Old Photos of places close to our district

This Part of the site will be dedicated to showing historical photographs of places near our district. Hopefully they will be of interest and bring back memories. I have decided to limit photos from the Merthyr borough on here because Alan George has an outstanding website dedicated to the borough, although there maybe a few from Troedyrhiw down the valley.

http://www.alangeorge.co.uk/

The Caerphilly County Borough

The Rhymney and Darran valleys run Parallel to our district and at one time Trelewis and Bedlinog were in its boundaries, Nelson still is.

Groesfaen, Deri, Pentwyn and Fochriw are located in the Darran Valley, and together with the entire Rhymney valley, comes under one large authority Caerphilly County Borough.

Fochriw 1829

Fochriw station 1962

Fochriw station remains 1973

Cwmbargoed with the disuseed line to Dowlais still there

Deri Village

Maesycwmmer Station

Hengoed High level station on top of viaduct

Hengoed station 1972 Viaduct above and below

Maesycwmmer/Hengoed viaduct

Royal Oak Ystrad Mynach

Cross Gelligaer

Gelligaer church

Britannia Colliery

Pontllanfraith Station ?

Caerphilly

Below we see Caerphilly miners hospital 1968 and weeks before it closed in 2011

The hospital was established in a private house known as “The Beeches” which was acquired from Frederick Piggott, a mining contractor, it was commissioned to provide healthcare to the miners who worked in the local pits, and their families. The hospital received its first patient on 2 July 1923. In the 1940s the hospital broadened its services to the whole community rather than just miners and their families. In 1945 the Hospital Board acquired Red brook House, another large property, and converted it into a nurses’ home. The hospital joined the NHS in 1948.

After services transferred to Ysbyty Ystrad Fawr in Ystrad Mynach. Caerphilly District Miners Hospital closed in November 2011. The site was subsequently redeveloped for housing and the main hospital building converted into a community centre.