Pontmorlais West

Merthyr Tydfil

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The Circus Travelled to Merthyr by Train and Would Parade up to Cyfarthfa Park.

(Photograph Courtesy of Clive Arthur -Spain, Clive is in the photograph as a little boy in short trousers

that the Elephant Man appears to be glaring at!)

What appears to be a cellar garage is actually the entrance to a tunnel once used by the old

tramway shared by the Dowlais Ironworks and the Penydarren Ironworks on it's way to the

Glamorganshire Canal.