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Carolyn · Joined: 11 Mar 2006 Posts: 2202 Location: Abertillery

You are right that is the one I was thinking of senior moment there maybe that one was late 60's early 70's on my way to work. The adds were the same. I just remember that particular add and the many billboards that used to be around to catch your eye as you passed on the bus. I have a photo somewhere of the ones where the library is now. Wonder if bill poster ever got prosecuted Laughing

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Haydn · Joined: 13 Mar 2009 Posts: 71

WOW! Its either the perspective or my memory but I would swear that looks so much like Alexandra Road in the direction of Six Bells. The stone wall on the left would have been at the bottom of a steep grassy bank with Richmond Road at the top. The railing on the right was the top fence of the derelict Vivian pit. Somewhere either before it or after it was Barrels Warehouse. The first few buildings on the right in the picture were a mixture of shops and houses. I remember the barber and a butcher who was the father of my best mates mum, best mate David Griffin from Marlborough Road.
Someone said there might be a garage down on the left? There was a garage set back from the road at the bottom of the Doctors steps.
What I cant make out is why it looks like the hill goes up at the far end? If it is Six Bells you should be able to see the Presbyterian Chapel half way down that road.
On the other hand it doesnt look like Llanhilleth either! Im sure the houses al the way down on the left have smaller walls and gates every 4 or 5 meters.
I will send the pic to Llanhilleth Girl for confirmation.

Dave · Joined: 08 Mar 2009 Posts: 99 Location: West Midlands

Thanks for the feed back, I remember somewhere about a garage, due to very low fuel in the Tank, and with the hills we would come to a stop, Dave

martyn142 · Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2009 10:17 am Post subject:

Definitely Llan hill and not Alexandra Road.
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Carolyn · Joined: 11 Mar 2006 Posts: 2202 Location: Abertillery

Definitly Llan despite my bo bo. You can see St. Marks at the bottom of the hill on the left
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Dave · Joined: 08 Mar 2009 Posts: 99 Location: West Midlands

This one L to R Mom, Dad (Edward St) and a Auntie(Gaen St) late 60s up the Cock n Chick as the name I was told, is it still as that name ?
have a few recent pics from the same area I believe Dave

martyn142 · Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2009 8:21 pm Post subject:

Hi Dave - thanks for yet another great photo. I wouldn't stake my life on it but it looks more like Church Lane on the opposite side of the valley to me?
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Dave · Joined: 08 Mar 2009 Posts: 99 Location: West Midlands

martyn142 myself only going by memory, was a long time ago, just glad not boring anyone Smile

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martyn142 · Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2009 9:00 pm Post subject:

I could well be wrong anyway - I don't recall any telegraph poles along Church Lane. Definitely not boring anyway! Very Happy

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Dave · Joined: 08 Mar 2009 Posts: 99 Location: West Midlands

This one on the same walk, I believe

Mary Ann · Joined: 08 Dec 2008 Posts: 10 Location: Abertillery

martyn142 · Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2009 7:26 am Post subject:

Yep. I think you are both right and the scond is obviously from Cock and Chick.
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Dave · Joined: 08 Mar 2009 Posts: 99 Location: West Midlands

Mary Ann Thank you, have a fairly recent one taken from the same area as the second old pic, will find it out and post it, might post the two together, to compare, on a last visit with our Auntie, a few years ago, same Auntie as in the first pic up the Cock n Chick, we drove up there past Auntie`s old school, Auntie still remembered it, school demolished later and houses there, glad that the name Cock n Chick is true, my Dad told us that as lads they would go up there to play cards, Thanks Dave

Mary Ann · Joined: 08 Dec 2008 Posts: 10 Location: Abertillery

Yes Dave, I can remember when we were kids in tthe early 40's playing on the mountain above Top Rows ( part of the Cock and Chick mountain) and coming across groups of men playing cards in the quarry . Perhaps your Dad was amongst them!!

Mary Ann · Joined: 08 Dec 2008 Posts: 10 Location: Abertillery

[IMG]http://i608.photobucket.com/albums/tt170/lilyofthevale/six

I thought Dave and Haydn would like to see what the former site of the Six Bells Colliery looks like now. I took this picture yesterday whilst
out doggy walking.