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 No: 340.9341091 viewsSchools and Soar chapel, Seven Sisters, c.1930s?
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 No: 032.0121026 views'London House' shop; Church Street; Seven Sisters (later became 'Maycliff Cafe') c.1924-8
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 No: 182.001973 viewsSeven Sisters colliery, up-valley view from point near road bridge. L-R: Brick Row, Reading room (burned down 1937), colliery, station (wooden, built c. 1872, brick replacement 1911), footbridge, Salem chapel, Seven Sisters Hotel, Post Office. Crown Stores not built (in use during 1902 smallpox outbreak). Date c. 1900?. Donated by Mrs Miriam Francis.
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 No: 306.300956 viewsGroup at the open air swimming baths, 'The Rec' Seven Sisters, 1946
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 No: 281.000953 viewsPen y banc & railway, Seven Sisters
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 No: 341.111948 viewsSupporters from Seven Sisters off to Ireland v Wales RU match, March 1939
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 No: 306.000947 viewsHorse drawn butcher's van, G W Allen & Sons, Seven Sisters. Location Butcher's shop next door to Bethany English Baptist Chapel. 1928
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 No: 013.003946 viewsDeacons of Seion chapel, Seven Sisters. Inset photo from illuminated address presented to Francis John George (centre-front) in 1924 for services to the chapel. Donated by Mrs Janice Davies (née George, granddaughter)
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 No: 170.000943 viewsCentenary event, Blaendulais school, Seven Sisters. Doctor Thompson (local GP, 1933-1991) & Mrs Betty Lewis (District Nurse, 1961-1987), in period dress, arriving in pony & trap, 2 July 1983. Donated by John Glyn 'Johnnie Glyn' Thomas.
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 No: 341.030q941 viewsSeven Sisters fire brigade personnel
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 No: 341.061939 viewsCatherine 'Katie' Jones (Titania) & brother David Ivor (Puck) in costume for a production of A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Cinema, Martyn's Avenue, Seven Sisters, 1921
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 No: 093.000931 viewsBrass band, & novelty band inc animal mascot & banner, 'URDD YR HEN FRYTANIAID' (Order of Ancient Britons, type of Friendly Society?). Photo by D R Harris, Seven Sisters (given as location). Prob post-1890 (when Harris went to S/Sisters Hotel)
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 No: 085.001929 viewsSeven Sisters station (wooden); Neath and Brecon railway; Dated 1866 by Chris Evans (see his 'History of Seven Sisters' p. 50)
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 No: 340.582i929 viewsThe opening of Seven Sisters miners baths.
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 No: 032.007926 viewsSeven Sisters open-air baths 'The Rec' 1930s?
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 No: 191.000920 viewsIlluminated certificate. Tommy Alexander admitted, Blaendulais (Seven Sisters) juvenile tent, Independent Order of Rechabites, 12 October 1907
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 No: 340.964920 viewsBlaendulais school, Seven Sisters, c.1952
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 No: 341.082u919 viewsSeven Sisters Railway Station
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 No: 077.000918 viewsEbenezer chapel, Seven Sisters, children's choir, 1920
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 No: 074.100913 viewsThe Palace Cinema, Martyn's Avenue, Seven Sisters
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 No: 340.937909 viewsSeven Sisters Hotel & decorated arch marking David Martyn Evans Bevan's coming of age, March 1923
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 No: 340.853901 views'Good Old Days' Concert, 26 May 1971 (repeated 22 June). George Pike as Al Johnson & 'The Dolly Birds'
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 No: 127.000897 viewsPony and trap outside London House, 'J H Jones; Butcher, Seven Sisters' early 1900's?
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 No: 083.000896 views'Gay Sparks Club' Seven Sisters Hotel; 1936
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 No: 341.030p896 viewsSeven Sisters fire brigade personnel
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 No: 079.000893 viewsBryndulais Avenue, Seven Sisters, children and snow, date?
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 No: 340.749892 viewsWedding group, including Rev Edmund Davies, minister of Soar chapel, & Mr David Tom Davies (Bride & Groom unknown). Taken by D R Harris, Seven Sisters. Date unknown.
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 No: 148.000886 viewsHigh Street, Seven Sisters. Three shops, inc 'W Aaron Complete House Furnisher', c. 1900
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 No: 340.752883 viewsDosbarth. Cymreig Soar Seven Sisters/ Welsh class, Soar chapel, Seven Sisters. Includes Rev Edmund Davies, chapel minister (rear/left), & Mr J W 'John Tyn-ton' Morgan (2nd from right). Photo by D R Harris, Seven Sisters. Date unknown
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 No: 124.000881 viewsBrynbedd cemetery, Seven Sisters, Consecration by Bishop of Llandaff, 1925?
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 No: 340.675880 viewsHigh Street, Seven Sisters, showing Thos Harris Chemist, Gwalia Stores, Bon Marche outfitters and general store c.1920
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 No: 341.075b879 viewsSouthern portal of tunnel connecting Henllan Colliery (passing under A4109) to Brynteg Colliery. Photographed Feb 21 2006
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 No: 341.021a878 viewsThe Colliery, Seven Sisters, Evans & Bevan wagons, railway, up-valley from 1898 footbridge. Date c. 1900? (siding on right extended to loop in 1915)
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 No: 341.075c876 viewsSouthern portal of tunnel connecting Henllan Colliery (passing under A4109) to Brynteg Colliery. Photographed Feb 21 2006
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 No: 341.060876 viewsChurch Street, Seven Sisters. Bryndulais Hotel on right. Up-valley view, with colliery in distance.
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 No: 096.000875 viewsSeven Sisters, British Legion, Committee (all named), at British Legion hall Martyn's Avenue. Date 1946-52
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 No: 115.000875 viewsPerformers, 'Robin Hood' at the cinema, Seven Sisters, 1938-9
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 No: 340.692872 views'TEL-EL-KEIBER HOUSE', 24 Martyn's Avenue, Seven Sisters (as currently numbered)
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 No: 032.013868 viewsYsticlau, Seven Sisters, wedding group, Easter 1916
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 No: 161.100868 viewsBuildings in Pen y banc, Seven Sisters. View south from A4109 bridge. Inc: Blaendulais school, Clive Jones's newsagents' shop (left), Wool shop (right; Mrs Lynne Stephens, prop.), Soar chapel. c. 26 Nov 1992
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