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 No: 025.0001202 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: 340.9341136 viewsSchools and Soar chapel, Seven Sisters, c.1930s?
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 No: 032.0121065 views'London House' shop; Church Street; Seven Sisters (later became 'Maycliff Cafe') c.1924-8
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 No: 182.0011006 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: 341.111996 viewsSupporters from Seven Sisters off to Ireland v Wales RU match, March 1939
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 No: 306.300989 viewsGroup at the open air swimming baths, 'The Rec' Seven Sisters, 1946
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 No: 341.030q988 viewsSeven Sisters fire brigade personnel
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 No: 341.061987 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: 340.815985 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: 281.000983 viewsPen y banc & railway, Seven Sisters
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 No: 013.003981 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: 170.000979 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: 306.000978 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: 340.582i978 viewsThe opening of Seven Sisters miners baths.
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 No: 341.064b976 viewsSnow scene. 'Red Lion' pub, The Square, Crynant, c.1980
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 No: 209.301971 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: 341.082971 viewsCrynant, large group, Coronation, Elizabeth II, location? c. 2 June 1953
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 No: 341.082u967 viewsSeven Sisters Railway Station
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 No: 085.001965 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: 340.964965 viewsBlaendulais school, Seven Sisters, c.1952
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 No: 032.007962 viewsSeven Sisters open-air baths 'The Rec' 1930s?
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 No: 340.829961 viewsOnllwyn School, pupils (some named). Date October 1906
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 No: 340.937958 viewsSeven Sisters Hotel & decorated arch marking David Martyn Evans Bevan's coming of age, March 1923
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 No: 191.000955 viewsIlluminated certificate. Tommy Alexander admitted, Blaendulais (Seven Sisters) juvenile tent, Independent Order of Rechabites, 12 October 1907
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 No: 093.000955 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: 340.064954 viewsL-r: Onllwyn chapel (early), incline? Front &
Back Row, Onllwyn school (early). Date?
Loaned by David Jones
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 No: 340.853954 views'Good Old Days' Concert, 26 May 1971 (repeated 22 June). George Pike as Al Johnson & 'The Dolly Birds'
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 No: 067.011952 viewsOnllwyn. View to east. Inc Onllwyn No. 1 colliery tip, school, Onllwyn Chapel & Khartoum Terrace, c. 1960
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 No: 077.000951 viewsEbenezer chapel, Seven Sisters, children's choir, 1920
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 No: 067.006950 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: 067.009949 viewsGordon Terrace, Onllwyn, & Post Office c. 1960
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 No: 074.100948 viewsThe Palace Cinema, Martyn's Avenue, Seven Sisters
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 No: 100.000946 viewsOnllwyn Central Washery staff (all named), 1936
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 No: 110.000 [Wanted: loan of undamaged copy]946 viewsCrynant village; including mill at Brynawel, Chapel, Railway Station & St Margaret's church, c. 1920?
Loaned by Miss Morfydd Harries
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 No: 341.030p946 viewsSeven Sisters fire brigade personnel
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 No: 067.010942 viewsOnllwyn Chapel, geese, 1st Onllwyn tip (750,000 tons), c. 1960
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 No: 340.749940 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: 340.059940 viewsColliers at Cwm Mawr Colliery (previously known as Dulais Higher Colliery, Onllwyn)
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 No: 032.001939 viewsOnllwyn Chapel, c.1990. (Chapel demolished 12 April 1992)
Copyright Cliff Grist
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 No: 067.014937 viewsFront & Back Rows (Built 1848), Onllwyn, c. 1960

Donated by Mrs Violet Evans
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