Charity No. 1187117
This article is taken from Mrs Eileen Price’s brief history, ‘Tabernacl, Capel yr Annibynwyr, Pontycymer’. Copies of this can be obtained by ringing the editor on 01656 856091. Tabernacle chapel, like many places of worship in the Garw, was built as a consequence of the huge influx of people coming into the Valley to work…
The bulk of this article is taken from a longer essay by David John Morgans. Penny readings were very popular entertainments in the Valleys before the days of cinema or even radio. The penny was the price of admission, (although it did go up to 2d for adults), and before I was old enough to…
Addoldai Cymru / Welsh Religious Buildings Trust is a small Trust set up to protect and restore some of Wales’s most significant redundant Nonconformist chapel buildings and to regenerate for community use. There’s a very useful database to search for information about the chapels of the Garw Valley, of which, as we know there were/are…
Huw Edwards has kindly sent us this rare image of Nebo chapel, Blaengarw.