Penydarren

Merthyr Tydfil

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High Street.

(Postcard courtesy of Gill Thomas, West Grove)

No 284, High Street.

Jack Laycock (Fletcher) Snr. standing outside his Confectionary and Fruit Shop in the 1920's.

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Lower High Street in 1972.

(Photograph courtesy of Robert Thomas)

Lower High Street, 70 years earlier than above.

Lower High Street, and The Penydarren Inn.

Penydarren - High Street - Oakley's Corner - 1940's

(Photograph Courtesy of Mr. K. M. McDonald)

Penydarren - High Street - Oakley's Corner - 1940's

(Photograph Courtesy of Mr. K. M. McDonald)

Photograph Taken from a Similar Position to Above

But with buildings demolished with the Dowlais Great White Tip in view.

Penydarren Road, with a tramcar passing the Musical Hall.

(Photograph courtesy of Gill Thomas, West Grove)

The Musical Hall later became Griffs bed & breakfast accommodation (see below), 

Griffs Transport Accommodation. 

Owned by Mostyn Williams. Catering for the long distance lorry drivers who parked their lorries 

on the waste ground near Waterloo Bridge.

High Street. This was the lowest part of Penydarren, situated on the main road just above the County School. Just out of sight on the right hand side is the Musical Hall ,  The high ground in the back of the picture was occupied by John Evans (grocers) warehouse, later the site of the  Penydarren Club.   

Penydarren, Plantation Street 1973.

Mr Whippy arriving outside the Plough Inn. The men will be coming out of the pub to buy a 99 to go with their beer, I think not.

Looking up Plantation Terrace, with Soloman Street and Baltic Place on the right. 1960's

(Photograph courtesy of the John Owen collection)

This photograph taken on The Tramroad shows the bottom end of Soloman Street,

shortly after it was demolished in the 1970's. Bishop Hedley School can be seen in the

distance.

(Photograph Courtesy of Ken Jones)

Looking from the rear of Plantation Street towards the Whitey.

The white house in the distance is the last remaining one  in Bradley Row.

(Photograph courtesy of Gerard Kiley)

Another view of 'The Whitey' from Lower Penydarren, in the 1970's.

(Photograph Courtesy of Ken Jones)

General View 1908

Trevithick Street and the Traction Yard in the foreground, looking over towards Penydarren High Street.

A Similar View from the 1970's.

(Photograph Courtesy of Ken Jones)