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The Bont

Dowlais

Including Gellifaelog Road and Rocky Road

Penydarren

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  General View, Dowlais. Looking across the Bont, from Penydarren  

 

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  General View, Dowlais. Looking across the Bont, (with a Fair), from Penydarren

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Lower Dowlais looking from Gibsons Row Penydarren.

The Council Skip Yard now occupies the area of the gasometers in the picture.

Behind the gasometers is the gradient of the New Road.

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A Winter Scene, on the Rocky Road, in the 1950's taken from a point where the 

Heads Of The Valley road would soon be.

   
 
 
     

 

 
Gellifaelog Old School and the Rocky Road in 1973.

Gellifaelog Shop.
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Coronation Party - Gellifaelog Road 1937 - 38.

(Photograph Courtesy of Mal Harries)

 

Bont Football Club, Team 1938. - "Champions"

(Photograph by Bryn Harries, courtesy of Mal Harries)

 

Playing cricket  - 1937

((Photograph by Bryn Harries, Courtesy of Mal Harries)

 
St Illtyd's Church, Church Hall and School in the early 1960s.

(Photograph courtesy of Gareth Thomas)

   

 

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Corpus Christi 1963

Crossing the Bont towards St Illtyds. There's a few faces that are instantly recognised.

   
 
St Illtyd's Church Interior, Dowlais

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Corpus Christi 1959-60.

In the front : Bernard Ring, Alan Thomas, Arfon Williams, Michael O'Leary, Danny Casey, Geoff Griffiths,

                  Colin Sullivan .

In the back : Brian Power, John O'Keefe, Michael Lynch, Gregory Jones, Gerald Mahoney, Christopher

                  Ward, Michael McCarthy and holding the baby Mr Hancock PE teacher.

(Photograph courtesy Michael McCarthy)

 
The Wimborne Arms, Dowlais
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In the middle of this Aerial view Brewery Road and Beech Terrace can be seen, to the

left of the Brewers Arms.

 

Beech Terrace, Coronation Street Party, 1937-38.

(Photograph by Bryn Harries, courtesy of Mal Harries)

The Cwm -  1926.

Looking North, towards Pant

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The Cwm -  1926.

Looking East, the house in the top right hand corner is at the corner of Balaclava Road,

and Regent Street.

 

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Merthyr Express article by Gerard Kiley.

(Reproduced here with his kind permission)

 
St. Luke's Mission Church.

 
Gellifaelog Road - From the bottom of New Road
 

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