Below is a selection of Cwmbran related Post Cards I have collected, together with several appreciative contributions from visitors to the website ...
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Title: Cwmbran Publisher: J. Salmon Ltd. Posted: 1st August 1978 A `Multi View` showing (Top left) Cwmbran viewed from Upper Cwmbran (Top right) Gwent Square (Bottom left) The `Water Garden` and (Bottom right) `The Parade` .. For more Town Centre photographs and info click here .. |
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Title: The Sculpture Publisher: F. Frith & Co. Ltd. Reigate London Posted: 16th Sept. 1970 .. `The Family Group` Sculptor: David Thorn Unveiled in 1965 .. .. For more photographs and info on Cwmbran's `Creative Arts Collection` click here .. |
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Title: Cwmbran New Town Publisher: J. Salmon Ltd. Sevenoaks. Date: circa 1960`s A view of the Bus Station with `David Evans` in the background, another store I recall at the time, nearer the bus in the photograph, was Woolworths. Can you name the manufacturer and model of the car? .. For more Town Centre photographs and info click here .. |
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Title: Cwmbran New Town Publisher: J. Salmon Ltd. Sevenoaks This is a view of Gwent Square circa 1970`s with `David Evans` in the background .. the spiral stairway led up to ?. |
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COLOURMASTER International Photo Precision Limited, St. Ives, Huntingdon A pleasant and happy scene at the Children's Boating Pool, an integral part of Llanyrafon Boating Lake, which was formerly opened by H.R.H. Princess Anne in 1971 ... sadly the Cafe and Boat Shed were destroyed by an act of arson in 2006. .. For more photographs and info on Llanyrafon click here .. |
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Title: Settle-Carlisle Line No.5 class 37 no.37430`Cwmbran` with a relief Carlisle to Leeds service on Arten Gill viaduct, Dentdale. Publisher: Pete Shaw Photography For more photographs and info on Cwmbran and it's `Railway Connections` click here |
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Title: The Five Locks, Pontnewydd Publisher: Unknown Date Posted: Jan.10th 1909 A view towards the Locks, the fence posts border the grounds of Cwmbran Tea Gardens (now the recreational ground). .. For more photographs and info on Pontnewydd click here .. |
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Title: The Golf Pavillion, Pontnewydd Publisher: The Royal Photographic Company, London Date posted: 6th August 1918 |
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Title: Victoria Street and Clock Tower Publisher: Ernest Joyce & Co., Ltd . Newport View circa 1960`s Victoria Street, showing part of the shopping centre in the old village of Cwmbran with the Mynydd Maen in the background. The Morris Minor Traveller is parked outside the Police Station and Magistrates Court. (now Cwmbran Community Council Offices). The steel corrugated `hut` is the bus stop and the `electric` clock and it's decorative wrought iron tower, commemorate the local soldiers who lost their lives in the Great War 1914-1918. .. For more photographs and info on `Old Cwmbran` click here .. |
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Title: Schools from the Bridge Publisher: Britannia Series Posted: 1912 |
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Title: Commercial Street, Cwmbran This group of children most probably in their `Sunday Best` show a `keen` but somewhat `bewildered` interest in the camera ... circa 1900 .. For more photographs and info on `Old Cwmbran` click here .. |
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Title: Commercial St (1) Cwmbran Date: circa 1920`s .. For more photographs and info on `Old Cwmbran` click here .. |
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Title: The Station, Pontnewydd. Date: early 20th Century For more info on Pontnewydd click here or info on Cwmbran and it's Railway Connections click here . |
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