Bargoed

i am your uncle gerald.donna is your uncle donalds girl.i remember you living in usk road as if it was yesterday.its nice to here from you.........

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PS I am 47, used to live in Usk Road.

I am a Millar from Bargoed. I am wondering if Donna Millar is a relative! I had an uncle Donald and uncle Gerald living in Hill Street, and uncle Graham in another street. Their brother Albert (now dead) is my dad.

This church has now been painted white. As soon as I get chance I will take a pic and upload it.

As a child i lived in hill street bargoed my dad was a miner in bargoed pit. its lovely to see old pitures of town. its sad to see the town so empty these days

Give me a week or two and I get in touch with me, I will look into it.

thanks

my dad got loads of old home movie films going back to the50s,can anyone k=help to get them on digi?x

I lived in East View too. There were great characters and frinds there. I can identify will all that Ken Williams said. Fights between bottom block and top block. Catching snakes and lizards down the banking, and over by Brittania colliery. Camps down the banking at the lower end of the stree, and crossing the Blast pipe into Ol man Preeces field to ride the pigs, when he wasn`t there. Bocker, Bernard Nicholl, Susan, George , Brian and Alan Whitcombe, Paul Gifford , David Ashford, Arthur Patterson, and hos brother. Ronnie Fairfax., Steven Smith, and my brother Maldwyn. Tell me something about these characters. Hopefully they are all still with us !!

Hello,! tell me more

As a child living in East View, Gilfach I remember playing on the banking above the Gilfach Fargoed halt looking out over the vast collery complex including the power station with its large coolong towers. As a group of youngsters we were an adventourious lot riding on the coal buckets across the valley venturing into the coal train marshalling yards between Gilfach and Brittannia and ocasionally falling into the "black" Rymney river and then I was in for a row at home. It was a hive of activity but what a dirty depressing place it was. I see it now and the river is clean with live fish and the dreadful pit has gone, life has to be better now that men dont have to go down those dangerious dirty holes in the ground to earn a living. Life has improved history should be marked but not through rose-tinted glases.

my past memories are of gilfach visits to my gran and grancha

i was 5 years old at that time , my mum would take myself and my sisters on the bus from hengoed . every week to visit gran and granch. my grandparents lived in gilfach street oposite the old fire station where we would sit in the window waiting for the engine to appear. good times.

i later in 1969 married a boy from gilfach and then went to live in the very same house my grandparents lived in. i now have left gilfach and living in hengoed.

my husband still as family there and we visit regular.

can anyone rember my grandfather he was the rag a bone man. he also played accordion in front of emporium he only had one leg but he could get down the pub quicker than my dad. ruddy jones. his name was reece jones

i remember going to the emporium wih my mam and was always amazed when the money used to go up the shoots to the cashiers office and the change come back down.

Its a pity the tower c/w clock as gone.it was a good focal point of the town

I can remember my mother taking me to The Emporium to buy my duffle coat. The counter staff wrapped it in brown paper and tied it with string - things seemed to be more"green" back then.

My name is Elaine, my cousinsare Graham Albert Gerald and Donald. I lived at 19 Hill st during the war with my Grandma Eliza and Grandad Donald. Albert was killed in a mine, but I am still in contact with my other cousins. Please contact me Elaine, I think you have sisterrs called Janice,Sandra and Maxine? and a brother Geraint.

Can anyone give me information about the actual mill (Not the pub) I understand that it is my ancestral home

could you please send me a photo of the old mill bargoed .thankyou