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The Bont |
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Dowlais |
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Including Gellifaelog Road and
Rocky Road |
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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. |
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| Gellifaelog Old School and the
Rocky Road in 1973. |
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| Gellifaelog Shop. |
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Coronation Party - Gellifaelog
Road 1937 - 38.
(Photograph
Courtesy of Mal Harries) |
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Bont Football Club, Team 1938.
- "Champions"
(Photograph by
Bryn Harries, courtesy of Mal Harries) |
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Playing cricket -
1937
((Photograph
by Bryn Harries, Courtesy of Mal Harries) |
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St Illtyd's Church, Church Hall and School in the early 1960s.
(Photograph courtesy of Gareth Thomas) |
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| St. Illtyd's R.C. Church |
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Corpus Christi 1963
Crossing the Bont towards St
Illtyds. There's a few faces that are instantly recognised. |
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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) |
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The Wimborne Arms, Dowlais |
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In the middle of this Aerial view,
in front of the Brewer's Arms is the site of the old Gellifaelog
Bridge, which crossed the
Morlais Brook. The Bridge was removed when the brook was
culverted,. Brewery
Road and Beech Terrace can be seen, to the left of the Brewers Arms. |
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This extract from the 1875 OS
map shows the position of the old Gellifaelog Bridge that took
the main road from Merthyr to
Dowlais across the Morlais Brook. |
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Beech Terrace, Coronation
Street Party, 1937-38.
(Photograph by
Bryn Harries, courtesy of Mal Harries) |
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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.
<Click on the image to enlarge>
(Reproduced here
with his kind permission) |
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| St. Luke's Mission Church. |
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| Gellifaelog Road - From the bottom of New Road |
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