Abertillery History

Newall Street Methodist Chapel. On Monday 8th of May 1905, at a council meeting, plans were put forth for the erection of a Primitive Methodist Chapel at Newall Street, Abertillery. The chapel was to be built to ease the overcrowding at the Methodists Chapel on Somerset Street and was to be its sister chapel. In 1906 the building of the …

Mr Lewis Reynold Rogers of Rogers Buildings, Abertillery 1857-1894. Mr L. R. Rogers was a tradesman and proprietor of the Abertillery Tea Exchange. Mr Rogers descended from the old, respected family of that name and was the son of Mr William Rogers, the engineer to the Cwmnant-y-Groes Colliery Company. At an early age he was apprenticed to Mr George Hiley at …

Blaenau Gwent Primitive Methodist Chapel. The Blaenau Gwent Primitive Methodist Chapel is situated at the top of Ty Bryn Road, behind the Blaenau Gwent Rows. It was reportedly built in 1883. There is a date stone on the front of the chapel though I cannot verify the exact original construction date as no records are available at this present time. …

Trinity English Calvinistic Methodist Chapel. The original Trinity English Calvinistic Methodist Chapel at Church Street, Abertillery, (as seen center on the 1879 land sales map) was built in 1877. I had previously stated it was built in 1875 as stated in the South Wales Gazette report dated November 1905, although I have now amended this date as seen below. New …

Brynteg English Congregational Church. The Brynteg English Congregational Church is located at the bottom of Oxford Street, Blaenau Gwent, on the junction with Alma Street, Blaenau Gwent. That area from Alma Street, Oxford Street, Glynmawr Street, Portland Road down to Oak Street and onto the Station Hill, taking in Gladstone Street and west of the Foundry Bridge was called Brynteg. …

The Tabernacle Congregational Church. In the mid 1850’s Abertillery was a relatively small village sparsely populated with only a few coal levels, two deep collieries and a tin works. Within a short while the various industries rapidly expanded and people from all over the South West of England and beyond migrated to the valley’s. The industrial development in the area …

The Welsh Calvinistic Methodist Chapel – Carmel Chapel. At the start of their religious activities at Abertillery the Calvanistic Movement held their meetings in a house in Mill Street, what is now known as Carmel Street, Abertillery. This meeting house was much later to become a Fish & Chip Shop.  In March 1874 the London Gazette issued a notice that …

The Six Bells Baptist Chapel – The Bethany. The Six Bells Baptist Church at Six Bells was formed in 1897 as an off shoot of the King Street Baptist Church, Abertillery. At the time, less than a dozen coal miners of the Baptist denomination held their Sabbath meetings in the room of a small cottage in the neighbourhood. Some of …

The Original Presbyterian Chapel Six Bells. The Presbyterian Forward Movement was started at Six Bells, Abertillery in 1893. In June 1893 the Welsh Calvinistic Methodists under the auspices of the Forward Movement proposed to erect a chapel at Six Bells. Mr T. P. Price offered a site for nothing, although they could not find a suitable piece of ground on …

The New Presbyterian Chapel Six Bells. The new Presbyterian Chapel building was proposed in 1903. The old original iron structured chapel on Bridge Street was becoming too small for purpose and a new much larger chapel was planned. Just two years later the chapel attendance reached 180 worshippers and the schoolroom attendance was 220 pupils. Following is a Link to – …