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 No: 025.0001292 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: 340.9341228 viewsSchools and Soar chapel, Seven Sisters, c.1930s?
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 No: 032.0121156 views'London House' shop; Church Street; Seven Sisters (later became 'Maycliff Cafe') c.1924-8
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 No: 182.0011099 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: 341.1111092 viewsSupporters from Seven Sisters off to Ireland v Wales RU match, March 1939
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 No: 341.0611077 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: 341.030q1077 viewsSeven Sisters fire brigade personnel
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 No: 340.8151072 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: 170.0001071 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: 013.0031069 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: 306.3001069 viewsGroup at the open air swimming baths, 'The Rec' Seven Sisters, 1946
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 No: 306.0001067 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: 281.0001067 viewsPen y banc & railway, Seven Sisters
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 No: 341.0821061 viewsCrynant, large group, Coronation, Elizabeth II, location? c. 2 June 1953
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 No: 340.9641060 viewsBlaendulais school, Seven Sisters, c.1952
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 No: 209.3011058 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: 341.064b1057 viewsSnow scene. 'Red Lion' pub, The Square, Crynant, c.1980
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 No: 032.0071054 viewsSeven Sisters open-air baths 'The Rec' 1930s?
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 No: 340.582i1053 viewsThe opening of Seven Sisters miners baths.
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 No: 085.0011052 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: 340.8291052 viewsOnllwyn School, pupils (some named). Date October 1906
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 No: 341.082u1052 viewsSeven Sisters Railway Station
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 No: 340.9371048 viewsSeven Sisters Hotel & decorated arch marking David Martyn Evans Bevan's coming of age, March 1923
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 No: 077.0001044 viewsEbenezer chapel, Seven Sisters, children's choir, 1920
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 No: 093.0001043 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: 074.1001042 viewsThe Palace Cinema, Martyn's Avenue, Seven Sisters
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 No: 340.0641042 viewsL-r: Onllwyn chapel (early), incline? Front &
Back Row, Onllwyn school (early). Date?
Loaned by David Jones
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 No: 067.0061038 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: 341.030p1036 viewsSeven Sisters fire brigade personnel
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 No: 032.0011034 viewsOnllwyn Chapel, c.1990. (Chapel demolished 12 April 1992)
Copyright Cliff Grist
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 No: 340.8531034 views'Good Old Days' Concert, 26 May 1971 (repeated 22 June). George Pike as Al Johnson & 'The Dolly Birds'
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 No: 067.0111033 viewsOnllwyn. View to east. Inc Onllwyn No. 1 colliery tip, school, Onllwyn Chapel & Khartoum Terrace, c. 1960
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 No: 110.000 [Wanted: loan of undamaged copy]1033 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: 100.0001031 viewsOnllwyn Central Washery staff (all named), 1936
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 No: 191.0001030 viewsIlluminated certificate. Tommy Alexander admitted, Blaendulais (Seven Sisters) juvenile tent, Independent Order of Rechabites, 12 October 1907
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 No: 067.0091030 viewsGordon Terrace, Onllwyn, & Post Office c. 1960
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 No: 340.0591028 viewsColliers at Cwm Mawr Colliery (previously known as Dulais Higher Colliery, Onllwyn)
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 No: 067.0101026 viewsOnllwyn Chapel, geese, 1st Onllwyn tip (750,000 tons), c. 1960
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 No: 340.7491025 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: 079.0001024 viewsBryndulais Avenue, Seven Sisters, children and snow, date?
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