Pontycymer Swimming Baths. 

By Mr Will Trigg. “It was built in 1908, just behind the Council yard in Pantygog. The dimensions were three feet deep at the shallow end and six feet deep at the other, about 50 feet long, and 18 feet wide. A walking space of 4 feet wide on either side and at the deep-end…

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From the archives: a more recent memory….

Demolished during the 1990s on the demise of the railway line and the diversion of the river, this bridge over the railway and the Garw river was opened on the 7th of June in 1901 and became a prominent feature in the Garw Valley. The ironwork for the bridge was made at Swindon and transported…

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