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Troedyrhiw |
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<Click on the photograph to enlarge> |
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The Square
This photograph from the 60's
shows a parade tailling right down Bridge Street. |
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Bridge Street
At the end of the street, the pumping house that topped up the Glamorganshire Canal from the River Taff can be seen |
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| This photograph taken a few years later shows
that the Picture Palace Cinema has been built. |
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Yew Street
(Postcard
Courtesy of the Leo Davies Collection) |
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| Yew Street in the Snow |
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A view of Bridge St from
Pontyrhun Bridge
with some budding Afon Taf pupils
in the foreground.
(Postcard courtesy
of Mrs Gill Thomas, West Grove.) |
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| Same view as above |
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Bridge Street
(Photograph
Courtesy of Geoff Matsell) |
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| The Picture Palace, Bridge
Street |
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| Greenmeadow Inn, Bridge Street |
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The Willows Recreation Ground
(Postcard courtesy
of The Leo Davies Collection) |
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| Pontyrhun Bridge circa 1900 |
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Pontyrhun
Bridge- 1912 |
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General View of Troedyrhiw
(From
The Ernest T Bush Series No 2740.)
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| The Dynevor Arms - 1972 |
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Ash Road
Castle Colliery in the distance.
(Postcard
courtesy of The Leo Davies Collection) |
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| Castle Colliery |
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The Taff Falls, Harrietown
(Postcard Courtesy of Mrs Thomas, West Grove,
Merthyr Tydfil) |
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St John's Church and Vicarage
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The Church and Vicarage (Postcard
Courtesy of Mrs Thomas, West Grove, Merthyr Tydfil)
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Glantaff
Stores.
Home, in the 60's of popular Troedyrhiw Musician, Gwyn 'Niblo'
Francis
and his brother Alan, principal Conductor of the
Berlin Philharmonic
Orchestra. |
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The Glantaff Hotel |
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The Glantaff Hotel in the 1960's |
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The Glantaff Hotel |
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| Glantaff Road |
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Rear of Glantaff Road
(Photograph Courtesy of Gary Morris) |
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Council
Depot, opposite Carlton Terrace. |
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| Carlton Terrace - 1947 |
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Troedyrhiw Juniors Football
Team 1969-70.
Back (L to R):-
Teacher David Jones, Brian Day, Graham Jones,Alan Jenkins,Howard
Casey,Phillip Addis, Gareth Powell, Michael Thompson, Head Master Mr
Garland.
Middle (L to
R):- Adrian Taylor,Colin Richards,Jeffrey Collins,Robert Jones, ???Jeffries,
Ronald Marshall, Alan Jones.
Front (L to R):- Tony Morgan, Jeffrey Morgan.
(photograph
courtesy of Algie Jones) |
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Rose-Marie Coach TX 8378 in
Carlton Terrace - Troedyrhiw.
Probably picking up
Colliers for Merthyr vale Colliery . |
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