Charity No. 1187117
Here you will be able to read throught the local stories that have been submitted by the public or society members.
Our readers might like to hear what one of our members, David Dimmick, said to the BBC reporter about the discovery of a Civil War cannon ball in his back garden in Oxford Street during the eighties- his full account will be told in a forthcoming newsletter. The show was “Good Evening Wales”, and you…
When Italy won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1964, I was a 15-year-old boy growing up in the Garw. My friends and I used to gather in the café for a steamed pie and an espresso served from a huge chrome and brass Cimbali Grand Luce.
My father was John James Dimmick, and he enlisted in the South Wales Borderers in 1928 for 7 years with 5 years in the Reserve. During this time he was stationed in Portsmouth, Hong Kong and India. Whilst in India he served on the North-West Frontier as a Vickers machine gunner, bring back home a…
Kindly submitted by By David J K Jones On the 11th September 1966 aged ten years old I “drove” a train between Pontycymmer and Blaengarw – and before school too! How can I be so certain of the date? It was the day after Muhammad Ali defeated the German Karl Mildenberger for the Heavyweight Championship…
A Police Officer Murdered on Duty submitted by David Jones The only Cardiff police officer that has ever been murdered on duty was PC Evan Davies who was born and raised in Pontycymmer.