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| Name and Location: | Kaden |
| E-mail address: | kaden@gmail.com |
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| Name and Location: | Kenny Barker Barrie Ont Canada |
| E-mail address: | kencarol@csolve.net |
| Recollections : | I spent WW11 in Argoed with my granparents Mr&Mrs E Tippings 9Gloynos Ave my mothers name was Ida Tippings.I still regard Argoed as home |
| Name and Location: | Tony - was 72 Islwyn Road. |
| E-mail address: | penytrwyn@sky.com |
| Recollections : | Sunday evening 20th Jan 08 - Just thinking about all the Businesses that used to be in Wattsville that I remember: Mr Richard 'Dicky' Rowe on the 'Tips', Lucy Speed/Bakehouse, Eddie Barkway,Jim and'Morfi'Cook,shop/dairy,Mrs Jack Morgan,Clothes repairs,Johnny Thomas-Undertaker,Hererra?shop, Mrs Hall-PostOffice, Midland Bank, Mr Dowling-Butcher, MrsPritchard's shop, 'Rosa's shop, Doctor Howells,Mr Sam Yeo's shop,Frank Coles-Radio/TV/shop, Mr Frank Scull-Co-op,and a Cafe on the corner of the next block, then'John's shop'at the top of the hill. Nearly forgot Mr Idris Reynolds Concrete block works below the corner of Duffryn Terrace. All on the 'Old Row' side of the village !! Can anyone remember others ? Oh,and how I miss Wattsville 'Reza'-where we all went swimming and rafting, and the Bonfires on the 'Patch'. |
| Name and Location: | jenny |
| E-mail address: | jennyswyer2@hotmail.com |
| Recollections : | my first drinck castle tap behind the castle hotel1963 |
| Name and Location: | Matthew Hamilton, Pontllanfraith |
| E-mail address: | matthewkate@tiscali.co.uk |
| Recollections : | I am Pontllanfraith born and bred but soon my family and I are emigrating to Canada (hopefully during 2007). I have many happy memories about Pontllanfraith, especially of 'Pont baths' and 'the tumpy'(Mynyddislwyn mountain). |
| Name and Location: | jackiey .new forest . |
| E-mail address: | jackiey1@'hotmail.co.uk |
| Recollections : | friday nites in the tred , mon nites in the market cafe and sunday nites up the new club,partys up the redground and up the resa ,it does,nt seem like 35 years ago but it must be ,cos me and my bessy mate sandra are 50 this year. |
| Name and Location: | Dean London |
| E-mail address: | deansden@googlemail.com |
| Recollections : | I still have fond memories of Oakdale Stute and Blackwood Maxime cinema from the seventies. As a teen there was not a great deal to do but the Stute was a regular haunt for the disco. Later we would experiment further afield with the Beer Keller and Stute in Blackwood and even the Social club in Pantside. The Maxime cinema was a weekly treat and thinking back it was a proper cinema unlike today's modern air craft hanger type places. Without video, dvd or Sky, the Maxime was the best place for movies. I also have some memories of the Capitol cinema, although that is another story! The Maxime were pretty strict and if you were under age you would not get in, I recall a friend and I having to go as far afield as Bargoed and Abertillery to see the Exorcist and Emmanuelle, we were sixteen but at least we could get in there. As mentioned the Maxime was a proper cinema and if we could afford it we would sit in the balcony, otherwise we were in the stalls, waiting for the pearl & Dean ads to start. Great fun and something that has sadly vanished from todays modern culture. Dean |
| Name and Location: | Sue |
| E-mail address: | small.soo@gmail.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.frappr.com/elixirsoo |
| Recollections : | I used to live in Crosskeys, had a boyfriend in Ynysddu and a gang of us used to go to the disco's at The Station Hotel. Had friends all up the Sirhowy Valley so went to all the clubs and particularly remember seeing Status Quo at Blackwood Institute. Those were great days and the valley boys were the best. |
| Name and Location: | Tredegar |
| Recollections : | Best club in Tredegar The New Club I could not wait to be 18 to get a pass to enter it legally, This is the place I met my husband and I have been married for 25 years. I could not wait to go every Sunday and Monday night I would go to school, work weekends buy a new outfit and go to the new club with my friends, what more could a girl want. Happy times!!! I remember buying a skirt and white shirt just to look like Bryan Ferry's singers I thought I looked the bomb!! |
| Name and Location: | tredegar |
| Recollections : | Does anyone have any memories of High Street Tredegar there were 104 houses in all and one was a pop factory many marbles were found in this garden as they belonged to the top of the old green bottles that were in circulation Many years ago. My memories were happy times many friends and not forgetting Picton Street Chapel along with Band Of Hope on a Tuesday, plenty of concerts dressed in white paper dresses and tinsel holding hula hoops adorned with paper flowers. Also I can remember beetroot sandwiches after the Whitsun turnouts. I think the congregation was made up of Earl Street, High Street, Picton Street, Mount Street kids what a turn out!!! |
| Name and Location: | JC, Tredegar |
| Recollections : | Anyone remember Zeraschi who sold ice cream around Tredegar from a horsedrawn cart. After a long struggle ascending the hill to Cefn Golau the poor horse would 'relieve' itself when it got there. This was the signal for local gardeners to appear with shovels and buckets to gather the products to enhance their rhubarb patches. |
| Name and Location: | mary australia |
| Recollections : | WHO WERE THEY ALAN? just joking, after all these years i dont need to know . i remember the Capitol cinema,the chip shop oppisite,and walking up to the main street to catch the bus home , the monkey parade would be in full swing. as a rule it was contained to one side of the road (the oppisite side to the maxine cinema .i would wait in a long queue on the oppisite side of the road for my bus home and watch the blackwood `teddy boys `protecting their territory such ledgends as graham hall-alias hawkeye,Fatty edwards always recognisable in his blue drape coat and drain -pipe trousers. bernard candy with his bill hayley kiss curl. there would be the tredegar and argoed boys( and girls} ,but as the last bus left around 10 oclock they only had time for a quick atercation after the pubs closed before catching their bus home once again,a memory from the hengoed school bus , what went on in the upstairs area of blackwood institute dance on saturday night . never got there myself 'i think it had been closed to the dancing patrons by the time i became of age . |
| Name and Location: | Alan - Blackwood |
| Recollections : | Mary, I guess I was one of the dubious clientele in Ma's cafe. you would be suprised at the girls from lewis school that we got in there. maybe they were all sworn to secrecy. |
| Name and Location: | Jan ex Tredegar -1950's |
| Recollections : | I have fond memories of the 'Monkey Parades' Sunday evenings would find us walking the town - up one side and down the opposite side, calling in at our favourite cafes.We were not old enough to use the pubs and this was our way of sizing up the local talent. I recall my first pair of 'high heels' - I thought I was like a film star until I broke my heel and had to hobble around to my total embarrassment and the mirth of my so called friends. |
| Name and Location: | Jeff (Brighton) |
| E-mail address: | jmbrighton@btopenworld.com |
| Recollections : | I still hold fond memories of the Cafe in Cwm, just over the bridge as you travel towards Ebbw Vale. The cafe made and sold the best ice cream ever... I wish I could taste it now, but alas the cafe is no more. |
| Name and Location: | mary |
| Recollections : | one of my memories- the annual sunday school bus trip to barry island. we would have a wonderful day. a packed lunch , something in the order of soggy banana sandwiches and a bottle of corona pop. NIVEA cream would be' slatherd'on our backs to prevent sunburn; needless to say we cried all the way home,all night, and for a day or two to follow. we then had a great time peeling sheets of dead skin off each others backs . happy days . |
| Name and Location: | mary australia |
| Recollections : | I remember ma`s cafe very well. there was Ma,a buxom italian woman,Pa whom I believe died in the early sixties,then there was the smoke filled room frequented by a somewhat dubious clientele, the especially dubious were allowed into the back room.the juke box played nonstop rock`n`roll. my father had been a patron of the cafe during the early forties when he played accordian in a band,the band met there after practise sessions.as a girl i occasionally had an ice cream there whist he chatted to Ma. As a student of Lewis school for girls i often heard ma`s cfe being discussed on the school bus ,it was a place to be avoided at all costs,I darent reveal that I had acually been inside, my reputation would have been ruined. |
| Name and Location: | Alan - Blackwood |
| Recollections : | What about Ma's Cafe in Blackwood You could buy a vimto and a woodbine for 10 pence old money |
| Name and Location: | sirhowylad |
| E-mail address: | sirhowylad@hotmail.com |
| Recollections : | Cavanna's Fish and Chip Shop - Market St. Tredegar. Golden crisp chips - smothered with salt and vinegar. Wrapped in 'real' newspaper. Never since tasted anything to compare. |