November 2, 2021 by admin
There seems to be no end to Val’s literary talents. Here she shares 3 poems about characters from the village starting with her Grampa. My Grampa, Daniel Davies, retired coal […]
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August 18, 1917 by The Aberdare Leader
MOUNTAIN ASH SOLDIER KILLED. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Watkins, of Mount Pleasant, Tongwynlais. formerly of Mountain Ash. have received news that one of their two soldier sons has been killed […]
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June 22, 1917 by Monmouth Guardian and Bargoed and Caerphilly Observer
SHOOTING SENSATION AT CAERPHILLY. An echo of a Sunday evening sensation at the Caerphilly Park, was heard at the local court on Tuesday morning, when Horace Jackson, 19, a collier […]
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October 30, 1915 by Herald and Wales and Monmouthshire Recorder
KING PRAISES THE WELSH GUARDS During his recent tour of France and Flanders the King paid a surprise visit to the Australian Hospital at Boulogne, where he came across Lieutenant Rupert Lewis, son of Colonel Henry Lewis. […]
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November 6, 1914 by The Glamorgan Gazette
Bullets Whistled by the Hundreds. Sapper W. Mortlock, of the Royal Engineers, who is well-known in the neighbourhood of Cardiff, in a letter to his father, Mr. C. Mortlock, of […]
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October 17, 1914 by The Aberdare Leader
Matches in the Mine Albert Browning, Queen Street, Tongwynlais, was summoned lor a breach of the Coal Mines Act. Mr. Griffith Llewelyn, Aberdare, prosecuted.—John Jones, a ripper at the Dowlais-Cardiff […]
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December 20, 1909 by Evening Express
WIFE FINDS HUSBAND DEAD William Thomas Jenkins. Riverside House, Tongwynlais, was found dead in bed at 10.30 last night by his wife. He leaves a large family. https://newspapers.library.wales/view/4212507/4212514
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December 17, 1909 by The Cambrian
TONGWYNLAIS WIFE DROWNED At Tongwynlais on Saturday evening, Mrs Styles, wife of a T.V.R. employee, who re- sides on the canal side, proceeded to the village to do shopping. Early on […]
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June 12, 1909 by Evening Express
TONGWYNLAIS TRAP ACCIDENT An unfortunate trap accident occurred this afternoon at Tongwynlais, resulting in a local greengrocer, named Sidney Russell, being so severely injured that he now lies in a […]
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February 26, 1909 by Evening Express
TONGWYNLAIS TRAGEDY The tragedy of a little girl’s death from scalds engaged the attention this afternoon of Mr. W. J. Yorath, Cardiff City coroner. The deceased was Miriam Gamble, aged […]
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January 5, 1909 by Evening Express
WELSH AND ENGLISH MRS. LEWIS, GREENMEADOW, CONTRASTS THE CHILDREN. NEW COUNCIL SCHOOL OPENED AT TONGWYNLAIS. The new council echool at Tongwynlais was opened on Monday by Mrs. Lewis, Greenmeadow. At […]
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November 10, 1908 by Weekly Mail
RADYR TONGWYNLAIS BRIDGE. The absence of a bridge over the river so as to connect Tongwynlais with Radyr has been a grievance among the residents, the old foot-bridge erected by […]
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June 20, 1908 by The Cardiff Times
SUNDAY CLOSING LAW Wm. Griffiths, owner and licensee of the Railway Tavern, Tongwynlais, was summoned before the Llandaff magistrates on Monday for three different offences, selling intoxicating liquor to a […]
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May 23, 1908 by The Cardiff Times
TONGWYNLAIS BUTCHER’S NEGLECT. Wife Locked Him Out. Richard Lewis, a Tongwynlais butcher, wais charged before Mr F. J. Veall and Mr J. Morcom at Cardiff on Saturday at the instance of […]
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