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High Resolution Photographs of Penygraig in the Rhondda Valleys, Glamorgan. South Wales.
Penygraig Champion Football Club 1889-90 - Can you help?
Rhondda Valleys, Penygraig Football Team 1889-90
One researcher (Denise) is trying to get a better copy of the above photograph (or indeed any photos of the team), which includes Gwilym Llewellyn, her great grandfather, who lived in Penygraig until he died in 1937. Gwilym's wife Daisy lived until 1953. The image was taken by Forest Photo of Pontypridd. If you have a better image of this team then Denise would be delighted if you would email me a high resolution copy here.
Glamorgan, Rhondda Valleys, Penygraig, Hendrecafn School Staff c1921
Front Row from left:
1 (unknown, but lived in Milbourne Street),
2 Miss Cassie (Davies ?),
3 Miss Annie Mary Wrentmore (5, Bishop Street),
4 Mrs Harries , Headmistress (22, Llanfair Road),
5 Miss Ethel Rees ( Vicarage Road),
6 (unknown),
7 (unknown).
Back row: 8 (unknown),
9 Miss Bevan (13,Llanfair Road),
10,11 & 12 (unknown).
Mrs Harries, the Headmistress, was wife of the Vicar of
Llanwonno. Miss Margaret Harries, her elder daughter, was the music mistress
in
Porth County School for Girls, and her younger daughter went to live
in Leeds, where her husband was Professor Weston (Agricultural Botany).
Miss Cassie (Davies ?) and Miss Annie Wrentmore had both obtained Teaching
Certificates in 1920 from Avery Hill College (now part of Greenwich University),
Eltham,
Kent. Cassie moved to Lewes, Sussex when she married Mr. Archie (?) Evans who
was an operatic singer.
Miss Annie Wrentmore was born in 1898 in Balaclava Terrace, a Penygraig Street
which I believe was demolished in the 1960s. She left Hendrecafn School
(and Bishop Street) in 1936, when she married Mr Frederick Lewis Lloyd of Cymmer,
Porth.
He worked at the Rhondda Council Finance Department in Pentre; they lived at
16, Llanfair Road, Penygraig, until he died in 1961. She continued living there
until her death in 1995. The photograph was kindly sent in by their son, David
Lloyd, Professor of Microbiology at Cardiff University.
David would be most interested if someone can make corrections or add missing
information on others in this photograph.
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The photos of the White Rock Hotel in Penygraig are of the webmaster's great grandfather - Edward Evans.
Click on any image to see in high resolution.
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Rhondda Valleys - a general view of Penygraig |
Penygraig Naval Colliery |
Penygraig St Illtyd's 1931 |
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Glamorgan, Rhondda Valleys, Penygraig Group - Ben Howells is the young man holding the little boy |
Glamorgan, Rhondda Valleys, Penygraig Infants School 1907 - 7th from right back row is Tudor Price Howells |
Rhondda Valleys, Penygraig, White Rock Hotel - Billiards Room - includes Edward Evans the owner |
Rhondda Valleys, Penygraig, White Rock Hotel - Edward Evans - Owner (webmaster's great grandfather) |
Rhondda Valleys, Penygraig, White Rock Hotel - Edward Evans on the doorstep c1923 |
Penygraig, Craig Yr Eos School Photo 1970 |
The people named above are family of this webmaster and also of Jan
Fehribach of the United States (my cousin) - born Howells in Penygraig.
Reference the photo above of St Illtyd's Church Choir 1931, Marj has
written in to identify some of the people in the photo. Next but one
to the vicar (moving l to r) the big man is Frederick Carpenter - her
grandfather. Next is L. Powell - Tenor, next is Elizabeth Carpenter (Soprano)
- wife of Frederick, next is G. Thorn - Baritone. They were the artists.
In the back row the very tall man is Hendry Carpenter. Moving left to
right, the next is George Carpenter, next but one is Clarence Carpenter
- still resident in Williamstown. Next aged about 15 is Haydn Carpenter
- Marj's dad.
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