On the Great Western Railway [of blessed memory] 'up' was towards London .
From Fishguard Harbour, Swansea was 'up' but from Newport it
was 'down' .
How was the Varteg railway...?
BTW here is no letter "Vee" in the welsh alphabet.
Bryan
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ann Macey" <annmacey(a)ntlworld.com
To:
<monmouthshire(a)rootsweb.com
Sent: 26 October 2006 13:31
Subject: Re: [MON] Registration district for Varteg
----- Original Message -----
> "Robert Treharne Jones" <tjwizard(a)tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
>> While we're on the subject can anyone else explain where the
>> expression 'up the Varteg' came from, as in ''e come from up
the
>> Varteg'?
I would think - as a dweller in these parts - that from Pontypool it was
up
as in up the valley to go to The Varteg to differentiate from DOWN
to
Newport.
I know that in Cwmbran we went Down to newport and up to Pontypool, down
to
Cardiff (but whoever went as far as Cardiff!?) and up to Monmouth.
In Newport we went up to everywhere (except Cardiff, we went down there,
or
Bristol and we went Over to there)
Thinking about the way of speaking 'round yer' it would seem that there
had
to be a directional description we could never just GO anywhere - I
love
it!
Ann Macey
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