Abertillery History

A Blaenau Gwent Baptist Chapel Choral Festival Programme 1928. This programme is for the Abertillery and District Baptist Choral Festival held at Blaenau Gwent Baptist Chapel on Easter Tuesday 10th April 1928. The programme has 16 pages, with sheet music of the songs and hymns that were performed at the event along with a few advertisements of local businesses. The …

Price’s Central Drug Stores, Abertillery. A receipt for goods purchased from the store. Dated 8th June 1941.

Price’s Central Drug Stores, Abertillery. A receipt for goods purchased from the store. This receipt advertised Sanatogen Tonic Wine. Dated 1940.

Messrs G. E. & G. F. Doughty of 8 High Street, Blaina. A receipt for groceries purchased. This receipt advertised Jacob & Co Cream Crackers. Dated 18th July 1958.

Blaenau Gwent Baptist Movement, Chapel and Schoolroom. Blaenau Gwent goes far back in the history of our county of Gwent. Gwlad Gwent used to include the counties of Monmouthshire, Hereford and Gloucester. The center of this region was the fortified city of Caerwent (Caer Gwent) this city gave its name to the county around it. As the people of Gwent …

Blaenau Gwent Baptist Church. In 1715 the first Blaenau Gwent Chapel was constructed, members at this point numbered between 80 to 90. In 1839 the chapel was re-built at a cost of £500. In 1880 the chapel was again enlarged. In 1885 increased accommodation to the chapel was added and a larger schoolroom was erected. Towards the end of 1895 …

Mr T. H. Prichard – Abertillery Chemist Stoneware Bottle. Mr T. H. Prichard opened his first chemist shop Medical Hall, Cwm Street, later called Somerset Street in Abertillery in 1892. He later opened branches at Ely, Cwmfelinfach, Merthyr, Blaina, Nantyglo and Church Street, Abertillery. This bottle is made of stoneware with a cork stopper top. Size 11″ x 5″ inches.  …

Mr T. H. Prichard Chemist – Abertillery. A T. H. Prichard chemist medicine bottle from one of the two Prichard chemist shops in Abertillery.  Made from glass. Size 6 1/2″ x 2 1/2″ x 1 1/12″ inches.

Prichard’s Chemist Abertillery – Medicine Bottle. The bottle used to hold Prichard’s Tillery Oils, Abertillery. Bottle is made of glass. The size is 5″ x 2″ x 1″. Circa 1900. The following is a Link to – Mr T. H. Prichard.

Mrs Rosina (Rose) Heyworth – The Lady Behind the Name. The Rose Heyworth Colliery was sunk in 1874 under the directorship of Mr Lawrence Heyworth managing director of the South Wales Colliery Company.  The company already owned Cwmtillery (the South Wales Colliery) and the first coal raised at Rose Heyworth was in about 1876-77, though may well have been later …