Lucky, lucky Cwmbach-ophiles… we make it our mission to spoil you.
Many more photographs of St Mary Magdalene Church, Cwmbach have been added to the Gallery.
Click here to see the full set of Photographs.
St Mary Magdalene’s Church was established in 1882. Quite late in the day to be frank.
According to Rhondda Cynon Taf Council’s Heritage Trail on Cwmbach : “Religious buildings opened, with the Baptists opening a chapel in 1841, the independents opening a small chapel known as Capel Bricks in 1846 and the Calvinistic Methodists opening a chapel at Tir Bach in 1852.”
In nearby Bridge Street, Wales’ first Co-Operative Store was opened on March 8th,......
Aberdare Blog started as an experiment in communicating views of Aberdare and views from Aberdare. It remains an experiment in communication open to participation. Jane from Mountain Ash blogged the lead story on the Mountain Ash Opencast plans this week. Why not blog your own story from Aberdare today ?
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Taking a short break from Welsh Nonconformist Chapels… we’ve added Photos of some of the Anglican Churches from Cynon Valley, including :
St Cynog’s Church, Penderyn
St Fagan’s Church, Trecynon
St James Church, Llwydcoed
St Luke’s Church, Cwmdare
St Margaret’s Church, Aberaman
St Mary Magdalene Church, Cwmbach...
Good News today for Aberdare people… Remploy announced today that the Cwmbach Remploy site will remain open.
Remploy is the UK’s leading provider of employment services for disabled people. Today it published details of revised proposals for modernisation of the company. Following lengthy consultations with trade unions, the company is proposing to retain operations at the Cwmbach site.
Remploy was opened in Aberdare in 1973 and is part of the company’s healthcare business and manufactures orthotic products, mainly bespoke footwear. It now employs 68 people of whom 64 are disabled. The company is planning to keep the site open in order to develop a plan to support potential increases in business for orthotics arising from public procurement regulations.
Bob...
It can strike a man or woman with such force and come down sudden from heaven like the elements.
Snow, wind, or rain will not hold back the desire to dive for cast-off pearls and treasures.
In Cwmbach yesterday it struck in the snow - see the photograph.
cwmbach, Dumpster Diving, Skip...
The poet Harri Webb (1920-1994) spent twenty years living in Cwmbach in Cynon Valley. Today we could only spare twenty minutes in this Welsh village to reflect on the man and his work.
For a few of those minutes we stopped and stared from the Cwmbach hill and looked out towards the area of land they call Tirfounder Fields. The heart is being robbed from this land as the trees are ripped from the earth for a new housing development.
Hundreds of mature trees have been removed, simplifying the local environment in preparation for man and his machines to lay the concrete, the asphalt and the other toxic materials.
Harri Webb remembers the trees and birds in his poem “The Woods of Cynon” thus :
Aberdare, Llanwynno, all
Merthyr and Llanfabon,
The worst thing ever to befall
Was...
