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Click Here to See a
Collection of Photographs
of Merthyr Town in the
1960's before major alterations. |
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Howfield's during the
Blackout, World War 2.
Even the Gas window display
lights have been removed. |
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Another 60's view of the High
street,
showing Woolworth's,
Howfield's, and James Radio House.
( Postcard
courtesy of Mrs Gill Thomas, West Grove). |
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Golden Valley Butter, Docton's, The Gas Board Showrooms, 1967.
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| Ye Old Globe, in
the 1950s.
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| High Street in
the early 1900s. |
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Fine Fare Supermarket in the 1960's
Built on the site of Ye Old Globe. |
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| Docton's Plumbers
early 1900s. |
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High Street in the 1970's
Peacock's has taken the place of the
Fine Fare Supermarket shown above |
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February 1916.
This newsagents shop later became B.J.Price & Sons, now a Hairdressing
Salon.
(Photograph
courtesy of Geof Matsell) |
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Circa 1910 |
Circa 1930's
(Photograph Courtesy of Pam Jenkins) |
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Lower High Street Circa 1910.
Showing the Court Arms, and few doors up the Crawshays
Arms, and on the right the Eagle. |
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| Lower High Street
in the 1980s. |
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The Crown Inn,
March 1981
(Photograph
courtesy of Dennis Bennett O.B.E.) |
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The Angel Hotel and Three Salmons
Inn. |
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| Wales Gas Board
Showroom and Offices in the 1960s |
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| 27, High Street -
Tommy Horton's Rubber Goods
(Tommy in the Trilby Hat) - 1946 |
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The Angel Inn, Broad Street.
Note: Peter
Griffiths' the builder and undertaker, (Abermorlais Terrace) Ex-Army truck
is shown in the foreground. |
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This shot from the graveyard of St. Tydfil's
Church
shows the old Boot Inn, on the High Street. |
This montage of
three photographs show what you would have seen from the promenade
outside the Parish Church in the 1960's, showing Conway's
Dairies, Gittings China shop, and Tom Evans & Son
(Bespoke Tailors). |
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| Conways Dairies |
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Conway's took
over the old Boot Hotel in the High Street,
This photograph
taken in the early 1900s shows a delivery cart and staff outside the
building |
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The Boot Inn
(Photograph
courtesy of John Griffiths, Bath) |
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Saint
Tydfil's (The
Parish) Church.
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General
view taken from the top of the Parish Church Tower
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Another
view from the Parish Church Tower, looking up the High Street.
(Photograph
courtesy of the Leo Davies Collection) |
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Looking up Lower High Street, the
Parish Church on the left, the Angel Hotel can be seen in the distance.
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Similar shot as above, but 70
or so years later.
(Photograph
courtesy of John Davies, St Tydfil's Avenue) |
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| Sterling Frozen Foods. |
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Click Here For More
Pictures of Sterling
Frozen Foods |
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