Abertillery History

The Abertillery A467 Underpass – “Sunny the Cat” Sunny was Mr Oliver Budd’s pet cat, he was included in the mosaic, Mr Kenneth Budd would include depictions of dogs while Oliver depict cats within the mosaics.

The Abertillery A467 Underpass. This is a close-up of a section of the mosaic showing a tin plate worker from within the tin plate wall. Photograph copyright Mr Oliver Budd.

The Abertillery A467 Underpass. This is a close-up of a section of the mosaic showing a jug and pint of beer from within the Webb’s Aberbeeg Brewery wing wall. Photograph copyright Mr Oliver Budd.

The Abertillery A467 Underpass – July 2020. This view is of the Abertillery Railway wing roundel.

The Abertillery A467 Underpass – Official Opening 22nd December 1988. This image is of Mr Oliver Budd, creator of the mosaics in the underpass greeting Mr Michael Foot P.C., M.P. at the official opening of the main road and underpass on Thursday 22nd December 1988. Photograph copyright Mr Oliver Budd.

The Abertillery A467 Underpass – July 2020. This is the view of the underpass taken from the Carlyle Street area in July 2020. Small sections of the mosaic on the Abertillery Railway Station wing has been damaged by vandalism. 

The Abertillery A467 Underpass – July 2020. This is the view of the underpass taken from the Carlyle Street area in July 2020. Quite a bit of the Blaenau Gwent Chapel wing has been damaged by vandalism. 

Cwmtillery East Side Wesleyan Methodist Chapel. (Information to come).

The Bush Hotel – Nantyglo. The first known report of the Bush Inn, Nantyglo, as it was originally known, was printed in the Glamorgan, Monmouth and Brecon Gazette and Merthyr Guardian 25th May 1833. Mr Robins of the Bush Inn Nantyglo was taking bookings for emigration to the United States by sailing ship. Mr George Robins. The 1841 census shows …

Messrs J. Hepworth and Son. Mr Joseph Hepworth was born in 1834 at Lindley, Huddersfield, England. In 1855 Mr Joseph Hepworth married Miss Sarah Rhodes, they had three sons and four daughters. In 1864 Mr Hepworth went into partnership with Mr James Rhodes, his wife’s brother. They began a business of making gentlemen’s three-piece-suits and based themselves in Leeds, England. …