TC Photos

Name: Janet Wilson

Date: April 29th 2011

Email:janwilson03@hotmail.co.uk

Hi my name is Janet Wilson, I worked at Kibbys supermarket for years, I first started there when Kibbys was on the corner where McDonald's is now , I used to work on the butchery and cold meats departments, I remember Julie, Derrick Purcel, Caroline on the `tills`, then the shop moved to the bigger one by the `In Shops`, it had great meals served upstairs in the `Rainbow Rooms`, Mr. Williams was the butcher there and most of his family, his dad, and his son. they made fresh faggots every Saturday morning and the smell was so good all over the shop, they didn't take long to sell, my mum use to work on the tills there, Eillen Wilson, my dad worked at G.K.N. for many years, Dick Wilson, until his kidneys stopped working and he had to go on a machine 3 days a week, we lived all over Cwmbran Abbey road the little cottages up the side of the gully, Cedar walk, No. 20, Godfrey road, River Row Pontrhydyrun, and my dad built the 2 bungalows on top of Mount Pleasant they were the first bungalows to be built there as you went down Ty Trappa they were in a field on the right, I remember my dad, mum and me digging the first few holes to start it all off, my uncle Charlie was the Lock keepers son on the canal bank, auntie Mary, worked as an usherette in the White Rose picture house, i was only about 9 years old and I would go to her to be looked after until my mum finished work, me eating a sandwich while watching `Hound of the Baskervilles`, don't know how I managed it frightened me to death, well if anyone remembers any of the Wilsons i would love to chat, take care all, Jan

Name: Dawn Shipman (now Nichols)

Date: 3rd February 2006

Email: d.nichols3@btinternet.com

Did anyone work in `International stores` ? where the `In shops` are now; I worked there from 1977 to 1981 and have fond memories, also of a Blackpool weekend with some colleagues too.

Andrew Taylor recalls:

Spent the first 6 months of my career from October 1978 in Powys House. At the time it was mostly taken up by the Borough Engineer and Planning Officers Department of Torfaen Borough Council which had come into being 4 years previously as a result of the 1974 Local Government Reorganisation.


.. Water Feature ..	.. `The Cwmbran Giant` at the Water Garden ..


.. Llewellyn Walk ..	.. Looking towards Llewellyn Walk from the Water Garden ..


The glass fronted `lift and stairway` Tower - Llewellyn Road	.. Gwent Square ..


.. North Walk ..	.. North Walk ..


.. The Parade ..	.. The Mall ..


.. General Rees Square ..	.. General Rees Square ..


.. Monmouth Walk ..	.. Bus Station ..