Charity No. 1187117
All day Wednesday, and througout Tuesday, a band of miners made heroic efforts to extricate a man who had been buried by a fall at a new drift in a pit at Pantygog, in the Garw valley. The drift was being dug just below and old level,locally known as Peace & Plenty, by contractors for…
http://www.Cymdeithasenwaulleoeddcymru.org.uk would be interested in any place-name collecting that anyone is collecting. Local knowledge can help in our understanding of place-names, natural history, language and dialect and can be a useful ‘bridge’ with the work of academics. This website has been collecting historical evidence on the subject for many years, mainly relating to South Wales…
The Garw Valley Heritage Society will be hosting an exhibition in the Blaengarw Rugby Club, known as the Halfway, on Saturday October 20th. On display will be pictures, stories and artefacts showing Garw life over the last 150 years, and a screened non-stop projection of slides and old photographs. As it is close to the anniversary of…
By: David JK Jones Ajit Singh lived in post war Bridgend and the tall, 27 year old, bearded, Sikh who wore the traditional turban was a familiar sight around the town. It is not clear why he came to Bridgend but we know that he arrived in Britain in 1949 and worked as a painter….
Bold designs for a new heritage centre proposed to be built in Pontycymer in the heart of the Garw Valley were unveiled today.