside the Plough Inn. The
men will be coming out of the pub to buy a 99 to go with their beer,
I think not. |
|
 |
| |
| Plough Inn, Penydarren. |
|
 |
| |
|
This photograph taken on The
Tramroad shows the bottom end of Soloman Street,
shortly after it was demolished
in the 1970's. Bishop Hedley School can be seen in the
distance.
(Photograph
Courtesy of Ken Jones) |
|
 |
| |
|
Looking from the rear of
Plantation Street towards the Whitey.
The white house in the distance
is the last remaining one in Bradley Row.
(Photograph
courtesy of Gerard Kiley) |
|
 |
| |
|
Another view of 'The Whitey'
from Lower Penydarren, in the 1970's.
(Photograph
Courtesy of Ken Jones) |
|
 |
|
| General View 1908. |
|
 |
| |
|
A Similar View from the
1970's.
(Photograph
Courtesy of Ken Jones) |
|
 |
|
|
|
|
Go to:
|
|
|
|
|
 |
