Charity No. 1187117
Tom Kinsey had driven a horse and cart for the Coop for quite some time but one day he was too ill to go to work so Reg was taken away from his job in one of the shops to take Tom’s place. His first job was to deliver in Pontyrhyl and Tylagwyn. He put…
Here is our Winter newsletter. It is distributed throughout the Garw Valley. You can find it in libraries, Bryngarw House and other public buildings in our local area, or you can read it and download it below.
Gwyn Williams was born in Pontycymer in February 1922 but later moved with members of his family to Oxford. By 1938 Gwyn was a professional boxer. He served as a p a r a c h u t e instructor during World War 11, mostly in the Oxfordshire area, but in 1945 he was sent to…
Bob in Pontycymer Bob and his fascination with Pontycymer. This was shared with us via our Facebook Page.
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…