Penrhiwceiber

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Good old years

I was born in Mountain Ash, my nan was Mrs Florence Huntley of 74 Penrhiwceiber Road. My parents are Violet Huntley and Les Jones, we used to live in Harcourt Terrace, Penrhiwceiber. I spent all my holidays with my nan as we now live in the Midlands and even to this day I miss the people and the place. My nan cleaned the school, she lived next to curtis greengrocery shop. I remember Willises shop and the paddling pool. We had great fun there. We used to play in the old pithead baths of Cwmcynon colliery and go with our friends to Rosie's Cafe. I'm so glad to see someone keeping our heritage alive and well.
Contributed by gay jones

Good old years

I was born in Mountain Ash, my nan was Mrs Florence Huntley of 74 Penrhiwceiber Road. My parents are Violet Huntley and Les Jones, we used to live in Harcourt Terrace, Penrhiwceiber. I spent all my holidays with my nan as we now live in the Midlands and even to this day I miss the people and the place. My nan cleaned the school, she lived next to curtis greengrocery shop. I remember Willises shop and the paddling pool. We had great fun there. We used to play in the old pithead baths of Cwmcynon colliery and go with our friends to Rosie's Cafe. I'm so glad to see someone keeping our heritage alive and well.
A memory of Penrhiwceiber contributed by gay jones

Mountain Ash remembered between 1970 and 2008

Now as a baby of the swinging sixties (1966 to be exact) we didn't see the Beatles or Elvis Presley but we did have the lads coming home from the local pubs singing their hearts out. The pubs included The Mount Pleasant (still alive), The Baileys (alive), The Park Hotel (deceased), The Lee (burnt Down) and the Osbourne (alive) to name a few and the Con Club (Ceiber (alive) and Mount (now gone), Ceiber Legion, The Nixons and The Workmans. The so called posher pubs in the Mount where us ceiber boys were either not welcome or who were barred from anyway such as the Mountain Ash Inn, The New Inn and the Aberdare Hotel (or Aber as it ...read more here
A memory of Mountain Ash contributed by Clive Francis

Mountain Ash

My mom would talk about Mountain Ash, she was born in Quakers Yard in 1929,
my nan, she was born in Llanrug in 1904, name was Griffiths, later she became Mrs Jackson and lived at 3 Field St. I am so sorry that I can't find any of my Welsh family, I know there are some left with the surname of Thomas, and more with the name of Evans, and I remember the name Treharris, I used to go and visit my Auntie Annie and Uncle Steve there, it was a real nice place.
A memory of Mountain Ash contributed by june wood