Category: Rhondda
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Looking ahead to look behind
To follow up the traditional year-end top moments, the traditional look forward for 2011. Some of the possibilities: A visit to the Tonypandy area, and Trealaw cemetery in particular (the list of tree members buried there just keeps expanding), really ought to be on the to do list. Scanning to digital form old family photos. For this, it would be great if the Flip-Pal portable scanner got released in the UK soon, preferably not at straight dollar to pound pricing – see this ‘not-a-review’ post. » »
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Tonypandy and the Rhondda
Coalmining communities
Coalmining communities Despite having been told off for lumping together Clydach (Clydach Vale, Blaenclydach, Cwm Clydach) with Tonypandy, the source records seem to do so and the precise boundaries aren’t clear to me. So I’ll continue the practice. [toc] Tonypandy Tonypandy is/was a typical Welsh Valleys coal mining community, with many small terraced houses often accommodating more than one (large) family. Related articles: The Tonypandy that Mum knew, The show must go on … the railway. Tonypandy doesn’t even appear in the 1868 Gazetteer. » »