Abertillery History

A Victorian Penny Lick. These penny lick glasses were an early form of cone handed out by the street cart ice-cream vendors. After the ice-cream was licked from the glass, the vendor would dip the penny-lick into a small basin of water ready for the next customer to use. Made from glass. Size – These solid glass licks were small …

A Pair of Ladies Vintage Leather Boots. A pair of museum quality ladies vintage leather boots with waxed laces.  Made from leather and iron. Black leather uppers with brown leather soles strengthened with iron studs with iron toe and heel plates.  Size 9″ x 3 1/4″ x 8″ inches. Shoe size ladies 2. 

A Pair of Children’s Vintage Leather Hobnail Boots (C.W.S.) Co-operative Wholesale Society. A pair of museum quality child’s vintage leather hobnail boots with waxed laces. Made by Goliath Boot Manufacturers and distributed by the C.W.S. Co-operative Wholesale Society.  Dated circa 1930.  Made from leather and iron. Black leather uppers with brown leather soles strengthened with iron studs and hobnails with …

A Pair of Children’s Vintage Leather Boots. A pair of museum quality child’s vintage leather boots with waxed laces.  Made from leather and iron. Black leather uppers with brown leather soles strengthened with iron studs with iron toe and heel plates.  Size 7″ x 3″ x 5″ inches. Shoe size, children’s 7. 

The Castle Inn – Abertillery. It was reported that the Castle Inn, Castle Street, Abertillery (as seen mid-center in the main featured image above) had its first lease as a public house in 1842. The Castle Inn was situated on the junction of Hill Street and Castle Street opposite where the entrance into Tesco Supermarket is today. The Castle Inn or …

Saxon & Co, Brynmawr – Stoneware Bottle. Saxon & Co Botanical Brewers of Brynmawr, proprietor Mr John Keysell. This bottle is made of stoneware with an internal screw stopper top. Size 11″ x 5″ inches. (More information on the company to be uploaded).

Saxon & Co – Chapel Street, Brynmawr – Glass Bottle. This bottle is made of glass with an internal screw stopper top. It has the company name of Saxon & Co, Chapel Street, Brynmawr embossed on the front of the bottle and Saxon & Co embossed on the bottom of the bottle. Size 8″ x 2 1/2″ inches.

Saxon & Co – Chapel Street, Brynmawr – Glass Bottle. This bottle is made of glass with an internal screw stopper top and original Saxon & Co top. It has the company name of Saxon & Co, Brynmawr embossed on the front lower rim of the bottle with a series of “S’s” around the shoulder, in embossed triangular patterns.  Size …

Cwmtillery Welfare Club – Penybont. The Cwmtillery Welfare Club situated at Penybont Tip was a club established for the workmen of the Abertillery New Mine, Cwmtillery Section. The building (as seen in the center of the main featured image above) was originally a stables and granary and later a laboratory for the colliery, it stood on two and a half acres …

The Abertillery Land Investment Company. In 1892 Mr Edward Oxenford Preston and Co of No.4 Tokenhouse Buildings, Bank of England, London, formed the Abertillery Land Investment Company Limited, with others. The company (as seen in the advertisement left) was formed to acquire property, building sites, land and to build houses and cottages in colliery and industrial town districts. Mr Edward …