Some nice pictures,my mother came from Abercynon and i was Christened in the tiny chapel of Saint Gwynos in1946, my grandparents lived on Lock Street and the Chapel was directly behind their house. I lived in North London but always had at least four weeks summer holiday with my grandparents and Loved it!every year till i left school to work.even then i visited a couple of times a year till i was in my 20's and got married and moved up North. Always liked Ponti market, fagotts and peas and then Dandelion and Burdock from the "pop" man. There was a toy shop in Ponti near the station where i used to buy Frog plastic aircraft kits,to many memmories!
We moved to Ponty from Treorchy in 1967 - to a "posh" semi (after our terrace with outside loo) in the new Whiterock estate. Pontypridd was a lovely place in those days - I hope it can be again.
We lived on the Whiterock estate too. I haven't been back there since my father died in 2009. Gould's bike shop was owned by a friend of dad's. I miss Wales but don't know if I would want to live there now after over forty years in Somerset.
I knew a girl named Sue Gould who lived on the estate. Her family had a newsagent's in town and I used to do a paper round for them when I was 13 and 14. Same family? @@alyswilliams9571
These vans have certainly changed since i worked for Hopkin Morgan Bakery in 1965 in the bakery every morning at 5:45 loading the van up. If you was in there late you'd have a job getting all your beard out, it was left to the van boys to load the vans and hope when they drove around the bends of the road the bread was not on the floor. It was nice to go to work in a shirt and tie and a nice clean overall polished choose, we had to look the part although i was in the bakery at 5:45 never finished any day six days a week until 5:45pm. I was on round 30 Merthyr, Brecon and Tredegar.
dont know for sure but i think the old hopkin morgan bakery changed in the early 60s to mothers pride they also had another bakery up the road in porth in foundry road where i used to work delivering bread in the late 60s great memories
Nice pictures but maybe some captions on the photo's would be helpful...oh and get rid of that awful soundtrack from Tom Jones and maybe use Shirley Bassey.
barbara davies I hope you don’t mind my asking.but are you from Wales? I became sort of fascinated with Wales after becoming friendly with a lovely lady who worked at our local pharmacy, who was from Wales...and then I read Tom Jones memoir..that sealed the deal..I am a many decades Tom Jones fan also...we want to visit Wales..we’ve been to the British Isles ...our “motherland” actually...but didn’t make it to Wales...we love your part of the world...
Yes Nancy - I'm from South Wales - just a couple of miles away from the town of Pontypridd where Tom Jones was born. I live in a village called Ynysybwl. My husband's parents lived in Treforest, Pontypridd, in the same street as Tom Jones and they remembered him well as a teenager and knew his family well. When I worked in Pontypridd Magistrates' Court many years' ago, I knew a lady there whose husband played in the band for Tom Jones. Yes, Wales is a beautiful country and such a lovely part of the world - just one problem - the weather!!!! You can't have everything, I don't suppose!!
Some nice pictures,my mother came from Abercynon and i was Christened in the tiny chapel of Saint Gwynos in1946, my grandparents lived on Lock Street and the Chapel was directly behind their house.
I lived in North London but always had at least four weeks summer holiday with my grandparents and Loved it!every year till i left school to work.even then i visited a couple of times a year till i was in my 20's and got married and moved up North.
Always liked Ponti market, fagotts and peas and then Dandelion and Burdock from the "pop" man.
There was a toy shop in Ponti near the station where i used to buy Frog plastic aircraft kits,to many memmories!
The music is awesome takes me back to my beloved little Wales
Amazing collection
I just wish I could step into these pictures for a little while and walk around the place to see how similar or different it is to today.
Thank you TH-cam algorithm for putting these memories into my recommended vids.
Nice look back see how it was then.
Thanks for sharing.🙂👍
I was born in hopkinstown loved the place go back ever year many 😂
anyone else walk around every year? wonder where people are and what happenned to places like shwnys pond?
I loved the Pontypridd lido in 1940's and then again in 1960's with my sons. Glad it has been restored and I must visit again soon.
I’d love to visit Wales...
So would Tom Jones....
We moved to Ponty from Treorchy in 1967 - to a "posh" semi (after our terrace with outside loo) in the new Whiterock estate. Pontypridd was a lovely place in those days - I hope it can be again.
We lived on the Whiterock estate too. I haven't been back there since my father died in 2009. Gould's bike shop was owned by a friend of dad's. I miss Wales but don't know if I would want to live there now after over forty years in Somerset.
I knew a girl named Sue Gould who lived on the estate. Her family had a newsagent's in town and I used to do a paper round for them when I was 13 and 14.
Same family? @@alyswilliams9571
These vans have certainly changed since i worked for Hopkin Morgan Bakery in 1965 in the bakery every morning at 5:45 loading the van up. If you was in there late you'd have a job getting all your beard out, it was left to the van boys to load the vans and hope when they drove around the bends of the road the bread was not on the floor. It was nice to go to work in a shirt and tie and a nice clean overall polished choose, we had to look the part although i was in the bakery at 5:45 never finished any day six days a week until 5:45pm. I was on round 30 Merthyr, Brecon and Tredegar.
dont know for sure but i think the old hopkin morgan bakery changed in the early 60s to mothers pride they also had another bakery up the road in porth in foundry road where i used to work delivering bread in the late 60s great memories
at 21:29 is that Faulty Towers (tower Hotel) on the Graig
I was born not very far from Pontypridd our local street market and a indoor market. I was born in 1943 October so I remember the old town
Can anyone say where the bomb and dagger was in Ponty please?
It was up the graig by the vic club m8
Thank you audiobandit.
Bring the welsh songs on this vid back mun
Why is stuff lile this recommended to me?
Cause you clicked on it 😂
You did this to yourself
the boys in photo at 1.08.52 are Albert Hughes Aian Williams Gerald Ford Brian Preece Tony Fuge 1963 outside the Bomb and Dagger
1953 not 1963
Thanks TH-cam
Nice pictures but maybe some captions on the photo's would be helpful...oh and get rid of that awful soundtrack from Tom Jones and maybe use Shirley Bassey.
It’s David Alexander not Tom Jones!! Still awful though!!
where is tom jones ?
on tour at the moment... he still hold dear of hes roots in wales.. lives in california since the 1970s
Lovely photos but had to mute as I just can't stand Tom even if he is local.
David Alexander is singing - not Tom Jones
barbara davies sure does sound like Tom Jones though
yes, very similar to the untrained ear - both have lovely voices though
barbara davies I hope you don’t mind my asking.but are you from Wales? I became sort of fascinated with Wales after becoming friendly with a lovely lady who worked at our local pharmacy, who was from Wales...and then I read Tom Jones memoir..that sealed the deal..I am a many decades Tom Jones fan also...we want to visit Wales..we’ve been to the British Isles ...our “motherland” actually...but didn’t make it to Wales...we love your part of the world...
Yes Nancy - I'm from South Wales - just a couple of miles away from the town of Pontypridd where Tom Jones was born. I live in a village called Ynysybwl. My husband's parents lived in Treforest, Pontypridd, in the same street as Tom Jones and they remembered him well as a teenager and knew his family well. When I worked in Pontypridd Magistrates' Court many years' ago, I knew a lady there whose husband played in the band for Tom Jones. Yes, Wales is a beautiful country and such a lovely part of the world - just one problem - the weather!!!! You can't have everything, I don't suppose!!
amazing the community of ponty, cardiff try and ruin it by taking over treforest , just makes the strong stronger !
Great photos but hate the soundtrack. The only time the boy from nowhere visits Wales is to make money from the gullible people he left behind.
thats not tom jones singing its another singer david alexander,, toms proud of wales even wears a dragon ring...
You horrible man
Could not watch the video.......somebody put a HORRIBLE song(?) in it.
Mute the sound then.
Ruined for me by Tom Jones awful singing.
its david alexander
Shite music spoils it.