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 No: 025.0001054 viewsView north from Onllwyn No1 tip to Fan Gihirych,
colliery, new electric winding house (post 1947),
station, Halfway Inn 'The Slope', Pont y Offeiriad/
Clergyman's bridge, Coelbren. Date 1950s?
Donated by George B Evans
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 No: 340.934989 viewsSchools and Soar chapel, Seven Sisters, c.1930s?
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 No: 032.012925 views'London House' shop; Church Street; Seven Sisters (later became 'Maycliff Cafe') c.1924-8
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 No: 182.001866 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: 306.300850 viewsGroup at the open air swimming baths, 'The Rec' Seven Sisters, 1946
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 No: 281.000845 viewsPen y banc & railway, Seven Sisters
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 No: 341.111842 viewsSupporters from Seven Sisters off to Ireland v Wales RU match, March 1939
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 No: 013.003837 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: 170.000836 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: 341.030q836 viewsSeven Sisters fire brigade personnel
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 No: 306.000834 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: 093.000831 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: 341.061830 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: 340.815827 viewsSnow scene (up-valley from nr London House), Main Road, Crynant. 'Fish & Chips' (l), Stanley's general store (r), people in roadway. Winter 1981-82
Donated by Chris Lewis
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 No: 032.007826 viewsSeven Sisters open-air baths 'The Rec' 1930s?
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 No: 085.001825 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: 341.064b822 viewsSnow scene. 'Red Lion' pub, The Square, Crynant, c.1980
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 No: 209.301821 viewsOnllwyn lodge NUM, committe & officials with banner at Onllwyn welfare hall, August 1963. By kind permission of Cefn Coed colliery museum
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 No: 191.000820 viewsIlluminated certificate. Tommy Alexander admitted, Blaendulais (Seven Sisters) juvenile tent, Independent Order of Rechabites, 12 October 1907
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 No: 340.582i819 viewsThe opening of Seven Sisters miners baths.
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 No: 077.000817 viewsEbenezer chapel, Seven Sisters, children's choir, 1920
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 No: 341.082u815 viewsSeven Sisters Railway Station
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 No: 340.937813 viewsSeven Sisters Hotel & decorated arch marking David Martyn Evans Bevan's coming of age, March 1923
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 No: 341.082811 viewsCrynant, large group, Coronation, Elizabeth II, location? c. 2 June 1953
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 No: 074.100810 viewsThe Palace Cinema, Martyn's Avenue, Seven Sisters
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 No: 067.006808 viewsOnllwyn No. 1 colliery & Halfway Inn 'The Slope' (from 1st Onllwyn tip, immediately south of colliery). View north to Cribarth and Fan Hir etc. C. 1960
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 No: 340.829807 viewsOnllwyn School, pupils (some named). Date October 1906
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 No: 340.964805 viewsBlaendulais school, Seven Sisters, c.1952
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 No: 100.000804 viewsOnllwyn Central Washery staff (all named), 1936
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 No: 340.064803 viewsL-r: Onllwyn chapel (early), incline? Front &
Back Row, Onllwyn school (early). Date?
Loaned by David Jones
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 No: 067.009801 viewsGordon Terrace, Onllwyn, & Post Office c. 1960
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 No: 340.853801 views'Good Old Days' Concert, 26 May 1971 (repeated 22 June). George Pike as Al Johnson & 'The Dolly Birds'
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 No: 032.001794 viewsOnllwyn Chapel, c.1990. (Chapel demolished 12 April 1992)
Copyright Cliff Grist
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 No: 067.011794 viewsOnllwyn. View to east. Inc Onllwyn No. 1 colliery tip, school, Onllwyn Chapel & Khartoum Terrace, c. 1960
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 No: 083.000790 views'Gay Sparks Club' Seven Sisters Hotel; 1936
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 No: 340.059788 viewsColliers at Cwm Mawr Colliery (previously known as Dulais Higher Colliery, Onllwyn)
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 No: 341.030p788 viewsSeven Sisters fire brigade personnel
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 No: 127.000786 viewsPony and trap outside London House, 'J H Jones; Butcher, Seven Sisters' early 1900's?
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 No: 067.010785 viewsOnllwyn Chapel, geese, 1st Onllwyn tip (750,000 tons), c. 1960
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 No: 110.000 [Wanted: loan of undamaged copy]783 viewsCrynant village; including mill at Brynawel, Chapel, Railway Station & St Margaret's church, c. 1920?
Loaned by Miss Morfydd Harries
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