Tag: bush houses
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A community in the Bush
… is worth two in Malvern. Or some other bad variation on the saying – any better suggestions? This is the second article featuring the ‘street’ known as Bush Houses, this time trying to give an idea of how it featured in the the lives of the families who had moved from south Somerset to the south Wales valleys of the Rhondda. See the previous post for the physical history of the place. While some of the men had previously been working in the mines in » »
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Feeling Bushed
Exploring Bush Houses, Clydach Vale
Exploring Bush Houses, Clydach Vale It is a couple of years since I first stumbled across Bush Houses as the place where my coal mining ancestors lived on moving to the Welsh valleys. I can still remember the confusion of trying to work out quite where Bush Houses was (were?). From the 1891 census for the Osborne family I could track down the ‘hamlet’ of Clydach, recorded here as part of Ystradfodwg parish in the Rhondda. But where was ‘Bush’ – seemingly having no road name? » »