Gwyn Williams
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…
Pontycymer Memories.
Bob in Pontycymer Bob and his fascination with Pontycymer. This was shared with us via our Facebook Page.
www.welshchapels.org
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…
Cyril “BUNNY” Eddington
Bunny was a well-known sportsman in the Garw Valley in the 1930s and 40s. He was a miner, a good rugby player and a very hard and determined middleweight boxer. Bunny never got knocked out or stopped in the ring. Bunny fought Billy Thomas for the Welsh Middleweight Title in 1935 but lost a hard…
Cynefin Project
Discover what your farm’s fieldnames were in the 1840s on this website. We can see Betws and Llangeinor have entries and others will follow with our help, see below). Cynefin : Mapping Wales’ sense of Place Help us transcribe all the tithe maps of Wales – including their indexes. This crowdsourcing website also has superb georeferencing…