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Pengarnddu

Merthyr Tydfil

 

Little remains of the former Pengarnddu village, which was gradually abandoned from the 1960s onwards. The houses here were purpose built for the colliers who worked for the Dowlais Iron Company. This is reflected in the street names, the main one being 'Company Row'. Pengarnddu was the highest inhabited village in Dowlais. It had its own church, school and public houses, thus making it completely self-contained. The old Pengarnddu Hare public house was one of the last remaining buildings. There was a Pengarnddu Railway Line; the Rhymney Iron Company’s old limestone railway.  Before 1900 this was a complete old line right across the quarries from Twynygwinia. The Dowlais Volunteers used  this area for their target practices and in the Second World War the Army also made extensive use of this district between 1939 and 1945.

There was a significantly large enough population here to make S.O. Davies, Labour MP for Merthyr and Rhymney,  recruit men here for the respectable 'Hunger Marches' which he organised. During the troubled times of the 1930s the larger protest marches often started from Pengarnddu before stopping off in a Dowlais and then marching down to Merthyr Tydfil with a large contingent of men and women.

 
 
Map of Pengarnddu

 

Festival of Britain - Pengarnddu.

The Gypsy lady in the back of the cart is Mary Ann Roberts, and half hidden behind the girl is Haydn Roberts.

(Photograph Courtesy of Haydn Roberts)

Pengarnddu in the 1950's.

Looking east , to the Trecatti waste site.

Doris Driscoll who lived in Pengarnddu until she was 15, wrote in to tell us that the lady with the pram

is Lily Warner and the child in the pram is Maldwyn one of the other children's name is Raymond.

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Mr. S. O. Davies - Addressing a meeting at Pengarnddu.

Company Row - 1968.

 
Mountain Row, Pengarnddu 1968.

(courtesy of the John Owen Collection)

 
Company Row - Pengarnddu - 1968

Pengarnddu Village - 1969

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Pengarnddu School, and St Michaels Church.

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Pengarnddu School

 
 
 

Pengarnddu People

 
Ray McCarthy sends us these family photographs:
 

 
         
 

 
         
 

 
         
Everitt Austin sends us some photographs of Pengarnddu people:
         
 

James & Elizabeth Cartwright with Agnes Ann

 

Cyril Austin marrying Myra (Maria) Cartwright.

 
 

   
         
 

Remnants of the sign of the public house, "Pengarnddu Hare" built by S. Jones, 1846

(Photographs courtesy of the John Owen Collection)

 

 

 

 
             
 

 

 
 

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