Cwmbran, Shopping Centre c.1965

Photo ref: C547076

Sun Jan 12th 2020, at 6:39 pm ahead4 commented: Hi my name is Alan Head & I went to Coed-Eva school myself and I agree with Robert the picture is of Crossy school. This is the first time that I have seen this web page it's brilliant. I moved to Cwmbran in 1960 from Folkestone Kent. I'm trying to remember Lyndon Morris I must know him as I also worked on Mr Pryor's house in Ashford Close before he got me a job at Grange ...see more

It's 1972, I know that because I am the two year old baby in the pram back in the days when mothers had no fear of leaving their children out side of shops, the reason being that the shop aisles were too narrow to get a pram down

Feeling a bit nostalgic, I browsed some sites showing my old primary school, my home town and village of Pontnewydd and found this site with a memory of Gazzis ice cream parlour in Pontnewydd. I remember my father treating us to an ice cream there after we had waited patiently as he had a shave in the barber shop on New Street on a Saturday morning. Sair Mann

Whilst looking through your site I noticed this photograph was dated c1955. My father ,Mother and I moved to LLanyrafon in 1958 ,followed by my Grandparents in 1959. We were part of the first and original LLanyrafon occupants.We moved into Dunraven Road where I lived and grew up for the following twenty three years - my parents and grandparents remained much longer. When we moved to LLanyrafon in1958 the shops at ...see more