This reply is based more on imagination than fact. Certainly when I was
a lad growing up in the 50's/60's Rhondda buses (these were more in the
realm of the workingmen's clubs than the chapels who used the trains)
made the journey. But I simply can not remember the route and of course
roads were better then.
But thinking more of the way my dad would drive there, and the ride was
as much in those days as the visit, I have consulted an OS map from
1919-1926 and come up with this idea.
Certainly no need to go to Cardiff as roads from Pontypridd to Cardiff
were no better then. From Trealaw you would go via Porth and head
towards Pontypridd. The vehicle would possibly, just like the train
(although I can not remember that line being available that later) would
go via Treforest and head towards Llantrisant via Church Village. This
better road would actually miss hilly Llantrisant and shortly after
there would be a fairly direct route straight to Barry Island. No more
towns of any size are gone though just 'country' lanes.
My own memory of the car journey was that we passed the 'famous' Barry
Zoo. Which I never had the chance to visit :)
On 14/02/2016 15:10, irene moores via wrote:
hello, could sks please say how you would get to Barry Island from
Trealaw in the early 20th century and which towns one might pass through.
Irene