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Sorry this is late, thats the keyhole cave! Me and my mates climb through from time to time its good fun. Wouldnt recommend it if youre even slightly on the bigger side and requires a buddy system to get out of!

We need to secede from Westminster, reindustrialise the country and save our fucking heritage already. Socialist revolution baby!!!

My family and myself are from pant and that chair is Solomon's chair i was lead to believe and my grandmother carved her initials on that chair so it is a few years old and I'm 67.

My Auntie was a registrar there.

I was born there in 1957.

Seven of my nine siblings were born here I was born in church village hospital

When i was a kid (1950s) rumour had it that a scuba diver went down and when he came up again his hair had turned white with fright! Of course he never did tell what he saw - ha!

Thank you Sir for the video.

An old friend of mine told me many years ago that while he was working in the Dowlais Iron works , he was tasked with casting several important parts of that fountain and he left his initials MF in the casting sand, where they can still be seen to this day.

Good camping area

Battle or the river of blood

Building a new B&Q on top of the Crawshay tunnels was a travesty

Did a paranormal investigation there. Very active there! th-cam.com/video/UumJtz6FKME/w-d-xo.htmlsi=ijhS8cJIj97T2HxQ

What a boring video and his terrible voice. My grandad used to frequent the Shoes in the 50's 60's and 70's. I frequented it in the 70's 80's until I left Merthyr in 1990. RIP Nat and Jane Owen..❤

Hello to Merthyr! My 4x- great grand father left Merthyr back in the 1840's and lived in Malad, Idaho, United States until his death. I've always wanted to see where he was from. Thanks for the videos! Bless you!

Ive only recently found this walk what a fantastic place ,there are loads of interesting history up there fb ,i cant wait til it stop raining to revisit 😅thank you for the info 😊😊

What a shit hole of a town..

Excellent video and a very important historical place in my opinion...i highly recommend a book which mentions and clearly shows Tydfil and her ancestry through her father Brychan and back further to the ancient Kings of Wales this book is titled the holy kingdom written by Adrian Gilbert Alan Wilson and Baram Blackett this book is available on eBay for less than 10 pounds and an excellent read in fact the author adrian Gilbert has ties to merthyr tydfil as his parents originally were from here...looking forward to the next episode on this great stuff very interesting

I heard years ago 3 very large skeletons were found under the floor somewhere in the the range of 12 feet tall which doesn't surprise me as skeletons of this size from that era have been found all over the world, St tydfil definitely existed she was a daughter of Brychan who was a cousin of uther pendragon the high king of Glamorgan and gwent around 540 ad i have the genealogy charts of this royal Welsh family which clearly shows Tydfil ...kindly given to me a few years back by Ross Broadstock (RIP) of the Britain's hidden history channel ...TYDFIL was shown to be one of brychans 36 children (12 sons and 24 daughters) from at least 3 or 4 wives. This family tree chart. Is titled. The Glamorgan & Gwent royal family tree 322-1091 AD this chart comes from the book of Llandaff, Dyfed Court records and the Brecon manuscripts which are all very ancient records and manuscripts

I first saw the bridge over the Blue Pool when age 4, in 1943. Some relatives came down from London for a break and we had a picnic on the left bank, just past the Seven Arches. I still remember my father gathering wood for a fire---tea and sandwiches. Very little entertainment was available in the war and post-war years and picnics at the Blue Pool were popular days out for many families from Galon Uchaf. The pool below the bridge was popular with teen-age swimmers and in the 1950's someone hung a rope from an overhanging tree so they could swing out and drop into the water. Regular "Tarzan comes to Pontsarn" in our imagination! The walk from Pontsarn, up the Sanitorium hill to the Goitre Lane and home was formidable for 4-5 year-old kids!!!

If you can Shirley could you do a video about the Celtic cross where Martyr Tydfil was slain ..? Or if you already have send me a link please.

Thought it was Martyr Tydfil Shirley slain in 480AD buried in the church..?

Thankyou for this.

I lived in Merthyr for 7 years. Work. It's overlooked, very historic place.

I didn't know these ruins are there! I'll be taking a visit up there shortly to take a look myself. Nice one for the video!

appreciate this content you make pall. thank you 🙌

I think the original top end of the trevethick tunnel entrance would be at the top of trevethick street behind the houses at the top right hand side of the street near to where the cafe is now

Side entrance into trevethicks tunnel is my guess

And the "Morlais Brook." It was known to we kids as the "River Stinky," and deserved its nickname! It ran past the Council rubbish dump that was located between the bottom of the Rocky Road and the bottom of Dowlais and continued between the back of Penydarren High Street and the tips from the old iron works. In 1949, aged ten, I was reprimanded by the headmaster of Penydarren Junior School for referring to it as "The Stinky" when asked to identify it on a map of Merthyr. Some things one never forgets---even after 57 years in California memories of Merthyr thankfully remain fresh.

Back haner definitely

We lived in a cottage on the Gurnos Farm from 1951 through the 1960's, when the quarry was in full production. We could look across the valley at the quarry face. When they were firing a charge the first thing you saw was a puff of dust closely followed by the shock felt through the ground and a fraction of a second later the sound of the explosion. Interesting thing was that the shock traveled faster through the ground than the sound through air. My wife's a Physics Prof, I'll get her to explain.

Awsome thanks shirl..

I left Merthyr in 1990 and only came to visit 3 times. No desire to return after watching this video..

I used to wait for a bus opposite the General Hospital, together with other County School pupils, from 1951 to 1958. Changed a bit since then! Back in the 1940's at Pontmorlais there used to be some wooden blocks left in the road from the tram days. I know this because my father skidded on them on his motorbike and came a real cropper. County School pupils used to change for school rugby games in the YMCA building on weekdays. Because there were offices in the building walking in stockinged feet was mandatory and talking got you banned from games for a week! Spent many hours queuing, often in the rain, waiting to get into the Theatre Royal. Not been back to Merthyr for almost 50 years and much of what I knew has gone. {In my mid-80's now and it's too far a journey from California.}

There's masses of evidence on other channels that red bricks have been around for far far longer than what we have been told

There's an excellent book called seed of knowledge stone of plenty...which explains what the purpose of these cairns and other megalithic stone structures were designed for

The old road was called coed Morgannwg way ...I've sat on that cairn a few times over the years whilst walking or cycling...there's also a few cairns like this in the woods up behind cefn cemetery towards Baverstocks and loads more on the cwm Cadlan road up behind llwyn onn reservoir, a small stone circle too ...all these are clearly visible using Google earth ...there's one that seems to have been excavated in the past on top of cilsanws mountain

In those areas in the 1940's there were the fragmented remains of small animal enclosures, just stone outlines a foot or so high. This was on Dan y Castell Farm and Goitre Farm land. The mounds may be those remains now earth-covered.

Thankyou for this video, so interesting

Excellent video. May I ask what drone you used.

Interesting history. The football ground has changed a lot since I last went to a match there in 2016.

Merthyr had it all history wise and it's all gone. Definitely missing a trick tourism wise

There is an old underground stream in my mothers garden Shirley

Get your detector out

There use to be ponds and a small play area there

A Shirley lad how you keeping beast of Morlais, excellent mapping there .

Do you pass this info on to anyone and if so do they ever do anything with it? Nice video - thanks 👍

One thing that puzzles me is "the boathouse." My friends and I spent many hours fishing in the Goitre Pond but there was no trace of a boathouse or the remains of one and we knew every foot of the area around the pond. The only building of note was a Taff Fechan water pumping station located about 100 yards from the bottom of First Avenue and adjacent to the pond bank, which was quite high at that point. Every Sunday in fine weather it was usual to see half a dozen or so fishermen sitting on the bank with rods, sandwiches and cigarettes or pipes. Fishing? Perhaps, but it was their way of escaping from the house and wife for a few hours peace. One Sunday afternoon circa 1953-4 we were amazed to see those men leap to their feet and start running towards First Avenue. A Mr Leonard had parked his circa 1930 car at the top of the road and the hand brake had failed. The fear was a child might be in it. Fortunately it was empty but at the bottom it knocked down Powell's garden wall in No. 2 and it took the council three months to rebuild it. Happy days!

I lived in a cottage on the Gurnos Farm in the 1950's, years before the estate was built. That tower was almost certainly a shooting tower from which Crawshay and guests could shoot driven game, partridge and pheasant. The Gurnos Farm was part of the Crawshay estate developed into a shooting estate in the 1800's. There were several rhododendron groves planted as cover for game, and one detached cottage called Penygarn located midway between the tower and the castle had a gun room. Nearby were long low buildings with raised platforms that looked as though they might have been used for raising pheasants.

There was an ice house on my grandparents' farm. It was a wooden shed with walls separated 12 inches . Then filled with sawdust. Floor and roof the same. She remembered cutting ice on the pond. Bringing up on a sled with horses and filling it.