Abertillery History

The Abertillery Park Terraces. There had been a need for terraces at the park sports ground for a while, the many spectators attending rugby football matches who didn’t use the grandstand would have to stand on the steep banking on the opposite side of the field (as seen in the image left). In the early 1920’s the provision of spectators …

An Arrail Griffin Gleemen’s Wooden Filing Case. This wooden case is from the Arrail Griffin Gleemen choir. The case was more than probably used to store sheet music or other like documents. The case is highly polished, it has a hinged lid, clasps, metal corner protectors, brass hinges and a metal handle. It also has an internal spring loaded wire …

Tredegar Iron and Coal Company Token. Made from copper. Size – Weight – (Information to come).

A Hand in Hand Society Token – Ebbw Vale. A Hand in Hand Society Token 1823. Made from copper. Size – 44mm diameter, 3mm in thickness. Weight – 35 grams. The Hand in Hand Society was a form of friendly society at Ebbw Vale and was founded in 1823. The society, inaugurated amongst the iron workers of Ebbw Vale on …

C.W.S. Milk Bottle. A Co-operative Wholesale Society Limited milk bottle. Made from glass. Size 5 1/12″ x 2 1/4″ inches – 6floz.

Coombes Dairies Milk Bottle – Abertillery. A Coombes Dairies milk bottle. Embossed with – Coombes Dairies 49 Duke Street, Abertillery in a circular design on the front of the bottle. Made from glass. Size 6 1/4″ x 2 1/2″ inches – 10floz = half pint.

Coombes Dairy Milk Bottle – Abertillery. A Coombes Dairy milk bottle. Embossed with – Coombes Dairy on the front of the bottle with Abertillery embossed on the rear. Made from glass. Size 8 1/2″ x 3″ inches – 20floz = 1 pint.

The South Wales Inn – Cwmtillery. The South Wales Inn was located on the main road from Abertillery to Cwmtillery on the western side of the valley. It was amongst the row of terraced houses owned by the South Wales Colliery Company. The building, with its frontage showing a front porch and a small sign over the door, was facing …

Church Street Bus Bay – Abertillery. As Church Street was the main road through the valley and the center of a busy town, a bus bay had long been needed for passengers heading north. There was a sort of an official bus stop on the pavement adjacent to the vicarage, though it was on the roadside between the boundary wall …

Mr William John Clapp. Mr William John Clapp (1833-1902). Mr W. J. Clapp, Surgeon to the Tillery Collieries and Nantyglo Iron Works and inventor, was born in 1833 at Exeter Devon, England. The son of Mr William Murray Clapp and Mary Ann Clapp nee Cooke. His father Mr W. M. Clapp was an Ironmonger, Coal Merchant and Colliery proprietor of …