Some nice pictures,my mother came from Abercynon and i was Christened in the tiny chapel of Saint Gwynos in1946, my grandparents lived on Lock Street and the Chapel was directly behind their house. I lived in North London but always had at least four weeks summer holiday with my grandparents and Loved it!every year till i left school to work.even then i visited a couple of times a year till i was in my 20's and got married and moved up North. Always liked Ponti market, fagotts and peas and then Dandelion and Burdock from the "pop" man. There was a toy shop in Ponti near the station where i used to buy Frog plastic aircraft kits,to many memmories!
@benprice99173 жыл бұрын
I just wish I could step into these pictures for a little while and walk around the place to see how similar or different it is to today.
@allandutkiewicz88 Жыл бұрын
The music is awesome takes me back to my beloved little Wales
@terryevans24113 жыл бұрын
Amazing collection
@graemewilliams66972 жыл бұрын
Thank you KZbin algorithm for putting these memories into my recommended vids.
@carolinecollett43498 жыл бұрын
I loved the Pontypridd lido in 1940's and then again in 1960's with my sons. Glad it has been restored and I must visit again soon.
@garysearle20915 жыл бұрын
These vans have certainly changed since i worked for Hopkin Morgan Bakery in 1965 in the bakery every morning at 5:45 loading the van up. If you was in there late you'd have a job getting all your beard out, it was left to the van boys to load the vans and hope when they drove around the bends of the road the bread was not on the floor. It was nice to go to work in a shirt and tie and a nice clean overall polished choose, we had to look the part although i was in the bakery at 5:45 never finished any day six days a week until 5:45pm. I was on round 30 Merthyr, Brecon and Tredegar.
@geoffjones9899 Жыл бұрын
dont know for sure but i think the old hopkin morgan bakery changed in the early 60s to mothers pride they also had another bakery up the road in porth in foundry road where i used to work delivering bread in the late 60s great memories
@mervynsands35014 жыл бұрын
Nice look back see how it was then. Thanks for sharing.🙂👍
@BassistPaul8 жыл бұрын
We moved to Ponty from Treorchy in 1967 - to a "posh" semi (after our terrace with outside loo) in the new Whiterock estate. Pontypridd was a lovely place in those days - I hope it can be again.
@alyswilliams9571 Жыл бұрын
We lived on the Whiterock estate too. I haven't been back there since my father died in 2009. Gould's bike shop was owned by a friend of dad's. I miss Wales but don't know if I would want to live there now after over forty years in Somerset.
@BassistPaul Жыл бұрын
I knew a girl named Sue Gould who lived on the estate. Her family had a newsagent's in town and I used to do a paper round for them when I was 13 and 14. Same family? @@alyswilliams9571
@allandutkiewicz8960 Жыл бұрын
I was born in hopkinstown loved the place go back ever year many 😂
@nathanlewis78348 жыл бұрын
anyone else walk around every year? wonder where people are and what happenned to places like shwnys pond?
@brianneale20062 жыл бұрын
I was born not very far from Pontypridd our local street market and a indoor market. I was born in 1943 October so I remember the old town
@fancysfolly5546 жыл бұрын
I’d love to visit Wales...
@TheHeavyend815 жыл бұрын
So would Tom Jones....
@curly19667 жыл бұрын
at 21:29 is that Faulty Towers (tower Hotel) on the Graig
@alanwilliams24299 жыл бұрын
the boys in photo at 1.08.52 are Albert Hughes Aian Williams Gerald Ford Brian Preece Tony Fuge 1963 outside the Bomb and Dagger
@alanwilliams24299 жыл бұрын
1953 not 1963
@1950gah8 жыл бұрын
Can anyone say where the bomb and dagger was in Ponty please?
@audibandit8 жыл бұрын
It was up the graig by the vic club m8
@1950gah8 жыл бұрын
Thank you audiobandit.
@herrlip724 жыл бұрын
Bring the welsh songs on this vid back mun
@TiredOwler3 жыл бұрын
Thanks KZbin
@Jordan_batty3 жыл бұрын
Why is stuff lile this recommended to me?
@jojulida37093 жыл бұрын
Cause you clicked on it 😂 You did this to yourself
@TheHeavyend815 жыл бұрын
Nice pictures but maybe some captions on the photo's would be helpful...oh and get rid of that awful soundtrack from Tom Jones and maybe use Shirley Bassey.
@Sinaisid2 жыл бұрын
It’s David Alexander not Tom Jones!! Still awful though!!
@acapulcoramon76018 жыл бұрын
where is tom jones ?
@levimacdonald51886 жыл бұрын
on tour at the moment... he still hold dear of hes roots in wales.. lives in california since the 1970s
@nathanbrynmenyn9353 жыл бұрын
amazing the community of ponty, cardiff try and ruin it by taking over treforest , just makes the strong stronger !
@celticwarrior13657 жыл бұрын
Great photos but hate the soundtrack. The only time the boy from nowhere visits Wales is to make money from the gullible people he left behind.
@levimacdonald51886 жыл бұрын
thats not tom jones singing its another singer david alexander,, toms proud of wales even wears a dragon ring...
@allandutkiewicz88 Жыл бұрын
You horrible man
@mosellethomas19227 жыл бұрын
Lovely photos but had to mute as I just can't stand Tom even if he is local.
@barbaradavies32957 жыл бұрын
David Alexander is singing - not Tom Jones
@fancysfolly5546 жыл бұрын
barbara davies sure does sound like Tom Jones though
@barbaradavies32956 жыл бұрын
yes, very similar to the untrained ear - both have lovely voices though
@fancysfolly5546 жыл бұрын
barbara davies I hope you don’t mind my asking.but are you from Wales? I became sort of fascinated with Wales after becoming friendly with a lovely lady who worked at our local pharmacy, who was from Wales...and then I read Tom Jones memoir..that sealed the deal..I am a many decades Tom Jones fan also...we want to visit Wales..we’ve been to the British Isles ...our “motherland” actually...but didn’t make it to Wales...we love your part of the world...
@barbaradavies32956 жыл бұрын
Yes Nancy - I'm from South Wales - just a couple of miles away from the town of Pontypridd where Tom Jones was born. I live in a village called Ynysybwl. My husband's parents lived in Treforest, Pontypridd, in the same street as Tom Jones and they remembered him well as a teenager and knew his family well. When I worked in Pontypridd Magistrates' Court many years' ago, I knew a lady there whose husband played in the band for Tom Jones. Yes, Wales is a beautiful country and such a lovely part of the world - just one problem - the weather!!!! You can't have everything, I don't suppose!!
@colemanadamson59436 жыл бұрын
Could not watch the video.......somebody put a HORRIBLE song(?) in it.