ALBUM……. Eldorado. Label/No……. United Artists UALA-339. Pressed in……. Israel. SIDE 1 Eldorado Overture. Cant Get It Out Of My Head. Boy Blue. Laredo Tornado. Poor Boy (The Greenwood). SIDE 2 Mister Kingdom. Nobody’s Child. Illusions In G Major. Eldorado. Eldorado Finale. Notes……. Lyrics printed on the back cover.
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ELDORADO…….ISRAEL
ALBUM……. Eldorado. Label/No……. Warner Bros K-56090. Pressed in……. Israel. SIDE 1 Eldorado Overture. Cant Get It Out Of My Head. Boy Blue. Laredo Tornado. Poor Boy (The Greenwood). SIDE 2 Mister Kingdom. Nobody’s Child. Illusions In G Major. Eldorado. Eldorado Finale. Notes……. Lyrics printed on the back cover.
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The Ebenezer Baptist Church – Abertillery. The organisation originated in a split at the King Street Baptist Church when on Sunday 3rd December 1876 the Rev Llewellyn Jones left his ministerial post at King Street and took eighty-two members with him, with the intention of founding a new cause. The Ebenezer Church Site. Their new church was to be situated …
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Saxon & Co, Chapel Street, Brynmawr. Saxon & Co, Brynmawr. Dated 1940. A receipt from Saxon & Co Aerated Water Manufacturers, Brynmawr to Beynon’s Colliery Pithead Baths for a quantity of mineral water supplied by the company.
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Blaina Council Offices, Blaina Monmouthshire, Water Bill. A water meter account. Dated 31st July 1940. A receipt from Blaina Council Offices to Beynon’s Colliery Pithead Baths via Mr D. J. Griffiths Colliery Offices, Cwmtillery, of payment for water supplied by the council to the baths. It is a quarterly bill for the amount of £24. 11s. 9d for 550,000 gallons …
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Lancaster’s Steam Coal Collieries Limited Invoice. The Lower Deep Colliery, Blaina. Dated 19th November 1940. An invoice for the sanctioning of a payment of £723. 3s. 0d. for the supply and delivery of one rolled steel joist head gear, 47′ feet 2″ inches in height from ground level to the centre line of the winding pulley. Also 10″ inch and …
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The Gaen Brothers, Building Contractors. The Gaen Brothers comprised Mr Thomas Gaen, born 1862, Mr Charles Gaen, born 1864 and Mr Frederick Gaen, born 1869. The family were from Langton Matravers, Dorset, the sons of Mr John Thomas Gaen and Ellen Jane Gaen nee Brown. Their father was a stone mason and all three sons entered the trade at an early age …
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The Foundry Bridge Abertillery. In the 1830’s Abertillery was divided by the River Tyleri, to the east was Cwmtillery and to the west Abertillery. In the 1850’s the lane leading up past the British School to where Alma Street would later be, was called the Parish Road, this was the official dividing line. In the mid to late 19th century …
Read More »The F. W. Woolworth Store – Abertillery (1931-2009)
The F. W. Woolworth Stores. The Woolworth empire was started by Mr Frank Winfield Woolworth aided by his brother Mr Charles Sumner Woolworth in 1879 trading under Woolworth Bros. His first store at Utica, New York was started but with limited success, he relocated to Lancaster, Pennsylvania and later to Harrisburg, Reading and Scranton. These stores were called the “Five …
Read More »An Ebbw Vale Steel, Iron & Coal Co Ltd Ink Blotter
An Ebbw Vale Steel, Iron & Coal Co Ltd Ink Blotter. The sticker states it is a combined paperweight and ink blotter made by the London Sand Blast Decorative Glass Works Ltd, 58a Grey’s Inn Road, WC. Made of glass and a chalk, plaster material. Size 4″ x 3″ x 1″ inches. The Company. The Ebbw Vale Steel Iron & …
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