Plymouth Street

Plymouth Street

Merthyr Tydfil

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Plymouth Street. in the 1950's

The building to the left of the van, with the billboard on is the "King's Head" public

house, the street name sign by the billboard reads:- Pedwranfach - (see map below)

The other side of the King's Head is the entrance to Ball Court (Click to see)

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Extract from the 1851Public Health Map

available on CDRom from our Shop

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High Street - The Original Snow's Garage - Early 1900's

Plymouth Street, The Vanguard Inn on the left, and on the right Mrs Breeze's Garage

This photograph is part of a series of photographs taken by Birmingham Photography Club, during the provision

of a new main sewer.

The Vanguard, in the 1950's. It was called the Greyhound Hotel In the early 1900's .

(not to be confused with the Greyhound in Bridge Street, Caedraw.)

Taff Vale House, was situated at the entrance to the Taff Vale Railway Station, (later to become the Plymouth Street

Goods Yard of the GWR). It was just about opposite the Vanguard. These photographs were taken in 1947.

		Zoomed in from a previous photo shows, Taff Vale House.

Taff Vale Railway Station. Looking from the Vanguard Inn.

Here we see a second hand Tramcar purchased from the Birmingham & Midland

Tramways Joint Committee, being drawn by horses on the final leg of it's journey to the

Merthyr Electric Traction & Lighting Company Ltd, depot at Traction Yard, Penydarren.

Another photograph of the Taff Vale Station, taken in the late 1940s

The Turkish Baths, Plymouth Street.

Opened in 1868,refurbished in 1881,closed in 1911.Near the site of the current Caedraw

roundabout.

Plymouth Street, in the 1960s. Ebenezer Chapel and beyond the railway bridge Plymouth St

Cottages, both now demolished, Ebenezer made way for the entrance to Trevithick Gardens.

Plymouth Street, The Ebenezer Chapel in the 1980's.

Plymouth Street. The Brittania Inn on the left hand side. Next door down

was used by Schwartz the furnishers as a wharehouse.

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Plymouth Street Nos 65 to 73.

Opposite the lower entrance to Ernest street, these houses were known as Cellar houses

very unhealthy habitations. People lived in the rooms that were below street level and

suffered those illnesses associated with dampness and poor ventilation.

Plymouth Street

(Photograph Courtesy of Jeremy Lowe)

Plymouth Street - Church of Christ

The Mardy Hotel, Plymouth Street.

Plymouth Street.

Buttress of the bridge which carried the Dowlais Railway from the Plymouth Street sidings

to the Dowlais Iron Works. Known to locals as the "inky"

Hankey Place VE Day Party - 1945

(Photograph courtesy of Mary Watkins)

W.H. Baker Garage - Plymouth Street - 20th August 1971.

Photograph from the Merthyr Express

Plymouth House

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