Abertillery History

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 …

The Cottonwood Cafe. On Monday 27th October 1947, the Cottonwood Cafe (as seen in the main featured image) was opened. The cafe was in the old post office building on High Street, the junction of High Street and Castle Street, at Bush Hill, Abertillery. The proprietors were Marenghi & Humphries, Tel- 259. History of the Building. The Cottonwood Cafe building …

Blaenau Gwent Workmens Club. The Blaenau Gwent Workmen’s Club was addressed 155 Alma Street, a shop premises, the end building on the approach to Lewis Street from Alma Street. The houses on Lewis Street were numbered 39, 40, 41, 42 and 43 which were a continuation of the Gaen Street house numbers. Number 155 Alma Street. In 1900, long before …

Abertillery Rugby Football Club Park Floodlights. (Story to come).

The New Road Aberbeeg. A new road from the Square, over the railway lines to the lower part of Gold Tops at Aberbeeg had been proposed as early as the 1900’s.  The old road and bridge was narrow and steep (as seen in the old image left). In the mid 1920’s it had been brought up again and this time …