Whilst this post title may seem a little ‘Mills and Boon’, the actual story is far, far more unbelievable. For me, it began last Sunday morning. I was searching for […]
Read More ›I am currently researching the lives of past Tongwynlais residents and some of their experiences and achievements are simply incredible. This is especially true of Dr Timothy Stamps. His life […]
Read More ›Battle of Britain hero Dennis David’s father William Richard David, was born in Tongwynlais. The pilot fondly recalls in his autobiography his village visits to his beloved grandparents who owned […]
Read More ›I was recently contacted by Val Bowden (nee Davies) who had written a memoir of her childhood in Tongwynlais. ‘I Have Often Walked Down These Streets Before‘ is Val’s personal […]
Read More ›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 […]
Read More ›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 […]
Read More ›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. […]
Read More ›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 […]
Read More ›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 […]
Read More ›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
Read More ›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 […]
Read More ›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 […]
Read More ›ANOTHER MARATHON RACE FOR CARDIFF. EASTER TUESDAY’S EVENT. A meeting of the committee of the Marathon race was held at the Queen’s Hotel, Cardiff on Monday night. Mr W. M. […]
Read More ›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 […]
Read More ›STOLEN CIGARETTES. Too Old for the Birch. Three collier boys, named David Davis, George Middlenass. and Thomas Price, charged at Llandaff on Monday with stealing six packets of cigarettes and sixpence from […]
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