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Kenny Barker
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I spent WW11 in Argoed with my granparents Mr&Mrs E Tippings 9 Gloynos Ave my mothers name was Ida Tippings.I still regard Argoed as home
24 March 2009 - Barrie, Ont . Canada
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Tony
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Sunday evening 20th Jan 08 - Just thinking about all the Businesses that used to be in Wattsville that I remember: Mr Richard 'Dicky' Rowe on the 'Tips', Lucy Speed/Bakehouse, Eddie Barkway,Jim and'Morfi'Cook,shop/dairy,Mrs Jack Morgan,Clothes repairs,Johnny Thomas-Undertaker,Hererra?shop, Mrs Hall-PostOffice, Midland Bank, Mr Dowling-Butcher, MrsPritchard's shop, 'Rosa's shop, Doctor Howells,Mr Sam Yeo's shop,Frank Coles-Radio/TV/shop, Mr Frank Scull-Co-op,and a Cafe on the corner of the next block, then'John's shop'at the top of the hill. Nearly forgot Mr Idris Reynolds Concrete block works below the corner of Duffryn Terrace. All on the 'Old Row' side of the village !! Can anyone remember others ? Oh,and how I miss Wattsville 'Reza'-where we all went swimming and rafting, and the Bonfires on the 'Patch'.
20 January 2008 - was 72 Islwyn Road
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Matthew Hamilton
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I am Pontllanfraith born and bred but soon my family and I are emigrating to Canada (hopefully during 2007). I have many happy memories about Pontllanfraith, especially of 'Pont baths' and 'the tumpy'(Mynyddislwyn mountain).
28 September 2006 - Pontllanfraith
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jackiey
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friday nites in the tred , mon nites in the market cafe and sunday nites up the new club,partys up the redground and up the resa ,it does,nt seem like 35 years ago but it must be ,cos me and my bessy mate sandra are 50 this year.
20 September 2006 - new forest
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Tredegar
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Best club in Tredegar The New Club I could not wait to be 18 to get a pass to enter it legally, This is the place I met my husband and I have been married for 25 years. I could not wait to go every Sunday and Monday night I would go to school, work weekends buy a new outfit and go to the new club with my friends, what more could a girl want. Happy times!!! I remember buying a skirt and white shirt just to look like Bryan Ferry's singers I thought I looked the bomb!!
1 April 2005 - Tredegar
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tredegar
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Does anyone have any memories of High Street Tredegar there were 104 houses in all and one was a pop factory many marbles were found in this garden as they belonged to the top of the old green bottles that were in circulation Many years ago. My memories were happy times many friends and not forgetting Picton Street Chapel along with Band Of Hope on a Tuesday, plenty of concerts dressed in white paper dresses and tinsel holding hula hoops adorned with paper flowers. Also I can remember beetroot sandwiches after the Whitsun turnouts. I think the congregation was made up of Earl Street, High Street, Picton Street, Mount Street kids what a turn out!!!
1 April 2005 - Tredegar
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JC, Tredegar
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Anyone remember Zeraschi who sold ice cream around Tredegar from a horsedrawn cart. After a long struggle ascending the hill to Cefn Golau the poor horse would 'relieve' itself when it got there. This was the signal for local gardeners to appear with shovels and buckets to gather the products to enhance their rhubarb patches.
4 April 2003 - Tredegar
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mary australia
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WHO WERE THEY ALAN? just joking, after all these years i dont need to know . i remember the Capitol cinema,the chip shop oppisite,and walking up to the main street to catch the bus home , the monkey parade would be in full swing. as a rule it was contained to one side of the road (the oppisite side to the maxine cinema .i would wait in a long queue on the oppisite side of the road for my bus home and watch the blackwood `teddy boys `protecting their territory such ledgends as graham hall-alias hawkeye,Fatty edwards always recognisable in his blue drape coat and drain -pipe trousers. bernard candy with his bill hayley kiss curl. there would be the tredegar and argoed boys( and girls} ,but as the last bus left around 10 oclock they only had time for a quick atercation after the pubs closed before catching their bus home once again,a memory from the hengoed school bus , what went on in the upstairs area of blackwood institute dance on saturday night . never got there myself 'i think it had been closed to the dancing patrons by the time i became of age .
25 January 2003
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Alan - Blackwood
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Mary, I guess I was one of the dubious clientele in Ma's cafe. you would be suprised at the girls from lewis school that we got in there. maybe they were all sworn to secrecy.
25 January 2003 - Blackwood
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