Charity No. 1187117
Back in the day when the Fire Brigade was just that, we of the Retained Fire Service used to have training sessions for shift workers on Wednesday mornings in Pontycymmer Fire Station yard. One morning we had just completed the particularly arduous drill of ‘slip and pitch to the 3rd floor and carry down’ (effectively…
12/3/1914. On Wednesday of last week the second son of Mr. Bailey, of 7, Greenfield Terrace. Private 1214. W.Bailey, of the 2nd Batt: Welsh Regiment returned on leave to his home village, having been wounded at La Bassee. (France) He was on the Army Reserve list, and rejoined his regiment on August 8th 1914. He…
Abridged by G. Jarvis Miss Nina Boyle* in Pontycymmer. Two meetings were held at the Hippodrome, Pontycymmer on Sunday 5th March, 1915, when the Suffrage leader, Miss Nina Boyle, was the speaker. At the evening meeting Miss Boyle spoke about the Women’s Suffrage Movement from an historical point of view, and traced its growth since 1775.
Raymond Collishaw was born on November 22nd 1893 at Nainamo, British Columbia, Canada. He was the eldest of 6 chidren. His parents were John Edward (Jack) Collishaw an itinerant miner originally from Wrexham, North Wales. His mother was Sarah (Sadie) Jones who although originally from Newport, once lived in Station Row, Braich y Cymmer, Pontyryhl….
by Gerald Jarvis When the Garw Valley Heritage Society made a decision to produce a booklet to accompany the series of exhibitions we were to hold throughout 2014 in the Garw Valley, one of the aims was to update the list of those men we knew had left to go to the war, but who…