The Iron Bridge

The Iron Bridge

and Area

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Ynysgau Chapel and the Old Iron Bridge.

Old Iron Bridge, 1963.

On The Ironbridge in the 1940s

			Looking towards Bridge Street. The Sluice gate to the Plymouth Feeder can be seen on the midddle R-H side of the photograph.

The Old Iron Bridge.

The New Iron Bridge.

In the middle of the large building can be seen the infamous ARCH, which led to Riverside .

On the right hand side of the building is the Patriot Inn. Abermorlais School is in the background

with scaffolding around it. The large trees are in the grounds of Ynysgau Chapel.

The Iron Bridge.

Building the New Iron Bridge.

The Iron Bridge - 1939. The Taff almost in flood. Bridge Street on the right hand side.

River Taff In Flood, Easter 1960.

(photograph courtesy of Clive Bevan)

The old and new Iron bridges. June 1962.

(Photograph courtesy of Robert Thomas, West Grove)

The Glamorganshire Canal, Parliament Lock.

Several points of interest here. Abermorlais School on top of the tip that was the waste from the Penydarren

Iron Works.It was called the British Tip by everybody because the school was originally called the British

School.The land in the foreground is now the site of the College.The tall white building left of the tip

is the original Taff Vale Brewery which moved up to Danyparc in 1904.Behind the brewery on the east

side of the river is the area known as China, notorious for its villains and undesirables.

Canal Side in the 1920's. This photograph is set up, for an exhibition

At Dowlais, for the benefit of the unemployed. It shows the houses of

Canal Square, Buildings that became Wm Raymond & Sons. and the

Merthyr Laundry in the distance, which became Triumph Business

Systems (TBS).

Canalside and the old Merthyr Laundry.

Wm Raymond & Sons, Timber & Builders Merchants, Canal Wharf.

A Garrett 4CD Steam Tractor outside Raymonds Yard.

Gayday Pop Lorries, parked in what is now the College Car Park.

Avenue de Clichy before the new Town Hall (Civic Centre)

Avenue De Clichy

(Photograph Courtesy of Selwyn Thomas)

Avenue De Clichy

(Photograph Courtesy of Selwyn Thomas)

Avenue De Clichy

(Photograph Courtesy of Selwyn Thomas)