Dear All
I remember Iron Street well from the early 1950s. At that stage there
were poor quality houses there which could only be described as slums,
and many of the inhabitants had a distinctly unhealthy yellowish look to
them which was typical of people condemned to live in such places. I'm
afraid that I do not remember a Talbot Inn, but that does not mean it
did not exist.
Slum clearance greatly improved the area of the hill descending to the
river valley opposite what used to be the Olympia Cinema (known to many
of us as the 'Lymp' and now a Wetherspoons Pub) and starting between the
chemist shop and the old café (now, I think, a spare parts emporium) and
also the row of houses at the bottom of the hill parallel to the course
of the river. I do not recall anything in Tredegar in the 1950s as
squalid as the Iron Street area, and I am pretty sure it was in a class
of its own at that time.
There has been much improvement in housing in Tredegar in recent years,
though it is a pity that so much of it is in the bland post-modernist
style which has been popping up everywhere in the last couple of
decades. There is, however, much older housing of good quality and much
modernized going back to the early twentieth and late nineteenth
centuries all over the place, e.g. Glyne and Vale Terraces, Southend,
The Rhyd, and Georgetown.
Best wishes to all
Alan B Lloyd (formerly resident at 25 Southend, 8 Market Street, and 30
Arnold Place)
Professor A B Lloyd
3 Radyr Avenue
Mayals
Swansea
SA3 5DU
Tel: +441792403142
Fax: +441792295739
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Sent: 14 July 2007 18:32
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Subject: Re: [BLAENAUGWENT] Tredegar Talbot Inn -Iron Street
Iron Street can be clearly seen on maps of central Tredegar but I knew
the
area in the sixties and cannot remember any residential buildings.
Perhaps the
area had been subject to slum clearance as the post office, police
station
and magistrates courts were all fairly new at that time and I remember
The
Globe and that area in Church St being demolished around that time. Old
trade
directories might tell you more.
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