Charity No. 1187117
Here you will be able to read throught the local stories that have been submitted by the public or society members.
From the Glamorgan Gazette, 4th Dec 1914. William. H. Radcliffe, Schoolboy, Pontycymmer, was summoned to court for the ‘noisy selling of newspapers’. He was ordered to pay two shillings and sixpence! (about £10.47 in today’s money).
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…
Luther Stephens was born in 1888 in Llanelli. His father was a Brewery Dray man. Luther became a student teacher and got a job as an assistant teacher at Blaengarw Boys School and took lodgings at Victoria St, Pontycymer. At the outbreak of WW1 he was the regular Garw Correspondent for the ‘Glamorgan Gazette’. Under…
The following story comes from the South Wales Echo of 7/4/1937 A parrot, which was alleged to have been kept in the bar of the Blaengarw Workingmen’s Club was stated to have sympathised with the members of the club when Police raided the premises, and to have sworn at the Police. Following the raid, application…
This article by Dean Burnett, appeared on the Guardian Newspaper website in the Science section on the 2nd February 2015. Thanks to Dean who gave us permission to add it to our website. Actual article is to be found here. “This is meant to be a science blog, so officially this post is about how…