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.. Pontnewydd Fire Brigade circa 1930`s .

The firemen are photographed in front of the Cenotaph at the junction of Richmond Road/Lowlands Road and Clark Avenue, Pontnewydd.

.. The Fire Station once stood where the Surgery is at present, on Clark Avenue ..

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.. This photograph appeared in the 1983 Checkpoint Calendar .. clue Home Guard

No entries for this one, all I can tell you is Cwmbran Home Guard 1940`s ...

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.. This photograph from the 1960`s shows the Teaching Staff at Mount Pleasant Junior School ..

.. for more info click here ..

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.. This is a photograph of the Doralt Inn - Henllys, circa late1960`s maybe? ..

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.. Situated in `The Square` - Upper Cwmbran stands Ebenezer Chapel - believed to have been built in the early 1840`s ..

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Liz comments:- Upper Cwmbran Methodist Church - right up the mountain! Lovely inside. When I used to go there (Mum was a local preacher), it had the old heating system that you put logs in. It was also used to warm soup on Bonfire night. . . Them were the days!

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Just past the Mill Tavern (P.H) once stood Coed Eva Mill, the disused mill has undergone reconstruction during 2006 and has been converted to a living dwelling.

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.. This `Golfing character` appears on the window of Derek Pugh's Betting Office - Victoria Street, Old Cwmbran ..

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This `post card view` was photographed in the early 1900`s, along Wesley Street towards Commercial Street Old Cwmbran. The large building on the left is the Wesley Methodist Church, built in 1867. Today (2007) it is no longer a church and is now Wesley Community Centre.

( 2007 )

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This splendid building is Llantarnam Abbey, now the home of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Annecy. Originally founded in 1179 by Hywel ab Iorwerth, Welsh Lord of Caerleon, as a daughter house to Strata Florida ... for more info click here and to visit the website of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Annecy click here

( Photograph contributed by Craig Thomas)

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Photographed on the canal towpath, opposite Cwmbran Retail Park, shows the Torfaen County Borough Council recently installed (May 2007) bi-lingual information board entitled `Explore Our Canal`. The pictorial board displays information on the Canal, it's wildlife and it's historical relevance . The canal section forms part of the Pontnewydd Heritage Trail, which is also depicted . Anne Moore, a committee member of Cwmbran Historical Society and myself, compiled the trail. Further `Heritage Trails within Cwmbran` have been compiled by other members of the Society and are awaiting publication.

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This was a view from the the Old Cwmbran Railway Station (now the site of Cwmbran Village Surgery), looking towards Coronation Road., now renamed Llewellyn Road.

.. (date unknown) ..

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