Twynyrodyn

Twynyrodyn

Merthyr Tydfil

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Twynyrodyn Cricket Club - September 1906

Twynyrodyn Football Team 1921-22

(Photograph Courtesy of Pam Alford (Davies)

Twynyrodyn Infants School - April 1962.

Built 1953 now demolished and rebuilt in 2003 (now named Twynyrodyn Community School).

(Photograph courtesy of Robert Thomas)

Twynyrodyn Junior School. (Now vacated)

(Photograph courtesy of Peter Wakeham)


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Twynyrodyn Social Club - 1950's

(Photographs Courtesy of Arthur Williams)

Aneurin Crescent - Coronation Party.

(Photograph Courtesy of Jacqui Gibbon)

Lower Twynyrodyn Mexicanos - Marching Past Penuel Chapel

(Photograph Courtesy of Beryl Davies)

Lower Twynyrodyn Mexicanos

Back Row L-R: Mattie Williams, Mr Wallman, Billy Hunt, Vincent Thomas, Joe Hunt, ? and (Vernon Lewis, Band Leader)

Middle Row L-R: (Drummer, Leonard Jones), Mavis Sears, Mrs Whately, Margaret John, Babara Downs, Beryl Hunt,

Lilian Sears, Lilian Lewis and ?.

Front Row L-R: Ted Murphy, Ann Morgan, Valerie Martin, Iris Roderick, Eira Hunt, Winnie Martin, Cath Murphy and Jenifer Hunt.

(Photograph Courtesy of Beryl Davies, nee Lewis)

Twynyrodyn - Jones Street

Twyn Stores.

The White Horse Inn, Twynyrodyn.

Twyn Hill.

Seion Chapel.

V.E. Day Party - May 1945.


			Zion Chapel Interior

Mary Street. - V.E. Day Street Party - 1945.

Mary Street, V.E. Day Street Party

(Photograph Courtesy of the Kenneth J. Gunter Collection)

Mary Street Jazz Band - Date Unknown.

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(Photograph Courtesy of Iestyn - Celtic Pride)

Twynyrodyn Cricket Club - 1906.

Back Row. T. Lewis, R. Jones, J. Roberts, L. L. Phillips, G. Lloyd & W. Frankland

Middle Row W. A. Williams, E. T. Churchill, D. H. Davies (Sec), N. E. Ellman (Capt), C. H. Post (Vice), W. E. Churchill

& J Jones (Treas)

Front Row P. Price & A. James.

(Photograph & Names Courtesy of Viv Lloyd)

Dyke Street

(Photograph courtesy of Mrs Jacqueline Lewis)

Argyle Street - Howard Jennings (Caretaker of Twyn or Queen's Road School)

Twyn Hill in the 1980's.

A young Ronnie Hyde outside Dickie's Shop, Queens Road C1955 - note the Gas Lamps.

(photograph courtesy of Ronnie Hyde)

Baili Glas Court

Twynyrodyn, From Caedraw Flats. November 1971.

Twynyrodyn, the lower part, taken at the turn of the century. The Labour Club was being used

as a private school at this time. On the left is the Unitarian church later known as the Gospel Hall.

At the top of Alma Street can be seen the chimney of the Thomastown Brickworks, later Brickfield

Crescent was built on the site.

In this Aerial photograph from 1965, the old St. Mary's Catholic School

(opposite Jones Bros garage in Court Street), can be seen, also the extensive rail network

that used to run into Merthyr High Street Station.

(Photograph courtesy of Mr Clive Bevan)


			Click Here To Visit St. Mary's RC School.

The Court House (now the Labour Club)

	At one time the Court House was used as a Girls' School. As this picture below shows.		Twynyrodyn - The Court House

Court Street- In the 1940s

Court Street- in the 1980s

Jones Bros (Treharris) Ltd - in the 1960s.

St Mary's Catholic School, Court Street.

Demolished in the late 1960's.


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