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Bridge Street

Troedyrhiw

 

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The Square

This photograph from the 60's shows a parade tailling right down Bridge Street.

 
The Railway Inn, Troedyrhiw

Mr Glyndwr Edwards Behind the Bar

at the Railway Inn

(Photograph Courtesy of Roger Edwards)

 

Glyndwr Edwards in the Betting Shop

Adjoining the Railway Inn

(Photograph Courtesy of Roger Edwards)

 

Bridge Street at the Junction with Wyndham Street - 1986

(Photograph Courtesy of Robert Jones)

 

Bridge Street

At the end of the street, the pumping house that topped up the Glamorganshire Canal from the River Taff can be seen

This photograph taken a few years later shows that the Picture Palace Cinema has been built.

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'Davies' - Bridge Street, Troedyrhiw

 

A gathering of people outside the shop of W&E Turner Shoe Shop (Previously Cash & Co.)

including Janet Goode, and Mr. Williams (who ran the shop).

(Photograph courtesy of Julie Williams)

 

Price Bros. Grocers and Drapers - Bridge Street Troedyrhiw

A receipt dated April 5th 1874

(Photograph courtesy of Steven Gwynne)

 

Yew Street

(Postcard Courtesy of the Leo Davies Collection)

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Opening of Tabernacle Chapel Troedyrhiw.

Yew Street in the Snow.

Margaret Beckett emailed us to say her father in law Joe Beckett is first on the left.

A view of Bridge St from Pontyrhun Bridge

with some budding Afon Taf pupils in the foreground.

(Postcard courtesy of Mrs Gill Thomas, West Grove.)

Same view as above

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Bridge Street

(Photograph Courtesy of Geoff Matsell)

                                                                               Rossi Ice Cream cart.  

 

The Picture Palace, Bridge Street

                        

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Demolishing The Picture Palace.

(Photograph courtesy of David Chillcott)

 

     
       

 

 

The Picture Palace building in later years, as a builders merchants in 1989.

(Photograph courtesy of Robert O'Keefe)

 
Greenmeadow Inn, Bridge Street

 

The Willows Recreation Ground

(Postcard Courtesy of The Leo Davies Collection)

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Troedyrhiw - St. John's Ambulance Brigade

At the Willow's Recreation Ground.

 
Pontyrhun Bridge circa 1900

 
The Collapse of Pontyrhun Bridge - December 15th 1878

Pontyrhun Bridge- 1912

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Pontyrhun Bridge and the site of the old Glamorgan Canal Pumping Station being cleared.

(Photograph courtesy of David Chillcott)

 
Pontyrhun Bridge to Bridge Street, Troedyrhiw - 1986

         
 

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