"This art is for Port Talbot, Neath and surrounding areas," a post on the Neath Port Talbot Life Facebook page reads.
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This art is for Port Talbot, Neath and surrounding areas.
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"You got me scared, hiding neath my bed," she says.
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He was born Michael Bogdin in Neath, Wales, on Dec.
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Wake Forest held out backup guards Jahcobi Neath and Michael Wynn.
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Brandon Childress and Jahcobi Neath scored 16 points apiece for the Demon Deacons.
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Freshman guard Jahcobi Neath made his first start in Childress' place and scored three points.
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Isaiah Mucius added 353 points, Olivier Sarr checked in with 235 and Jahcobi Neath had 234.
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But in a few minutes he will be off to Neath, the next stop on the tour.
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Neath Port Talbot, home to Tata's biggest steelworks, supported Brexit by 57 per cent, more than the nation as a whole.
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Now all that was left 'neath the bad-smelling skywas my big empty feed …the Lorax…and I.The Lorax said nothing.
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Luckily for us, they've done just that, holding true to their promise to march to battle 'neath the (sign of the) horns.
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Carey fouled out with 3:49 to go in regulation, with Neath making one free throw to close the spread to 71-66.
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Where the world of Fallen London was set in a vast underworld called the Neath, Sunless Skies occurs in an expanse of half-formed void.
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If their trials had remained a secret — if these daredevils had silently nibbled their mold cheese in shame or allowed themselves to perspire alone 'neath the brush — where would we be?
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Watch: Unfollow Me—The Story of Alice Ruggles One case that does match the parameters provided by the police force is the murder of Terri-Ann Jones, 33, from Cilma, Neath Port Talbot.
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Olivier Sarr posted 224 points, and Jahcobi Neath added 22017 points for the Demon Deacons (13-17, 6-14), who can finish no better than in a last-place tie in the ACC.
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LONDON, June 24 (Reuters) - Neath Port Talbot in south Wales, which had been predicted to be one of the 15 closest results in Britain's European Union membership referendum, voted strongly to leave the bloc.
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By 1935, when it was published, suffering on the front line had already produced a series of classics: Henri Barbusse's Under Fire and Maurice Genevoix's 'Neath Verdun (19303); Blaise Cendrars's I've Killed (1918); Roland Dorgelès's Wooden Crosses (1919).
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The Press Association reported 57 percent of voters in Neath Port Talbot backed leaving the EU. That compared to a prediction of 50.5 percent for remain and 49.5 percent for leave in analysis published by J.P. Morgan ahead of the vote.
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A Swansea- bound South Wales Pullman at Neath General in 1967 The surviving Neath railway station is one of four railway stations originally in Neath, and to distinguish it from the others was at one time named Neath General, the suffix being applied before Nationalisation. Neath Canalside served the Rhondda and Swansea Bay Railway services until they ended in 1963. Neath Riverside (also at times known as Neath Bridge Street and Neath Low Level), served trains to and from Brecon via the Neath and Brecon Railway, with an additional stop at Neath Abbey. The railway itself remains partly in use, linking Onllwyn and the docks.
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Neath Food and Drink Festival is an annual food festival held in Neath, South Wales.
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Neath and District Tramways Company began operating horse-drawn tramway services in Neath in 1875.
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The former schools were Neath Girls' Grammar School, Neath Grammar School for Boys and Rhydhir Secondary Modern School in Neath Abbey. Neath Girls' Grammar School was on Cadoxton Road (A4230) while Neath Grammar School for Boys was on Dwr-y-felin Road. Neath Grammar School for Boys was noted for producing many well-known rugby players and for its music (in particular an orchestra composed of now very successful and notable musicians). Neath Girls' Grammar School was also notable for its music and the achievements of its alumnae.
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Dyffryn Clydach is a community of Neath Port Talbot county borough, Wales, between Neath and Swansea.
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The Vale of Neath (or Neath Valley, Welsh: Cwm Nedd), one of the South Wales Valleys, encompasses the upper reaches of the River Neath in southwest Wales. In addition to the River Neath, it is traversed by the Neath Canal and the A465 dual carriageway. Settlements in the valley include Neath, Cadoxton, Tonna, Aberdulais, Resolven, Blaengwrach, Glynneath and Pontneddfechan. Coal mining was an industry in the valley with mining operations being located at Aberpergwm and Pentreclwydau near Glynneath.
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Neath Corporation took over the tramway in 1897 and formed Neath Corporation Tramways to modernise the service.
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Close by the river flows past the once grand estate of Ynysygerwn. A smaller tributary, the River Clydach, flows southward through the village of Bryncoch to join the Neath at Neath Abbey. The River Neath provides water to two canals, the Neath Canal and the Tennant Canal. At Aberdulais basin, both canals meet, the Tennant Canal crossing the River Neath with a fine aqueduct.
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It was called Neath High Level. This proved unpopular with Neath passengers as it was inconveniently located for the town, and in 1877 a new main line station, called Neath General, was opened near the earlier location but a little closer to the town. Neath Low Level was renamed Bridge Street in 1924, and again renamed as Neath Riverside in 1926. The Swansea and Neath Railway station in Swansea was at Wind Street, on a viaduct; the booking office and waiting rooms were located in arches.
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History of Neath F.C. on neathfc.com The new club Neath F.C. was founded in 2005, as Neath Athletic, after the old Neath F.C. and Skewen Athletic agreed to merge in an attempt to mount a better challenge to the Welsh Football League Division One title. Playing at the old ground of Neath F.C., Llandarcy Park, the new club proved a formidable force in the league, finishing second to Goytre United at their first attempt. Goytre United declined to step-up into the Welsh Premier League, meaning Neath Athletic could take their place.
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The Swansea and Neath Railway was absorbed by the VoNR under the terms of the Vale of Neath Railway Act, 1863.
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When the line opened the stations were at Neath, Crynant, Onllwyn, Penwyllt, Devynock and Brecon. The Neath station was at Cadoxton, as Neath Low Level SVR station was not used by the B&NR; until 3 June 1867. Neath Low Level continued to be used by N&B; line passenger trains until they ceased in 1962.
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Resolven () is a small village and community in Neath Port Talbot county borough, Wales. It is located in the Vale of Neath.
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Neath Corporation Tramways operated a tramway service in Neath between 1897 and 1920.The Golden Age of Tramways. Published by Taylor and Francis.
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Neath Castle Neath Castle () is a Norman castle located in the town centre of Neath, Wales. Its construction was begun by Robert, Earl of Gloucester, the nominal Lord of Glamorgan, at a date estimated between 1114 and 1130. It is also referred to as "Granville's Castle", after Richard I de Grenville (or Granville or Glanville; died post 1142), Lord of Neath, who has also been credited with its construction. The town of Neath takes its Welsh name, "Castell-nedd", from the castle.
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The Vale of Neath Railway network in 1854The Vale of Neath is a river valley descending from Pontneddfechan and Glyn Neath to the town of Neath, close to Baglan Bay, itself part of Swansea Bay. By the eighteenth century, Merthyr Tydfil was the centre of a huge iron smelting industry; excellent coal was beginning to be mined at Aberdare, and these two industries became dominant in their respective localities. The town of Neath itself became a centre of engineering industry.Gwyn Briwnant Jones and Denis Dunstone, The Vale of Neath Line from Neath to Pontypool Road, Gomer Press, Llandysul, 1996, Down to the eighteenth century, the difficulty was transporting the heavy products of the mineral industries to market, overseas and domestically.
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Neath and District Tramways Company operated a tramway service in Neath between 1875 and 1897.The Golden Age of Tramways. Published by Taylor and Francis.
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River Neath at Neath Castle, looking upstream As his reward for his services during the conquest of Glamorgan his brother Robert FitzHamon allotted him the lordship of Neath, where Richard built Neath Castle. He is styled in one Glamorgan charter as "Constable of the Earl of Gloucester",Round, p.136 thus of Robert Fitzroy, 1st Earl of Gloucester (died 1147), his brother's son-in-law and heir.
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Davies was born in Tonna, Neath, and came through the ranks of local team Tonna RFC,A Brief History of Tonna RFC tonnarfc.co.uk before moving to Neath, considered the area's major rugby team. While with Neath, Davies also turned out for Glamorgan police and Glamorgan County. By the 1902/03 season, Davies was a prominent member of the Neath squad and was given the senior team captaincy.
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The whole of the Neath Port Talbot area was once part of the county of West Glamorgan, which in turn was part of the historic county of Glamorgan. Since local government re-organisation in 1996, Neath Port Talbot is governed by Neath Port Talbot County Borough Council. Neath Port Talbot is a staunch Labour stronghold, who have been in power since the authority's formation in 1996.
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Entering the start of the professional era of rugby union in Wales, Jones led Neath to qualification of the Heineken Cup. Their European form proved an advantage in the Welsh leagues, with Neath winning both the Premiership and Welsh Cup in 1996, the latter title one they reclaimed in 2001. In Neath debut season of the 1996–97 Heineken Cup, Neath narrowly missed out on a knock-out spot behind Brive and Harlequins. Jones' time at Neath saw him unlock a number of later World Class international.
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The Vale of Neath Railway was hostile to the extension to Swansea, and a mixed gauge Swansea and Neath Railway was in any case being promoted at the same time. The Bill was accordingly pared down to omit the Swansea extremity, and the name of the proposed company changed to the Neath and Brecon Railway. At Brecon it was to make arrangements with the Brecon and Merthyr Railway to use its station, and corresponding terms were to be agreed somehow at Neath with the Vale of Neath Railway. The Bill was given the Royal Assent on 13 July 1863: the Neath and Brecon Railway was incorporated.
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The Neath and Tennant Canal once reached to Glyn-neath, and has been restored to provide over four miles of walkable towpath between Resolven and Glynneath. The Vale of Neath Railway was built by Isambard Kingdom Brunel to carry coal to Swansea docks, and is still used for freight trains transporting coal from the Unity open cast mine at the north-east edge of the village. In 1996 the single- carriageway road along the length of the Neath valley was replaced with a major dual-carriageway, carrying the A465 trunk road from Llandarcy (near Neath) to Hirwaun in Rhondda Cynon Taf, which transformed the access along the Neath valley.
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Born in Neath, Gower was educated at Neath, Cardiff High School and University College, Cardiff. He was a solicitor, company director and chairman of a provincial newspaper.
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Its monks used their access to the river to challenge the trading rights of the burgesses of the town of Neath. The estuary of the River Neath extends from Neath town down past Briton Ferry to the sea next to Jersey Marine Beach. The estuary is partly industrialised with a ship breaking yard, a large local authority waste disposal site and wharves at Melincryddan, Briton Ferry and Neath Abbey. Where it remains undisturbed, there are areas of salt marsh stretching from Neath to Baglan Bay and Crymlyn Burrows which are of great ecological value.
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Neath Indoor Market (also known as Neath General Market or simply Neath Market) is an indoor market located in the town centre of Neath, Wales. The market building dates back to 1837. It was renovated in 1904, and most recently in 1999. Today, the market features an eclectic mix of stalls ranging from butchers and fresh vegetable stalls to hat and bag boutiques and cafes serving traditional Welsh food.
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Resolven is also host to Football Association Wales affiliated team Resolven AfC. The Neath and Tennant Canal has been restored and now has over four miles of walkable towpath between Resolven and Glynneath. The Vale of Neath Railway is still used for freight transport between Neath and Cwmgwrach.
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In 1997 this was achieved under the name of Neath Port Talbot College. In August 2013 Neath Port Talbot College merged with Coleg Powys to become NPTC Group.
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Map of Neath Port Talbot within Wales This is a list of the Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSIs) in the Neath Port Talbot Area of Search (AoS).
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Neath Port Talbot County Borough Council is the local governing body for Neath Port Talbot, Wales, UK. Since its creation in 1996 it has been controlled by the Labour Party.
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Seven Sisters Onllwyn A.F.C. is a Welsh football team based in Neath, currently playing in the West Wales Premier League, having previously played in the Neath & District League Premier Division.
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The latest clubs to gain promotion from this region were Llansawel in 2006 (from the Neath & District League), West End in 2005 (from the Swansea Senior League), Ystradgynlais in 2004 (from the Neath & District League), Cwmamman United in 2002 (from the Neath & District League) and Garden Village in 1999 (from the Carmarthenshire League).
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Neath Port Talbot () is a county borough and one of the unitary authority areas of Wales. Its principal towns are Neath, Port Talbot and Pontardawe. Neath Port Talbot is the eighth-most populous local authority area in Wales and the third most populous county borough. The population at the 2011 census was 139,812.
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Jones was born in Tonna, near Neath, Wales. She attended Neath Grammar School for Girls. She studied at the Royal College of Music, where she won the Kathleen Ferrier Memorial Scholarship.
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Between the 1950s to the 1990s there was a Neath College and an Afan College; each college had their own administration and staff. Both colleges independently offered O levels, A levels, National Diplomas and other qualifications. When the boroughs of Neath and Port Talbot merged to form a unitary Authority in 1996, the two colleges decided to merge as one also. Instead of each campus being called Neath College and Afan College, it became Neath Campus and Afan Campus.
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Glynneath (), also spelt Glyn Neath, is a small town, community and electoral ward lying on the River Neath in the county borough of Neath Port Talbot, Wales. It was formerly in the historic county of Glamorgan. Glynneath ward covers only part of the community, with some 840 electors included in the neighbouring ward of Blaengwrach. Industrialisation reached Glynneath when coal mining started in 1793, and rapidly expanded when the Neath Canal came to the village in 1775.
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The school is for ages 11–16. It is situated off the A474 next to Neath Port Talbot College (former Neath College before 1996) and close to the former Nidum Roman fort.
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In July 2009, Neath RFC presented plans for the redevelopment of the Gnoll, including building a community centre on the site, which were criticised by Neath town councillors as being "too woolly".
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However, due to Llandarcy Park not meeting the required Welsh Premier League ground criteria, Neath was refused entry.Neath FC club history welsh- premier.com During the 2006–07 season, Neath Athletic won the Welsh Football League Division One. With this success and the improvements to Llandarcy Park, Neath Athletic was eligible to play in the Welsh Premier League.
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Cefn Saeson (Ysgol Gyfun Cefn Saeson) is a mixed, English-medium comprehensive school located in Cimla, Neath, South Wales. It is located within the Neath Port Talbot County Borough. The school serves the population of 11- to 16-year-olds living in Cimla, Tonna, Tonmawr, Pontrhydyfen and parts of Neath. Cefn Saeson is located on Afan Valley Road.
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The Neath Welsh Dragons were a speedway team who operated from Neath Abbey Stadium, Neath in 1962. There were members of the Provincial League for one season and finished runners-up. The circuit was opened by Trevor Redmond but crowds were poor and several home meetings were staged at St Austell Gulls' Cornish Stadium due to lack of floodlighting.
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Les Anthony played prop, alongside hooker; Cliff Williams and prop; Les Davies, in Neath RFC's 15-22 defeat by the New Zealand Army Touring XV ("The Kiwis") at The Gnoll, Neath during 1945.
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Pontneddfechan, also known as Pontneathvaughan (pronounced ) ("bridge over the Little Neath" in Welsh) is the southernmost village in the county of Brecknockshire, Wales, within the Vale of Neath, in the community of Ystradfellte and in the unitary authority of Powys. It stands at the confluence of the Rivers Mellte and Nedd Fechan ("Neath Vaughan") and provides access to the series of waterfalls that adorn the upper Neath valley. Dinas Rock is a quarried limestone promontory east of the village, popular with visitors.
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Since 1995 for elections to the Neath Port Talbot County Borough Council: Aberavon, Aberdulais, Allt-wen, Baglan, Blaengwrach, Briton Ferry East, Briton Ferry West, Bryn and Cwmavon, Bryn-côch North, Bryn-côch South, Cadoxton, Cimla, Coedffranc Central, Coedffranc North, Coedffranc West, Crynant, Cwmllynfell, Cymmer, Dyffryn, Glyncorrwg, Glynneath, Godre'r graig, Gwaun-Cae-Gurwen, Gwynfi, Lower Brynamman, Margam, Neath East, Neath North, Neath South, Onllwyn, Pelenna, Pontardawe, Port Talbot, Resolven, Rhos, Sandfields East, Sandfields West, Seven Sisters, Tai-bach, Tonna, Trebanos, Ystalyfera.
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On 12 March 1881, eleven representatives of rugby clubs and colleges from around Wales met at the Castle Hotel in Neath and formed the Welsh Football Union, which would eventually be renamed the Welsh Rugby Union. The biggest omission from the meeting was Neath RFC. Not only was the meeting held in Neath, the club was the oldest in Wales and both Clark as secretary and J.T.D. Llewellyn as president of the SWFU were both Neath men.Smith (1980), pg 44.
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The bandstand in Victoria Gardens. The Victoria Gardens is a Grade II registered park in the town centre of Neath, Wales. Neath Borough Council purchased two hectares of land in the centre of Neath in 1856 to provide an open space for the people of Neath. Called the Corporation Fields, various events were held there, including cricket and rugby matches and the annual Great September Fair until 1897, when it became a formal park to commemorate Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee.
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The roads were extremely poor, and the river was unnavigable. Yet the demand for satisfactory transport was powerful, and eventually the Neath Canal was opened fully in 1795, running down from Glyn Neath to Neath itself. Even then the canal did not immediately serve the originating point of mineral products, and some short tramways were built to effect the connection. Indeed, coal from Aberdare was hauled uphill by horse power in the Cynon Valley to cross to Glyn Neath for the canal.
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Neath Port Talbot College (NPTC) was a further education institution established as two campuses in Port Talbot and Neath in Wales, United Kingdom. The college allowed study of many courses including GCSEs, AS Level/A levels, AGCEs, AVCEs, Adult Lifelong Learning Services, GNVQs at both Foundation and Intermediate levels. Neath Port Talbot College also offered higher education courses or HND/Cs in various subjects related to their AVCE/AGCE courses, notably in Computing, Health & Social Care, Hospitality and Childcare. After the County Borough of Neath Port Talbot was formed in 1996, plans were put through to merge the Afan College and Neath College as one.
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The constituency is located in the preserved county of West Glamorgan, Wales. It consists of the electoral wards of: Aberdulais, Allt-wen, Blaengwrach, Bryn-côch North, Bryn-côch South, Cadoxton, Cimla, Crynant, Cwmllynfell, Dyffryn, Glynneath, Godre'r Graig, Gwaun-Cae- Gurwen, Lower Brynamman, Neath East, Neath North, Neath South, Onllwyn, Pelenna, Pontardawe, Resolven, Rhos, Seven Sisters, Tonna, Trebanos, Ystalyfera. The Neath constituency is a mixture of both industrial and rural communities, running in a north-south strip along the dips, ridges and folded landscape of South Wales. It includes most of the Neath and Dulais valleys, and some of the Upper Swansea Valley as well.
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The Neath by-election, 1991 was a by-election held on 4 April 1991 for the British House of Commons constituency of Neath in Wales. It was won by the Labour Party candidate Peter Hain.
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Norman Pugh was born in Godre'r Graig, Neath Port Talbot, Wales.
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Neath were a football club based in village of Llandarcy near Neath. The club was founded in 1922 as National Oil Refineries F.C. as a works team for the local new oil refinery. In 1954, National Oil Refineries changed their name to BP Llandarcy F.C. following the British Petroleum Company's acquisition of the refinery. They played their games at Llandarcy Park, Llandarcy, Neath.
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William Eric Evans (27 February 1894 – 21 June 1955) was a Welsh rugby player and the secretary of the Welsh Rugby Union from 1948-1955.Owen (1956), Obituary p. 77 Born in Neath in 1894, Evans left Wales to study at St Catharine's College, Cambridge. He returned to Neath during his vacations where he played for the Neath Rugby Club.Smith (1980), pg243.
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Plasmarl is centered on the A4067 road, which connects Swansea with the M4 motorway. The A4067, called Ffordd Cwm Tawe in the area, is a bypass to the older Neath Road (B4603), running parallel to it. The area to the west of Neath Road is mostly residential. The eastern side of Neath Road is lined with a number of major car dealerships.
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1943 Yerburgh, David S. An attempt to depict the Vale of Neath in South Wales: a pictorial journey around the Vale of Neath as undertaken by William Weston Young in 1835. Salisbury: D Yersburgh, 2001. p. 100 Young, William Weston. Guide to the Scenery and Beauties of Glyn Neath Bristol: John Wright & Co. (sold by Longman, Rees, Orme, Browne & Co. London) 1835.
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Neath Rugby Football Club () is a Welsh rugby union club which plays in the WRU Championship. The club's home ground is The Gnoll, Neath. The team is known as the All Blacks because of the team colours: black with only a white cross pattée as an emblem. Neath RFC is the oldest rugby club in Wales, having been formed in 1871.
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It was difficult to make a route through this section, as the GWR line, housing and industrial works were all close together; in fact the route picked its way at the back of houses, and the station was on an embankment between two rows of houses. Neath Swing BridgeAt Court Sart the line turned west, again crossing under the GWR line and crossing the Neath Canal and both parts of the River Neath, then turning south and then west to Danygraig. Danygraig was within the Swansea Harbour complex, giving access to mineral trains to the Swansea Harbour Trust lines there. The main part of the Neath River was crossed by the large Neath swing bridge.
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This is a list of schools in Neath Port Talbot in Wales.
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Also crossing the river here is the Vale of Neath Railway line and the A465 road. As it approaches the town of Neath the river passes the ancient church of Saint Illtud at Llantwit. Further on it loops around the former workhouse at Llety Nedd and skirts Penydre. Here it passes close to the Norman castle, visited by King Henry II, King John and King Edward I. As it meanders around the town of Neath it passes the remains of the Roman fort Nidum at Court Herbert and the Cistercian monastic foundation of Neath Abbey.
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He was only with the Pembrokeshire outfit for 6 months and Collins was transferred to big spending Neath to join up with former Swansea colleagues Lee Trundle and Kristian O'Leary. In his first season at Neath he was part of the side that won the Welsh Premier League play-off final. Collins went on to play in the UEFA Europa League against top flight Swedish side Aalesunds FK, however Neath were unsuccessful progressing to the next stage of the competition. In June 2012 he joined Aberystwyth Town following the liquidation of Neath.
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The upland areas are cut by five valleys: Vale of Neath, Dulais Valley, Afan Valley, Swansea Valley, Upper Amman Valley. Modern settlement patterns reflect the industrial history of the area, with urban development along the flatter areas of the valleys and some parts of the coast. Neath with a population of 47,020 is the largest town, followed by Port Talbot (35,633), Briton Ferry (7,186), Pontardawe (5,035), and Glynneath (4,368). The majority of the population live in the coastal plain around Port Talbot and the land around the River Neath in the vicinity of Neath.
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Hain lives in Resolven in the Neath Valley. He married his first wife Patricia Western in 1975, and they have two sons. In June 2003, he married his second wife, Welsh businesswoman, Elizabeth Haywood, in Neath Register Office.
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Sandfields West () is an electoral ward and a community of Neath Port Talbot county borough, Wales. It is part of the parliamentary constituency of Aberavon. The ward elects three county councillors to Neath Port Talbot County Borough Council.
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Sandfields East () is an electoral ward and a community of Neath Port Talbot county borough, Wales. It is part of the parliamentary constituency of Aberavon. The ward elects three county councillors to Neath Port Talbot County Borough Council.
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Map of Wales with Neath Port Talbot highlighted This is a list of public art in Neath Port Talbot in south Wales. Neath Port Talbot is a county borough and one of the unitary authority areas of Wales. This list applies only to works of public art on permanent display in an outdoor public space and does not, for example, include artworks in museums.
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If a new company, the Llantrissant and Taff Vale Junction Railway,This was the spelling at the time. were authorised, the TVR would contribute £10,000 to the share issue. Mwyndy to Merthyr would be 19 miles, one-third of the route via Neath currently in use,Broad gauge traffic reached Merthyr over the South Wales Railway to Neath and then the Vale of Neath Railway.
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Cadoxton is an electoral ward of Neath Port Talbot county borough, Wales. It forms part of the parish of Blaenhonddan. Cadoxton consists of some or all of the settlements of Cadoxton-juxta-Neath and Cilfrew in the parliamentary constituency of Neath. The ward consists of a built up area and a strip of woodland to the south with areas of pasture in the central and northern areas.
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There were a number of timber viaducts on the line from the beginning. The River Neath viaduct at the southern end of the line was 810 feet in length; it was replaced in 1875 partly by embankment. There were three other crossings of the River Neath using timber viaduct construction. Pencaedrain Viaduct between Glyn Neath and Hirwaun had eight spans on a 30 chain radius curve.
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On 1 April 1996, Neath Port Talbot was created from the former districts of Neath, Port Talbot and part of Lliw Valley. The name change happened on the following day. At the time of the reorganisation, many local people expected that Neath and Port Talbot districts would become separate unitary authorities, and there were protests when the new authority was announced.The Welsh Academy Encyclopedia of Wales.
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Welsh Premier League club Neath Athletic played at The Gnoll between 2008, and their liquidation in 2012. The ground hosted its first ever football match when Neath Athletic played Swansea City in a pre-season friendly in July 2008.
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Success in the Welsh Football League was followed by a placing of seventh in their first season in the Welsh Premier League. During summer 2008, Neath RFC agreed to allow Neath Athletic to share its home ground The Gnoll. With the move to a new home, the club also decided to rename itself Neath F.C.. Following Neath's first match at The Gnoll against Swansea City, the two clubs announced a partnership that would enable Swansea to send players on loan to Neath to gain first team experience. The first such players to join Neath were Kyle Graves, Dion Chambers and Kerry Morgan. On 23 April 2009, just a couple of days before the end of the 2008–09 Welsh Premier League season, Neath announced plans to go full-time for the 2009–10 season to challenge the likes of Llanelli AFC and Rhyl for the Welsh Premier League title.
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Jason Evans (born 1971) in Neath, Wales, is a South African lawn bowler.
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This pages is a list of venues in Neath Port Talbot county borough.
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Blaengwynfi is a village in the Neath Port Talbot area of South Wales.
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He died in November 1947 and was buried in Llantwit-juxta-Neath cemetery.
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First Cymru provides a bus service linking Pontardawe to Swansea, Neath, and Ystradgynlais.
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Norkett resided in Llandarcy, Neath Port Talbot. Prior to enrolling at Cardiff Metropolitan University, she attended Neath Port Talbot College, where she was named sportswoman of the year as well as player of the year for both rugby and netball.
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To the West is the Vale of Neath. To the north is the Crythan Brook and the town of Neath. It has numerous prehistoric monuments, and evidence of occupation in medieval times, as well as 19th and 20th century coalmining.
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There was a tunnel at Pencaedrain, near the summit above Glyn Neath; it was 526 yards in length. Gradients were stiff; from Neath to the summit at Hirwain was a steep climb, with 5½ miles of continuous 1 in 47 – 51.
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Cwrt Sart Community Comprehensive was a school located in Briton Ferry, Neath, Wales. It was one of the secondary schools in Neath Port Talbot, taking pupils aged 11 to 16.Cwrt Sart Website It opened as a council school in 1920.
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The estate was the property of the Mackworth family during the 18th and 19th centuries. There are few traces remaining of the house, once considered "one of the finest residences in the principality". Historically, the estate was part of the Norman-owned territory of Neath and Afan, which also comprised Neath Abbey and Neath Castle. The first recorded individual owner was Evan ap David during the 16th century.
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Ronald "Ron" Gwyn Waldron (born 14 December 1933 in Neath Abbey)Ron Waldron player profile Scrum.com is a former Welsh rugby union international player. He later took up coaching and is best known as the former head coach of Neath RFC during the late 1980s when Neath dominated British rugby for a number of seasons. Waldron built a team of senior international players including Jonathan Davies and Allan Bateman.
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Glynneath is the name of an electoral ward in Neath Port Talbot county borough, Wales. The electoral ward of Glynneath consists of some or all of the following settlements: Glynneath, Morfa Glas, Rheola, Crugau, Pont-walby, Bryn-awel, Pentreclwydau and Aber-pergwym in the parliamentary constituency of Neath. Most of the ward consists of woodland. The floor of the Vale of Neath crosses the ward on its south eastern edge.
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Croeserw is a village of approximately 1,380 inhabitants in Neath Port Talbot County Borough.
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Connor played for Abertillery RFC, Ebbw Vale RFC, Newport RFC and also Neath RFC.
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A by- election took place in the Neath South ward on 6 December 2012.
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Neath Port Talbot Steelers' junior teams take part in the Welsh Conference Junior League.
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An essential part of any through route between Hereford and Swansea was the completion of the Swansea Vale and Neath & Brecon Junction Railway, commonly referred to as The Junction Line. This was to run between Colbren Junction on the N&BR; to Ynysygeinon on the SVR. Even without Midland Railway involvement, this had been desirable for the N&BR; company, giving better access to Swansea than running via Neath. The Swansea Vale and Neath & Brecon Junction Railway was promoted in 1863 to build a line connecting the Swansea Vale Railway at Ynysygeinon with the Neath and Brecon Railway at Colbren.
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Neath Football Club () was a Welsh professional association football club based in Neath last playing in the Welsh Premier League. The club was formed in 2005 following the merger between Neath and Skewen Athletic. Originally known as Neath Athletic A.F.C. the club played its first two seasons in Welsh Football League Division One before being promoted to the Welsh Premier League. The president of the club was Peter Hain M.P., the life vice-president was David Maddock who had been associated with the club and its predecessors (as player, committeeman and secretary) for over 56 years.
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The Neath by-election, 1945, was a parliamentary by-election held for the British House of Commons constituency of Neath in South Wales. Neath was considered a safe seat for the Labour Party and had been held by William Jenkins since the 1922 general election. No other candidate had stood in the seat at the last general election."Neath Polling To-Day", Manchester Guardian, 15 May 1945 Jenkins died on 8 December 1944, but as World War II was still underway, the process of calling a by-election was slow, and the date was ultimately set as 15 May 1945.
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Dulas instead of Dulais was no doubt the responsibility of the Parliamentary draftsmen in London. The estimated cost was £60,000. The purpose was to bring coal down from the Onllwyn area to the waterway at Neath, though some among the promoters saw this as part of a future through route from Swansea to Birmingham and Manchester.A F N Barnsdale, The Neath and Brecon Railway, in the Railway Magazine, September 1939 The line was to make a junction with the Vale of Neath Railway at Neath, and the VoNR was to lay a third rail to enable narrow (standard) gauge access.
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When first formed, the club had a choice of both grounds of the merged clubs, Llandarcy Park of Neath F.C. and Tennant Park of Skewen Athletic F.C.. As Llandarcy Park was the better of the two Neath Athletic decided to call it home.
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Water feature at the Gnoll Country Park The Gnoll Country Park (or Gnoll Estate) is a park in Wales. It is an early-18th-century landscaped garden covering over in the Vale of Neath, in Neath Port Talbot county borough in south Wales.
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Griffith was born in Dublin, Republic of Ireland, on 4 December 1956. Her family comes from mining villages near Neath, in South Wales. Her mother was born in Neath. Her father was Professor Thomas Gwynfor Griffith; her mother was Dr. Rhiannon Howell.
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Ysgol Gymraeg Ystalyfera Bro Dur is a Welsh-medium comprehensive school in Neath Port Talbot, Wales. The school provides education to three to eighteen- year-old pupils in Neath Port Talbot and south Powys from three campuses in Ystalyfera and Port Talbot.
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Tonmawr primary school Tonmawr is a village in Neath Port Talbot county borough, south Wales. It is located around four miles east of Neath. The village is home to a rugby union team (Tonmawr RFC), a community centre, and the Bryn Bettws Lodge.
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Trade Centre Wales’s Neath branch was established in 1999 and is the group’s head office. In 2016, the company opened new workshops at its site in Neath, investing £2.8 million on facilities, including 32 vehicle ramps and state of the art diagnostic equipment.
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A F N Barnsdale, The Neath and Brecon Railway, in the Railway Magazine, September 1939.
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This is a list of places in the Neath Port Talbot County Borough in Wales.
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Lambert won 7 caps for Wales in 1950–1952 while at Neath, Dewsbury, and Warrington.
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He worked in another capacity at the Neath Abbey Ironworks, probably from 1844 to 1849.
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Neild published an anthology of his own poetry, Songs 'neath the Southern Cross, in 1896.
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There are further outliers around Cwm Taf Fechan associated with faulting along the Neath Disturbance.
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Onllwyn () is a small village and community in Neath Port Talbot, Wales, near Seven Sisters.
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Thomas played rugby as a school boy, and was selected to represent his country for the Welsh Secondary Schools side. On leaving Neath Grammar School, he matriculated to Cambridge University, where he was selected for the University team, and won three sporting 'Blues' playing in the Varsity Match in 1960, 1961 and 1962. During his time back in Wales, away from College, he represented his local team Neath, and faced the touring South African team of 1961 as part of a joint Aberavon / Neath side. On leaving Cambridge he returned to Neath where he became an integral member of the Neath team. At the age of 22, he was selected for his first full international cap when he was chosen to represent Wales against England as part of the 1963 Five Nations Championship.
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Coal trains ran from Aberdare to London and Southampton as well as Liverpool; bunkering ocean-going ships at the latter ports was an important part of the business. After the GWR had acquired both the West Midland Railway and the Vale of Neath Railway, it regarded the route from Aberdare to Pontypool as a single entity, and some writers refer to the whole distance to Pontypool as "the Vale of Neath line". However Middle Duffryn was the boundary between the Vale of Neath Railway network and the Taff Vale Extension line.Gwyn Briwnant Jones and Denis Dunstone, The Vale of Neath Line from Neath to Pontypool Road, Gomer Press, Llandysul, 1996, The route was exceptionally congested, and the layout and infrastructure were not adequate for some time for the traffic to be handled.
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The following year they would surpass their previous season's record as Saturday 6 May 2006 Pontypridd beat Neath 26–25 to win the WRU Challenge Cup (then called the Konica Minolta Cup, and currently called the SWALEC Cup after the sponsors of the tournament) in a well fought final at the Millennium Stadium. Neath were pre-match favourites having recently secured the Welsh Premier league by a large points margin, and going into the game chasing a league and cup 'double'. This was a replay of the classic 1996 final, when Pontypridd had also stopped Neath RFC 'doing the double'. 17 May 2008 saw Pontypridd enter a repeat performance against Neath at the Millennium Stadium. The score, however, was not to be repeated, as Neath beat Pontypridd 28–22.
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From afar, drawing nigh, falls the night. > Thanks and praise, for our days, 'Neath the sun, 'neath the stars, neath the > sky; As we go, this we know, God is nigh. Sun has set, shadows come, Time > has fled, Scouts must go to their beds Always true to the promise that they > made. While the light fades from sight, And the stars gleaming rays softly > send, To thy hands we our souls, Lord, commend.
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Vale of Neath Railway 0-6-0ST locomotives were 0-6-0 saddle tank steam locomotives for working the heavy goods traffic on the Vale of Neath Railway and its associated lines in Wales. The first of 13 broad gauge locomotives entered service in 1854 and the last was withdrawn in 1886. The remaining four were standard gauge locomotives. The Vale of Neath Railway was amalgamated into the Great Western Railway on 1 February 1865.
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Thomas was born in 1865, and was educated at various colleges before matriculating to Aberystwyth University.Jenkins (1991), pg. 154 He became a solicitor and founded a legal firm in Neath. He was elected onto Neath Town Council in 1897 and was made mayor in 1900.
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Dafydd Lockyer profile at Pontypridd RFC (undated). Accessed 23 February 2015 Lockyer signed for Neath RFC in 2007 and participated in that club's double-championship-winning side. However, his time at Neath was marked by a number of injuries and his appearances were limited.
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Cimla is a suburb (and electoral ward) of the town of Neath in the county borough of Neath Port Talbot, Wales. It is set high up on a hill. It is pronounced Kim-la. The Welsh language spelling is Cymla, pronounced the same way.
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Peter Hain retained Neath easily for Labour, although there was a 14% swing to Plaid Cymru.
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No trace of the station remains and the site is lost under the A4067 Neath Road.
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John Davies won a cap for Wales (RU) while at Neath RFC in 1962 against Ireland.
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The Skewen Greyhound Stadium is a former greyhound racing track in Skewen, Neath Port Talbot, Wales.
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Falls on the River Clydach at Longford, near Neath Abbey The River Clydach or Afon Clydach is a river in the county borough of Neath Port Talbot, Wales. It runs generally southwards from the western slopes of Mynydd Marchywel for about 9 km and past Fforest Goch, Bryncoch and Neath Abbey to join the River Neath near Neath.Ordnance Survey 1:25,000 scale Explorer map 165 Swansea Each of the rivers bearing the name 'Clydach' in South Wales is thought to derive from an earlier Celtic word 'klou' or 'kleu' together with the suffix '-ach' which is of Irish origin. The sense is of a 'strong-flowing', 'washing' or stony river.
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Jones first played rugby for his local school before joining Glynneath. Like many successful players from the area, once Jones had been noticed as a rugby talent, he progressed to Neath RFC, the most notable club in the region. In the 1903-04 season, Neath made Jones the captain of the Neath senior XV. As captain of Neath, Jones was selected for his one and only international appearance, playing for Wales in the country's final game of the 1904 Home Nations Championship. Wales had already played England and Scotland, registering a draw and a win, meaning a win over Ireland would give Wales the possibility of winning the Championship.
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The Industrial Locomotive Society: West Glamorgan. Locomotive Plymouth No 8 of the Neath Abbey Ironworks Two similar 0-4-0T steam locomotives with a gauge of were supplied to the Neath Abbey Coal Company in 1858 by the company of R. & W. Hawthorn in Newcastle upon Tyne.
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By tradition the earliest English ancestor of the family was Sir Richard de Grenville (died after 1142) (alias de Grainvilla, de Greinvill, etc.), one of the Twelve Knights of Glamorgan who served in the Norman Conquest of Glamorgan under Robert FitzHamon (died 1107), the first Norman feudal baron of Gloucester and Lord of Glamorgan from 1075. He obtained from FitzHamon the lordship of Neath, Glamorgan, in which he built Neath Castle and in 1129 founded Neath Abbey.
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In 1900 he was elected to the Neath town council, and in 1905 he became the Mayor of Neath. After the outbreak of World War I, Rees was made the recruiting officer for the Neath district, responsible for the recruitment of more than a third of Glamorgan. In 1916 the War Office conferred on Rees the rank of Captain, to reflect his position as the principal registration and tribunal officer for the area.Smith (1980), pg 202.
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Perrett originally played rugby for his local club Briton Ferry before eventually playing for Neath. While a member of Neath he earned his first Welsh cap against the touring South Africa team. Wales ran the South Africans close, but lost to a single penalty kick. Perrett was reselected for Wales in the 1913 Five Nations Championship, one of only two Welsh players to appear in all four matches of the campaign; the other being Neath teammate Glyn Stephens.
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A separate daily edition of the South Wales Evening Post is published for the Neath Port Talbot area. The paper's publisher, Reach plc, also produces a free weekly paper, the Neath Port Talbot Courier, which is inserted in Thursday's edition of the South Wales Evening Post. The local council publishes a quarterly, Community Spirit, produced and funded in conjunction with seven other public sector partners. Community radio station is XS broadcasts to both Neath (97.4) and Port Talbot (107.9).
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Howell Davies won caps for Wales (RU) while at Neath RFC in 1912 against England, and Scotland.
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The other six constituencies of the region are Aberavon, Bridgend, Gower, Neath, Swansea East and Swansea West.
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Ten hours later, their balloon landed near Neath, South Wales, narrowly avoiding drifting out over the Atlantic.
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The following people and military units have received the Freedom of the Borough of Neath Port Talbot.
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He continued to hold the Neath seat until his death at Cymmer, Port Talbot in December 1944.
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Lower Brynamman is a village and an electoral ward of Neath Port Talbot county borough in Wales.
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The song "Neath the Beeches" was written about the late musician Jeff Buckley, a friend of Hansard's.
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Rhodes was born on 10 October 1977, in Neath in South Wales. He was educated at Cefn Saeson Comprehensive School, followed by Neath College. Rhodes studied history at the University of Wales Swansea, graduating with a B.A.(Hons) degree in 1996, which was followed by an M.Phil. in 2003.
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Cilybebyll is both a village and a community in the Neath Port Talbot County Borough, Wales. It includes the villages of Alltwen, Fforest Gôch, Gellinudd and Rhos. The village is located east of Pontardawe, north of Neath and northeast of Swansea. The community has a population of 4,806.
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Trinity's alma mater is "’Neath the Elms." It was written in 1882 by Trinity student Augustus P. Burgwin to the tune of a song that his butler often sang. When "'Neath the Elms" was written, the college had been planting elm trees on the quad, which remain today.
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Neath railway station is a main line railway station serving the town of Neath, south Wales. Managed by Transport for Wales, the station is located at street level on Windsor Road, situated back from the street fronting a small car park. It is from London Paddington (via Stroud).
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Prosser first played rugby for his home town, Glynneath, before moving to first class side Neath. It was with Neath that Prosser first played against international opposition, when he was chosen for a joint Neath / Aberavon team to face the touring South Africans in 1931. It was a very close game that was 3-3, when in a final attack, the South Africans scored the winning try. Prosser trialed for the Wales team as early as the 1931/32 seasonBillot (1974), pg 166.
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The VoNR decided on an unsatisfactory compromise; they would convert most of their network to mixed gauge, and they would assist in the promotion of a Swansea and Neath Railway, a mixed gauge line. It received the Royal Assent on 6 April 1861 and was opened on 15 July 1863. Passenger operation commenced from a new station in Neath to a temporary platform at Wind Street in Swansea, on 1 August 1863. There were intermediate stations at Neath Abbey and Briton Ferry Road.
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Neath Corporation took over the tramway services previously provided by the Neath and District Tramways Company. Unlike other local authority tramway modernisation programmes, Neath Corporation opted for town gas powered tramcars, The British Gas Traction Company supplied the tramcars, which stored town gas under compression in cylinders. British Gas Traction Company was a subsidiary of Luhrig Company, and obtained the gas engines from Gasmotoren-Fabrik Deutz of Köln. The tramcars were manufactured under licence by the Lancaster Railway Carriage and Wagon Company.
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He went to Neath Grammar School for Boys in Wales. He studied at Queen Mary College in London.
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C. W. Nicol was born in Neath, Wales in July 1940. He graduated from Tokyo University of Science.
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The track "A Jar of Sand" was re- recorded for the 'Neath the Puke Tree EP in 2000.
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Les Anthony won caps for Wales (RU) while at Neath RFC in 1938 against England, Scotland, and France.
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Rhiwfawr is a hamlet of 40 houses in the Swansea Valley, in Neath Port Talbot county borough, Wales.
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Cwmllynfell () is the name of a village, community and electoral ward in Neath Port Talbot county borough, Wales.
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The authorisation of the South Wales Railway brought fresh energy to the possibility of new railway lines in South Wales, but it was to skirt the southern margin of the valleys. Industrial locations in the valleys themselves would need their own railways to link to the South Wales Railway, or to harbours for onward conveyance of their production. H S Coke was the Town Clerk of Neath, and a solicitor by profession. He was the driving force in promoting the idea of a railway following the River Neath, and connecting Merthyr with Neath; at Neath there would be the alternatives of onward railway transport on the South Wales Railway, or transfer to ships at the staithes on the river.
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Page 103: "Reluctance thereafter to run passenger trains over this harbour bridge and congestion with coal traffic caused the GWR to switch passenger trains..." Local services resumed on the Swansea and Neath line on 1 October 1881 but used East Dock station as the Swansea terminus, avoiding crossing the site of the accident; the location was remarkably inconvenient for the town. In 1936 this service was again ended; Neath Riverside became a terminus for short- journey trains on the VoNR and for some terminating trains on the Neath and Brecon Railway. During the period when VoNR trains were running to Swansea High Street over the SWR main line, they reversed at Neath General station.
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The Neath Guardian was a local weekly newspaper published between 1925 and 2009 covering Neath, Wales, and the surrounding area. At the time of its closure, it was published weekly, on a Wednesday, in the tabloid format by Media Wales (formerly Western Mail and Echo), part of the Trinity Mirror group. The newspaper had two editions: the Neath Guardian, which covered the town itself, as well as Briton Ferry, Skewen, and the communities of the Neath and Dulais valleys, and the Port Talbot Guardian, which covered Port Talbot, Baglan, Margam and the Afan Valley. Both titles were part of the Celtic Weekly Newspapers series, which still publishes seven other weekly titles across South Wales.
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Frontis page, featuring a depiction of Neath Castle. The Dinas Firebrick Works experienced some financial and technical troubles during 1829, and Young laid out further monies to support his nephew William Weston Young Jr.'s stake in the company, but the company traded at limited profits for some time, requiring Young to start painting commercially yet again, this time in watercolours of the Neath Valley, where he'd moved once more, to Fairyland House, near the Ivy Tower on the Mackworth Estate, Tonna, Neath, Glamorganshire. In 1835, Young published an eighty-five-page, illustrated book Guide to the Scenery and Beauties of Glyn Neath, published by John Wright & Co. Bristol and sold by Longman, Rees, Orme, Browne & Co. London MDCCCXXXV. The naive but charming book comprises a prose guide to the Neath Valley and is illustrated with landscapes, scenery and decorative topographical and geological maps.
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In 1790 he assisted his father and brother John with a survey for the fledgling Neath Canal Company. The following year he became the engineer for the Neath Canal, and also became surveyor and engineer for the Leominster Canal, a position which he held until 1795, simultaneously with his other projects. Dadford's aqueduct at Brynich carries the Brecon and Abergavenny Canal over the River Usk He supervised the construction of the Neath Canal from Neath to Ynysbwllog, where the canal was to cross the River Neath by an aqueduct; but in 1792 he resigned before the project was completed, in order to become engineer for the Monmouthshire Canal. He was contracted to devote three-quarters of his time to the canal, the main line of which was completed by 1796, and the remaining quarter enabled him to fulfill his obligation on the Leominster Canal.
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The remains of the Neath Bridge Street station can be seen by looking down at the railway alongside the river bridge just before Neath railway station in the Swansea direction. Neath General also acted as the western passenger terminus of the Vale of Neath Railway for most of its life - trains running from here to Pontypool Road via and via a connecting curve at the west end of the station. These ceased in June 1964 (when the line fell victim to the Beeching Axe) and the link line was lifted, though parts of the old VoNR remains intact (but disused) as far as Resolven and from Aberdare to Hirwaun."Railscot - Vale of Neath Railway"Railscot; Retrieved 25 August 2016 The present station buildings date from 1974, when the old GWR structures dating from 1886/87 were demolished and rebuilt in contemporary style by British Rail.
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He was released by Swansea City at the end of the 2010–11 season. In June 2011 he joined Neath. Following the winding-up of Neath in the summer of 2012, Morgan joined Bath City. After a season with Bath, Morgan joined Southern League side Merthyr Town in June 2013.
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The village is situated in the Vale of Neath, north east of the town of Neath, next to the A465 Heads of Valleys Road, and is the main settlement in the community of Resolven. Together with the community of Clyne and Melincourt, the village makes up the Resolven electoral ward.
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It is also the name of an electoral ward of Neath Port Talbot county borough, which is a larger area than the Community. The principal settlement is Cwmgwrach, a village on the south side of the Neath valley, of which the eastern end is called Blaengwrach, which sometimes causes confusion.
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Coed Darcy is a new village currently being developed adjacent to Llandarcy in Neath Port Talbot county borough, Wales.
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Tonna Hospital () is a psychiatric hospital in Tonna, Neath, Wales. It is managed by Swansea Bay University Health Board.
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Currently partly used as a goods line the Vale of Neath Railway once served the area for passenger trains.
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195 An Elvet Jones represented Wales in the Victory Internationals after the war, but he represented Cardiff and Neath.
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Falls of the Afon Hepste, Wales - "Picturesque Europe" "Waterfall Country" is a nickname given to the Vale of Neath due to the diverse number of waterfalls in the valley.SummitPost - Waterfall Country - Vale of Neath - UKYouTube - Vale of Neath waterfalls In the upper reaches of the valley, at the foothills of the Brecon Beacons, are the waterfalls of four or five rivers: the Afon Hepste, Nedd Fechan, Afon Pyrddin, Afon Mellte and Afon Sychryd. In the lower valley, waterfalls can be found at Melincourt and Aberdulais.
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Several minor rivers rise on the southern slopes of Fforest Fawr. These include the Afon Hepste, Afon Sychryd, Afon Pyrddin, Nedd Fechan and Afon Mellte, the latter two converging at Pontneddfechan to form the River Neath. Upstream from these confluences is the area known as Waterfall Country (), where the rivers plunge over a series of spectacular cataracts. The river flows through the Vale of Neath, a long straight valley developed along the Neath Disturbance and which carried a major glacier during the ice ages.
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Wales finished the 1904 Championship in second and Jones was never selected to play for Wales again. Jones came from a sporting family, and his brothers William (Bill) and Idris both played for the Neath first XV. Bill, like Jones, captained Neath, but he held the position for three seasons from 1910 to 1913.Jenkins (1991), pg 89. Jones' son, Elwyn Howel "Howie" Jones like his father played for Neath, but also represented Swansea and Aberavon; and in 1930 played in two Welsh internationals.
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Coal mining in the Neath area began with the development of the port of Neath in the 16th century. In 1743 Herbert Mackworth began mining at Onllwyn, with production rising with the opening of the Neath and Brecon Railway in 1864. David Bevan opened a pit at Blaendulais in 1872, naming it the Seven Sisters after his seven daughters. The Evans-Bevan family then began exploiting the Swansea Valley from the 1870s, and by nationalisation in 1947 owned seven collieries within seven miles of each other.
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The passenger service between Brecon and Neath was finally withdrawn in October 1962; by now it had been reduced to one train per day in each direction. In 1966, the direct lines linking Neath and Swansea with Brecon via Colbren were deemed to be no longer viable. The Swansea branch to Ynys-y-Geinon ceased carrying local freight in 1967 wherein Colbren stopped being a junction with the removal of the branch. Freight traffic continued to pass through Colbren from Penwyllt quarries to Neath until 1977.
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The Neath and Brecon Stephensons were 0-6-2T tank locomotives introduced into traffic on the Neath and Brecon Railway in 1904 from a Rhymney Railway design. There were three locos in the class. They were built by Robert Stephenson and Company and were almost identical to the successful Rhymney Railway M class.
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Skewen was once an industrial village. There were a number of collieries around the village (see link below). The Crown and Mines Royal Copper Works and the Cheadle and Neath Abbey Ironworks were once important industrial sites which stood close by. Old top-loading blast furnaces can also be seen at Neath Abbey.
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Samuel Simmonds Clark (1857 – 25 May 1947) was an English-born rugby union official and international rugby union full-back who played club rugby for Neath. Clark was the first Neath player to win an international cap for Wales while representing the club; and played in the second Welsh international match in 1882.
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David Thomas was born in Cadoxton, near Neath. He went to school at nearby Alltwen and at Neath, and worked on his father's farm before going into the iron industry. He married Elizabeth Hopkins in 1817. As an adult, he was widely regarded as one of the foremost ironmasters in the United Kingdom.
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Blaenhonddan Primary School. Bryncoch is a suburb of the town of Neath in Neath Port Talbot County Borough, Wales. The name derives from the Welsh 'red hill' (bryn is hill, coch is red), originally the name of a nearby farm.Wyn Owen, H. and Morgan, R. (2008) Dictionary of the Place-names of Wales.
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During the years 1859-61 he claimed to have been involved in some way with the promotion of the Swansea and Neath Railway (the extension into Swansea of the Vale of Neath Railway), although it is not possible to establish the exact role that he played in this.Dickson's claims to have taken a leading part in the promotion of the Swansea & Neath Railway are based on his own statement in The Cambrian, 14 May 1886, p 8c, and on a further letter by Dickson quoted by E.E. Rowse, Proposed re-opening of Wind Street station and Swansea on the main line (priv. print, c1890) In 1861, having assembled a group of financial backers, Dickson promoted the Dulais Valley Mineral Railway, a scheme to build a short line from the Vale of Neath Railway at Neath up the Dulais Valley to Banwen with a view to opening up the coal reserves of the valley. It was authorised in 1862.25 & 26 Vict c. cxciii.
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Arthur Hickman won caps for Wales (RU) while at Neath RFC in 1930 against England, and in 1933 against Scotland.
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Rhos is a village in the Swansea Valley, located outside of Pontardawe, in Neath Port Talbot county borough, South Wales.
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Griffiths was born in 1867 in Neath, Wales and was educated at the Melyn Voluntary School. In 1899 at the age of 32 Griffiths became a student at the newly opened Ruskin College in Oxford, England. In his home town he worked in the local steel industry and also served on Neath Town Council.
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Clark was born in Dorset in 1857, but moved to Wales while in his childhood. By 1874, at the age of 17 he began playing for Neath Rugby Football Club,Neath - Rugby Town Rugbyrelics.com and on 27 April 1880 he was appointed as the secretary of the South Wales Football Association.Smith (1980), pg 38.
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Dinas Rock (Welsh: Craig y Ddinas, "Fortress Rock") is a high promontory of Carboniferous Limestone which rises between the Afon Mellte and its left-bank tributary, the Afon Sychryd on the border between the county of Powys and the county borough of Neath Port Talbot in south Wales. It can be found near the village of Pontneddfechan near Glyn Neath at the head of the Vale of Neath. It derives its name from the presence of Iron Age earthworks on its summit, dinas in Welsh signifying a defensive site or "city".
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The school opened its doors for the first time in September 1973 following the ending of grammar school education in the Neath area. The Upper School was housed on Dwr-y-Felin Road in the buildings of the former grammar school adjacent to Neath Port Talbot College, while the Lower School was situated on the campus of the former secondary modern school in Longford, Neath Abbey now it is all located on a single site on the upper school site with an extra building having been built costing the school 9.7 million pounds.
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U-66s torpedo attack was successful, sinking the ship and killing 20 men, including the ship's master.Tennent, p. 99. Five days later, U-66 encountered the five-masted bark Neath south by east of Fastnet Rock. Equipped with an auxiliary triple-expansion steam engine, Neath was the former German bark R. C. Rickmers which had been seized by the Admiralty at Cardiff in August 1914. After U-66 torpedoed Neath at 08:45, the bark, en route from Martinique to Le Havre with a load of sugar, sank in seven minutes.
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This led Mackworth to begin smelting copper at Melincryddan in Neath, but found himself in direct competition with Sir Edward Mansel, who owned coal mining in the neighbouring areas. Mackworth employed the use of wooden waggonways to transport coal from his mines on the Gnoll estate to the wharf at Neath and to supply his copperworks at Melincryddan. The latter involved the innovative use of sails to take advantage of the wind to propel the waggons.Trott, C. D. J. "Coal-mining in the Borough of Neath", Morgannwg transactions of the Local History Society, Vol.
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The founding clubs of the WFU (Welsh Football Union), as it was originally known, were Swansea C & FC, Pontypool RFC, Newport RFC, Merthyr RFC, Llanelli RFC, Bangor RFC, Brecon RFC, Cardiff RFC, Lampeter RFC, Llandovery RFC and Llandeilo RFC.Smith (1980), pg 41. Strangely the oldest rugby club in Wales, Neath RFC are not recorded as being present, even though the meeting took place in the town of Neath. It is unknown if this was an oversight by the committee to record the presence of the club, or if Neath RFC actually did not attend.
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Colbren Junction was a railway station on the Neath and Brecon Railway. The station, which was near Coelbren, was completed at the same time as the Swansea Vale and Neath and Brecon Joint Railway opened a seven-mile branch from here to Ynysygeinon in 1873. It was a key junction in the networks operated by the Midland, Neath and Brecon, and Great Western railway companies. Although the Welsh spelling of the nearby village is ‘Coelbren’, the anglicised version ‘Colbren’ was used for the station name and in railway literature.
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The village was originally served by Hirwaun railway station on the Vale of Neath Railway, which arrived in 1851. At Gelli Tarw Junction east of the station, the mainline from to met the Vale of Neath Railway branch to and the Aberdare Railway. South of the station were the goods yard and sidings which served the various industries in the area, including Hirwaun Ironworks, Tower Colliery, two brickworks, and Penderyn quarry tramway. With the Beeching Axe in 1963, the lines south to Neath and north to Merthyr and the former Aberdare Railway were all closed.
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She also played hockey at international level for Wales. She was a full-time P.E. teacher at Neath Girls' Grammar School.
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Hywel Simons (born 10 February 1970) is a British actor from Neath, Wales. Born in Neath, he was brought up in Porthcawl. He started acting while a pupil at Porthcawl Comprehensive School, before he went on to study at LAMDA. Simons first TV role came soon after graduation in 1993, as oil rig worker Wilf Granelli in Roughnecks.
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The town of Neath is at its southern end and is a medium-sized town which started life as a Roman Nidum. The constituency boasts historical places of both industrial and natural forms. Neath and the surrounding areas were industrialised very early in Britain's history. Copper smelting was already happening here in the late sixteenth century.
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His rectory of Llangatwg-iuxta-Nedd (Llangattock-juxta-Neath) was situated beside his former monastery. There are no records of Lleision after 1541. Lleision ap Thomas was the most influential of the late medieval Cistercian abbots in Wales. According to Lewys Morgannwg he was pious and learned, and Neath Abbey was a bastion of the Welsh language and culture.
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Born in Bridgend, Wales, Chunuonsee spent two years as a scholar with Cardiff City before joining Bryntirion Athletic and then Neath Athletic. He joined Neath in June 2008 but departed the club in September 2008 to join Afan Lido. In January 2009 he scored his first goal for the club. In July 2009, he moved to Muangthong United.
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Arthur Joseph (13 March 1919 – 2 January 2002) was a Welsh cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and a leg-break bowler. He was born in the Neath Abbey area of Neath and died in Briton Ferry. Joseph made a single first-class appearance for Glamorgan in 1946, and played for the Second XI between 1946 and 1951.
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In July 2010, Trundle returned to the Welsh Premier League with Neath, making his debut for the club on the opening day of the 2010–11 season in a 2–1 defeat to Bangor City. Neath were wound up at the end of the 2011–12 season due to ongoing financial problems, leaving Trundle without a club.
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The nine Vale of Neath Railway 4-4-0ST locomotives were broad gauge 4-4-0 saddle tank steam locomotives. The first entered service in 1851 and the last was withdrawn in 1872. The Vale of Neath Railway was amalgamated into the Great Western Railway on 1 February 1865, but the locomotives retained their old numbers.
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Maesteg (Neath Road) railway station served the town of Maesteg, Glamorgan, Wales from 1898 to 1964 on the Llynvi and Ogmore Railway.
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Filming started in April 2017. The film was largely shot on a set built at Margam Park in Neath Port Talbot, Wales.
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Aberdylais halt railway station served the village of Aberdulais in Wales. It was located on the line from Neath to Merthyr Tydfil.
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Dwr-y-Felin School (in Welsh: Ysgol Gyfun Dŵr-y-Felin) is a comprehensive school in the town of Neath in South Wales.
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He was born on 6 August 1934 in Butetown, Cardiff, and played rugby union for the CIAC's RFC, Pontypridd RFC and Neath RFC.
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On 25 February 2017, Norkett died as a result of a car crash near Glynneath, Neath Port Talbot. She was 20 years old.
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Margam Halt railway station served the steelworks in Margam, Neath Port Talbot, Wales from 1948 to 1964 on the South Wales Main Line.
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Dai Harris was born in Morriston, Wales, he was a blacksmith's assistant, and his death aged 79 was registered in Neath district, Wales.
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The north-eastern edge of the town is marked by the River Neath. A landmark in the town is the Port Talbot Steelworks.
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Penscynor Wildlife Park was a wildlife and safari park located near Neath in South Wales. It opened in 1971 and closed in 1998.
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Roger Argente (born 1962 Neath, Wales) is Principal Bass Trombone for the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and teaches at Trinity College of Music, London.
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Pen y Cymoedd ("Head of the Valleys") is a wind farm located between Neath and Aberdare in south Wales. It opened in 2017.
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In June 2014 Phillips was appointed Director Of Rugby for Welsh club Neath RFC; he left later when appointed manager of London Welsh.
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Traditionally the club has produced a strong youth team. Between the 1960s and 1980s in particular the team was one of the strongest lower tier clubs in Wales producing the following players who moved on to the then "first class" set up - Mark Morgan (Aberavon), Alfred "Alfie" Hayes (Bridgend), John Mahoney (Aberavon), Richie Davies (Aberavon) - Captain during their Centenary Season, Hedley Jenkins (Bridgend ), Paul Hughes (Neath), Jeffrey Griffiths (Aberavon, Llanelli and Wales (Romania 1979- an un- capped game at the time)), Martin Thomas (Aberavon), Paul Ridsdale (Aberavon), Andrew Twomey (Aberavon, Maesteg), Robert Emmitt (Aberavon), Kevin O'Leary (Aberavon), Hywel Evans (Aberavon),Phil George (Aberavon), Dai Rees (Aberavon & South Wales Police RFC, Ian Rees (Neath & Maesteg), Robert Beresford (Aberavon), Andrew Jones (Aberavon and Bridgend), Stuart Evans (Swansea, Neath and Wales), Dai Joseph (Aberavon, Swansea, Cardidd and Neath), Huw Griffiths (Aberavon and South Wales Police RFC), Lee Bridgeman (Aberavon), Deane Jones (Aberavon, South Wales Police RFC and Neath), Richard Diplock (Wales - one cap v. Romania 1988), Chris Bradshaw (Aberavon, Bridgend, Cardiff and Swansea), Wayne Morris (Aberavon), Phil Hamley (Aberavon)- Captain.
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The proposal would see a new line from to station via Swansea Bay, which would allow a 30-minute service between Cardiff and Swansea following the scrapping of plans for electrification between the two cities in July 2017. The project is estimated to cost £1 billion. The project could see reopening of the Neath Valley line through new stations at Neath Abbey, Jersey Marine, Neath and Aberdulais, an on-street connection from Swansea to Mumbles, and new stations via the existing Swansea to Cardiff route. The project promises better use of existing infrastructure and faster journey times.
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A third class coach built for the opening of the line (although the roof was added later) Finally on 23 September 1851 a ceremonial opening train for directors and their friends ran from Neath to Aberdare. There were stations at Neath, jointly with the South Wales Railway, Aberdulais, Resolven, Glyn Neath, Hirwain, Merthyr Road, and Aberdare. Merthyr Road was the station for reaching Merthyr by a road connection; it was located where the present-day A465 road crosses the route. The ordinary public service started on 24 September 1851, with three trains each way daily, two on Sundays.
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The South Wales Railway station at Neath was located some distance south of the connection to its line from the Vale of Neath Railway. The VoNR used that station, and there was some friction over the management of the station. When the Swansea and Neath Railway opened in 1863, a new Low Level station was built on that line immediately south of the bridge where it passed under the SWR main line. In 1865 the GWR, having taken over the VoNR, decided to relocate the main line station close to the Low Level station so as to enable easy interchange.
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Richard Johnston (born 26 February 1980 in Neath, Wales) first started his career at Neath RFC in 1998 where he gained representative honours for Wales under 18/19s. In 2000 Richard signed for Pontypridd RFC where he spent three years. In his time at Ponty, Richard was selected for Wales U21s and Wales 7s and was involved in the squad that won the Welsh Cup in 2002 and narrowly lost to Sale in the Parker Pen European Shield Final. After regional rugby was formed he returned to Neath RFC winning the league twice and Welsh Cup in a three-year stint.
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Entry to Neath was all very well, having been chosen because of the convenience of simply building down from Onllwyn to Neath in the Dulais Valley. Swansea, however, was a much more attractive destination, and the N&BR; set about thinking how that place might be reached. The Swansea Vale Railway had been opened in stages down to 1861; it ran from Swansea to Ystalyfera, and was not far to the west of the N&BR; line. The decision was taken to build a connecting line, and this became the Swansea Vale & Neath & Brecon Junction Railway.
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Jones was educated at Cymer Afan Comprehensive School and Neath College. He has represented Wales at every level from Schools up to the national side, including the Grand Slam-winning Under-21 side of 1999. During the early part of his career, Jones played at tighthead prop, but successfully converted to the loosehead position in 2001. He made his first-class debut for Neath RFC in 1999 and played for the club until the end of the 2002–03 season, when, following a reorganisation of Welsh rugby, Jones transferred to what was then the Neath-Swansea Ospreys.
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Thomas went on to represent Wales 21 times between 1963 and 1969, each of his caps won as a Neath player, his only senior club. He toured twice with Wales, in 1964 to South Africa, playing in all four games, and in 1969 to Australasia and Fiji. While at Neath he captained them for two seasons between 1966 and 1968.
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The inaugural Headteacher was Dr R.J. Graham, previously the Headteacher of Neath Grammar School for Boys. Mai Edwards (1926-2017), the Headmistress of Neath Girls' Grammar School became Headteacher of the new Cefn Saeson Comprehensive School. Dr Graham left circa 1987-89. Dr D. Stokes was the Headteacher of Dwr y Felin Comprehensive School from the mid 1980s until August 2002.
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XS (formerly Afan FM) was a community radio station serving the Neath Port Talbot county borough.Broadcast Radio MCAs maps The station was owned and operated by Neath Port Talbot Broadcasting CIC and aired a mix of dance & alternative music and local information, targeted at 11-25 year olds. The station was based at studios in the Water Street Business Centre in Port Talbot.
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Samuel Llyr Davies (born 30 January 1992) is a Welsh cricketer. Davies is a right-handed batsman who bowls left-arm medium pace. He was born at Neath, Glamorgan, and was educated at Ysgol Gyfun Ystalyfera School and Neath College. Davies made his 2nd XI debut for Glamorgan vs MCC young cricketers and has to date made over 25 appearances for the county.
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Michael Denman, The Llanelly Railway and Dock Company: The Heart of Wales Pioneer, published by The Wider View, Ilminster, 2012, Revenue increased to £9512 by the middle of 1864; the increase was said to be largely due to traffic coming from Llanelly Railway and the Vale of Neath Railway (which was by now mixed gauge) via the Swansea and Neath Railway.
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"Born in Skewen, South Wales, gained international schoolboy honours at Neath Technical. Played for Neath R.U., and had represented Glamorgan County on six occasions to reach the verge of international honours before turning to R.L. in October 1948. Looked set for an illustrious professional career when a succession of knee injuries forced his premature retirement in 1952."Lindley, John (1960).
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Llewellyn was released by Grimsby at the end of the 2008–09 season and joined Welsh Premier League side Neath Athletic. After scoring five times in the opening five games of the season, Neath manager Andrew Dyer praised Llewellyn's performances and described him as "the best striker in the league". However, he scored just four times during the rest of the season.
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Les Anthony played in Neath RFC's victory in the Welsh Club Championship during the 1946–47 season, captained by Cliff Williams, this was Neath RFC's first post-World War II victory, and their sixth of ten overall, he made his début for Oldham on Saturday 28 August 1948, and he played his last match for Oldham during the 1953–54 season.
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Aberdulais is a village and electoral ward in Neath Port Talbot, Wales, lying on the River Neath, in the community of Blaenhonddan. The village grew around the Aberdulais Falls, the site of successive industries and now a hydro- electric station. The National Trust owns and administers the site. The name Aberdulais is from the Welsh for the mouth of the River Dulais.
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In 1958, Redmond promoted at St Austell, on an open licence, and in 1961, he also promoted open meetings in Dublin (Shelbourne). In 1962, he opened a track in Neath, Wales. The team was named the Neath Welsh Dragons and operated in the Speedway Provincial League. The team finished in second place, which was considered a remarkable achievement by the speedway press.
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NPTC Group operates from several sites within the county borough. The largest sites are located in Neath, Port Talbot and Pontardawe. The first dedicated higher education site in Neath Port Talbot opened in 2015 when Swansea University opened its science and innovation campus in Crymlyn Burrows. The University of South Wales has a campus located at Baglan Energy Park in Port Talbot.
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Richard Neil Grant (born 5 June 1984) is a former Welsh cricketer. Grant is a right-handed batsman who bowls right-arm medium pace. He was born at Neath, Glamorgan and was educated at Cefn Saeson Comprehensive and Neath Port Talbot College. Grant first appeared in first team county cricket in the 2004 season for Wales Minor Counties against Herefordshire.
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Ynysygeinon lay in the floor of the Swansea Valley, in which the Swansea Vale Railway had been operating (initially as a tramway) since 1816. The branch, which opened in 1873, was promoted as the "Swansea Vale and Neath and Brecon Junction Railway" even though Swansea Vale had merged with the Neath and Brecon in 1869. Colloquially it was known as the "Junction line".
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Aaron Bramwell, (born 1 March 1986 in Aberdare, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales) is a rugby union player for Neath RFC in the Principality Premiership.
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Terry was born in Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom. He is a former bouncer and studied Sports science at Neath Port Talbot College, South Wales.
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On 1 June 2009, Williams signed for Welsh Premier league side Neath, making twenty appearances before being released at the end of the season.
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The dimensions of a split are usually . Fire brick was first invented in 1822 by William Weston Young in the Neath Valley of Wales.
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The River Kenfig () is a river in Wales, straddling the county boroughs of Neath Port Talbot and Bridgend. It is approximately 18 kilometres long.
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The station is located at street level but passenger access is from the Seaway Parade flyover. It is close to Neath Port Talbot Hospital.
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On 17 May 2019, Councillor Scott Jones was appointed the mayor of Neath Port Talbot. The deputy mayor for 2019-20 is Councillor John Warman.
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Craig Alan Richards (born 10 October 1959 in Neath, Wales) is a Welsh former professional footballer who played in the Football League, as a Midfielder.
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Accessed 8 October 2011. After the tournament he could no longer get into the international team but for several years continued to play for Neath.
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After moving to Maes-yr- Haf chapel, Neath, in 1795 he also established new churches in Melin-Cwrt and Aberavon. He died in February 1827.
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The Clydach Brook flows through Dyffryn Clydach in a north to south direction, passing Neath Abbey. The woodland surrounding the river forms a public park.
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Christopher (Chris) Neath (born 29 January 1982 in Worcester, England)Oakes, P.(2004). British Speedway Who's Who. is a speedway rider in the United Kingdom.
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258 Joining a Government-sponsored initiative led by local musiciansNeath Petition 2002 under the auspices of Rock on the Rock Club, a non-political organisation, the VOGG mounted protest in Neath, the constituency of Peter Hain the UK Minister for Europe.VOGG Neath campaigning It campaigned, with others, for a "no" vote in the 2002 referendum It has been described as "Gibraltar's most-hardline protest group".
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The festival is located in the centre of the historic market town of Neath and promoted local food and drink businesses, encourages people from the area to shop locally, and educates visitors on the benefits of reducing food miles. The event has been praised for the positive economic benefits that it brings to Neath by increasing footfall in the town centre. In 2018 it had 60,000 visitors.
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1918–1950: The Borough of Aberavon, the Urban Districts of Briton Ferry, Glencorwg, Margam, and Porthcawl, and part of the Rural Districts of Neath and Penybont. 1950–1983: The Borough of Port Talbot, the Urban Districts of Glyncorrwg and Porthcawl, and part of the Rural District of Penybont. 1983–1997: The Borough of Afan, and the Borough of Neath wards nos. 3 and 6.
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In 2001, he became a part-time commercial manager of Neath RFC, as his son James played for the team. His Loughborough- educated son (born 26 November 1976) played for London Welsh RFC, Neath the Ospreys and Munster. James is the former captain and then head coach of Hertford RFC First XV, a role he left at the end of the 2015/2016 season.
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A flanker, capable of playing both blind and open-side, he started playing in the Welsh premiership for Cardiff RFC at the age of 19. Ringer moved to Bridgend RFC in 1999 before joining Neath RFC in 2002. Ringer's time at Neath was short as he joined Newport Gwent Dragons in 2003. During his time with the region he gained over 100 caps and scored 7 tries.
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He further won the Premier Trophy with the Wasps in 1999. In 2001 Neath also ventured to Sweden riding to a 10.68 point average for Division 1 club Norbaggarna. In 2002 Neath moved to Premier league rivals, the Swindon Robins. He spent two seasons at Swindon and at this time he was also 'doubling up' with the club that owns his contract, the Wolverhampton Wolves.
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Following the announcement by Gwenda Thomas, the then-Assembly Member for Neath, that she was planning to stand down at the 2016 National Assembly for Wales election, he was selected to stand as the Labour and Co-operative candidate in Neath constituency in October 2015, following a twinned selection process with Gower constituency. He was until his selection as the candidate for Neath a trustee and secretary of the social justice charity the Bevan Foundation. He was elected to the Senedd Cymru in May 2016 and was one of the first out gay MSs elected. In November 2017, he was nominated to be the Counsel General for Wales.
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After a mixed time playing in the Welsh Football League between 2004 and 2009, they now currently play in the Neath Premier League. During the 2009–10 season they finished a respectable 4th in the league and won the Premier Division Cup defeating Sunnybank 4–2. During the 2010–11 season they managed to finish a much improved 2nd in the Neath Premier League and also reached the West Wales Cup semi-final at Stebonheath Park but lost 2–1. In the 2011–12 season they won the Neath Premier League for the first time in their history by only dropping eight points all season.
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The South Wales Railway was a broad gauge trunk line and was to connect the area in to the network of the Great Western Railway, with through trains to London. A broad gauge ally of the South Wales Railway, the Vale of Neath Railway, ran from Neath over the watershed near Hirwain (now spelt Hirwaun) to Aberdare. Aberdare became the centre of a huge production of high quality coal. However the use of the broad gauge was a mixed blessing, and transits between Aberdare or Merthyr and Cardiff on that system via Neath involved a considerable excess mileage compared with rival, narrow (standard) gauge routes.
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The Neath Abbey television relay station is sited on a hill north of the town of Neath. It was originally built in the 1980s as a fill-in relay for UHF analogue television serving the parts of the town of Neath to its east with its vertically polarised signal, and the parts of the town to its northwest with its horizontally polarised signal. This is an unusual layout, chosen to avoid signal degradation from reflections off the cliffs to the north. The site consists of a 12 m self-supporting lattice mast standing on land which is itself about 80 m above sea level.
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The Neath Abbey transmission station is owned and operated by Arqiva. Neath Abbey transmitter re-radiates the signal received off-air from Kilvey Hill about 10 km to the southwest. When it came, the digital switchover process for Neath Abbey duplicated the timing at the parent station, with the first stage taking place on Wednesday 12 August 2009 and the second stage was completed on Wednesday 9 September 2009, with the Kilvey Hill transmitter-group becoming the first in Wales to complete digital switchover. After the switchover process, analogue channels had ceased broadcasting permanently and the Freeview digital TV services were radiated at an ERP of 10 W each.
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Tonna () is the name of a village and a coterminous electoral ward and community in Neath Port Talbot, Wales, located to the north-east of Neath town, of which it is effectively a suburb. Ivy Tower Immediately between Tonna and the adjoining parish of Llanilltud ("Llantwit-juxta-Neath") is a cottage once occupied by the Welsh-born engineer and naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace, who had arrived at his theory of evolution independently of Charles Darwin, with whom he later corresponded. Eventually Wallace and Darwin jointly presented the first paper on Natural Selection to the Linnean Society. The village's rugby union team is Tonna RFC.
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The investigation of the group, dubbed Operation Neath, involved members of the Australian Federal Police, Victoria Police and ASIO. It was launched in late January 2009.
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With three teams making up the Ospreys region, Aberavon and Neath faced each other first, with the winner going into the final play-off with Bridgend.
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He died at the age of 93 on December 7, 2015 in the Rocky Mount Community. He is interred at Rose-Neath Cemetery in Bossier City.
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The Gower Ornithological Society is a society for professional and amateur birdwatchers covering the geographical areas of south Wales comprising Gower, Swansea, Neath and Port Talbot.
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Margaret Townsend was born in Neath, Wales, the daughter of Joseph Townsend, a church deacon.Melanie Buddle, "Margaret Townsend" Dictionary of Canadian Biography (University of Toronto 2005).
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It then follows the same road as the A474 along Neath Abbey Road then though Cadoxton until it connects with the A465 just south of Aberdulais.
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Cefn Coed Colliery Museum is a former coal mine, now operating as a museum. It is located at Crynant near Neath in the South Wales Valleys.
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Ruth Bidgood (born Ruth Jones, 20 July 1922) is a Welsh poet and local historian, born at Blaendulais, Seven Sisters, near Neath, and writing in English.
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1860 imaginary depiction of Robert FitzHamon (died 1107) (left) and his younger brother Richard de Grenville (died after 1142) (right), Church of St James the Great, Kilkhampton, Cornwall Historic seats of the Grenville family (spelled "Granville" after 1661Round, p. 130.) in Normandy (Granville, Manche), Glamorgan (Neath Castle), Devon (Bideford) & Cornwall (Stowe, Kilkhampton) Sir Richard de Grenville (died after 1142) (alias de Grainvilla, de Greinvill, etc.) was one of the Twelve Knights of Glamorgan who served in the Norman Conquest of Glamorgan under Robert FitzHamon (died 1107), the first Norman feudal baron of Gloucester and Lord of Glamorgan from 1075. He obtained from FitzHamon the lordship of Neath, Glamorgan, in which he built Neath Castle and in 1129 founded Neath Abbey. Richard de Grenville is by tradition the founder and ancestor of the prominent Westcountry Grenville family of Stowe in the parish of Kilkhampton in Cornwall and of Bideford in Devon.
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Coleg Powys merged with Neath Port Talbot College on August 2013. The newly merged entity comprises twelve campuses serving 18,000 students covering about a third of Wales.
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Abergwynfi railway station served the villages of Abergwynfi and Blaengwynfi in Neath Port Talbot, Wales. The station was the terminus of the line from Bridgend via Maesteg.
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Dai Prosser was born in Neath, Wales, he was a Bombardier in the British Army during World War II, and he died aged 60 in York, Yorkshire.
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Wales drew the game in a nil - nil result and Thomas was dropped for the next tournament. His cap and jersey are held at the Neath clubhouse.
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Lewis is originally from Aberdare. She was educated at Aberdare Girls' School, where she first began to play netball, Neath Port Talbot College and Cardiff Metropolitan University.
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Karl Ready (born 14 August 1972, in Neath) is a Welsh former professional footballer and Wales international. During his career, he gained five international caps for Wales.
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David attended Ystalyfera Grammar School at Ystalyfera, then in West Glamorgan, now in Neath Port Talbot. He studied at University College, Swansea, then the University of Birmingham.
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During the club's centenary season in 1995/96 they were visited by top level Welsh clubs as part of the celebrations; these included Llanelli, Neath and Swansea.
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The waters from the well were believed to have the ability to cure ailments."Pontypridd", Weatherman Walking, BBC Neath Abbey was once the largest abbey in Wales. The route includes both the coast and the hinterland of Wales, incorporating Conwy, Basingwerk Abbey, Valle Crucis and Strata Marcella abbeys, Abbeycwmhir, Grace Dieu, Tintern Abbey, Neath Abbey, Whitland, Strata Florida and Cymer Abbey. It connects to many of Wales's other long-distance paths.
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In June 2014, Hain announced he would stand down as the MP for Neath at the 2015 general election. He was nominated for a life peerage in the 2015 Dissolution Honours. Writing in the Guardian, he subsequently outlined his views on House of Lords reform. He was created a life peer taking the title Baron Hain, of Neath in the County of West Glamorgan, on 22 October 2015.
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St. John was born David Jones in Resolven near Neath in 1871.Davies (2011), p.386 He was extremely tall for his time, being 6 foot 3 inches. A coal miner by occupation, St. John supplemented his wage through illegal boxing matches and fighting at local fairgrounds. At the age of 19 he travelled to a fairground in Neath where Cardiff based boxer John O'Brien was fighting at a booth.
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Mynydd Marchywel is a 418-metre-high hill in the Neath Port Talbot area in South Wales. Its summit is marked both by a cairn and a trig point. The larger part of the hill is cloaked in modern forestry through which numerous streams fall away westward to the River Tawe, eastward to the River Dulais and southward into the Clydach, the latter two being tributaries of the River Neath.
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Wallace's work on the survey involved spending a lot of time outdoors in the countryside, allowing him to indulge his new passion for collecting insects. Wallace persuaded his brother John to join him in starting another architecture and civil engineering firm, which carried out a number of projects, including the design of a building for the Neath Mechanics' Institute, founded in 1843."Neath Mechanics' Institute" Swansea University. Retrieved 21 April 2013.
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Sir David Martyn Evans-Bevan (4 March 1902 – 9 September 1973) was a wealthy industrialist from south Wales. He was the owner of the Vale of Neath Brewery, and purchased Margam Castle from the Talbot family. David Evans-Bevan was the son of Evan Evans-Bevan, a brewery owner who was Mayor of Neath on several occasions, and his wife Caroline (née Thomas). He was educated at Uppingham School.
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Dyffryn Clydach includes the residential communities of Cwrt Herbert, Dyffryn, Highlands, Longford, Neath Abbey, and Penshannel. Although covering only , the area is packed with history, including the ruins of Neath Abbey. The current Tesco store is believed to occupy the site of an 11th-century castle. The more central and northerly parts of the ward are mostly rural, consisting of picturesque farmland and woodland encircling the western base of Mount Drummau.
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Ed Shervington (born 11 March 1986, in Newport), is a Welsh rugby union player, in the position of hooker for Wasps Born in Newport, Shervington debuted for Neath RFC 2003. After signing for Ospreys, he made his debut in September 2006, as a replacement against Ulster . Shervington was also allocated to play for Neath RFC in the Principality Premiership. Shervington has represented Wales at U18, U19 and U21 levels.
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Hillier appealed the against the cancellation of his contract and won an initial case against the club. Newport themselves decided to appeal against the case but prior to the hearing a surprising turnaround saw the club offer Hillier a new contract, which he accepted. However, he never played for Newport again and signed for Neath in April 2009. He joined Carmarthen Town in June 2012 after the liquidation of Neath.
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The issue with accepting this meeting is that there is no written evidence, just oral repetition.Smith (1980), pg 37. On 12 March 1881, eleven clubs met in the Castle Hotel, Neath to form what would be accepted as a Welsh rugby union. After a humiliating defeat in the first Wales international rugby game, the Neath meeting was organised by Mullock to form a union that could organise regular international matches.
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Thomas Hollingdale was born in Waunarlwydd on 12 November 1900. He attended Waunarlwydd School and Gowerton County School. He played his club rugby for Ammanford and Neath and captained Glamorganshire. In September 1927, he played for a combined Aberavon and Neath XV against the touring New South Wales Waratahs and a few weeks later, played for Wales against the Waratahs – this is now treated as a full international.
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Born in Neath, she studied at Neath Port Talbot College from where she gained her degree, and was resident in London. Roles worked for the train operating company Southern as a train driver on services servicing South London. She represented Swansea Harriers at club level. Proudly Welsh, she was a popular member of Team Wales and Team GB due to her no-nonsense, self-deprecating manner and great sense of humour.
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Neath began riding as a young boy, competing in youth grasstrack competitions, winning numerous ACU Championship titles, British, National and Best Pairs. He first began riding league speedway in 1998, for the Newport Mavericks in the British Conference League. During the 1999 season Neath captained the Mavericks to the league title. From there he was elevated and also rode for the Newport senior team, the Wasps, in the Premier League.
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After developing at Trimsaran, he was given a trial with Llanelli but was rejected. Neath gave him another chance and he signed with them in 1982, selected to play at fly-half. After 35 games for Neath Davies was selected to play for Wales, against England at the Cardiff Arms Park. After scoring a try and a drop goal, Davies was named Man of the Match in the Welsh victory.
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Daniel Wells (born 31 July 1988) is a Welsh professional snooker player from Neath. He has twice come through Qualifying School to play on the professional snooker tour.
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Skewen () is a village within the county borough of Neath Port Talbot, in Wales. The village is served by Skewen railway station. Skewen supports its own rugby club.
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Neath (Welsh: Castell-nedd) is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2015 by Christina Rees, a Labour and Co- operative MP.
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Martin Roberts (born 6 June 1986) is a Wales international rugby union footballer who plays as a scrum-half. Born in Aberdare, Roberts began his professional career with Neath RFC, before graduating to the Ospreys regional team, and during his time there would play infrequently for Neath, as well as the Ospreys' other Welsh Premier Division feeder clubs, Swansea and Bridgend. One of Roberts' teammates at the Ospreys was fly-half James Hook, with whom he formed an effective half back partnership, after the pair had done the same at both Neath College and Neath RFC. After three years with the Ospreys, Roberts signed for their regional rivals, the Scarlets, on 27 March 2008, following the departure of former Scarlets scrum-half Dwayne Peel to Sale Sharks. He signed a two-year contract with the Llanelli region, where he would compete with Sililo Martens, Lee Williams and Gavin Cattle for the number 9 jersey.
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These are the canting arms of the de Clare family, Earls of Gloucester, heirs of FitzHamon and overlords of the Grenvilles Sir Richard I de Grenville (d.post 1142) (alias de Grainvilla, de Greinvill, etc.) was one of the Twelve Knights of Glamorgan who served in the Norman Conquest of Glamorgan under his elder brother Robert FitzHamon (died 1107), the first Norman feudal baron of Gloucester and Lord of Glamorgan from 1075. He obtained from FitzHamon the lordship of Neath, Glamorgan, in which he built Neath Castle and in 1129 founded Neath Abbey. Richard de Grenville was one of three (or fourRound, p. 137: his charter granting Litaham (Littleham near Bideford, Devon) to Neath Abbey mentions his wife Constance and his brother William and two nephews) known sons of Hamo Dapifer (died circa 1100) Sheriff of Kent, an Anglo-Norman royal official under both King William the Conqueror (1066–1087) and his son King William Rufus (1087–1100).
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26 Grenville's second wife was a certain "Constance", mentioned as his wife in his foundation charter of Neath Abbey. She acted jointly with him in the founding of that Abbey, which suggested to Round that she may have been a native-born Welsh lady and the heiress of Neath. Granville (1895) suggested she was the daughter of Caradoc ap Arthur, Lord of Glyn Nedd. No surviving charter of his mentions any children and the fact that the lordship and castle of Neath escheated to the overlord the Earl of Gloucester and Lord of Glamorgan, the son-in-law and heir of Robert FitzHamon, suggested to Round that he left no children to inherit his possessions.
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The Skewen Dram Road was owned and operated by the Main Colliery Company Limited, the successor of the Dynevor Dyffryn and Neath Abbey United Collieries Company Limited. The New Neath Abbey Coal Company is said to have been founded in June 1819 by the Fox family, which held 7/12ths of the company's shares and Joseph T. Price, who held the remaining 5/12ths. In 1873 the company failed, and its assets were sold to Batters & Scott on behalf of the Dyffryn Main Colliery Company. In 1874 the property was sold again to the United Company, a merger of the Dynevor Dyffryn and Neath Abbey United Collieries Company, under the directorship of John Newell Moore of Cambrian Place, Swansea.
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In 1686 Mackworth married Mary Evans of Neath and he moved to Wales soon after. Mary was the daughter of Sir Herbert Evans of Gnoll in Neath and she became the sole beneficiary of Sir Herbert's estate after the death of her sisters. The Evans family had, for the last two generations, controlled the leases that allowed virtually sole- control of coal mining rights in Neath. The coal from the area had been used for smelting and Mackworth became interested in working with copper and lead, and may have begun copper smelting 1695 at Melincryddan. In 1696, Mary died, leaving Mackworth as the inheritor of the estate, and by 1698 he had branched into controlling interests in Cardiganshire.
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Gareth Jones (4 December 1979 – 16 June 2008) was a Welsh rugby union player who played as a scrum-half for Neath rugby club until his death in 2008.
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Dyffryn Cellwen is a village in the County Borough of Neath Port Talbot, South Wales. It is situated in the upper Dulais Valley near the junction of the A4109 and A4221 roads, northwest of the smaller settlement of Banwen. It is part of the community of Onllwyn. The village stands close to the course of the Roman road from Neath to Brecon, and there are traces of a Roman fort and camp nearby.
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David Reason (14 April 1897 -- 17 February 1955) was a Welsh cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and right-arm off-break bowler and wicket-keeper for Glamorgan. He was born in Cadoxton, Neath, and died in Blackheath. Reason was a regular player for Neath cricket club during the 1920s, but made two first- class appearances for Glamorgan in 1921 and 1922, having made four appearances in the Minor Counties Championship a year previously.
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Shermer In Darwin's Shadow p. 53.Slotten pp. 22–26. His brother William died in March 1845, and Wallace left his teaching position to assume control of his brother's firm in Neath, but his brother John and he were unable to make the business work. After a few months, Wallace found work as a civil engineer for a nearby firm that was working on a survey for a proposed railway in the Vale of Neath.
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Jenkins was born in Neath, where she and her sister Laura were raised by their parents Selwyn John and Susan. She attended the Alderman Davies Church in Wales primary school in Neath, Dwr-y-Felin Comprehensive School and Gorseinon College."Time to say Hello: my autobiography" Jenkins, K: London, Orion, 2008 She received A grades in her GCSEs and A Levels and participated in productions such as Calamity Jane and Guys and Dolls.Langley, William.
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This was quite a successful time for Neath. He won the Elite League title with Wolves in 2002 and the Premier League Four Team Championship with the Robins in 2003. However he never really settled at Swindon and he moved to the Rye House Rockets in 2004. Neath was an instant success for the Rockets, topping the clubs averages and finishing third in the fiercely competitive Champions Chase meeting at King's Lynn.
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Year by year, the ages through Until in Heaven we meet. College days are swiftly fleeting, Soon we’ll leave their halls Ne’er to join another meeting ‘Neath their hallowed walls.
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The electoral ward of Aberavon electoral ward includes the communities of Baglan and Baglan Bay, in Neath Port Talbot county borough, Wales. Baglan falls within the parliamentary constituency of Aberavon.
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Today, the force serves the principal areas of Bridgend, Cardiff, Merthyr Tydfil, Neath Port Talbot, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Swansea and the Vale of Glamorganmost of the ancient county of Glamorgan.
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During Gordon Brunton's era at the International Thomson Organisation, the company established a number of community redevelopment and local economic regeneration programs including a model scheme in Neath, South Wales.
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Dafydd Howells (born 22 March 1995) is a Wales international rugby union player. A wing, he plays for the Dragons regional team having previously played for Ospreys and Neath RFC.
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The hospital was officially opened as Neath District Isolation Hospital in March 1939. It joined the National Health Service as a children's hospital in 1948 and subsequently became a psychiatric hospital.
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They were intended for the Southern Division of the GWR. The condenser-fitted engines worked in the London area, others at Neath in South Wales. Withdrawal took place in 1928-34.
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Port Talbot is home to a number of youth organisations. They are operated by Neath Port Talbot County Borough Council, the Ministry of Defence and a range of other charitable organisations.
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It was here in 1875 that Dr Ivor Ajax-Lewis, the handball champion for Llantrisant, defeated Mr Lovett, the champion of Neath, in a celebrated match with £1,000 in betting stakes.
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Afan FM was established in 2003 and went on to run five Restricted Service Licence (RSL) trial broadcasts before becoming the UK's first new Community Radio station (following the initial tranche of 16 "Access Radio" trial stations) by the award of Licence CR005 by the UK Broadcast Regulator Ofcom in April 2005. Afan FM began test transmissions on 107.9 MHz on 17 April 2007 and was officially launched at 2pm on 20 April 2007. The station completed its second coverage phase when it launched its transmitter on 97.4 MHz for the Neath and Neath Valleys area on Thursday 23 October 2008. There were plans for extending coverage to the remainder of the Neath Port Talbot area via a series of relay transmitters.
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The Vale of Neath Railway was a broad gauge railway company, that built a line from Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare to Neath, in Wales, chiefly to transport the products of the Merthyr iron industries to ports on Swansea Bay. The railway focused on transporting coal from the rapidly developing rich colliery area around Aberdare. When the narrow (standard) gauge Newport, Abergavenny and Hereford Railway made moves to link to the area, with its Taff Vale Extension line, the Vale of Neath Railway saw that there was potential in connecting up; it laid a third rail to make mixed gauge. The link was made in 1864 and coal was conveyed to London and the north-west of England by that route.
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Dyffryn Comprehensive is a split-site 11–16 years comprehensive school based in Neath Port Talbot, WalesDyffryn School, Port Talbot, Neath Port Talbot Students spend the first two years in the 'lower' school, and the last three in the 'upper' school. The lower school is in Port Talbot and the upper school in Margam. The current headmaster is Martin Grimes. In 2009, Dyffryn became the first in the county borough to offer a savings facility for its pupils.
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Hirfynydd is a 481-metre-high hill in Neath Port Talbot county borough in South Wales. A Roman road, Sarn Helen, runs along its entire northeast–southwest ridge-line, a route followed by a modern-day byway. To its west is Cwm Dulais and to its southeast is the Vale of Neath. The northern end of the ridge falls away to a broad upland vale containing the Afon Pyrddin and beyond which is the Brecon Beacons National Park.
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Samuel Edward "Sam" Dodge (December 19, 1889 – April 5, 1966) was a relief pitcher in Major League Baseball who played between 1921 and 1922 for the Boston Red Sox. Listed at , 170 lb, Dodge batted and threw right-handed. He was born in Neath, Pennsylvania, United States. Neath is a Welsh settlement and is now known only to locals as an area in the eastern district of Pike Township, Bradford County; it no longer appears on most maps.
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In 1935 Swansea became the first club side to beat the All Blacks. In 2003, Swansea RFC merged with Neath RFC to form the Ospreys. Swansea RFC remained at St Helen's in semi-professional form, but the Ospreys moved into the Liberty Stadium in Landore for the start of the 2005–2006 season. Neath-Swansea rugby games used to be hotly contested matches, such that there was some debate about whether a team incorporating both areas was possible.
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Following the demise of West Glamorgan County Council in 1996, Port Talbot borough council was merged with Neath and part of Lliw Valley Districts to create the new unitary authority of Neath Port Talbot County Borough. The Civic Centre is located in Port Talbot, and the town is represented by three of the 64 councillors that make up the county council. The centre of the town is covered by the Port Talbot ward for local council elections.
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The ship-breakers of Thomas W Ward Clive Reed, 2009. Neath Library: Occasional Paper. The firm at Giant’s Grave, which operated from 1906 until 1979, broke up 197 merchant ships and 94 Admiralty.Of Giants and Leviathans, Keith Tucker: in Neath Antiquarian, Vol 3,2018 The steel and tinplate industry's demise in the second half of the twentieth century was followed in the first two decades by closures of other local firms that had employed many from Briton Ferry.
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The local Neath Port Talbot Council is the education authority in the area which operates primary schools and secondary schools within the county. The local education authority operates 6 infant schools, 6 junior schools, 56 primary schools, 11 secondary schools and 3 special schools. Further Education in Neath Port Talbot is provided by a range of institutions. St. Joseph’s Catholic School & Sixth Form Centre in Port Talbot and Ysgol Gyfun Ystalyfera have traditional sixth form settings.
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The track was relayed by Krauss of Bristol, starting in March 1898.Neath Gazette, 31 August 1899 On 29 August 1899 the inspector from the Board of Trade, Colonel Sir Francis Marindin passed the system for public usage.Neath Corporation Tramways 1897-1920, Gordon Tucker, Tramway Review, Vol 14. No 107, Autumn 1981 After encountering financial difficulties, the line was leased to the Neath Gas Traction Company, which changed its name in 1902 to the Provincial Gas Traction Company.
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Jones in 1893 Jenkin Jones (1859 - 7 December 1929) was a Welsh trade unionist. Born in Cadoxton-juxta-Neath in South Wales, Jones was educated until he was sixteen, then served as a pupil-teacher for a year. Although he hoped to become a teacher, his father disapproved of this, and Jones instead completed an apprenticeship as a patternmaker with the Neath Abbey Ironworks Company. He continued to study science, maths and art at evening classes.
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Hutchinson originally played club rugby for his local team Maesteg,Fred Hutchinson player profile Ospreysrugby.com before eventually joining one of the largest clubs in the area, Neath. While representing Neath, Hutchinson was selected to represent Wales as part of the 1894 Home Nations Championship, facing Ireland away in Belfast. Hutchinson was one of three new caps to come into the Welsh squad, with Jack Elliott at three-quarters and David Nicholl joining Hutchinson in the pack.
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Owen was a councillor for Plaid Cymru and had stood in assembly and parliamentary elections, contesting the Neath constituency in the 2005 election. Owen came second to Peter Hain in the election.
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Kezia Burrows is a Welsh actress. Born in Neath, she lived in Porthcawl and then Carmarthen. Kezia trained at RADA, graduating in Summer 2004. She first took roles in various theatre productions.
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Stone bridge over the Dulais at Crynant River Dulais () is a river of Wales which has its source at Mynydd y Drum. It joins the River Neath after flowing over Aberdulais Falls.
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Neath Port Talbot Steelers were a rugby league team based in Port Talbot, West Glamorgan. They played in the Welsh Premier division of the Rugby League Conference at Aberavon Green Stars RFC.
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Dale Ford (born 16 December 1991) is a Welsh rugby union player. A winger, he plays club rugby for the Welsh team the Carmarthen Quins having previously played for Llaneli and Neath.
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Jones started his career with Glyncoch and then progressed to play for Beddau and Pontypridd, before making his debut for Neath in 2006 against Newport. He was also a part-time decorator.
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David Evans (born 19 August 1988 in Swansea, Wales) is a rugby union player for Neath RFC. He has been selected for the current Wales national rugby sevens team 2008/09 squad.
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Frederick Osborne Hutchinson (1867–1941)Fred Hutchinson player profile Scrum.com was a Welsh international rugby union back row who played club rugby for Maesteg, Bridgend and Neath and international rugby for Wales.
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Long vistas of the Swansea, Neath and Blaengwynfi valleys are to be had from the top of Mynydd Drumau, as well as a clear view of the Devon coast across the Bristol Channel.
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Abernant railway station served the village of Abernant in Wales. Served by the Vale of Neath railway, the station lay at the other end of the 2497 yard Abernant Tunnel from Merthyr Tydfil.
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As a rugby player, Arnold played at club level for Morriston, Llanelli, Swansea, Neath, London Welsh, Leicester and Glamorgan. He weighed between 8 stone 7 pounds (119 pounds) and 9 stone (126 pounds).
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In the following season, he played against England and Scotland. He also played for Swansea (for whom he made his debut in 1889), Neath and London Welsh. He died on 9 June 1909.
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Cadoxton is bounded by the wards of Rhos and Crynant to the north; Aberdulais and Tonna to the east; Neath North to the south; and Bryncoch South and Bryncoch North to the west.
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Gwyn was the son of William Gwyn and Mary Anne Roberts. His mother was the daughter of John Roberts of Barnstaple, Devon. He was educated privately at Neath and at Swansea Grammar School.
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Katherine Maria Jenkins (born 29 June 1980) is a Welsh mezzo-soprano from Neath, Wales. Jenkins performs operatic arias, popular songs, musical theatre and hymns."Profile on Classical Crossover.co.uk". Retrieved 28 October 2009.
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The WASAC was based at Gwaun-Cae-Gurwen, Neath Port Talbot. The WASAC was replaced by the British Sub Aqua Club as the governing body for Sub Aqua in Wales from January 2016.
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Sandfields East is a mostly urbanised ward and consists of council housing inland with private homes and old peoples accommodation near the beach area. Neath Port Talbot Hospital is located in the ward.
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Paul Griffiths and Mike Lawley maintain an active interest in music but ceased performing in bands after CRL. Paul lives in Neath and is a talented watercolourist and painter. Mike lives in Cardiff.
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Barry Hugh Williams (born 6 January 1974 in Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire) is a Welsh international rugby union player. In 1997, he toured South Africa with the British & Irish Lions and at the time played club rugby for Neath RFC. He has previously played for Llandovery RFC, Llanelli RFC, Neath RFC, Richmond RFC, Bristol, Swansea and the Ospreys He is the current coach of Llandeilo RFC. It has been announced that he will be Head Coach at Llangennech RFC for the 2010/11 season.
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In this case the stone is said to bathe in the river Neath once a year on Easter morning. Children from Skewen were said to race to the stone on Easter morning. Cistercian monks built the nearby Neath Abbey in the early 12th century. Wintering their flocks and herds in the few open spaces down in the valley, during the other seasons keeping them in their specially constructed stone walled fields on Drummau mountain top, using the standing stone as a landmark.
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The school is built on what was formerly the waste product dumping ground for the Morris family copper works. Neath Road is a busy thoroughfare used by buses and cars to travelling between central Swansea and the northern suburbs in and around Morriston and Llansamlet. There is a dedicated express bus route to the east of Neath Road, which is used by buses serving the Landore Park and Ride site and the 'bendy bus' service from Singleton Hospital to Morriston Hospital.
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In 1129 Richard de Grenville founded Neath Abbey within his lordship as a daughter-house of the Benedictine Savigny Abbey near the village of Savigny-le-Vieux in western Normandy. Following the assumption of the Savigniac order into the Cistercian order in 1147 Neath Abbey also became a Cistercian house. To it he donated many of his lands, both in Wales and in Devon which he held from the Honour of Gloucester, including Littleham, near Bideford in North Devon.Round, p.
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For season 2017/18, the club has retained the services of head coach Matt Silva and much of the previous season's squad. There have been some notable signings including centre Nathan Edwards who joins for a second stint from Llanelli. The Premiership top try scorer from the previous season Aaron Grabham who touched down 28 times for Neath in season 2016/17 joins Bridgend from Neath. Local talents Jacob Lloyd and Chris John are further additions reinforcing Bridgend's commitment to development.
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After the Roundabout the dual carriageway continues to Dowlais Top where there are links to Dowlais via the A4102, Neath (Brecon A470) via the A465, Abergavenny via the A465 and Fochriw and ASDA Supermarket Before the new A470 dual carriageway was built between Cefn Coed Y Cymmer and Pentrebach the A4060 was a main alternative route for people coming from the North (Brecon A470) and the West (Neath) via the A465 to avoid traffic hold ups in Merthyr Tydfil town centre.
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The next day many warriors are killed on both sides, :But more than all :Eurypylus hurled doom on many a foe :...and aye as he rushed on :Fell 'neath his spear a multitude untold. :As tall trees, smitten by the strength of steel :In mountain-forest, fill the dark ravines, :Heaped on the earth confusedly, so fell :The Achaeans 'neath Eurypylus' flying spears--Quintus Smyrnaeus, 8.109-133. Finally though, Eurypyus comes “face to face” with Achilles’ son Neoptolemus.Quintus Smyrnaeus, 8.134-136.
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One of the steam locomotives was built by H.H. Price at the Neath Abbey Works. It had cylinders, diameter wheels at centres, and used of coal a day. It could climb- up a 1 in 40 (2.5%) gradient at a tremendous pace with 30 empty trams weighing each, and rushed round a curve of certainly not more than radius with great velocity. Neath Abbey’s price for selling such a locomotive was above £600, as confirmed in quotation of 19 April 1864.
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By 1790, he was working as an engineer, assisting his father and his brother Thomas with surveys for the Neath Canal. His involvement with the construction of the Glamorganshire Canal is less certain, but quite likely. By 1792, he was working independently, surveying a route for a canal and tramway to connect the Neath Canal to the Glamorganshire Canal, and a route for a road along the Aberdare Valley. Between 1792 and 1793 he was employed as a carrier on the Glamorganshire Canal.
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The clubhouse was reopened in 1980 following a massive fund-raising effort by the club to repair the hall. The 1980s saw the introduction of The Valley Shield (1985–86) - a game between Glynneath and Cwmgrwach in memory of Gareth Thomas. Glynneath won the fixture 18-3. It also saw the Glynneath Athletic XV win Division B of the Neath & District Championship, the annual Neath & District RU 7-a-side tournament at Abernant Park, and the Courage Wales League Cup.
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The western viaduct of the first road crossing of the River Neath at Briton Ferry in 1986 The first St Mary's Church (pictured here in 2013) was founded in the 6th century Briton Ferry () is a town and community in the county borough of Neath Port Talbot, Wales. The Welsh name may indicate that the church, llan, is protected from the wind, awel. Alternatively, Sawel may be a derivative of Saul, St Paul's earlier name. He once landed at Briton Ferry.
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The second road crossing was completed in 1993 to carry the London to Wales M4 motorway across the River Neath to supersede the A48. Briton Ferry has junction J42, which is from the motorway's eastern end and from its western at Pont Abraham. It filled the final gap in the motorway between Newport and west Wales, Its completion presented formidable problems, with extensive industrial and commercial development, estuarine flood-lands and the navigable River Neath all lying in the path of possible routes.
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Morris was born in Aberdare, and educated at Aberdare Boys School, Neath College and the University of Glamorgan (now the University of South Wales). Played for Neath RFC from 1992 to 1998, and during this period also played in Brisbane for Eastern Suburbs Tigers, where they made it to the Grand Final in 1995. During this time he was also involved with the Queensland Reds. He then moved to Swansea RFC in 1998 where the club won numerous leagues and cups.
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He also played for the Wales and Great Britain national rugby league teams. Rowland Phillips made his début for Warrington on Saturday 13 October 1990, and he played his last match for Warrington on Sunday 21 August 1994. In 2003 he took over as coach of Neath RFC from Lyn Jones. Due to his success at the club he is regarded as a local hero, leading Neath RFC to four Premiership titles in successive years and three cup final wins.
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Prominent amongst these is the Vale of Neath, a deep valley incised by a glacier during the ice ages along this line of weakness in the Earth's crust and now occupied by the River Neath between Pontneddfechan and Swansea Bay. The hill of Moel Penderyn also lies on the Disturbance a little further east. A part of the Vale of Grwyne north of The Sugarloaf and the northeast-southwest aligned section of the Monnow valley on the English/Welsh border are also excavated along this line of weakness.Ordnance Survey Explorer maps 165, OL12, OL13, 189British Geological Survey 1:50,000 map sheets 214, 215, 231 'Merthyr Tydfil', 232 'Abergavenny', 247 'Swansea' & accompanying memoirs The Neath Disturbance is possibly the southernmost geological feature within Britain which can be described as following the Caledonoid trend.
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The Area covers the Unitary Authority boundaries of the City and County of Swansea and Neath Port Talbot.Glamorgan West Area Website There are three Scout Districts: Afan Nedd, Cwm Newydd and Swansea and Gower.
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Whitaker's Almanack 1983, p. 677 On 1 April 1996, under the Local Government (Wales) Act 1994, West Glamorgan County Council was broken up and replaced with the following authorities: Swansea and Neath Port Talbot.
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The 2361s were originally allocated to the Worcester Division, and then worked in the London area. Some subsequently worked in the Wolverhampton Division, and at miscellaneous sheds such as Neath, Llanelly, Bristol and Oswestry.
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Thomas played rugby union for Neath RFC, captaining the team during the 1920/21 season. He also played for Barbarian F.C. between 1912 and 1920. Thomas died in 1932 at the age of 41.
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Llansawel Football Club's home pitch was based at Neath Sports Centre and is the main centre pitch, situated next to the pitch is a covered 150 capacity stand. The club was formed in 1985.
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Today, Wales has about 40 mosques, most of which are in Cardiff, with others in Aberystwyth,Aberystwyth Mosque salaam.co.uk, accessed 19 January 2009 Bangor, Barry, Haverfordwest, Lampeter, Neath, Newport, Port Talbot, Swansea and Wrexham.
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The Village 'Neath the Sea is a 1914 American silent short adventure film directed by Thomas H. Ince and Jay Hunt. Sessue Hayakawa, Tsuru Aoki, Lone Bear and Ernest Swallow played important roles in it.
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Welsh Wrestling is the only national Welsh professional wrestling promotion. Neath-based Alan Ravenhill is the founder and promoter of the group, which was established in 2004 and holds live events all across the country.
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Scott Morgan is a former Welsh international rugby union player. His usual position was Lock or Flanker. Morgan began his career at Neath before joining Llanelli, Bristol and Leeds. In 2006 he joined Cardiff Blues.
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Richards played for Abercrave RFC before moving on to Neath RFC. Neath were a rising force in Welsh rugby in the 1980s, finishing as runners up in the 1984 Welsh Cup final against Cardiff. From this Richards earned an international call-up, making his debut for the Welsh 'B' team in November of that year. He joined the 1986 tour of the South Pacific and was brought into a game against Tonga when, after a lengthy brawl, injured flanker Mark Brown had to be substituted.
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Ness Flowers (birth unknown) is a Welsh former rugby union and professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1970s and 1980s. He captained the Welsh Schools Under-15's in 1971, and played for Wales Youth in 1973. At club level he played rugby union (RU) for Neath RFC, Crynant RFC, Ystradgynlais RFC, Abercrave RFC and Neath Athletic RFC, and representative level rugby league (RL) for Wales, and at club level for Wigan, Huddersfield and Cardiff City (Bridgend) Blue Dragons, as a , i.e. number 7.
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Vaughan was first elected to Neath Port Talbot County Borough Council in 1995, representing Neath North. He became leader of the Labour group, and leader of the council, in 2004 before standing down in 2010 following his election as MEP. He was also leader of the Welsh Local Government Association from 2005 to 2008 and deputy leader from 2008 to 2009. In 2009, Vaughan was the first candidate on the Labour Party list for the 2009 European Parliament election in Wales, and was elected on 8 June.
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Cwmgors is a village in the county of Glamorgan, and administered as part of the unitary authority borough of Neath Port Talbot, Wales. It is part of the community of Gwaun-cae-Gurwen and lies within the ceremonial county of West Glamorgan. Cwmgors sits in the Neath constituency and is thus represented in Parliament by Christina Rees and in the National Assembly for Wales by Jeremy Miles, Bethan Jenkins, Peter Black, Byron Davis, and Suzy Davies. Its church, Llanfair, falls under the Diocese of St David's.
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Schedule 4: Local government areas in Wales, Local Government Act 1972 (c.70) Following a resolution passed by the borough council, the borough was renamed as Port Talbot on 1 January 1986. On 1 April 1996 the two-tier system of councils introduced in Wales in 1974 was replaced, and the country was divided into twenty-two unitary "principal areas" by the Local Government (Wales) Act 1994. Port Talbot was amalgamated with the neighbouring Borough of Neath to form the county borough of Neath Port Talbot.
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The Newport, Abergavenny and Hereford Railway (NAHR) also opened the Taff Vale Extension Railway (TVE) in 1857 to link up with the Taff Vale Railway (TVR) at Quakers Yard which connected onto Merthyr Tydfil. A major achievement of this railway was the building of the Crumlin Viaduct over the Ebbw River. The TVE linked directly with the Vale of Neath Railway at Merthyr and further linked Pontypool to Swansea and Neath. The main purpose of this line was the transport of coal across the country.
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Between the 1960s and 1980s, Cardiff had many small coach operators: Western Welsh was formed in 1929 and grew to cover an area from St Davids in West Wales to the English border, operating 319 buses in its South Wales fleet by 1970. In 1978 it became National Welsh/Cymru Cenedlaethol which also ran Red & White. The two companies closed in 1992. Neath & Cardiff's brown and red AEC Reliance fleet operated to towns to the west, to Bridgend, Neath and Swansea in the 1970s.
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Hollingdale was employed in the local steel works and later as a policeman (PC number 22 on the Neath Police ForceD/D Con/N: Neath Constabulary. swansea.gov.uk), before studying theology at King's College London, where he became an Associate of King's College (AKC). Following his ordination, he worked as a curate in UpminsterChelmsford Chronicle, 25 September 1936 and subsequently as vicar of the parish of Stratford in East London. From 1948 to 1959 he was vicar of St Peter's, Colchester — a living controlled by the Simeon Trust.
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Chris Jones (born 12 September 1989) is a Welsh footballer who plays as a winger for Afan Lido. He has previously played for Swansea City, Cambridge United, Grimsby Town, Neath, The New Saints and Gloucester City.
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British Steel (Port Talbot) Golf Club (Welsh: Clwb Golff Port Talbot) is a golf club based just outside Port Talbot at Neath Port Talbot, Wales.Welsh Golf Corses.com website; recalled 03 March 2014. A 9-hole course.
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1979-1984: Aberavon, Barry, Cardiff North, Cardiff North West, Cardiff South East, Cardiff West, Neath, Ogmore, Pontypridd. 1984-1994: Aberavon, Bridgend, Cardiff Central, Cardiff North, Cardiff South and Penarth, Cardiff West, Ogmore, Pontypridd, Vale of Glamorgan.
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River Neath () is a river in south Wales running south west from its source in the Brecon Beacons National Park to its mouth at Baglan Bay below Briton Ferry on the east side of Swansea Bay.
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Bevan was also a cricketer, an opening batsmen who captained Neath Cricket Club and represented his country. He died of cancer aged thirty-eight in 1986, survived by his wife Judith, a son and a daughter.
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The major rivers of Glamorgan include the Taff, the Ely, the Ogmore, the Neath, Dulais, the Tawe, the Rhymney (which forms the historic boundary with Monmouthshire), and the Loughor (which forms the historic boundary with Carmarthenshire).
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The M4 and the A483 bypass the town to relieve the traffic on the A474, a former Roman road, which runs through the town parallel to the main railway line and connects Neath with Port Talbot.
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After 1948, when the GWR and LMS were taken into national ownership, the residual passenger use on the line fell considerably, to the extent that in the winter of 1958 the service between Colbren Junction and Brecon was reduced to just one afternoon train each way per day on Mondays to Fridays, with a second, morning service on Saturdays only (there had never been a regular service of passenger trains on Sundays at any time). Additional passenger services were operated between Neath and Colbren, largely for benefit of miners and other workmen, but generally speaking the sparse service attracted few passengers and was withdrawn completely on and from 15 October 1962, the last trains running on Saturday 13 October.Jones et al say on page 161 that "A service between Neath and Onllwyn continued until 15 June 1964, but this is contradicted by Quick, and also by the Railway Magazine, November 1962, page 798, "Neath and Brecon Service withdrawn". "The passenger train service between Neath Riverside and Brecon was withdrawn by the Western Region on and from October 15, and the following stations and halts closed for passengers: … Onllwyn… The last train [was] on Saturday, October 13.
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Swansea is located near the southwestern ends of two major fault structures; the Neath Disturbance and the Swansea Valley Disturbance, movement on either of which or on any of several adjoining faults may have caused the quake.
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Glyn Ivor Gething (16 June 1892 - 20 March 1977) was a Welsh international rugby union full back who played club rugby for Skewen and Neath and international rugby for Wales. He was a bank clerk by profession.
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The V9 Overstreet is the shortest of all the 'V' roads, it runs from H3 Monks Way to H5 Portway. It is single carriageway the entire distance. It serves Downs Barn, Downhead Park, Neath Hill and Pennyland.
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Neath, near Port Talbot in Wales, was not a successful venue and many of their fixtures were raced at St. Austell. Rayleigh Rockets had withdrawn. Poole won the league championship for the second year in a row.
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In 1835, Waring moved to Cardiff, and afterwards to Clifton near Bristol, but he returned to Neath in 1855 and spent his last years there. His daughter, Anna Laetitia Waring, became well known as a hymn-writer.
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Kevin Bowring is a Welsh former rugby union player and coach. Bowring attended Neath Grammar School for Boys. A flanker, he played for London Welsh and captained the team. He also represented the Barbarians and Middlesex County .
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The area encompasses the electoral wards of Sandfields West and Sandfields East, part of the Neath Port Talbot unitary authority. Prior to 1974 Sandfields was a ward to Glamorgan County Council, represented by a Labour Party councillor.
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The vehicle workshop in Neath is the biggest in Wales with 32 vehicle ramps. In September 2019, the group announced it will be opening its sixth car supermarket site in Rochdale before the end of the year.
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Chris Neath has also represented Great Britain racing at Under-19, Under-21 and senior level. An injury in the opening match of the 2012 season saw him out of speedway for the rest of the season.
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Baker came to note as a rugby union player representing South Wales club Neath. It was with Neath that he was first selected to represent Wales, brought in for the encounter with Ireland in the last Welsh match of the 1921 Five Nations Championship. Although Wales won the game 6-0, Baker was not re-selected in 1922 Championship, but the following year he played in all four matches of the 1923 Championship. 1922 had seen Wales win the Five Nations title, but 1923 was dominated by England and Scotland.
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Cwmafan (; ), sometimes known as Cwmavon in English, is a large village and community in the Afan valley in Wales, lying within Neath Port Talbot County Borough. It had a population of 5,603 in 2001,Office for National Statistics : Census 2001 : Parish Headcounts : Neath Port Talbot Retrieved 9 January 2010 increasing slightly to 5,615 at the 2011 Census. Cwmafan is known for having a high percentage of Welsh speakers. In many ways it is a suburb of the nearby town of Port Talbot which is less than to the south.
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A 1905 Railway Clearing House map of railways in the vicinity of Merthyr Tydfil A 1903 Railway Clearing House map of railways in the vicinity of Quaker's Yard At its southern end, the line connected to the Vale of Neath line of the Great Western Railway (GWR) at Joint Line Junction, just west of Quakers Yard High Level railway station. The line ran up the Vale of Merthyr, and at the northern end it connected to the Merthyr branch of the Vale of Neath line at Cyfarthfa Junction.
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The first meeting of the Council was held at the Gwyn Hall in Neath and Sir Hussey Vivian MP elected to the chair. The Liberal group did agree on a list of aldermen before hand but they were not as cohesive as in other counties in using a block vote. One of the main debates related to the venue for meetings, with the claims of Neath and Pontypridd being most prominent. The Bridgend Local Board of Health had petitioned Lord Dunraven to lobby for that town to be considered.
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On 13 July 2010, Neath announced the double signing of two marquee players in readiness for the 2010–11 season, former Swansea City favourites Kristian O'Leary and Lee Trundle. A year later came the signing of Matthew Rees a former Swansea defender and ex Port Talbot Town captain. Several other key signings followed transforming Neath into title contenders with a minimum expectation for the club's first European qualification. Attendances at The Gnoll doubled for the 2010/2011 season as a combination of high-profile signings and good results appear to be paying dividends.
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On 21 May 2011, Neath defeated Prestatyn Town 3–2 at The Gnoll in front of a club record 1,000 fans in the first ever Europa League Play-off. Chad Bond put Neath ahead after 12 seconds before two late goals from long- serving Andy Hill secured Neath's debut in Europe. At the end of the 2011–12 season the club were refused both FAW domestic and UEFA licences for the 2012–13 season and were declared ineligible to participate in the end-of- season Europa League play-offs.
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In 1857, the Vale of Neath Powder Co. built a "gunpowder manufactory", having obtained "a licence to erect their mills over a space of two miles including the Upper and Lower Cilliepste Falls".The Cambrian Newspaper, 10 April 1857. The site on the River Mellte was chosen for its remoteness and the availability of both water power and timber for the production of charcoal, one ingredient of gunpowder. An inclined tramway was built from a siding on the Vale of Neath Railway near Pen-cae-drain, to bring in sulphur and saltpetre, the other ingredients.
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The Gnoll is the traditional home of Neath RFC, one of the leading Welsh clubs in the pre-regional era of rugby. It has hosted Neath since the club was founded in 1871. The ground has a capacity of 5,000. The Gnoll has been used as the home ground for the Wales women's national rugby union team, including during the 2016 Women's Six Nations Championship where it was the site of a victory over France following a try by Megan York which qualified the team for the 2017 Women's Rugby World Cup.
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Alice C. Evans, in graduation dress Evans was born on a farm in Neath, Bradford County, Pennsylvania, to William Howell, a farmer, and surveyor, and Anne B. Evans, a teacher. When Evans was five and six years old, she was taught at home by her parents and attended a one-room school house in Neath where she earned outstanding grades. In 1886, Evans survived scarlet fever, as did her brother Morgan. She attended the Susquehanna Collegiate Institute in Towanda, where she played on a women's basketball team and later became a teacher.
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Neath was a safe Labour seat that the Liberals last won in 1918; at the last election in 1924 the Liberals had not run a candidate. He stood as Liberal candidate for Neath at the 1929 General Election and polled nearly 30%; He did not stand for parliament again.British parliamentary election results 1918–1949, Craig, F.W.S. He was retained by Liberal headquarters as a speaker for another 12 months after the election. During the 1930s he made another political change and was a speaker for Oswald Mosley's New Party.
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Dennis Burgess (February 18, 1926 – November 3, 1980) was a British television actor born in Neath, Glamorgan, Wales.BFI.org He married Glenys Maria Hare at Neath, in 1958. Burgess came from Port Talbot, and worked as a drama teacher for most of his adult life. He dedicated a lot of his time to helping his father care for his invalid mother, and it wasn't until after she had died that Burgess became a professional actor at 47 years of age, moving from Wales to the south east of England.
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Mural painting of Harry Parr-Davies near Neath Harry Parr-Davies (24 May 1914 - 14 October 1955) was a Welsh composer and songwriter. He was born Harry Parr Davies in Briton Ferry, Neath, South Wales and was a musical prodigy, having composed whole operettas by the time he was in his teens. He came to the attention of composer Sir Walford Davies, who encouraged him to study at Oxford. At the age of fourteen he had already composed six songs, and left Wales to expand upon his juvenile success.
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In a recent TV appearance, a Brunel expert put the Goitre Coed Viaduct as the finest example of Brunel's viaducts in Wales. Two more viaducts existed at the north end of Edwardsville which were demolished shortly after the Beeching cuts of the 1960s. The main reason for their demolition was subsidence and the viaducts had been strengthened with huge wooden supports for a number of years. Until June 1964 (when the adjacent Vale of Neath Railway High Level station was closed, along with the Pontypool Road to Neath line that passed through it),Page, James.
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At the onset of World War I, in August 1914, R. C. Rickmers was seized by the British Admiralty as a war prize at Cardiff. She was renamed Neath and placed on cargo trade.Marijan Žuvić, The Never Ending Story of Training Ships, 2012 On 27 March 1917, while under the British flag returning from Mauritius to Le Havre with a cargo of sugar, Neath was sunk by the German submarine off the coast of Ireland. All of her crew survived, with the ship's captain being taken prisoner by U-66.
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There is a business park to the south of the community area with a junction onto the A465 trunk road which, heading east, joins the M4 Motorway at Junction 43, less than five minutes away. There are three local schools: Neath Abbey infant and Early Years School, Mynachlog Nedd Juniors, and Dwr Y Felin Lower School. Near the business park are located the ruins of the Cistercian monastery of Mynachlog Nedd, the Tennant Canal, and Neath Abbey Ironworks. There is much woodland in the area with footpaths maintained by the community council.
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Further industrialisation brought factories such as the Vernon, Gwalia, Wern, Baglan Bay Tinplate, and Whitford Sheet Works, receiving their raw material from the Albion and Briton Ferry Steelworks. Taylor's Foundry, Baglan Engineering and Thos W Ward serviced these industries. They were built on land close to the River Neath and the South Wales RailwaySouth Wales Railway built by Isambard Kingdom Brunel. The industrial development attracted other railways, including the Neath and Brecon Railway, the Rhondda and Swansea Bay Railway, and the South Wales Mineral RailwaySouth Wales Mineral Railway with its cable-powered incline.
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Devereux was born in Neath, but played for second class team Glynneath before moving to one of Wales's biggest clubs Neath. Devereux made his Wales début against the 1958 touring Australian team, and the next year played in two games in the 1958 Five Nations Championship under the captaincy of Clem Thomas. Of the three games Devereux played he was never on the losing side, with Wales winning two of the matches, and drawing one against England. In 1958, Devereux ended his rugby union international career by switching to the professional rugby league team Huddersfield.
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John Dickson became in effect the driving force of the Dula[i]s Valley Mineral Railway, and he saw that the line would only reach its potential if it extended at each end. In the1863 session of Parliament, therefore, the company promoted a Swansea and Neath and Brecon Railway. Swansea docks were as yet undeveloped but clearly had much greater potential than Neath. Extension north-eastward to Brecon would connect there with the Brecon and Merthyr Railway, itself connecting with a chain of other lines reaching to Hereford and beyond.
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The facts are these. > On Sunday Madame Patti and party—a large one—wanted to get from London to > Neath with comfort and speed. A special train was arranged for, and the > great songstress paid for it out of her own pocket, or wherever she keeps > the great piles of money she has made. Many people will be interested to > know that the special train ran along the new route through the Severn > Tunnel, and that the whole distance from Paddington to Neath was comfortably > traversed in four hours and twelve minutes.
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One of the factors which influenced the growth of Sennybridge was the establishment of the Neath and Brecon Railway which opened a station in the adjoining village of Defynnog in 1867. The promoter and contractor of the railway, John Dickson, also made a start on constructing a railway north from Sennybridge that would have linked the Neath and Brecon Railway to the Central Wales Line at Llangammarch Wells but work was suspended on his bankruptcy in 1867 and never resumed. The partially completed earthworks can still be seen in the countryside north of Sennybridge.
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The team remained in the top tiers of the Neath & District League, achieving a third placed finished in 2104. Two years later, the club won promotion to the Welsh Football League during the 2015–16 season for the first time in its history, defeating Team Swansea in a play-off match in May 2016 having finished as runners-up. The side also won the Neath & District League Cup for the first time in its history in the same season. Wales International defender Ben Davies was named club president in the 2010s.
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Gardner was born in Neath, and grew up in the Pont Walby area of Glynneath where her parents ran a local shop. She attended Llangatwg Comprehensive and Neath Port Talbot College where she was an outstanding student of A level English, History and Drama. She read English at the Queen Mary College, University of London. She initially worked as a teacher at Rhondda College, now part of Coleg Morgannwg, teaching English GCSE and A-Level, before in the mid-1990s she decided to switch to working in the television industry.
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WVSU Hymnn: From a dream a university grew, Stirring hearts with a heroes refrain. Out of darkness faith renew That our toils should not fade in vain. West Visayas State University, Hold thy banner high, Let genius bridge the earth And boundless sky. Set the youth to task half begun, Seek their rightful place ‘neath the sun. West Visayas State University, Let that dream come true, Not far away the goal Comes in to view, As the youth their tasks fully done, Find their rightful place ‘neath the sun.
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Colbren Junction was the outcome of a plan by the Midland Railway to reach the port of Swansea and it surrounding industries. The Midland wanted a route to Swansea that was independent of its two main competitors, the Great Western and London and North Western Railway. By 1867, the Neath and Brecon Railway had already opened a branch south from Brecon down the east side of the Tawe (or Swansea valley). This line, which provided the shortest route to Neath, crossed into the head of the parallel Dulais Valley near Coelbren.
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Jersey Marine is a village in Neath Port Talbot county borough, Wales, UK located about east of Swansea. It falls within the Coedffranc West ward. Jersey Marine is centered on a main road formed by Ashleigh Terrace, coming from a junction with the A483 road (Fabian Way), which curves to the east along New Road leading to Llandarcy. The A483, Fabian Way, is normally considered the gateway into Swansea City Centre, therefore it is mistakenly thought that the area is part of the city of Swansea despite the village being part of Neath Port Talbot.
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Originally from Wales, Lewis was born in Neath and raised in Seven Sisters and Crynant, completing schooling at Llangatwg Comprehensive and Neath Tertiary College. He completed his first degree at the University of London and PhD at the University of Cambridge's Institute of Astronomy. He has worked in the State University of New York, the University of Victoria in Canada, and the University of Washington in Seattle. After research positions in the US and Canada, he then became a Research Astronomer at the Anglo- Australian Observatory in 2000.
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Four independent railways made broad gauge connections with the South Wales Railway during the time of its independent existence. The most important was the Vale of Neath Railway. It was incorporated in 1846 to make a line from Neath to Merthyr Tydvil, with a branch from near Hirwaun to Aberdare. As a broad gauge line serving a mineral district it was obviously to be a useful feeder to the South Wales Railway, and when it was unable to secure the subscriptions it needed to build its line, the South Wales Railway subscribed £127,780.
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Dewi Lake is a Welsh rugby union player who plays for Ospreys as a hooker. Lake made his debut for the Ospreys in 2018 against Zebre having previously played for the Ospreys academy, Bridgend Ravens and Neath RFC.
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He started work at Neath Guardian in 1976. In 1980 he moved on to the Kent Evening Post. He became assistant sports editor of The Observer in 1983. He became deputy sports editor of The Independent in 1986.
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Jelley's appearances became more limited as Freshwater was preferred as reserve loosehead and Ricky Nebbett was signed to cover tighthead. His final Leicester appearance was in 23 January 2003 at Welford Road in the Heineken Cup against Neath.
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The ruins of Neath Abbey, a former Cistercian monastery, are now in the care of Cadw. On Mynydd Drumau to the north of the village is an ancient standing stone known as the Carreg Bica (or 'Maen Bradwen').
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Evans was born at Skewen, near Neath, Glamorganshire, the only son of John Evans, a grocer, and his wife Margaret, both originally of Cardiganshire. He was educated in Swansea, at University College, Aberystwyth, and the University of London.
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Crockford's Clerical Directory1947-48 Oxford, OUP,1947 After curacies in Portmadoc and Aberdare he served incumbencies at Miskin, Skewen and Neath. He was Archdeacon of Llandaff from 1969 to 1971; and Dean of Llandaff from 1971 to 1977.
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Giants Grave Football Club is an amateur Welsh football team based in Giant's Grave, Neath Port Talbot, Wales. They play in the West Wales Premier League which is in the fourth tier of the Welsh football league system.
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In August 2010, Brew rejoined the Newport Gwent Dragons on a one-year contract.Nathan Brew rejoins Newport Gwent Dragons from Neath – BBC Sport He was released by Newport Gwent Dragons at the end of the 2010–11 season.
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North of the Border is a 1946 American western film. It was directed by B. Reeves Eason and based on a story by James Oliver Curwood. Many of the same cast and crew also worked on 'Neath Canadian Skies.
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The station opened as Maesteg on 14 February 1898 by the Port Talbot Railway. Its name was changed to Maesteg Neath Road on 1 July 1924. It closed to passengers on 11 September 1933 and closed completely in 1964.
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Fred Leonard Perrett (9 May 1891 – 1 December 1918) was a Welsh international rugby union prop who played club rugby for Neath. He won five caps for Wales, and in his first international game faced the touring South Africans.
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Map of British coalfields The South Wales Coalfield () extends across Pembrokeshire, Carmarthenshire, Swansea, Neath Port Talbot, Bridgend, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Merthyr Tydfil, Caerphilly, Blaenau Gwent and Torfaen. It is rich in coal deposits, especially in the South Wales Valleys.
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Milland (1974) pp. 93–94 In his autobiography, Milland recalls that on this film set, he was suggested to adopt a stage name, and he chose Milland from the "mill lands" area of his Welsh home town of Neath.
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It is to provided integrated healthcare services for Glynneath, Cwmgwrach, Pontneddfechan, Ystradfellte, Rhigos, Resolven, Clyne and Abergarwed. It will be run by Swansea Bay University Health Board the Vale of Neath Medical Practice and D R Cecil Jones Pharmacy.
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On his father's death in 1727 he inherited the Gnoll estate and substantial coal mining and copper smelting interests in the Neath valley. He married Juliana Digby, the daughter of William Digby, 5th Baron Digby on 24 April 1730.
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Born in Port Talbot, Ryan played trombone in the National Youth Orchestra, but his rock career started in 1964 when he formed the Port Talbot/Neath band The Smokestacks, with John Hockin, Gary Pickford-Hopkins, Peter Randal and Gerald Trolley.
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The Cowboy Junkies also recorded a 5 song bonus EP of cover songs that they labeled 'neath your covers, part 1. They gave away the bonus CD free with every purchase of the One Soul Now CD while supplies lasted.
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First-Class Matches played by Percy Morgan In 1935, he played 2 Minor Counties Championship matches for the Glamorgan Second XI against Oxfordshire and Dorset.Minor Counties Championship Matches played by Percy Morgan Morgan died at Neath, Glamorgan on 3 March 1983.
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Born in Neath, Pickrell signed for Cardiff City in 1960. The following season, he broke into the first team, making eighteen league appearances and scoring four times. However, he contracted a serious chest illness that forced him to retire from football.
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Their most notable ex- player is Rowland Phillips, who not only played for first class team Neath, but also played for the Wales national team. Phillips won ten caps for his country; his first was against the United States in 1987.
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James Robert Alexander Williams (born 20 July 1973) is a former Welsh cricketer. Williams was a right-handed batsman and a right-arm off break bowler. He was born at Neath, Glamorgan. He was educated at Clifton College and Durham University.
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Doomsday King is the eighth studio album by Swedish melodic death metal band The Crown which was released on September 27, 2010 via Century Media Records. A music video was made for "Doomsday King" and "Falling 'neath the Heaven's Sea".
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Waring founded an English-language periodical, The Cambrian Visitor: a Monthly Miscellany at Swansea in January 1813, but it had to close in August that year.Photograph of document. Retrieved 25 April 2019. He moved to Neath in the following year.
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The Tarenni Colliery () and its associated workings, are a series of coal mines and pits located between the villages of Godre'r Graig and Cilybebyll located in the valley of the River Tawe, in Neath Port Talbot county borough, South Wales.
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Port Talbot Power Station was a proposed 1,100-1,300 MW natural gas-fired power station in Port Talbot, situated in Neath Port Talbot county borough, Wales. A proposed 350 MW biomass power station would have been sited next door to it.
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Hiddlestone was born in Hendy, Carmarthenshire, where he played his early rugby with local club, Hendy RFC. After the end of World War I he joined Llanelli a first class team within Welsh club rugby. He left Llanelli under poor circumstances, some sources stating that Hiddlestone was considered "too dirty" for the club,Not only Neath may be cast into outer darkness The Independent 18-12-2001 though at the time of leaving the club he was the present team captain, a position elected by the club members. Whatever the reason for his leaving Llanelli, Hiddlestone was accepted to play for Neath.
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Following his departure, Jones returned to Neath on a permanent deal on 5 August 2010. After playing as a Striker during his loan spell, Jones has been converted to a right winger for the 2010–2011 season and has provided many assists as well as chipping in with several goals as well as Neath go in search of European football. At the end of the 2010–11 season Jones won the Welsh Premier League Young Player of the Year Award. Jones was also Picked in the Welsh Premier League Dream Team in 2010–11 and 2011–12.
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Hook grew up playing schoolboy rugby with the junior and youth set-ups at various Port Talbot-based clubs including Aberavon Quins RFC, Taibach RFC and Corus (Port Talbot) RFC. At senior level and before making the step up to regional rugby with the Ospreys, Hook enjoyed great success for Neath RFC, becoming the record holder for the highest individual points tally within a season. He also played for Neath College as a youngster. Hook played his way into the Ospreys first XV in the 2006–07 Magners League season, giving outstanding performances at both fly-half and inside centre.
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Brian Sparks was a police officer in Neath, he studied teacher training at St. Luke's College, University of Exeter, and became a mathematics, and physical education teacher at Exley County Secondary Modern School in Exley, Halifax, and head teacher at Tynyrheol Primary School in Llangeinor, he was the founder-chairman of the Welsh Schools Basketball Association in 1963, in 1974 he undertook a Churchill Fellowship to study schools' basketball in USA, he was an active member in Neath RFC Former Players' Association, and in 2012 he received an MBE for services to schools' basketball in Wales.
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Hannah Ringham's Free Show (bring money) by Glen Neath premiered at the BAC in London, featured as part of the British Council Edinburgh Festival Showcase in 2011 and transferred to the Soho Theatre in London. Neath in 2005 Hide, a collaboration with Lizzie Clachan, was featured in the programme that re-opened the Royal Festival Hall in London after its refurbishment in 2007. Romcom, a collaboration with Ant Hampton's company Rotozaza, has been produced (between 2003 and 2011) in ten countries. Their second collaboration, "The Bench", premiered in Norwich in May 2010 and has since toured to Belgium, the Netherlands and Spain.
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Jones began his elite playing career in 1983 for Neath RFC. At the club, he was described by Brian Thomas (Neath's team manager) as "The fittest, fastest, cleverest and best back-row forward in Britain". Towards the end of 1987, Jones suffered a severe knee injury taking him out of rugby for over a year. On returning to Neath mid-way through the 1988/89 season, Jones took a sabbatical from rugby for personal reasons. He returned to the club in March 1990 where he struggled to find form and make a way back into the side.
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"Bright College Years" is one of the traditional songs of Yale University, and the university's unofficial but undisputed alma mater. It was written to the tune of "Die Wacht am Rhein" in 1881 by Henry Durand. In some old songbooks and publications, the song can be found under the name "Dear Old Yale", possibly a reference to the closing words of another popular Yale song, Neath the Elms: "Jolly, jolly are the days neath the elms of dear old Yale!" During World War I and shortly afterward, "Bright College Years" was nearly banned for its German heritage.
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In 1822, Young applied to the Marquis of Bute to lease the lands near Craig-y-Dinas, Pontneddfechan, in the upper Neath Valley for a period of twenty-one years. Young had the lease, and the patent (No. 5047) but had no funds left to set up the required brickworks. He sought financial backing from a number of sources, including his extended family once more and on 19 October 1822, the Dinas Fire Brick Co. was established in a partnership involving David Morgan, a Neath Ironmonger, John Player and Joseph Young (William Weston Young's older brother). (W.
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Vickery joined Aberavon in 1928, and in 1931 was part of the joint Aberavon / Neath team that faced the 1931 touring South African team. The Welsh club team was narrowly beaten when the South African's scored a late controversial try. Vickery would again face an international touring team in 1935, when another joint Aberavon / Neath team was chosen to play against the touring All Blacks. Although the combined Welsh teams only fielded one international, they played well though did not possess the fluency or clean passing of the New Zealand team and lost the game 13-3.
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Mountaineer built in 1866 by James Cross and Company for the Neath and Brecon Railway The first locomotive was The Progress, built in 1865 by James Cross and Company for the Neath and Brecon Railway. However, having the draught from both halves of the boiler through one firebox was unsuccessful. There was a tendency for most of the hot gases from the fire to go through one half of the boiler, so the other half made little contribution to steam-raising and was inefficient. The first Ffestiniog Railway Fairlie — Little Wonder — had separate fireboxes and proved far more successful.
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Gibbs began his rugby career at Pencoed RFC, progressing through the mini and youth levels. His first class career started at Bridgend RFC during the 1990/91 season, followed by a short spell at Neath RFC, before making his Welsh debut in 1991 against England. However he transferred to Swansea RFC in January 1992, scoring a try on his début in a Cup game against Oakdale. Gibbs also scored further tries that season in the cup against Neath RFC and Newport RFC to help Swansea reach the final where they lost to Llanelli RFC at Cardiff Arms Park.
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The area is served by several radio stations: The Wave (96.4FM), Swansea Sound (1170MW), Swansea Bay Radio (102.1FM), Heart Wales (106.0FM) and Nation Radio (107.3FM), all of which are available on DAB. Radio Phoenix also operates a 24-hour hospital radio service for the patients & staff of Neath Port Talbot Hospital in Baglan Moors. In 2005 the area was granted its first radio station when Afan FM, the inspiration of a group of local young people, was awarded a five-year licence by Ofcom to serve Port Talbot and Neath. Afan FM broadcast from the AquaDome leisure complex on Aberafan Seafront.
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Briton Ferry lies on the heavily fractured ground near the mouth of the River Neath on a line between the upper and middle coal measures. The original course of the River Neath may have been through the Jersey Marine gap between the isolated hills, which formed a rocky ridge between Briton Ferry and Jersey Marine. Beyond the ridge, the sands of Baglan Bay extended into Briton Ferry until the mid-nineteenth century when the estuary’s saltings were developed for industry. Today, the river crossing comprises two bridge crossings which carry the M4 motorway and A483 road across the river.
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The canal was completed in 1797, becoming the second in Glamorgan, running 14 miles (22.53 km) from Abernant to Briton Ferry. 1841 Neath Abbey Iron Co laid plans for an ironwork on the east bank of the river at Warren Hill. With the development of railways in the second half of the 19th century, Isambard Brunel designed Briton Ferry Dock to handle coal and other goods for the Vale of Neath Railway. It opened in 1861 following the town's ironworks in 1846 and the Red Jacket and Briton Ferry Copperworks on the West Bank of the river in 1849 and 1853.
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John Rees Glyn Stephens (16 April 1922 – 4 February 1998) was a Welsh international number 8 who played club rugby for Tonmawr RFC and Neath. He won 32 caps for Wales and was selected to play in the British Lions on the 1950 tour of Australia and New Zealand. He was the son of a past Welsh rugby international, Glyn Stephens, who was also president of the Welsh Rugby Union. Born in 1922 in Neath, Stephens played under-14s rugby for Wales and then after being accepted to Llandovery College, he played for Wales Secondary Schools.
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Arthur joined Neath from Glynneath RFC in 1923, and made his debut for the club in a game against Pontypool in December that year. After consistent good play for Neath, he showed promise in Welsh trials and was selected to the national squad in 1927 to face Scotland as part of the Five Nations Championship. Wales lost the game, but Arthur was reselected to face both France and Ireland in the later stages of the same tournament. The Welsh forwards were terrible in the game against Ireland and their eight-man pack was outclassed by the seven man Irish pack.
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The Dulas Valley Mineral Railway was incorporated in 1862 to bring coal from the Onllwyn area north-east of Neath to the quays there, and in the following year was reconstituted as the Neath and Brecon Railway. The line was opened as far as Onllwyn in 1863. The directors allowed a contractor John Dickson a free hand in building the line and when he became bankrupt the company was in a desperate financial situation. Nevertheless, the line was completed to Brecon in 1867, and an offshoot to connect with the Swansea Vale Railway, giving better access to Swansea, was ready in 1873.
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At Cribarth, Variscan movement on this Caledonoid feature has given rise to a couple of folds in the limestone and overlying Twrch Sandstone from which the present landform has subsequently been carved, in part by glacial action. The southernmost lineament is the Neath Disturbance which runs ENE from Swansea Bay up the Vale of Neath and into the park at Pontneddfechan. The limestone is tightly folded here at Bwa Maen (Welsh: 'stone bow') and again at Moel Penderyn, through which it next passes. It passes beneath Pontsticill Reservoir, across the top of Dyffryn Crawnon and then down the shallow Onneu valley to Crickhowell.
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The fact that two of the main committee members of the SWFU, John Llewellyn and Sam Clark were Neath men, and the creation of the WFU disbanded their union, is generally accepted as the reason for the absence of a Neath representative.Smith (1980), pg 42–43. The WRU was a founding member of the International Rugby Football Board, now known as World Rugby, in 1886 with Scotland and Ireland, with Mullock and Horace Lyne the Welsh representatives at the formal signing of the union in 1887. It was not until 1934 that the name, the Welsh Rugby Union, was adopted.
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A diagram showing the development pathways managed by Wales' pro-clubs In 2003, the WRU elected to reduce the top tier of Welsh professional rugby from nine clubs into five regions during the introduction of regional rugby union teams in Wales, attempting to mirror the successful formats in Ireland, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand. Initially, it was planned to have a region playing at Stradey Park, with players coming from Llanelli, Swansea and Neath. This was then modified to have Llanelli and Swansea merging, while Neath joined with Bridgend. Llanelli were opposed to both plans and requested standalone status.
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Nevertheless, Barrie observes: > As late as July 1869… the Neath and Brecon Engineer, admitted to a House of > Lords select committee that if any passengers for east of Brecon arrived by > train at Mount Street their tickets were collected, they were put on the > engine, and run forward on the high level line to a point opposite and above > the Watton station. (There was also a loop line direct from the Free Street > extension into Watton Yard, but the Neath & Brecon witnesses claimed that > the B&M; would not let them use it, but kept the points locked. By 1870 a contract was let to build a new station at Free Street, intended to be a Joint station for all the railway companies (although wholly owned by the B&MR;), and it opened on 1 March 1871. Nonetheless the Neath and Brecon Railway continued to use its own station until 1874, when its passenger trains moved to Free Street, the former station being relegated to goods traffic.
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Andrew Moule (born 16 April 1977 in Neath) is a Welsh footballer who plays as a midfielder. Moule joined Dundee United in 1994 but made just one substitute appearance and was subsequently released. It is unknown what happened to Moule after this.
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Brian Sparks won caps for Wales (RU) while at Neath RFC in 1954 against Ireland, in 1955 against England, and France, in 1956 against England, Scotland, and Ireland, and in 1957 Scotland, he was the fortieth police officer to be capped by Wales.
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He made one appearance in the Lancashire County Cup final as Rangers lost 7–10 against Wigan in the 1947–48 final at Wilderspool Stadium, Warrington on 1 November 1947. He retired from rugby league in April 1953 and returned to Neath.
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Evans was born in the village of Pontrhydyfen near Neath, the same village as the actor Richard Burton.BBC – Burton Emmanuel Evans – News She married Stephen Jones in 1997, and they have one son, William born in 1999. They live in Penarth, South Wales.
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Jordan Collier (born 7 December 1994) is a Welsh rugby union player who plays for Ospreys regional team as a flanker. Collier made his debut for the Ospreys regional team in 2014 having previously played for the Neath RFC and Tonmawr RFC.
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The master of Neath was taken prisoner, but had been released and landed at Queenstown two days later. During April 1917, German sank 860,334 tons of Allied and neutral shipping, a monthly total unsurpassed in either of the two world wars.Tarrant, p. 47.
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Mary Elizabeth Phillips was from Merthyr Cynog in Breconshire."Breconshire's Second Lady Doctor" The Brecon County Times Neath Gazette and General Advertiser (17 July 1919): 6. Her father William Phillips was a farmer."Mary Elizabeth Phillips" A-Z of Personnel, Scottish Women's Hospitals.
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Roy Lambert (birth unknown) is a Welsh former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1950s. He played at representative level for Wales, and at club level for Neath RLFC, Dewsbury, Warrington, Castleford and Wigan, as a , i.e. number 2 or 5.
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The Uskway club in Newport, Nantgarw and Neath Clubs seat in excess of 1,000 people. The Merthyr Tydfil club can be seen in the 2000 film House!, where it doubles as the newly opened (by Keith Chegwin) and fictional Mega Bingo building.
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Christina Rees (born 21 February 1954) is a Welsh Labour Co-operative Party politician who served as Shadow Secretary of State for Wales in the Shadow Cabinet of Jeremy Corbyn from 2017 to 2020, and has served as MP for Neath since 2015.
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William John Perry (22 September 1886 - 16 February 1970) was a Welsh rugby union player who played rugby union at club level for Neath and was also selected to represent Glamorgan County. Perry represented Wales on one occasion, facing England in 1911.
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The club merged with Onllwyn to become Seven Sisters Onllwyn AFC in a move announced by the club on 13 July 2020, with the first team to compete in the West Wales Premier League along with two teams in the Neath & District League.
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The Forest is a 2005 Cambodian monster thriller film directed by Heng Tola, the director of Khmer Blockbuster films, such as Gratefulness and Neang Neath. It was nominated for many awards in The Khmer national film festival but won for best special effects.
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The town is currently in the parliamentary constituency of Aberavon, having been in Neath constituency from 1945 until 1983. The current MP is Stephen Kinnock, while the current Welsh Assembly Member is David Rees and there are three West Wales Regional Assembly Members.
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Don Devereux (18 October, 1932 – 8 February 1995) was a Welsh international prop who played rugby union for Neath and rugby league for Huddersfield. He won three caps for the Wales rugby union team and also represented Wales at schools and youth level.
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Bleddyn Taylor (born 17 January 1959)Bleddyn Taylor Swansea profile Swansearfc.co.uk was a Welsh rugby union player who played club rugby for Swansea RFC, Pontypool RFC, Neath RFC, Llanelli RFC, and Dunvant RFC. He also represented Wales A, Wales Sevens, and the Barbarians.
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Aisea Natoga (born 5 September 1990) is a Fijian rugby union player who played for Ospreys as a winger. He is a Fijian international. Natoga made his debut for the Ospreys in 2013 having previously played for Aberavon RFC and Neath RFC.
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ASLEF officially records Perry as its founder.Raynes, 1921, p. 31.McKillop, 1950, plate opposite p. 19. In the remainder of 1880 ASLEF opened branches at Tondu, Liverpool and Leeds (April), Neath (May), Bradford (June), and Carnforth (July).Raynes, 1921, pp. 31–32.
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The soundtrack is composed by Jocelyn Pook. The mountain scenes were shot mostly in Julian Alps in Slovenia, scenes of Frankfurt in Ljubljana and willage scenes in Neath, and Llanelli, Wales. The Sessemann house in Frankfurt was shot at Stradey Castle in Llanelli.
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Gwaun-Cae-Gurwen () is a village and community in the borough of Neath Port Talbot, South West Wales. Historically a part of Glamorgan, Gwaun-Cae-Gurwen is a parish made up of the electoral wards of Gwaun-Cae-Gurwen and Lower Brynamman.
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Opened by the Neath and Brecon Railway, it became part of the Great Western Railway during the Grouping of 1923. The line then passed on to the Western Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948. It was then closed by the British Transport Commission.
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Neath, I. (2000). Modeling the effects of irrelevant speech on memory. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 7(3), 403-423. An example of articulation suppression is repeating the same word over many times such as ' the ' and attempting to memorise other words into short term memory.
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Robin Hood’s Ball is a Neolithic causewayed enclosure on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England. It is approximately northwest of the town of Amesbury, and northwest of Stonehenge. It was formerly known as Neath Barrow. The site was designated as a scheduled monument in 1965.
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The first election to the Neath Port Talbot County Borough Council was held on 4 May 1995. It was followed by the 1999 election. On the same day there were elections to the other 21 local authorities in Wales and community councils in Wales.
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Huw David Richards (born 9 October 1960) is a former Welsh and Neath RFC rugby union player. He played in the 1987 Rugby World Cup as a lock and became the first player to receive a red card in a Rugby World Cup tournament.
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Melding was born in Neath, where he attended Dwr-y-Felin Comprehensive School. He read Politics at the University of Wales, Cardiff, obtaining a BSc (Econ), followed by an MA in Government at the College of William and Mary, Virginia in the United States.
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Kieran Williams (born 12 April 1997) is a Welsh rugby union player who plays for Ospreys regional team as a centre. Williams made his debut for the Ospreys regional team in 2018 against Zebre having previously played for the Ospreys academy and Neath RFC.
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He won the crown at Neath National Eisteddfod in 1918. In his lifetime, he married a woman named Margaret who was also from Machynlleth. They had two sons. Lewis died due to a grave illness at Gendros, Swansea, on 12 March 1954, at age 67.
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He retained the land between the River Neath and the River Afan, and he and his descendants were known as the "lords of Afan." His descendants are thought to include the Williams family of Aberpergwm and the Powell Wilkins family of Carreg Cennen, Carmarthenshire.
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David Harris Davies (27 October 1877 – 30 September 1944)David Davies player profile Scrum.com was a Welsh international rugby union forward who played club rugby for Neath and county rugby for Glamorgan. He won a single international cap, selected to play for Wales in 1904.
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Henderson was born in Neath and grew up in Llandrindod Wells and Aberystwyth. She was educated at Ardwyn Grammar School Aberystwyth and Howell's School Llandaff. Shewent on to a career in nursing working at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge. She left nursing to become an Anglican priest.
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Luke Ford (born 8 March 1988)Luke Ford player profile WRU.co.uk is a Welsh rugby union player who plays Centre (rugby union)for Neath RFC and was once part of the Cardiff Blues squad. He is the son of Wales international rugby player, Steve Ford.
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Jeremy David Pugh (born 4 March 1960) is a former international rugby union player. He played for the Wales national rugby union team in the late 1980s. Pugh played his club rugby for Neath. He first played for Wales in 1987 against the USA.
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Lleision ap Thomas succeeded John ap Hywel (Hoell), who is mentioned as Abbot of Neath in 1507. Lleision is mentioned as abbot on 28 January 1510. He studied at the University of Oxford and obtained the degrees of B.Can.L. in 1511 and B.D. in 1512.
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Cwmamman is 78.47% Welsh speaking and lies at the foot of the Black Mountain. The community is bordered by the communities of: Betws; Llandybie; Dyffryn Cennen; and Quarter Bach, all being in Carmarthenshire; and by Gwaun-Cae-Gurwen and Pontardawe in Neath Port Talbot.
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The South West Wales Integrated Transport Consortium is an alliance of four unitary authorities in south west Wales: Pembrokeshire, Swansea, Neath Port Talbot and Carmarthenshire. It is one of four transport consortia [SEWTA, SWWITCH, Taith Joint Board and TraCC] supported by the Welsh Assembly Government.
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The Vale of Neath Railway mainline from to arrived in 1853, opening Llwydcoed railway station in the same year. Taken over on grouping by the Great Western Railway in 1923, the line remained open until closure under the British Railways Beeching Axe in 1963.
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Billups then played for the Harlequins from 1997 to 1999 and was the Supporter's Club Player of the Year during the 1997-1998 season. In 1999, Billups finished his professional playing career in Wales playing first for Neath RFC and then with Pontypridd RFC.
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Oliver Richard James (born 7 October 1990) is a Welsh cricketer. James is a right-handed batsman who bowls right-arm off break. He was born in Neath, Glamorgan. James made his debut for Wales Minor Counties in the 2008 MCCA Knockout Trophy against Dorset.
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He was the eldest son of William Gronow of Court Herbert, Neath, Glamorganshire, who died in 1830, by Anne, only daughter of Rees Howell of Gwrrhyd. He was born on 7 May 1794, and was educated at Eton, where he was intimate with Shelley.
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At Swansea University Bowen had met his future wife, Enid Vesta Williams, who was from nearby Neath. They married in 1938, and had three sons: Edward, David and John. Bowen had an enduring love of cricket, and played regularly. He also became a keen sailor.
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Following the removal of the track through Colbren, the Neath and Brecon line now terminates at the coal washer at Onllwyn. Little remains at Colbren of the station or the junction; although surviving conifers indicate the alignment of the track of the former railway.
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Mynydd y Drum is a hill on the border between the county of Powys and Neath Port Talbot County Borough, south Wales. The summit of the hill is in Neath Port Talbot (formerly the county of Glamorgan) at 298mOrdnance Survey 1:50,000 scale map sheet 160 Brecon Beacons and lies towards the western end of a broad curving ridge, the larger part of which is in Powys (former county of Brecknockshire). The eastern half of the hill is currently being opencasted for coal.Ordnance Survey Explorer map OL12 'Brecon Beacons National Park: western area' The hill is sometimes referred to simply as The Drum (a Welsh word, so pronounced 'drim').
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In 1874 a service was begun of three trains a week from Llanidloes to Neath; a Mid-Wales engine worked through to Neath. From 1880 in summertime through carriages were run from Cardiff over the Rhymney Railway via Bargoed and on over the B&MR; to Talyllyn Junction, then over the Mid-Wales and Cambrian Railways to Aberystwyth. Mid-Wales carriages were also kept at Cardiff (Queen St) and Newport (High Street). Much of this traffic went through to Cambrian Railway resorts, but some was for Llandrindod Wells, and this was handled by arranging connecting trains at Llechryd, with the Central Wales line of the LNWR.
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The constituency was created for the first election to the Assembly, in 1999, with the name and boundaries of the Aberavon Westminster constituency, and it is entirely within the preserved county of West Glamorgan. Boundaries were unchanged by the review whose proposals come into effect for the 2007 Welsh Assembly election. The constituency is composed of the Neath Port Talbot electoral divisions: Aberavon, Baglan, Briton Ferry East, Briton Ferry West, Bryn & Cwmavon, Coedffranc Central, Coedffranc North, Coedffranc West, Cymmer, Glyncorrwg, Gwynfi, Margam, Port Talbot, Sandlands East, Sandlands West, and Tai-bach. The other six constituencies of the region are Bridgend, Gower, Neath, Ogmore, Swansea East and Swansea West.
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Howel Gwyn, benefactor of the Gwyn Hall, was a prominent public figure in Victorian Neath society. During his political career he had served as alderman, town councillor, mayor, Freeman of the Borough, chairman to the board of Guardians, High Sheriff of Glamorgan and MP for Brecon and Falmouth. A generous benefactor to the town he was revered for his paternalism having made substantial gifts and land for St David's Church, Alderman Davies School, the building of the Constitutional Club and St Matthew's Church, Dyffryn where he is buried. At his mansion in Dyffryn he hosted an annual fete for his tenants and provided the Christmas luncheon at the Neath Union Workhouse.
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Rees was born in 1924 in Neath, which was then in Glamorgan, the youngest of six children of James Francis- Rees and his wife, Gertrude née Snow. He attended Cwrt Sart Central School in Briton Ferry, and played football as a youngster for Garthmor and for Neath schoolboys. He played for Swansea Town in the wartime competitions, regularly in 1943–44 and occasionally the following season, before joining Briton Ferry Athletic, where he was instrumental in their Welsh League Division Two West title win in 1946–47. After a trial with Norwich City at the end of that season, he turned professional with the Third Division South club.
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In 1983 Palliser was to be scrapped at S Dean and Sons at Briton Ferry, Neath. Initial attempts to tow the frigate from Portsmouth were delayed by fog, and when on 9 February 1983, the tug Alnwick took Palliser in tow, Alnwick collided with Palliser, damaging the tug and forcing the two ships into Plymouth for repairs. When the tow recommenced, fog caused it to be stopped when the ships reached Swansea Bay, forcing the ships to miss the correct tide, causing a further delay of a week. When the ships finally reached Neath on 27 March 1983, Palliser ran aground before finally making it to the breakers.
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The chimney must have been hinged to allow it to go through the Plymouth tunnel. The Dowlais Company's line linking their works to the Merthyr Tramroad had a maximum gradient of 1 in 16.5 and considered too steep for locomotives to work by adhesion alone. In 1832 the Neath Abbey Ironworks supplied a six-wheeled rack and adhesion locomotive weighing 8 tons named "Perseverance" with inclined cylinders and twin chimneys (allowing them to be lowered alongside the boiler to pass through the tunnel at Plymouth). Another somewhat similar locomotive (but without a geared rack drive) named "Mountaineer" was built in 1833 by the Neath Abbey Co. for the Dowlais Company.
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The Liberal group did agree on a list of aldermen beforehand, but they were not as cohesive as in other counties in using a block vote. One of the main debates related to the venue for meetings, with the claims of Neath and Pontypridd being most prominent. The Bridgend Local Board of Health had petitioned Lord Dunraven to lobby for that town to be considered. The matter was resolved for the time being at the first statutory meeting, held at Pontypridd on 1 April where it was decided that the meetings be held alternately at Pontypridd and Neath, with the claims of Cardiff being rejected.
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On 21 May 1845 he put his ideas to the provisional directors of the South Wales Railway, although they had not yet secured their own authorising Act. They were supportive, providing that Coke's railway was also on the broad gauge system. His intended route was from Neath up the relatively gentle valley as far as Glyn Neath; from there the line was to climb much more steeply and penetrate the mountain at the watershed, then descending the Cynon Valley to Cwmbach (near Aberdare) and turning north-east pass through another mountain by a long tunnel to reach Merthyr. There would be a branch to Aberdare itself.
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After his experience at Neath, he occasionally reappeared in his profession, but was never again fully embarked in business. He was a member of the Institution of Civil Engineers, but the date of his admission has not been found. Brunton died at the residence of his son, William Brunton, at Camborne, Cornwall, 5 October 1851, having married, 30 October 1810, Anne Elizabeth Button, adopted daughter of John and Rebecca Dickinson of Summer Hill, Birmingham. She died at Eaglesbush, Neath, Glamorganshire, 1845, leaving sons who became well known engineers in their own right - John born 1812, William born 1817, J. Dickinson born 1821 and George born 1823.
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Trundle made a name for himself in professional football during a four-year spell for Swansea City, where he scored 78 goals in 146 appearances between 2003 and 2007. In July 2007, he left Swansea and signed with Bristol City, though he only scored 8 times in 3 seasons and was loaned out to both Leeds United and back to Swansea. In 2010, following his release from Bristol City, Trundle returned to the top tier of Welsh football and signed for Neath. He spent two years with the club, scoring 26 goals in 59 matches, but found himself a free agent once more when Neath were liquidated in 2012.
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The villages of Cwmgwrach and Blaengwrach are on the upper reaches of the Neath Valley, and occupy the strip of lowland south of the River Neath, and up the lower slopes of the hillside around the Nant Gwrach stream. The ward had a population of 1,985 in the 2001 census, but 837 were residents of the neighbouring community of Glynneath, so the population of the Blaengwrach community was 1,148. The ward population changed very little at the census of 2011. The settlement of Blaengwrach is sometimes confused with the village of Cwmgwrach, the name that is used for both the village as a whole, and the western settlement.
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The Neath and Brecon Railway Craig-y-nos railway station was in part funded by Patti. A private road was constructed from the castle to the station, where a lavishly furnished private waiting room was installed. In return the Neath and Brecon Railway was commissioned to provide Patti with her own private railway carriage, which she could request attached to any train to take her whenever, and wherever within the United Kingdom, she wanted to travel. At the start of the 20th century, Patti had one of the first motor cars in Wales, and is reported to have raced a local doctor from Swansea to Abercrave for a small wager.
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William Lewis Thomas (30 June 1913 – 1 February 1995 (aged 81)) born in Ystradgynlais, was a Welsh rugby union and rugby league footballer who played in the 1930s and 1940s. He played club level rugby union (RU) for Ystradgynlais RFC and Neath RFC, as a Scrum-half, and club level rugby league (RL) for Ystradgynlais RLFC. He captained Ystradgynlais RFC in 1937/38, and played for Neath RFC between the years of 1938 and 1941, and then for a further season in 1946. He was one half of the then famous pre-war halfback partnership, alongside Welsh international outside half W. E. Jones, he died in Ystradgynlais.
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Richard was born at Tyn Ton, a farmhouse in the village of Llangeinor, Glamorgan, Wales. He was educated privately, then at Neath and Pen-twyn. He studied under Vavasor Griffiths at Chancefield, Talgarth. He then left Wales for England, where he spent the rest of his life.
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Craig Evans (born 15 November 1971) is a former Welsh cricketer. Evans was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm off break. He was born in Neath, Glamorgan. Evans made his debut for Wales Minor Counties in 1994 in the Minor Counties Championship against Herefordshire.
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Sullivan was born at Cardiff, Glamorgan, Wales.Jim Sullivan profile rugbyrelics.com He attended St Alban's School, and joined his hometown rugby union team Cardiff at the age of 16. He made his début against Neath in October 1920, and went on to make 38 appearances for the club.
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Bridgend Street were promoted from the South Wales Senior League and Undy Athletic were promoted from the Gwent County League. Cwmamman United were relegated to the Neath & District League. Cwmbrân Town were relegated to the Gwent County League. South Gower were relegated to the Swansea Senior League.
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First-class Bowling For Each Team by Dillwyn Thomas He played a further first-class match for the county, against Yorkshire in the same season at Park Avenue Cricket Ground, Bradford.First-Class Matches played by Dillwyn Thomas Thomas died at Neath, Glamorgan on 29 August 1996.
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In June 2010, he left Neath by mutual consent to sign for Llanelli. Llewellyn scored in the 2010–11 UEFA Europa League second leg tie against FK Tauras Tauragė. He joined Aberystwyth Town on loan in January 2012. He left Llanelli in June 2012 after being released.
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The Welsh Federation of Coarse Anglers (WFCA) is the national governing body for coarse fishing in Wales. It was established in 1977 and by 2003 had 69 affiliated clubs and over 23,000 members. The Welsh Federation of Coarse Anglers is based at Briton Ferry, Neath Port Talbot.
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The line opened to passenger traffic on 5 October 1864. Hitherto passenger trains had run through from Neath to Merthyr, and Aberdare passengers had to change at Hirwain. This was now reversed, with Aberdare becoming the primary route, and Merthyr passengers needing to change at Hirwain.
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Pontardawe () is both a town and a community in the Swansea Valley (Welsh: Cwmtawe) in Wales. With a population of 6,800, it comprises the electoral wards of Pontardawe and Trebanos. A town council is elected. Pontardawe forms part of the county borough of Neath Port Talbot.
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Hopkins started his playing career with his home town club Ystradgynlais RFC before going on to represent the first class teams Cardiff RFC, Swansea RFC and Neath RFC. He was club captain for Swansea during the 1991-92 season when they won their first Welsh league title.
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Minhinnick was born in Neath, and now lives in Porthcawl. He studied at University of Wales, Aberystwyth, and University of Wales, Cardiff. An environmental campaigner, he co-founded the charities Friends of the Earth (Cymru) and Sustainable Wales. His work deals with both Welsh and international themes.
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In 2008, faced only by a Plaid Cymru opponent, Palmer increased her vote significantly. At the 2012 election, Palmer was faced by an experienced Plaid Cymru candidate who had fought the Neath by-election in 1991. She was again returned but with a much- reduced majority.
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School starts at ten to nine and finishes at twenty past three. The primary school officially opened in September 2013 after the amalgamation of Crynallt Infant & Junior Schools. The local secondary school is Cefn Saeson. Cefn Saeson serves Cimla, Tonna, Tonmawr, Pontrhydyfen, Melin and parts of Neath.
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Opened by the Vale of Neath Railway, it became part of the Great Western Railway. The line then passed on to the Western Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948. Renamed by the British Transport Commission, it was then closed by the British Railways Board.
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Bryncoch Rugby Football Club are a Welsh rugby union club based in the town of Bryncoch in Neath, Wales. The club is a member of the Welsh Rugby Union and is also a feeder club for the Ospreys. The club fields First, Second and Youth teams.
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Gwenda Thomas (born 22 January 1942 in Neath) is a Welsh Labour politician. Thomas was first elected to the National Assembly for Wales in 1999 and re- elected in 2003, having almost doubled her majority. She is a fluent Welsh speaker. She is a member of the GMB Union.
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He was appointed a Divisional Officer of Iron and Steel Trades Confederation and in the 1918 General Election he became the Member of Parliament for Neath. Between 1919 and 1925 he was a Labour Party Whip and in 1924 he briefly became the Treasure of the King's Household.
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1979–1984: Brecon and Radnor; Cardigan; Carmarthen; Gower; Llanelli; Pembroke; Swansea East; Swansea West. 1984–1994: Brecon and Radnor; Carmarthen; Ceredigion and Pembroke North; Gower; Llanelli; Neath; Pembroke; Swansea East; Swansea West. 1994–1999: Brecon and Radnor; Carmarthen; Ceredigion and Pembroke North; Llanelli; Meirionnydd Nant Conwy; Montgomery; Pembroke.
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Bramwell has previously played for Dunvant RFC, Swansea RFC, Neath RFC and Ebbw Vale RFC. Bramwell is a current Wales Sevens player. Bramwell was elected Principality Player of the Month in October 2008. Bramwell also is one of 11 players to go on and be capped at all levels.
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Ribeiro was born in Neath in South Wales, and at the age of 6 moved to Berkeley, Gloucestershire, and then onto Ruscombe near Stroud in his teenage years. He attended Marling School. His father coached his youth team Wanswell Wanderers. Ribeiro's surname comes from his paternal Portuguese heritage.
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Byron Stuart Phelps (born 16 December 1975) is a former Welsh cricketer. Phelps was a right-handed batsman who bowled slow left-arm orthodox. He was born at Neath, Glamorgan. Phelps played two Minor Counties Championship matches for the Wales Minor Counties in 1993, against Cheshire and Devon.
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Norman Ernest Jacob (9 July 1901 - 12 March 1970) was a Welsh cricketer. Jacob was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm medium pace. He was born at Neath, Glamorgan. Jacob made his first-class debut Glamorgan in the 1922 County Championship against Lancashire at Old Trafford, Manchester.
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Australia, Marriage Index, 1788–1950 Reg. Year 1862 Reg. No. 333 She was from Neath in Glamorgan, Wales and, with her parents and siblings, had also immigrated to Australia, arriving in Melbourne in June 1849 on the British Empire.Victoria, Australia, Assisted and Unassisted Passenger Lists, 1839–1923 Mrs.
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Grŵp Colegau NPTC Group of Colleges is a further education college which was formed following the merger of Neath Port Talbot College and Coleg Powys on 1 August 2013. The college offers a programme of full-time, part-time, and higher education courses across its 9 campuses in Wales.
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Clyne is a village in Neath Port Talbot county borough, Wales. It is the main settlement within the community of Clyne and Melincourt. Clyne and Melincourt together with the community of Resolven make up the electoral ward of Resolven. The population as of the 2011 census was 819.
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His brother is Welsh rugby player Dylan Pugh who represented Wales at under-21 level. He has also played for Bath, Neath and London Welsh. He now works within digital media and technology, currently driving global partnerships with the world's leading brands and agencies at online music platform Spotify.
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The South Wales Miners' Museum is a museum of the coal mining industry and its workforce in the South Wales Coalfield. It is located at Cynonville within the Afan Forest Park Visitor Centre in the Afan Forest Park, near the small village of Cymmer in Neath Port Talbot.
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Cymer Afan Comprehensive School was a comprehensive school, located in Cymmer, Neath Port Talbot, Wales. It offered mixed-sex education to around 200 pupils aged 11–16. In November 2017, plans were announced to close the school. Following two failed court appeals, the school closed in July 2019.
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In the first years of the Vale of Neath Railway, business grew steadily and profitability as good. From 1857 this situation began to change. A coal strike, general depression of trade, and heavy costs of maintaining the permanent way, all reduced profit. No dividend was declared in August 1857.
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The winners of the Play-offs would win a one-off trophy. The fourteen teams competing consisted of Aberavon RFC, Bedwas RFC, Cardiff RFC, Carmarthen Quins, Cross Keys RFC, Ebbw Vale RFC, Glamorgan Wanderers RFC, Llandovery RFC, Llanelli RFC, Neath RFC, Newport RFC, Pontypool RFC, Pontypridd RFC, Swansea RFC.
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Opened by the Neath and Brecon Railway Railway circa 1867, it became part of the Great Western Railway during the Grouping of 1923. The line then passed on to the Western Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948. It was then closed by the British Transport Commission.
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The town is served by twelve local services and three express services which pickup from various stops within the town. The local buses cater for local shoppers, colleges and hospitals in the Neath-Port Talbot area, while the express services are provided to reach Bridgend, Maesteg and Swansea.
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Peace Mala worked with St David's Church in Neath to host a Youth Liturgy for World Peace on the UN International Day of Peace on 21 September 2018 . Peace Mala accredited schools and those working towards accreditation were joined by local dignitaries and 21 representatives from eleven different faiths.
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An election to Neath Port Talbot County Borough Council was held on 4 May 2017 as part of wider local elections across Wales. The election was preceded by the 2012 election. Four candidates (from the sixty four seats available) were elected unopposed. Labour maintained control of the authority.
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Ysgol Bae Baglan an all-through school in Neath Port Talbot and opened in 2016 following the closure of Sandfields Comprehensive school, Glan Afan Comprehensive School and Cwrt Sart Comprehensive School in 2016. Several primary schools are located within the Sandfields Estate including Tywyn and Awel Y Mor.
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New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1908. 31 Jan. 2015 The monasteries of Basingwerk (Flintshire) and Neath (Glamorgan) in Wales were founded as Savigniac houses, as was Combermere Abbey. St. Mary's Abbey, Dublin was founded as a Benedictine house in 862, and given to the Congregation of Savigny in 1139.
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Gibbins was born in Neath, the eldest son of F J Gibbins, a local Justice of the Peace. He was educated privately but also attended the Quaker School in Scarborough. In 1898 he married Sarah Jennet Rhys, the daughter of Jenkin Rhys of Ysguborfawr, Breconshire. They had two sons.
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In 1981 Thomas became the team manager of Neath, and during that time he led them to five club titles, as Welsh Club Champions in 1986/87, 1988/89 and 1989/90, then as the winners of Welsh Premier Division in 1990/91 and 1995/96. In his 1989 book The Rugby Clubs of Wales, David Parry-Jones describes' Thomas as bringing a "fresh dimension to the tradition of tough, closely concentrated forward play" who was able to "attract and mould distant talent which might otherwise have found its way into other clubs". Thomas was father-in-law to Wales international Rowland Phillips and Neath flanker Robin Jones. He was the grandfather of Swansea second-row Jack Jones.
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Peter Gerald Hain, Baron Hain (born 16 February 1950) is a British Labour Party politician who was Member of Parliament (MP) for Neath between 1991 and 2015 and served in the Cabinets of both Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. He served as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland from 2005 to 2007, Secretary of State for Work and Pensions from 2007 to 2008 and twice as Secretary of State for Wales from 2002 to 2008 and from 2009 to 2010. Hain came to the United Kingdom from South Africa as a teenager and was a noted anti-apartheid campaigner in the 1970s. Elected to Neath at a 1991 by-election, he joined the government as Welsh Secretary in 2002.
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View of Crymlyn Burrows salt marsh looking towards the River Neath estuary The undeveloped salt marsh area south of the Fabian Way and north Jersey Marine Beach is a designated biological Site of Special Scientific Interest and is one of the last remaining places of the Swansea Bay coastline that has remained unmodified by industrial development. The area contains sand dunes, a salt marsh and carr woodland. The burrows also contain a rare orchidLocal Biodiversity Action Plan for Neath Port Talbot 2001 - 2006 \- the Fen Orchid, Liparis loeselii.NPT CBC - County Flower The site was acquired by St. Modwen from BP in November 2009 and will be kept as a protected leisure destination.
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John Leslie Gwyn Thomas (14 March 1891 - 10 April 1932) was a Welsh sportsman who played both rugby and cricket at domestic level. Thomas was born and died in Neath. Thomas played both sports for Neath while attending grammar school, his cricket skill commended on account of his bold striking of the ball and free scoring, possessing enough power to lift the ball out of the cricket ground. He became a regular team member in Glamorgan's Minor Counties fixtures between 1910 and 1920, before finally getting his chance at first-class cricket in 1922, when other batsmen became unavailable, before being interrupted in his quest for further possible play by his business commitments.
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Flint, MI: North American Association for the Study of Welsh Culture and History, 2004. Continuous use of the instrument has since waxed and waned in popularity according to musical fashions. Pipe making has historically been localised and idiosyncratic, and piping since the sixteenth century has generally been employed in celebratory or public roles such as weddings, markets, or dances.THE HISTORY OF THE VALE OF NEATH by D. RHYS PHILLIPS Facsimile Edition West Glamorgan County Archive Service and Neath Borough Council 1994 A hiatus of fifty years occurred between the playing of Meredith Morris and the renaissance of native instruments in the 1970s, during which piping in Wales was carried mainly on the Great Highland pipe.
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Hirwaun station on the Vale of Neath Railway.The South Wales Railway had long since (in August 1863) been absorbed into the Great Western Railway, and in the same year the GWR had acquired the West Midland Railway, securing standard gauge access for it northwards to the industrial areas of England, and westwards from Pontypool to intersect with many of the valley lines. The Vale of Neath Railway was now on the shopping list; the advantages of its acquisition to the GWR were numerous. The VoNR directors negotiated skilfully, being aware that considerable capital expenditure on their own line would be necessary in the near future, depressing dividend distributions, and playing on GWR fears of LNWR incursion.
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Trains reached the station by crossing a drawbridge over the lock entrance to the North Dock. On 29 November 1865 a coal train ran over the location of the drawbridge when it was open for shipping, and there was a serious accident; the two men on the footplate perished. Passenger traffic was switched away from Wind Street in 1873, running over the South Wales Main Line from Neath to Swansea High Street, the GWR main station, and from that time passenger trains did not run on the VoNR (former S&NR;) line between Neath and Swansea.Jones and Dunstone imply cause and effect from the accident and the diversion; but eight years seems a long time lag.
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Although it is believed that Tonna RFC was in existence before 1888, the first officially recorded report came from the 1887/88 season when the Cambria Daily Reader stated that Tonna RFC were drawn to play Mynyddbach in the local Neath cup challenge cup. It is therefore recorded that Tonna RFC came into being on the 28 February 1888. Tonna RFC's first international player was David Harris Davies, although playing for Neath RFC at the time of his one and only cap against Scotland in 1904, he came through the playing ranks of Tonna. With the outbreak of the First World War the club disbanded, but reformed as Dulais United after the war.
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Brecon Free Street station, looking west towards Neath in 1962 The first Brecon and Merthyr Railway station at Brecon was at Watton; it was always intended as a temporary station, but the arrival of the HH&BR; trains and Mid Wales Railway's own trains overloaded the accommodation significantly. The Neath and Brecon Railway opened its line at Brecon from the west in 1867, but during its construction it became clear that its attitude to the B&MR; was unfriendly. It was also desperately short of money, and opened its line to a separate temporary station at Free Street. A connection was made between the two stations, but it was not suitable for passenger operation.
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He spent a further six months at Elland Road before being allowed to leave in January 2004 to sign for Southern League Premier Division side Merthyr Tydfil, making a goalscoring debut in a 3–0 win over Welling United. The following year, in his first full season with the club, he finished as the club's top scorer with 22 league goals as they reached the play-offs. In May 2009, with Merthyr in financial difficulties, Stiens joined Welsh Premier League Neath, along with Merthyr teammates Matthew Harris and Ashley Evans, ahead of the club turning professional for the 2009–10 season. He scored 14 times in 31 league games as Neath finished in 9th place.
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In 1864 the Swansea Vale and Neath & Brecon Junction Railway had been authorised in Parliament, to build a line from Colbren Junction on the N&BR; to Ynysygeinon, where it was to form an end-on junction with the Swansea Vale Railway. The line took a considerable time to complete; it was inspected by the Board of Trade inspecting officer on 4 September 1873, but he refused permission to open for passenger traffic. In fact it opened on 1 October 1873, and the Neath and Brecon was able to work four trains a day between Swansea and Brecon. The Swansea Vale Railway began running its own trains to Brecon from 1 February 1874.
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In 2008, there were 13,100 people in Bridgend County working in construction and manufacturing, while 42,900 were working in the service sector.StatsWales 2008 employment report Sub-regional GVA for the Bridgend & Neath Port Talbot NUTS3 region stood at £12,402 per capita in 2006 ($23,191 at June 2006 values). This figure represents 65% of the UK GVA per capita, 87% of Welsh GVA per capita (£14,226) and 103% of West Wales & The Valleys GVA per capita (£12,071). Gross disposable income for Bridgend & Neath Port Talbot in 2006 stood at £3,338 million or £12,379 per head. This was 88% of UK per head figure (£14,053) and slightly above the Welsh per head figure (£12,366).
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The Briton Ferry television relay station is sited on a hill to the east of Briton Ferry. It was originally built in the 1970s as a fill-in relay for UHF analogue colour television. It consists of a 25 m self-supporting lattice mast standing on a hillside which is itself about 180 m above sea level (about 150 m above the town). The transmitters are beamed towards the southwest and northwest to cater for those digital terrestrial TV subscribers in Briton Ferry and western Neath which for reasons of geography can't get a signal direct from the Kilvey Hill transmitter at Swansea nor from the relay transmitter at Neath Abbey across the valley.
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The following season, Chris again topped the Rockets averages as the team completed and League and Premier Trophy double, becoming the most successful team in the club's history. 2006 was an injury plagued season for the Rockets, however they still managed to make the League Play offs, eventually losing out to eventual champions, King's Lynn. In 2007 Neath was captain of the side that won the Premier League title - the club's second in two years. In 2008 having been a ten-year asset of the Wolverhampton Wolves Neath was awarded a testimonial meeting held at the Rye House Speedway, where he finished in third place behind Speedway Grand Prix rider Fredrik Lindgren and British Under-21 Champion Tai Woffinden.
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Charles Henry Pugh (7 March 1896 – 23 January 1951) was a Welsh international rugby union player who played rugby for three notable Welsh clubs, Aberavon, Maesteg and Neath. He was capped seven times for Wales and was part of the Welsh team that faced the touring 1924 New Zealand team.
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Bonymaen Broncos were a Welsh rugby league team that participated in the Rugby League Conference Welsh Championship. All home games were played at Bonymaen RFC. Bonymaen Broncos were founded in 2011. The club played its first game on Saturday 21 May 2011, when they played hosts to Neath Port Talbot Steelers.
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Brian Thomas (18 May 1940 – 9 July 2012)Brian Thomas player profile Scrum.com was a Welsh rugby union lock, most notable for his time playing for and later managing Neath RFC. He was capped for Wales 21 times between 1964 and 1969 and was part of three Five Nations winning teams.
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Arthur Whitelock Lemon (15 April 1905 – 28 May 1982) was a Welsh international number 8 who played club rugby for Neath and was capped 13 times for Wales, then later switched codes to play rugby league for St Helens when he found that he had been dropped from the Wales team.
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She now lives in Shetland. Although Ruth Bidgood was born near Neath in 1922, her first collection The Given Time appeared only in 1972. Gillian Clarke is a poet, playwright, editor, broadcaster, lecturer and translator from Welsh. She was born in Cardiff and raised there, in Penarth, and in Pembrokeshire.
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"Ex-Con" was released as a single. An early version of "Red Apples" first appeared on Callahan's first EP Floating in 1991, and was later covered by Cat Power for her album The Covers Record. "I Was a Stranger" was redone by Callahan for the 2000 EP 'Neath the Puke Tree.
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The fourth election to the Neath Port Talbot County Borough Council was held on 1 May 2008. It was preceded by the 2004 election and followed by the 2012 election. On the same day there were elections to the other 21 local authorities in Wales and community councils in Wales.
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The constituency was created for the first election to the Assembly, in 1999, with the name and boundaries of the Swansea West Westminster constituency. It is entirely within the preserved county of West Glamorgan. The other six constituencies of the region are Aberavon, Bridgend, Gower, Neath, Ogmore and Swansea East.
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The constituency was created for the first election to the Assembly, in 1999, with the name and boundaries of the Swansea East Westminster constituency. It is entirely within the preserved county of West Glamorgan. The other six constituencies of the region are Aberavon, Bridgend, Gower, Neath, Ogmore and Swansea West.
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The constituency was created for the first election to the Assembly, in 1999, with the name and boundaries of the Neath Westminster constituency. It is entirely within the preserved county of West Glamorgan. The other six constituencies of the region are Aberavon, Bridgend, Gower, Ogmore, Swansea East and Swansea West.
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The constituency was created for the first election to the Assembly, in 1999, with the name and boundaries of the Gower Westminster constituency. It is entirely within the preserved county of West Glamorgan. The other six constituencies of the region are Aberavon, Bridgend, Neath, Ogmore, Swansea East and Swansea West.
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Leigh Davies is a former international Wales rugby union player. A centre, he was known for his strength and direct running. He played rugby for various clubs including stints at Neath RFC, Cardiff RFC, Bristol RFC, Llanelli RFC. In 2003 he was the first captain of the Llanelli Scarlets region.
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Stephen Charles "Steve" Doyle (born 2 June 1958, in Neath) is a Welsh former professional football midfielder who made 626 appearances in the Football League playing for Preston North End, Huddersfield Town, Sunderland, Hull City and Rochdale. He also gained a cap for the Wales U-21's in 1978.
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Scott Otten (born 19 July 1994) is a Welsh rugby union player who plays for Ospreys as a hooker. He is a Wales under-20 international. Otten made his debut for the Ospreys in 2013 having previously played for the Ospreys academy, Aberavon RFC, Neath RFC, Swansea RFC and Waunarlwydd RFC.
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The second election to the Neath Port Talbot County Borough Council was held on 6 May 1999. It was preceded by the 1995 election and followed by the 2004 election. On the same day there were elections to the other 21 local authorities in Wales and community councils in Wales.
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Ernest Raymond "Roy" John (3 December 1925 – 30 September 1981)Roy John player profile ESPN Scrum.com was a and British Lions international rugby union lock. He played club rugby for Crynant and Neath. John was capped 19 times for Wales and was a member of two Grand Slam winning teams.
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John faced the same New Zealand team in late January 1954, when another joint Aberavon/Neath team lost 11–5 to the tourists. John's final international, his nineteenth consecutive game for Wales, was an away match to England, which Wales lost through a last minute try from England's Chris Winn.
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Peter Johnson: Festiniog Railway: The Spooner Era and After 1830 - 1920. Pen and Sword, 2017 These two steam locomotives had been built in 1864 and 1870 to be exported to South America, but were stored or used at Neath Abbey Iron Company’s works. They were up for sale in 1899.
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In 1931 Williams was elected to Pontardawe Rural District Council near Neath as a Labour Party candidate, and also elected to the Executive Council of the South Wales Miners' Federation. He was a member of a Miners' delegation to Russia, and also studied at the Central Labour College in London.
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Regan Matthew King (born 2 October 1980) is a New Zealand rugby union player who plays as a centre. He currently plays for Mid Canterbury in the Heartland Championship and Neath RFC in the Welsh Premier Division. He holds a British passport thanks to his British-born father, Paul King.
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Craig Price (born 22 June 1989) is a Welsh rugby union player. A flanker, he plays club rugby for Neath RFC having previously played for Scarlets, Tonmawr RFC and Llanelli RFC. He was selected in the Wales Sevens squad for 2012-13Wales Sevens Squad and has played in 19 tournaments.
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The 1960s also saw the construction of the first road across the Heads of the Valleys, with the A465 Neath-Abergavenny trunk road opening in 1964.Jenkins (1992), p.375 However, even at the outset there were complaints about the capacity and safety of its single carriageway, three-lane design.
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Ffion Bowen was born in Brecon, Powys on 28 January 1991. , her official Wales Rugby Union biography states that she is tall, and weighs . Bowen took up rugby after the netball club she played for in Neath closed. She was told about a new women's club being opened at Maesteg Celtic.
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The village's name is Brythonic, and means "mouth (aber) of the Nethy". The earliest recorded form being Apurnethige. The Nethy Burn flows down from the Ochil Hills past the present village. The name of the Nethy is believed to be cognate with that of the River Nith and possibly Neath.
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Matthew William Davies (August 1882 – 23 November 1947) was a Welsh musician. His parents were Richard and Catherine Davies of Neath, Glamorganshire. When he was 20 he won a scholarship of £40 a year (for three years) to study at University College, Cardiff. He graduated in 1905 with a Mus. Bac.
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Dragons release eight As well as playing club rugby, Ellis has also been capped by England U-20 - helping them to win the 2008 U-20 Six Nations title. His brother Arthur Ellis is also a rugby player, currently with Ealing Trailinders, while their father Wyn Ellis played for Neath.
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Christopher Davies, Sketty. As a participant in the Swansea Bay City Deal, Neath-Port Talbot Council aims for a share in the project to future-proof at least 10,300 properties over five years by making low carbon, energy-efficient homes, with 7,000 retro-fitted to existing houses and 3,300 newly built.
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The third election to the Neath Port Talbot County Borough Council was held on 10 June 2004. It was preceded by the 1999 election and followed by the 2008 election. On the same day there were elections to the other 21 local authorities in Wales and community councils in Wales.
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Princess Tam Tam is a 1935 French black-and-white film which stars Josephine Baker as a local Tunisian girl who is educated and then introduced to Parisian high society. Baker sings two songs, "Dream Ship" and "Neath the Tropical Blue Skies", in the film, and dances a number of times.
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Jersey Marine beach stretches from the River Neath estuary to Swansea Docks. It is backed by sand dunes at Crymlyn Burrows to the north. To the northeast lies the golf course of the Swansea Bay Golf Club. Heavy industrial sites are prominent to the eastern and western ends of the beach.
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Kristian 'Kris' Denis O'Leary (born 30 August 1977) is a Welsh football coach and former professional footballer. He is best known for his spell's both as a player and coach at Swansea City. He is currently manager of Carmarthen Town and formerly managed Welsh side Neath between 2011 and 2012.
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The station was opened by the Vale of Neath Railway in 1851, although tramways and railways had existed in the area for at least 60+ years due to the Hirwaun Ironworks and other industries. It existed on the VoR route between and (1853), although the branch to opened first in 1851.
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She was re-elected as Welsh Labour's Assembly Member for Neath on 3 May 2007 for a third 4-year term in office, with a majority reduced from 4,946 to 1,944, and a loss of 398 votes from the 2003 Assembly election. In the 2011 Assembly election, Thomas increased her majority to 6,390.
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Wynne Hooper (born 5 June 1952) is a Welsh former professional footballer. He attended Neath Grammar School. A winger, he began his career as an apprentice with Newport County and made 178 Football League appearances for the club, scoring 21 goals. In 1976 Hooper moved to Swindon Town and in 1977 to Aldershot.
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The Afon Twrch is a river which rises in the Black Mountain in south Wales. It forms the boundary between the counties of Brecknockshire (currently administered as part of the unitary authority of Powys) and Carmarthenshire and, downstream of Ystradowen, between Brecknockshire and Glamorgan (and unitary authorities of Powys and Neath Port Talbot).
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Known to his contemporaries as Sam, Mainwaring was born 15 December 1841 in Penrhiwtyn, Neath, Wales. He was a native speaker of Welsh and retained an affinity for the tongue throughout his life.Mat Kavanagh, "Some Little Known Anarchists: Sam Mainwaring," Freedom, 1934. Reprinted in KSL: Bulletin of the Kate Sharpley Library, no.
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71 Dalton described the homosexual Benson as "an object of adoration".Newsome, Edge of Paradise p.230, cited in Aronson p.71 Their first son Edward Hugh John Neale Dalton, later to enter politics and become Labour Chancellor of the Exchequer Hugh Dalton, was born at home in Neath, Glamorgan, August 1887.
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The A4107 road is an A road in Neath Port Talbot County Borough, Wales. It begins in Port Talbot and heads up the Afan Valley in a north easterly direction. It then continues over the moors eastwards until it connects with the A4061 road south west of Treorchy in the Rhondda Valley.
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Treowen Stars were promoted from the Gwent County League and Caerau were promoted from the South Wales Amateur League. Seven Sisters were relegated to the Neath & District League. Llantwit Fardre and Troedyrhiw were relegated to the South Wales Amateur League. Garw and Pentwyn Dynamo were relegated to the South Wales Senior League.
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Including a 3D cinema, a public café bar, a new theatre with retractable seating for films and live shows and a flexible studio space.'The Gwyn Hall Theatre', Neath Port Talbot Council, 1 April 2011 [accessed 21 August 2011] In December 2018 the studio was converted to a third cinema with retractable seating.
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Reuben Morgan-Williams (born 2 February 1998) is a Welsh rugby union player who plays for Ospreys regional team as a scrum-half. He is a Wales under-20 international. Morgan-Williams made his debut for the Ospreys regional team in 2017 having previously played for the Ospreys academy and Neath RFC.
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After closure of Landore Low Level in 1954 the station became known as Landore. To the west of the station site is Landore Junction (Swansea Loop East Junction), which allows trains to run south into the main Swansea terminus. The line remains in use as the West Wales Line, between Neath and .
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In 1826–7 she made a collection of the fairy tales of the Vale of Neath, which was published in the supplemental volume of Crofton Croker's ‘Irish Fairy Legends’ and subsequently reprinted in an abridged form in the ‘Fairy Mythology’ of Thomas Keightley who had suggested that she should make the collection.
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Glyn Prosser (27 November 1907 – 13 November 1972) was a Welsh international rugby union flanker who played club rugby for Neath, and was capped four times for Wales. An aggressive wing forward, Prosser is best known for being a member of the Wales team that beat the touring New Zealanders in 1935.
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The fifth election to the Neath Port Talbot County Borough Council was held on 3 May 2012. It was preceded by the 2008 election and will be followed by the 2017 election. On the same day there were elections to the other 21 local authorities in Wales and community councils in Wales.
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With Holmes serving as the party's election agent, the SDP candidate finished fifth with 5.3% of the vote—only 174 votes behind the fourth-placed Liberal Democrats, although the SDP candidate joined the Lib Dems shortly thereafter. The party subsequently won a number of seats on the Neath Port Talbot County Borough Council.
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In 1870, E. Thomas won a prize for "Best Pair of Sows" by the Glamorganshire Agricultural Society in Cowbridge, and in 1893, the owner of Goldsland Farm, Lewis Jones, foaled a horse which won first place at Glamorganshire Show at Neath and first place at the Cardiff Horse Show in 1894, amongst others.
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Banwen is a small village in Neath Port Talbot county borough in Wales. Banwen is part of the community of Onllwyn along with the village of Onllwyn itself and the adjacent parish of Dyffryn Cellwen. Banwen is in the Upper Dulais Valley, with views over the southern slopes of the Brecon Beacons.
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The Corrwg is one of the Afan's principal tributaries. Its length is approximately 11 km, and its source lies above the village of Glyncorrwg, in the hills south of Glyn-neath. It has a major tributary, Afon Corrwg Fechan, as well as numerous tributary streams. Several waterfalls exist along the river's course.
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Roscrow played youth football for Swansea City, before joining Llantwit Major. Roscrow subsequently played for Neath, Llantwit Major and Pontardawe Town, before signing for Cardiff Metropolitan University in 2014. At Cardiff Met, Roscrow scored 34 Welsh Premier League goals in 79 appearances. In June 2019, Roscrow moved to England, signing for AFC Wimbledon.
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George Rees (birth unknown – death unknown) was a Welsh rugby union and professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1910s and 1920s. He played club level rugby union (RU) for Ammanford RFC (captain), and Neath RFC, as a three-quarter, e.g. wing, or centre,Robert Gate (1986). "Gone North - Volume 1".
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Andrew Davies (born 7 November 1976) is a Welsh cricketer. He is a left-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-pace bowler. Davies was born in Neath and attended Dwyr-Y-Felin high school from 1988-1993. Andrew joined Christ College Brecon from 1993-1995 and boarded at School House Red.
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Elsie Elias in 1924 His daughter, Elsie Cameron Macnamara was born in 1889. In April 1913 she married Thomas Elias and became known as Elsie Cameron Elias. Her husband was Liberal candidate for Neath in 1923. At the 1924 General Election she stood as Liberal candidate for Southwark South East, finishing third.
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On September 24, 2018, four-star forward Ismael Massoud committed to Wake Forest. On October 29, 2018, 3-star center Ody Oguama committed to the Demon Deacons. On November 15, 2018, three-star guard Jacobi Neath committed to WFU. On April 13, 2019, three-star power forward Tariq Ingraham committed to Wake Forest.
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The local primary school in the village is Crymlyn Primary School. Secondary school age children attend school in Neath, not Swansea. The village includes the Pant y Sais Nature Reserve, a fen area featuring a circular boardwalk which connects with the tow path of the Tennant Canal. A new distribution centre for Amazon.co.
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Luke Price (born 26 September 1995) is a Welsh rugby union player who plays for Ospreys as a fly-half. He is a Wales under-20 international. Price made his debut for the Ospreys in 2012 having previously played for the Ospreys academy Aberavon RFC, Neath RFC, Swansea RFC and Bridgend Ravens.
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For some time, work on the SV&N;&BJR; was in abeyance. As a moribund company whose only asset was the power to build a line, it was absorbed by the Neath and Brecon Railway in July 1869, and construction was completed and it was opened to traffic on 10 November 1873. From that time the N&BR; started to run a passenger service between Brecon and Swansea, using the SVR&N;&BJR; line and the Swansea Vale Railway, over which it had running powers. The SV&N;&BJR; was to be leased by the N&BR; on completion, but when it was clear that no progress toward that goal was being made, it was amalgamated with the Neath and Brecon Railway on 26 July 1869.
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No. 434, built as B&M; No. 48 in 1921, acquired by the GWR in 1922 as No. 1375 and renumbered 434 by 1950, 25 April 1954. In similar vein, the Neath and Brecon Railway used the Rhymney Railway's Stephensons as a blueprint for three locomotives (known as the Neath and Brecon Stephensons) built in 1904 to the design of the Rhymney Railway M class. The Rhymney Railway R class and related 1904-introduced Rhymney Railway M class and 1910 Rhymney Railway A class were successful designs ideally suited to hauling heavy coal trains a relatively short distance. In 1924, Nos 36 & 38 were reboilered by the GWR and in this form were visually almost indistinguishable from the GWR 5600 Class.
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Phillips was born in Neath, Wales on the day the Treaty of Versailles was signed and as a result was given the middle name of Versailles. As a schoolboy he played rugby union for Neath Schoolboys and was playing for Swansea RFC's first team when aged only 18. Two appearances for Glamorgan followed as well as two trials for the Welsh national side before the Second World War intervened and Phillips joined the army. During the war Phillips played for the Combined Services XV and featured in a rugby union match at Odsal Stadium, Bradford in April 1944 against the Combined Services rugby league XV. Phillips scored the opening try of the game although the league XV ran out 15–10 winners.
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524 [Gen: 14] (author places Elizabeth Gorges as the daughter of Sir Theobald Gorges and Jane Hankford). Although little if anything at all survives in historical records concerning his biography, he was the descendant of a notable ancestor who took part in the Norman Conquest of Glamorgan, namely Sir Richard Grenville, one of the Twelve Knights of Glamorgan who won for himself the Welsh lordship of Neath and in 1129 founded there Neath Abbey. Grenville was himself ancestor to famous descendants, most notably his great-great-grandson Sir Richard Grenville (1542–1591), the valiant captain of "The Revenge" and of Sir Bevil Grenville (1596–1643), MP and famous Civil War commander, father of John Grenville, 1st Earl of Bath (1628–1701).
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The gardens were designed by a local man, Thomas Snow, and were officially opened on 22 June 1897, the date of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee, by the then mayor of Neath, Arthur Russell Thomas, and officially re-opened as Victoria Gardens on 30 June 1898 by the mayor Abraham George. It has been described as "a quintessential Victorian urban public park", and has most of its original layout and features intact, including a Grade II listed bandstand and inclined flowers beds displaying carpet bedding designs. Other features include a bronze statue of Howel Gwyn, Gorsedd stones, a drinking fountain, and a Spanish Civil War memorial. During his teens, notable former Neath resident Harry Parr-Davies regularly visited the gardens to compose music.
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The line was designed to link the coalfields of Glamorgan to London, and was also part of Isambard Kingdom Brunel's vision of a transport link from London to New York. The South Wales Railway serviced Cardiff, Bridgend, Neath and Swansea, with its final destination within Glamorgan being Loughor, before continuing through Carmarthenshire. Other railway lines that opened during the mid to late 19th century included the Vale of Neath Railway, the Swansea Vale Railway and the Rhymney Railway; all designed with the primary purpose of transporting metals and coal from the uplands of the county to the ever-expanding ports. The cargo carried on these lines was of a very high volume, and in 1850 the Taff Vale Railway was transporting 600,000 tons of coal per annum.
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Despite the RCP lacking a branch in Neath at the start of the campaign, Haston was able to poll 1,781 votes in the 1945 Neath by-election. More importantly, an RCP branch was constructed and literature sales were large. Haston's relations with the Labor candidate, D. J. Williams, would seem to have been personally harmonious, so much so that later in 1949 Williams was instrumental in finding Haston a job with the National Council of Labour Colleges. With the turn of the war against the Nazis, the RCP was at pains to look for any signs of the coming revolutionary upheavals that were expected in line with the perspectives of the Fourth International as outlined in the famous Transitional Program.
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In 1991 Neath & Port Talbot was a distinct Travel to Work Area (albeit with different boundaries to the current county borough), but the 2001-based revision has merged the locality into a wider Swansea Bay Travel to Work Area.National Statistics, Introduction to the 2001-based Travel-to-Work Areas In June 2008, the economic activity and employment rates in Neath Port Talbot were below the Welsh average. However, earnings for full-time workers were higher than either the Welsh or British average. Manufacturing accounts for over 22% of jobs in the county borough compared to under than 14% in Wales as a whole; just under 70% of local jobs are in services compared to a Welsh average of nearly 80%.
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System map of the South Wales Mineral RailwayTowards the end of the 18th century, collieries began to be developed in the Cymmer district were opened. Coal was carried to wharves on the Bristol Channel on the backs of pack animals, although a stone-block sleeper tramroad, the Glyncorrwg Mineral Railway, took coal from the Blaen Cregan colliery to the Neath Canal at Aberdulais. The Glyncorrwg Mineral Railway was abandoned in 1861; it had been in a series of financial difficulties. By this time the South Wales Railway had opened its line, in 1850; it was a broad gauge trunk railway connecting the area between Swansea, Neath and Port Talbot with the merging railway network of the associated Great Western Railway.
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After the First World War, Crynant RFC reformed and joined the Neath and District League, a league they would win five times between 1922 and 1926 In 1928 the club gained membership to the Welsh Rugby Union. One of the proudest moments in the club's history came in 1939 when former club player, Cyril Challinor, now playing for Neath, was chosen to represent Wales against England. Wales lost the game and Cyril was dropped from the national squad making this his one and only cap.Rothamans Rugby Yearbook 1981-82, Vivian Jenkins (1982) pg213 The club disbanded for a third time in 1939 with the outbreak of World War II, though the team reformed again with the end of the war.
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The track was located on the south side of the Swansea District railway line and the north side of Charles Street off Winifred Road. Originally it was just a field used by a cricket team called the Skewen Lillywhites and known as the Waun. The track was started in the 1930s and opened by Will Thomas on the field, around the same time as the adjacent Tennant Park which was built in 1936 for Skewen RFC. In 1967 the track added a football pitch inside the greyhound circuit and Neath Athletic FC became tenants changing their name to Skewen Athletic (now called Neath F.C). A large track circumference of 530 yards resulted in a very easy galloping circuit with distances of 312, 530 and 760 yards.
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With fifteen turbines, the wind farm has an installed capacity of 34.5 MW and is said to generate enough electricity to power 23,800 households, one third of the domestic usage in Carmarthenshire. The Mynydd y Betws Wind Farm community benefit fund provides grants for projects in neighbouring areas of Carmarthenshire, Swansea and Neath Port Talbot.
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After many injuries he moved to Neath RFC and one year later Bristol Rugby. He played for Stade Français which he won two Top 14 He earned his only cap for the France national team on November 4, 2000, against the Australia. After ending his player career, he joined Fabien Galthié for Coaching Forwards.
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To top up a quality pack, Ken Hill, a prop forward of repute and a former Welsh Youth international, had transferred from Glais in 1959 and gained a Glamorgan County Cap and also represented Neath. Ken was building a house in Trebanos, and luckily for Trebanos it happened to be opposite G.B.Williams, the chairman's, residence.
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The Evans-Bevan Baronetcy, of Cadoxton-juxta-Neath in the County of Glamorgan, is a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 9 July 1958 for the Welsh businessman David Evans-Bevan. As of 2010 the title is held by his son, the second Baronet, who succeeded in 1973.
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She drew acclaim in 1921 playing the title role in the George S. Kaufman-Marc Connelly farce, Dulcy. Dorothy Parker memorialized her performance in verse: > Dulcy, take our gratitude, All your words are gold ones. Mistress of the > platitude, Queen of all the old ones. You, at last, are something new 'Neath > the theatre's dome.
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'Neath Canadian Skies is a 1946 American film about Mounties. It was directed by B. Reeves Eason from a story by James Oliver Curwood. Filming took place in June 1946 through Golden Gate Pictures, in a studio that used to be a ping pong parlor. The same team also made North of the Border (1946).
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It was established in 1977 and by 2003 had 69 affiliated clubs and over 23,000 members. The WFCA is based at Briton Ferry, Neath Port Talbot. The Welsh Federation of Sea Anglers (WFSA) (established 1955) is the governing body of sea angling in Wales. The WFSA organise major angling events at regional and national levels.
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The 2008–09 WRU Challenge Cup, known for sponsorship reasons as the SWALEC Cup, was the 39th WRU Challenge Cup, the annual national rugby union cup competition of Wales. The competition was won by Neath RFC, who had previously won it five times, in 1971–72, 1988–89, 1989–90, 2003–04 and 2007–08.
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Eve was born in Sutton Coldfield, near Birmingham, the son of Elsie (née Hamer) and Stewart Frederick Eve. His father was English, and his Welsh mother was from Glynneath, Glamorgan (now Neath Port Talbot). Educated at Bromsgrove School, he had little acting experience during his school days. He studied architecture at Kingston Polytechnic in London.
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The festival is organised by the Regeneration and Economic Development team of Neath Port Talbot County Borough Council and is supported by local businesses and community organisations. A total of 62 artisan traders attended the festival in 2018, of which 77% were from Wales, and 18% were new businesses trading for less than two years.
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"Charles Jordan" delivered from Neath Abbey in 1838 was an adhesion only locomotive very similar to "Mountaineer". The last record of spare parts being supplied to Dowlais for these locomotives was in 1840-1841. An 1848 inventory of Dowlais plant lists only "Mountaineer" of the above locomotives. No plateway locomotives were listed in 1856.
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After a curacy in Neath he was Vicar of Llandaff from 1878 to "The Clergy List, Clerical Guide and Ecclesiastical Directory" London, John Phillips, 1900 1913\. He was later a Surrogate for the Diocese of Llandaff ;’The Diocese of Llandaff’ Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), Thursday, August 14, 1879; Issue 3203 then its Rural Dean.
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Huggett born in Porthcawl, Wales, the son of George Huggett, who was the professional at Royal Porthcawl Golf Club. He had a younger brother Geoff who also became a professional golfer. After World War II, George was the professional at Neath Golf Club before moving to Redhill and Reigate Golf Club, in Surrey, in 1950.
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He made his Munster debut in 1998 against Neath. During his professional career, O'Driscoll has also played for USA Perpignan in France. Mostly a second-row in his time in Ireland, he often played in the back-row in France. He returned to Munster in 2005 and became an important member of the Munster squad.
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Steve Newbury is a former Welsh professional snooker player from Neath. After a strong amateur career, Newbury turned professional in 1984. The highlight of his career came when he reached the semi-final of the 1988 Classic, losing 2–9 to eventual champion Steve Davis. He reached a high ranking of 19th in 1989/1990.
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University of Wales Press (Cardiff), 1967. . near Neath. The Welsh placename element llancognate with the English word lawn (meaning an open space, which was borrowed into Middle English from French, which borrowed it from Gaulish) referred to the sanctified community around early Christian settlements in Wales and its parish rather than merely the church itself (').
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Ghost of Banana Tree (Cambodian title: Khmoach Daoem Chek Chvia, ) is a 2005 film. It is a Cambodian horror film based on a Cambodian ghost story about a vengeful ghost haunting a banana tree and killing her husband. It's the fourth horror film by Campro production, following ang Neath, The Forest and The Haunted House.
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When it negotiated an arrangement to run its trains over the Neath and Brecon Railway from 1877, it had achieved its goal of reaching Swansea. This brought a considerable volume of additional traffic to the route, and proved lucrative for the Brecon and Merthyr, whose line formed part of the chain from Hereford to Swansea.
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Glyn Stephens (29 November 1891 – 22 April 1965) was a Welsh international rugby union prop who played club rugby for Neath. He won 10 caps for Wales and captained his country. He was the father of Welsh rugby international, Rees Stephens and would later become president of the Welsh Rugby UnionThomas (1979), pg 107.
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The region is predominantly urban, taking in Wales' second largest city, Swansea, as well as working-class towns such as Neath and Port Talbot. However there are also rural regions, such as on the Gower peninsula. A higher proportion of the local populace are Welsh speakers than in the neighbouring region, South Wales Central.
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The Act of 1869 also authorised the acquisition of the unbuilt Swansea Vale & Neath & Brecon Junction Railway (the Junction Line). Mutual running powers for the N&BR; over the Swansea Vale to Swansea, and for the SVR to Brecon, were included in the deal. The Junction line opened for traffic on 10 November 1873.
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Gareth Williams (born 7 March 1988) is a Welsh rugby union player. A scrum- half he has represented his country from Welsh Schoolboy level through to the Under 20's. In 2008, he was a member of the Wales squad for U20 Six Nations and U20 World Cup. Williams began his senior career with Neath.
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Alfie Moceulutu (born 9 July 1971) is a Fijian former rugby union footballer who played for Ospreys regional team as a flanker. He won 34 caps for Fiji, scoring 4 tries. Moceulutu made his debut for the Ospreys regional team in 2003 having previously played for the Neath RFC, Caerphilly RFC and Honda Heat.
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Dave Tiueti (born 6 June 1973) is a former Tongan rugby union player who played for Ospreys regional team as a winger. He won 21 caps for Tonga, scoring 33 points. Tiueti made his debut for the Ospreys regional team in 2003 having previously played for Neath RFC, Tonmawr RFC, Bristol Rugby and Rugby Viadana.
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Nation Radio briefly broadcast to the wider South Wales region from studios in Neath, but is now based in Cardiff. The county borough is within the local commercial radio licence areas for the CHR-formatted station 96.4 The Wave, its Soft Adult Contemporary sister station Swansea Sound and the Adult Contemporary- orientated Swansea Bay Radio.
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He made his debut for the club on 11 December in a 0-2 home defeat to Workington. At the end of the 2010–11, Preen was released from the Brewers. In June 2011 he joined Neath. In 2012, he joined Salisbury City, before returning to Wales in October to sign for Merthyr Town.
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Retrieved 9 July 2007. The Gossage condensing towers were eventually used almost universally by the Leblanc factories. From 1841 to 1844 Gossage was in Birmingham manufacturing white lead and from 1844 to 1848 he was in Neath, Wales, experimenting with copper smelting. In 1843 and 1845 he took out patents in the field of metallurgy.
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Broughton is a small village in the western part of the Vale of Glamorgan, southeast Wales. It lies just northeast of Monknash and south of Wick. It contains a building known as "The Malthouse", now converted into flats. The village has extensive remains of a grange of the former Cistercian Neath Abbey including a dove cote and tithe barn.
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Surrounding areas often included in the Bro, with a significant percentage of Welsh speakers, include parts of Neath Port Talbot (Castell-nedd Port Talbot), parts of western Powys, northern Pembrokeshire (Sir Benfro), the uplands of Conwy, the uplands and countryside of Denbighshire (Sir Ddinbych), Flintshire (Sir y Fflint) and parts of the district of Swansea (Abertawe).
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Michael White (born 5 July 1991) is a Welsh former professional snooker player from Neath, Glamorgan. At the age of 9, he became the youngest player to have made a century break in competitive play and he was the world amateur champion by 14. White won his first ranking event title at the 2015 Indian Open.
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Gregory Clarke "Greg" Holmes (born 22 September 1993) is an Welsh cricketer. He is right hand batsman and right arm medium bowler. Holmes was born in Neath, Glamorgan, Wales and is son of Geoff Holmes, a former first-class cricketer and Cricket Board of Wales director. Holmes was educated at Radyr Comprehensive School and attended Cardiff Metropolitan University.
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The college also had an outpost at Queen Street in Neath Town Centre, where the ECDL were offered and other part-time courses were available too. Further facilities were situated at Margam Country Park in Twyn Yr Hydd House from where the college ran its Management Training Centre, Horticulture Training Centre and Parc-Gro plant nursery.
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Birchgrove () is a large village and community in the City and County of Swansea, Wales. It does not have a community council. The village is situated some 4.5 miles (7 km) north-east of Swansea city centre, between the flood plain of the River Tawe and Mynydd Drumau (Drummau Mountain). Birchgrove also borders Neath Port Talbot.
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Robert John Hadley (born 22 October 1951) is a former Welsh cricketer. Hadley was a right-handed batsman who bowled left-arm fast-medium. He was born at Neath, Glamorgan. While studying at St John's College, Cambridge,Wisden 1973, p. 346. Hadley made his first-class debut for Cambridge University against Warwickshire at Fenner's in 1971.
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Grahame Thornton Ridgeway Hodgson (1 December 1936 – 23 January 2016) was a Welsh international rugby union player. Hodgson was born in Ogmore Vale, and played club rugby for Aberavon RFC, Bridgend RFC, Exeter RFC, Exeter Saracens RFC, Teignmouth RFC, Torquay RFC and Neath RFC. He played 15 tests for Wales between 1962 and 1967. His position was full back.
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The constituency was created for the first election to the Assembly, in 1999, with the name and boundaries of the Bridgend Westminster constituency. It is partly within the preserved county of Mid Glamorgan and partly within the preserved county of South Glamorgan. The other six constituencies of the region are Aberavon, Gower, Neath, Ogmore, Swansea East and Swansea West.
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Arthur Hickman (6 August 1910 – 1 February 1995) was a Welsh rugby union, and professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1930s. He played representative level rugby union (RU) for Wales, and at club level for Neath RFC, as a Wing, i.e. number 11 or 14, and club level rugby league (RL) for Swinton.Robert Gate (1986).
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In 1923 the new bridge was built parallel to the old one. The GWR had it designed in-house, but contracted its construction to George Palmer of Neath, Glamorgan. The Horseley Bridge and Engineering Co Ltd of Tipton was subcontracted to make the six bowstrings for the three new spans. Each span is long and weighs 23 tons.
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Saint Illtyd's Walk is a waymarked long-distance footpath in South Wales. It runs from Pembrey Country Park, west of Burry Port, through rural eastern Carmarthenshire and Neath Port Talbot to end at Margam Country Park, south of Port Talbot. The walk is named after Illtyd (or Illtud), a late-fifth / early- sixth century Welsh saint.
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Rhys Trimble (born in 1977) is a bilingual poet, visual poet, visual artist, musician and improvisational performance artist. based in Wales. Trimble was born in Livingstone, Zambia in 1977, and was raised in Pontypool and latterly the head of the Neath Valley - Pontneddfechan. Trimble completed his first degree in Biochemistry in the University of Sussex in 1999.
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Lyn Jones (born 1964) is a former Wales international rugby union player, and now works as a coach. A flanker, Jones has experience at various different levels of the game, both as a player and a coach. Jones played most of his playing career for Neath RFC. He started his coaching career at the same club.
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Jason Alistaire Forster (born 25 February 1971, in Derby)Jason Forster player profile Scrum.com is a former international Wales rugby union player. A flanker, he played his club rugby for Pontypridd RFC, Newport RFC and Newport Gwent Dragons. He moved on to be player - coach at Doncaster R.F.C. before returning to Wales to coach at Neath RFC.
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David Stephen "Dai" Llewellyn (born 29 September 1970)David Llewellyn player profile Scrum.com is a former Wales international rugby union player. He played his club rugby for Ebbw Vale, Newport and Neath and was part of the Wales squad for the 1999 World Cup where he scored a try. Llewellyn won four caps for Wales between 1998 and 1999.
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Samuel purchased Bridgend RFC in the mid-1990s. He attempted to merge them with Neath in 2002. Bridgend won the Welsh Championship in 2003. In the summer of 2003, the Welsh Rugby Union (WRU) voted to reduce the top tier of Welsh rugby union from nine clubs in the Celtic League into five regions through a series of mergers.
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Mike Hook took sole charge of the team as Head Coach and was to be assisted by Dean Ronan. Bridgend got off to a terrible start to the campaign, suffering 6 straight defeats in the Principality Premiership. However, the corner was well and truly turned with an important 20–34 win at the Gnoll against Neath.
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Evans was born in Neath, Glamorgan. He was educated at Cowbridge Grammar School and Jesus College, Oxford, playing for Oxford University RFC and winning a "Blue" in 1890. He was a forward and represented the Wales national rugby union team on three occasions in the Home Nations Championship. His debut for Wales was on 1 February 1890 against Scotland.
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History of the Valley of Neath Lewis's family had lived at Llanishen for many generations but he was responsible for building the New House there.The Lewis Estates He was clearly a highly respected individual and served as High Sheriff of Glamorgan in 1757.Sheriffs of Glamorgan He died in 1764.Glamorgan Archives: New House Estate, Llanishen, deeds.
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In September 2011, Waste Recycling Group Ltd submitted plans for the development of an anaerobic digestion facility on the old colliery site. Proposed to run on food waste collected from 350,000 homes in Bridgend, Carmarthenshire, Neath Port Talbot, Pembrokeshire and Swansea, the plant would be capable of generating 2.3 MWatts of electricity to power 5,00 homes, and producing fertiliser.
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A further section of Roman road leading north- eastwards from Neath (') to Banwen at the southern edge of the Brecon Beacons National Park is also known as Sarn Helen. It continues north-eastwards through the park to the north-west of Ystradfellte, beneath Fan Frynych, and then across Mynydd Illtud en route to the Roman fort of y Gaer (').
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Tonmawr are a Welsh rugby union club based in Tonmawr, Neath Port Talbot in South Wales. Tonmawr are a feeder club to the Ospreys regional team. Tonmawr have a tradition of producing players who go onto represent the Ospreys region - these players include former Osprey coach Steve Tandy, winger Kristian Phillips and Wales international centre Ashley Beck.
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Business in Neath Port Talbot, undated c.2014 The larger surrounding area has much attractive countryside and a substantial wind farm above the village at Ffynnon Oer. Resolven has played host to one of the best known stages of the Wales Rally GB for many years. Resolven is host to Welsh Rugby Union affiliated team Resolven RFC.
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The Aberdare Times was a weekly English-language newspaper based in south Wales. Its circulation was mainly in Merthyr Tydfil, Hirwaun, Mountain Ash, Pontypridd, Neath Valley, Rhondda and Cardiff. The paper had Labour/Liberal tendencies and its main content was local news. At its inception, Josiah Thomas Jones (1799–1873) was the owner, publisher and editor.
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The 2009–10 WRU Challenge Cup, known for sponsorship reasons as the SWALEC Cup, was the 40th WRU Challenge Cup, the annual national rugby union cup competition of Wales. The previous competition was won by Neath RFC, who had previously won it six times, in 1971–72, 1988–89, 1989–90, 2003–04, 2007–08 and 2008-09.
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A month after the match the WRFU was founded at the Castle Hotel, Neath on 12 March 1881. Bevan later became an Anglican clergyman. From 1899 to 1936 he was vicar at St George's church in Great Yarmouth.James Bevan biography Clifton RFC The James Bevan Trophy was named in his honour to celebrate 100 years of Test Rugby.
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Paul Rhys (born 19 December 1963) is a Welsh television, film and theatre actor. Rhys was born in Neath, Glamorgan, and studied at RADA, leaving with the Bancroft Gold Medal in 1985. After graduating, he obtained his first major screen role, in Absolute Beginners (1986). Since then he has seldom been off the stage and screen.
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Sir William Jenkins, the MP for Neath, died in December 1944. As a local candidate, Williams won the sponsorship of the miners and was chosen to follow him; he was elected to Parliament at a by-election in May 1945. At the 1945 general election a few weeks later, his majority was among the highest in the country.
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2nd edition, p.270. Evans gained a large practice on the South Wales circuit and in 1901 he became the last QC appointed by Queen Victoria. He served on the Neath Town Council during the 1880s. He was a Recorder of Swansea from 1906 to 1908 and became a Bencher of the Middle Temple in 1908.
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Alf Shea (November 7, 1898 - May 21, 1969) was a Welsh cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-pace bowler who played for Glamorgan. He was born in Briton Ferry and died in Neath. Shea played his club cricket with Briton Ferry and secured his chance to play two games for Glamorgan in 1928.
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William Jevons, the founder of that institute, was impressed by Wallace and persuaded him to give lectures there on science and engineering. In the autumn of 1846, John and he purchased a cottage near Neath, where they lived with their mother and sister Fanny (his father had died in 1843).Slotten pp. 26–29.Wilson pp. 19–20.
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George Romney, 1781. Sir Noah Thomas FRS FRCP (1720 – 17 May 1792) was a Welsh physician who was physician-in-ordinary to King George III. He was a fellow of the Royal Society and the Royal College of Physicians, and a Gulstonian lecturer. Thomas was born in Neath, Glamorganshire, the son of Hophni Thomas, master of a merchant vessel.
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Blaenhonddan is a community of the Neath Port Talbot county borough, south Wales. The community has its own community council and comprises some or all of the following areas: Aberdulais, Bryncoch, Cilfrew and Cadoxton. The community covers the electoral wards of Bryncoch North, Bryncoch South and Cadoxton. The population of the community taken at the 2011 census was 12,151.
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Copper, iron ore and tin were all mined from ancient times, and the settlement became an important station on the Neath-Brecon section of the Sarn Helen Roman road along the Pyrddin valley. During the Roman occupation, a fort named Ricus was established on the valley floor along with a very large Roman marching camp nearby.
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He signed for Bristol from Neath in the Summer of 2006 on a one-year contract but was renewed after assured performances. He is a Tongan international and has also toured with the Pacific Islanders rugby union team in 2006–2007. He has signed a contract with FC Grenoble in the French Pro D2 for the 2008–2009 season.
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The Archdeacon of Margam is a senior cleric of the Diocese of Llandaff.Diocesan website The archdeacon is responsible for the disciplinary supervision of the clergy"ABCD: a basic church dictionary" Meakin, T: Norwich, Canterbury Press, 2001 in the deaneries of Neath, Margam, Bridgend, the Cynon Valley, the Rhondda and the Vale of Glamorgan. The post was created in 1948.
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Kevin Huw Phillips (born 15 June 1961) is a former Wales international rugby union player. A hooker, he played club rugby for Neath RFC. Phillips also captained the Welsh national team for two matches in the 1990 season, winning both games. At the start of the 2010-11 season, he became the coach of the Crymych RFC youth team.
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Two separate railway lines operated in the area operated by rival companies. The Dare and Aman Branch of the Vale of Neath Railway reached the local Bwllfa Colliery in 1857. This railway reached Cwmdare from Gelli Tarw near Llwydcoed, crossing the Gamlyn Viaduct at Penywaun and Dare Viaduct. Both viaducts were designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel.
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These works made Merthyr Tydfil the main centre of the industry in Wales. As well as copper and iron, Glamorgan became an important centre for the tinplate industry. Although not as famous as the Llanelli or Pontypool works, a concentrated number of works emerged around Swansea, Aberavon and Neath towards the late 19th century.Davies (2008), p.
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The parish church accurately glosses the Welsh name of the town rather literally as "Illtud's Great Church". However, the name used in English means "Greater". The epithet fawr distinguishes this Llantwit from Llantwit Fardre (') near Pontypridd and Llantwit Minor ('; also known as Llantwit-juxta-Neath and Lower Llantwit)Davies, Elwyn. A Gazetteer of Welsh Place-Names.
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Jenkins and Levitas later announced their engagement in April 2014. They married at Hampton Court Palace on 27 September 2014 with the vicar from Neath conducting a religious blessing later. Jenkins gave birth to their first child, a daughter called Aaliyah Reign, in New York City during September 2015. Their son, Xander Robert Selwyn, was born in April 2018.
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David John Davies (20 February 1941 – ) was a Welsh rugby union, and professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1960s. He played representative level rugby union (RU) for Wales, and at club level for Neath RFC, as a flanker, i.e. number 6 or 7, and club level rugby league (RL) for Leeds and Dewsbury.Robert Gate (1986).
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Despite being based on true life, the film has some similarity to Thailand's 1985 film Walli (thai:วัลลี) . as well as another film produced by Campro Production, Neang Neath which seem to be the remake of Nang Nak, Thai 1999s horror film. This film was released at the Kirirom cinema in Phnom Penh with English subtitles.
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Price played as a hooker for Welsh Premier Division sides Neath and Cross Keys as well as rugby league with South Wales Scorpions. He also had a brief spell at Pro12 side Glasgow Warriors as injury cover for their first choice players. He ended his rugby career in 2014 in order to concentrate on playing darts full-time.
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He was re-elected MP for Radnorshire in 1656 for the Second Protectorate Parliament and again in 1659 for the Third Protectorate Parliament. In 1662 Williams came to Cathedine in Breconshire and became High Sheriff of Breconshire again. Williams married Mayzod Evans, widow of Leisan Evans of Gnoll, Neath and daughter of judge David Jenkins of Hensol Glamorgan.
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Dr. Edward Vernon Pegge (5 June 1864 − 21 March 1915) was a Welsh international rugby union forward who played club rugby for Neath Rugby Football Club, international rugby for Wales and later became a vice-president of the Welsh Rugby Union. Pegge had an eccentric personality that made him a stand-out character of early Welsh rugby.
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Ystradgynlais railway station served the town of Ystradgynlais in the traditional county of Breconshire, Wales. Opened in 1869 by the Swansea Vale and Neath and Brecon Junction Railway, it was eventually absorbed by the Midland Railway which closed it to passengers in 1932 although the line through the station remained open for freight for some time after that.
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In 2008, the average full-time gross weekly earnings in Swansea, Bridgend & Neath Port Talbot was £484.20 (£531.70 for men, £426.10 for women). This was 97% of the Welsh average (£498.10). In the first half of 2009, unemployment in Bridgend County Borough stood at 8.9%StatsWales Annual unemployment Rate 30 June 2009 and economic inactivity stood at 21.4%.
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Baglan railway station is a minor station in the village of Baglan in Neath Port Talbot county borough, south Wales. It is from London Paddington. It is a stop on the South Wales Main Line, served by Transport for Wales Swanline regional trains between Swansea and Cardiff. It is a relatively new station, opened in 1996.
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In September 1857, Blackmore's uncle, the Rev. H.H. Knight, Rector of Neath, Glamorgan, died and left his nephew a sum of money which enabled him to realise a long-held ambition of possessing a house in the country encompassed by a large garden. Blackmore's father encouraged him in the scheme and helped him to carry it into effect.
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These events led to the formation of the Welsh Football Union, later to be named the Welsh Rugby Union, at the Castle Hotel in Neath on 12 March 1881.Smith (1980), pg 41. The S.W.F.U. failed to attend the meeting, which led to their dissolution as the WFU was accepted as the official representative union of the Welsh clubs.
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Italia antica VI) Roma e Padova 1978 a cura di A. L. Prosdocimi p. 713-717; 761-762. Hondra in Umbrian means under(neath), below. Jörg Rüpke remarks the association of Hondos with Juppiter is one among the numerous in the tablets, in which a complex multilevel and hierarchic structure of relationship among theonyms is envisaged.
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Abercrave railway station served the village of Abercraf in the traditional county of Glamorganshire, Wales. Opened in 1869 by the Swansea Vale and Neath and Brecon Junction Railway, it was eventually absorbed by the Great Western Railway which closed it to passengers in 1932 although the line through the station remained open for freight for some time after that.
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Trebanos () is a village in the Swansea Valley, Wales. It forms, together with Craig Trebanos and a part of Pontardawe, the Trebanos electoral ward of Neath Port Talbot county borough. Controversy and opposition concerning the South Wales Gas Pipeline passing through the village led to media attention for the village and a protest camp in 2006 and 2007.
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Peter Sidoli (born 10 June 1980) is a Welsh rugby union player. A lock forward, he played for Neath RFC and Ebbw Vale RFC before joining Newport Gwent Dragons. In 2008 he joined Italian club Rugby Calvisano. He is a former Wales Under-21 international but nationalised to play for his father's native Italy if selected.
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Llewellyn started his playing career at Llanharan RFC and then moved on to play first class rugby at Neath, Harlequins, Ospreys and Narbonne, and signed for Bristol Shoguns at the beginning of the 2005–06 season. After excelling in the line- out for Neath in their match against the touring New Zealand All Blacks on 25 October 1989, he made his debut for Wales ten days later against the same opposition and went on to win a total of 92 caps, breaking the record of 87 held by Neil Jenkins in the test against Argentina on 12 June 2004. He captained Wales on 7 occasions and appeared in three Rugby World Cups – 1995, 1999 and 2003. He played his last match for Wales in November 2004 against New Zealand.
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James was born in 1923 in Neath, Glamorganshire and attended Neath Grammar School before joining the Royal Artillery during the Second World War, reaching the rank of captain. After the end of the war he attended Exeter College, Oxford and there studied under Sir Alan Gardiner and Battiscombe Gunn, two of the most significant Egyptologists of the twentieth century. In 1951 he took a position in the Department of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities at the British Museum in London and there worked on a number of specialised research projects, focusing on translation of Egyptian hieroglyphs and publishing extensively on a wide variety of topics. In 1972 he worked with Eiddon Edwards on the "Treasures of Tutankhamun" exhibition at the British Museum, which remains the most popular museum exhibition ever staged in Britain.
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Virtually all of the falls occur on tributaries of the River Neath occupying valleys that have been deeply incised into the landscape. It is suggested that overdeepening of the Vale of Neath by glacier ice during the succession of ice ages has resulted in these tributaries cutting down into their own beds as they adjust to a base level lower than in pre-glacial times. The underlying geology is a generally southerly dipping succession of Carboniferous age sandstones and mudstones assigned by geologists to the Marros Group and formerly referred to as the Millstone Grit Series. Preferential erosion, whereby the less resistant mudstones have been more readily removed by the passage of water, often following various forms of weathering, has left sandstones forming the lips of the falls.
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Salvis tenementis burgensium nostrorum de > Neth...Datum per manum W. de Gray cancellarii nostri apud Wudestock, v. die > Augusti, anno regni nostri ix. (John by the grace of God (king of > England...other titles and styles)...Know ye all that we have given and > conceded and by our present charter confirmed to God and to the Church of > the Holy Trinity of Neath and to the monks there serving God the place where > the castle of Richard de Grenville once was with all its appurtenances and > all the land which the same Richard held between the (Rivers) Thawy and > Neath, in wood and plain with all appurtenances. To have and to hold in pure > and perpetual frankalmoinage, free from all service just as the foresaid > Richard gave to them before and as his charter confirmed.
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Browne Willis reported in his An survey of the Cathedral-Church of Landaff that Sir David was murdered in an altercation at Neath, West Glamorgan by some members of the Turberville family of Coity Castle.His tomb, ornamented with full-length effigy in alabaster, is in Saint Mary's Chapel in Llandaff Cathedral, which has ever since been the property and burial-place of the family of (Mathew) is one of the most interesting extant monuments of that time. An accurate description of the various monuments of the family in this chapel may be found in An survey...: "This is said to be the Monument of David Matthew the Great, who was Standard- Bearer to Edward IV, and was murther'd at Neath ... by some of the Turberviles, with whom he was at Variance" .
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From 1794 he assisted his brother John, who was engineer on the Montgomeryshire Canal. He was criticized by that company for his lack of attendance, but still managed to be the contractor for one section in 1795 and 1796, and to inspect and report on the final route with his father in 1797. From January 1796 he was engineer for the Monmouthshire & Brecon Canal, devoting one quarter of his time to this task, and was still acting in this capacity when he died. His workload was prodigious, as he managed to fit in surveys for the Ellesmere Canal in 1793, a survey for the extension of the Neath Canal from Neath to Giant's Grave in 1798, and a new survey of the proposed route for the Aberdare Canal in 1800, amongst others.
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As early as the 1660s, primitive forges existed at Briton Ferry, later using local coal from small pits such as Price's Drift, but Briton Ferry's marine location stimulated its industrial development. In 1840, an area of about of land in Cwmafan was leased for 99 years to John Vigurs and subsequently passed to Wright, Butler & Co. Ltd, then to Baldwins Ltd. The terraces of houses built on this land were sublet in 1897 and 1898 for the remainder of the term of this lease, but many were declared unfit for habitation in the 1930s and demolished. In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, coastal shipping at Giant's Grave's wharves loaded coal for export from pits in the Neath Valley via Neath Canal and unloaded iron ore and limestone.
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The publication was a great success and brought worldwide publicity for Swansea University and the Archives. In 2015/16 Elisabeth worked with Eirwen Hopkins (College of Science Choice Project, Swansea University) on the application stage of the Richard Burton @14 project. Funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund Young Roots Programme, this project enabled students of Neath Port Talbot College to use the Burton diaries and other resources to uncover the social history of the town of Neath Port Talbot, and to see how different – or not – the issues facing a young Burton were from those experienced by today's local young people. This project grew out of Sally Burton's expressed desire at the time of deposit of the Richard Burton Collection to see it used to inspire young people by Richard Burton's example.
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The Trade Centre Group is Wales' largest used car sales company and the UK’s fastest growing used car retailer. The company trades as The Trade Centre Wales across the South Wales region at Neath, Merthyr Tydfil and a Cardiff North outlet in Abercynon. The group also operates three of the largest car supermarkets in the UK under the Trade Centre UK brand, two in the West Midlands at Wednesbury and Coventry, with Coventry being the largest used car showroom in Europe and most recently opened an outlet in the North West of England in Rochdale, the groups first outlet based on a retail park. Employing over 700 staff, The Trade Centre Group was founded in 1999 in Neath and is privately owned by Chairman, Mark Bailey and his family.
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Glover joined several others who were promoting the development of the Taff Valley, and plans for a branch canal from the Glamorganshire Canal to Aberdare, with feeder tramways, were conceived. Funds to survey a canal to link the Glamorganshire Canal to the Neath Canal were raised in 1792, and the canal engineer John Dadford surveyed a route for a road along the Aberdare Valley at the same time. Dadford presented evidence to a House of Commons Committee in February 1793, and to the House of Lords in early March. The Aberdare Canal Company was incorporated by an Act of Parliament obtained on 28 March 1793, which authorised the company to build a canal from Aberdare to Abercynon (at the time called Navigation) and a railway from Aberdare to Glynneath, on the Neath Canal.
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The Neath & District League is a football league in South Wales. The league consists of three divisions, named The Premier Division, Division One and Two. The Premier League is a feeder to the West Wales Premier League, and therefore sits at level 5 of the Welsh football league system. The last team to be promoted from this league was Ynysygerwn in 2016.
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She acted in the 1930s for Warner Bros. She appeared with John Wayne in the Western films Haunted Gold (1932); Neath the Arizona Skies and The Lawless Frontier (1934). She appeared with Bette Davis, Louis Calhern and Spencer Tracy in 20,000 Years in Sing Sing (1932). She appeared with Cary Grant and Sylvia Sidney in Marion Gering's film Madame Butterfly (1932).
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Separated from the elder Despenser, the King and the younger Despenser were deserted by most of their followers, and were captured near Neath in mid-November. King Edward was placed in captivity and later forced to abdicate in favour of his son Edward III. The elder Despenser was hanged at Bristol on 27 October 1326, and the younger Despenser was brought to trial.
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Neath Port Talbot County Borough stretches from the south coast of Wales up to the southern edge of the Brecon Beacons. The 93 Scheduled monuments include 43 prehistoric sites which include a stone circle, standing stones, burial mounds and chambered tombs. The 6 Roman sites are all connected to military occupation. There are 18 medieval sites which include abbeys, castles and churches.
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The Chairman was Win Griffiths, and the Chief Executive was Paul Williams. The Trust served around 300,000 people, living in Neath, Port Talbot, Bridgend, and part of the Vale of Glamorgan (the Welsh name for which forms the trust's name). It employed around 6,600 staff including more than 100 Consultants. It managed around 1,400 beds across 14 general and community hospitals.
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Yapp made his 100th appearance for Connacht on 12 May 2006 against Neath-Swansea Ospreys. In April 2008, having played 162 times for Connacht, Yapp announced that he would retire at the end of the season. He played two more games for the side, with his final appearance coming at home to Ospreys on the final day of the season.
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The Fabian Way is an arterial road which connects Swansea city centre with the M4 Motorway at junction 42. It forms a stretch of the A483 road. It is about long and cuts through the centre of Crymlyn Burrows in the unitary authorities of Swansea and Neath Port Talbot. The Fabian Way is a dual carriageway for its whole length.
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T.E. Jones was then inaugurated as minister in the same year but his tenure was also brief and he departed to Glyn-neath in 1858. A new chapel was built in 1858 by William Lewis. The former building was subsequently sold to the Unitarians. The next minister was William Harris from 1859, but in 1862 he moved to the nearby church at Heolyfelin.
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Davies was born in Neath, West Glamorgan. After spending time in the youth academy at Swansea City, he and his family moved to Viborg, Denmark, after his father accepted a job offer. They spent three years living in Denmark, where he played for Viborg FF's youth team before returning to Swansea. Davies attended Ysgol Gyfun Ystalyfera and is a Welsh speaker.
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Neath () is a constituency of the Senedd. It elects one Member of the Senedd by the first past the post method of election. Also, however, it is one of seven constituencies in the South Wales West electoral region, which elects four additional members, in addition to seven constituency members, to produce a degree of proportional representation for the region as a whole.
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Glen Neath is a British novelist, theatre-maker and artist. His first book, The Outgoing Man, which launched Portobello Books in 2005, was shortlisted for the Author's Club First Novel Award. His second novel, The Fat Plan, was published in July 2008. Ring, his collaboration with David Rosenberg, toured the UK in 2012 and visits the BAC in London in March 2013.
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John Leighton Davies (24 August 1927 – April 1995) was a Welsh rugby union, and professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1940s and 1950s. He played representative level rugby union (RU) for Glamorgan County RFC, and at club level for Neath RFC, and club level rugby league (RL) for Wakefield Trinity (Heritage № 571), as a , i.e. number 3 or 4.
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Dimitri Szarzewski (; born 26 January 1983e) is a former French rugby union footballer. His usual position was at hooker, and also represented France. Szarzewski's first club was AS Béziers Hérault where he played from 2002 to 2004. He played five matches for Béziers during the 2002-03 Heineken Cup, as a substitute against Calvisano, Neath RFC and Leicester during 2002.
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Wendy Davis (1982), Wales in the Early Middle Ages (Studies in the Early History of Britain), Leicester University Press. , p. 102. With the coming of the Norman overlords after the 1066 Battle of Hastings, south-east Wales was divided into five cantrefi. The Rhondda lay within Penychen, a narrow strip running between modern-day Glyn Neath and the coast between Cardiff and Aberthaw.
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Those who left went on to build Baran Chapel in 1805 a few miles away. Nevertheless, Gellionnen attracted worshippers from as far away as Swansea, Neath, Cwmllynfell and Bettws. Josiah Rees was succeeded by his son, Dr Thomas Rees (1805–06). Thomas Rees wrote a history of Unitarianism and translated the Racovian Catechism and was an important Unitarian minister in London.
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Moore-Gwyn was born at Neath and was educated at Winchester College. He debuted in minor counties cricket for Glamorgan in the 1903 Minor Counties Championship against Berkshire. From Winchester he attended the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, graduating into the Rifle Brigade as a second lieutenant in August 1906. He was promoted to the rank of lieutenant in April 1910.
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Dai Francis (1911-1981) was a Welsh trade unionist, best remembered for his leadership of the South Wales Miners' Union during the 1970s. As a member of the Gorsedd of the National Eisteddfod of Wales, he took the bardic name Dai o'r Onllwyn.BBC website (Welsh) He was the father of MP Hywel Francis. Francis was born at Onllwyn, near Neath.
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Langford is originally from Baglan, Neath Port Talbot. He currently lives in London. Langford studied film and television at the University of Warwick which he chose as film interested him, he wanted to live somewhere new and did not want to lock himself into a vocation so early on. He was regularly MC at Warwick Comedy's weekly Sunday night stand-up show.
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Howell Jones (5 April 1882 - 1 December 1908)Howell Jones player profile Scrum.com was a Welsh rugby union forward who played for the rugby club Neath and county rugby for Glamorgan. He gained just a single cap for the Wales national team in 1904. Jones came from a sporting family, and his son, Howie Jones, also represented Wales in the rugby union.
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Thomas John Lloyd (1882 - 27 April 1938)Thomas Lloyd international rugby profile Scrum.com was a Welsh international, rugby union forward who played club rugby for Neath. He won seven international caps for Wales from 1909 to 1914; his last as part of the 'Terrible Eight', the Wales pack that played Ireland in a violent match before the First World War ended international competition.
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Peter J. Green, born in Neath, Wales, is a retired professional dog show handler and a current dog show judge. He shares the record for the most Best in Show victories at the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show, having won four times: 1968, 1977, 1994, and 1998. Green judged Best in Show at the 2019 Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show.
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James Birch (30 December 1889 – 17 April 1968)Jim Birch player profile Scrum.com was an English-born international rugby union prop who played club rugby for Northampton and Neath was capped twice for Wales. Birch was selected for Wales in a tit for tat reprisal by the Welsh Rugby Union after the Rugby Football Union selected Welshman Stanley Williams for England.
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Cwm Wanderers Association Football Club is an amateur Welsh football team based in Swansea, Wales. They play in the West Wales Premier League which is in the fourth tier of the Welsh football league system. They have a long history of success in the Neath & District League, being the most successful club in that league, winning the top flight title sixteen times.
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She was later refloated, repaired and returned to service. In September 1810 she commissioned as the flagship of Sir F. la Faey and she sailed for the Leeward Islands in October 1810. On 18 October 1810, Dragon was in Hamoaze. There she ran into and dismasted the brig Eliza Ann, Rees, master, which had been sailing from Neath to London.
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Cefn Rhigos (name meaning '(the) ridge (at) Rhigos') is a hamlet (place) to the west of the village of Rhigos, Wales. Despite being eight (8) miles from the town centre, for postal purposes it comes under Aberdare. It is the most westerly named settlement of the Cynon Valley. The border with The Vale of Neath lies a few hundred yards to the west.
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Philip Gregory Morriscdrex (born 1950) was an Archdeacon of Margam.Diocesan website Morris was educated at the University of Leeds and ordained after studying at the College of the Resurrection, Mirfield.Crockford's online accessed 25 January 2014. After curacies in Aberdare and Neath he was a team vicar in Llantwit Major from 1988 until 2001 when he became a residential canon of Llandaff Cathedral.
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Jack Johns (15 October 1885 – 10 January 1956) was a Welsh cricketer active in 1922 who played for Glamorgan. He was born in Briton Ferry and died in Neath. He appeared in one first-class match as a righthanded batsman who bowled right arm fast medium pace. He scored four runs and took two wickets with a best performance of two for 29.
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1; Issue 47896 He was educated at Magdalene College, Cambridge and ordained in 1886. After curacies in Llangefni and Abergavenney he held incumbencies in Goytre and Llwynypia. He was Surrogate for the Diocese of Llandaff from 1895; and Vicar of Cadoxton-juxta-Neath from 1900.Crockford's Clerical Directory 1929/30 p 679: Oxford, OUP, 1929 He died on 17 January 1938.
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Upper Swansea Valley – Craig-y-nos Castle at history.powys.org.uk There she had a $2000 billiard table installed, and her own private theatre, a miniature version of the one at Bayreuth, and made her gramophone recordings. Patti also funded Craig-y-nos railway station on the Neath and Brecon Railway.Another view of Craig y Nos / Penwyllt looking south on 14 April 2006.
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Jenkins was one of the seven players to survive this cull and he was chosen to play in two matches the next season in the 1913 Five Nations Championship. Jenkins was also selected to play for invitational touring team, the Barbarians. He played twice for the Barbarians, a war-time match against the SA Services in 1915 and later against Neath in 1921.
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Gwyn played a prominent role in the public life of the Borough of Neath and contributed land towards the building of a hall, known as the Gwyn Hall. He died at his home in 1888. The radical Welsh language newspaper, Tarian y Gweithiwr, recalled him as an old-fashioned Conservative who was a staunch defender of the Church of England.
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Brunel in Briton Ferry (DVD), 2010. The Brunel Society and Velica Productions. The wharves at Briton Ferry are run by Neath Port Authority, the most important of which are Giant's Wharf, which handles steel, scrap, coke, coal and machine parts, and Ironworks Wharf, which handles minerals such as sand and cement. They offer tidal and river berths with a maximum depth of .
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Gwynfi United F.C. is a Welsh football club from Blaengwynfi, a village in the Neath Port Talbot area of South Wales. They currently play in the Port Talbot Football League Premier Division. The club played in the Welsh Football League for eleven seasons from 1996–97 until 2006–07 when they resigned from the league and their results from the season were expunged.
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Jersey Marine opened in 1895 and closed in 1935 or 1933. Briton Ferry Road station lay close by on the Great Western Railway Vale of Neath line. Glamorgan XXIV.7, Revised: 1914, Published: 1917 The R&SBR; was absorbed by the Great Western Railway in the Grouping of the railways in 1923 as a result of the Railways Act 1921.
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Price achieved his biggest and most controversial victory in darts to date by winning the 2018 Grand Slam of Darts tournament, his first televised PDC major. He retained the title at the 2019 tournament. Price has also played rugby union for Welsh Premier Division sides Neath and Cross Keys, Pro12 with Glasgow Warriors and rugby league with South Wales Scorpions.
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Brecon Free Street railway station served Brecon, in the historic Welsh county of Brecknockshire, now Powys. The Brecon and Merthyr Railway opened its first station in Watton in 1863. The Neath and Brecon Railway had a temporary station at Brecon Mount Street by 1868, but a joint station was opened at Free Street in 1871. The line and station finally closed in 1964.
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The Lords of Afan ruled over an area between the rivers Afan and Neath in Glamorgan between c. 1100 and the latter half of the 14th century. In 1091 the Normans took control of Glamorgan from its former ruler Iestyn ap Gwrgant. His son Caradog ab Iestyn retained control over part of the lands in the area of the Afan valley.
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Tom Arthur (10 January 1906 – 1 November 1986) was a Welsh international rugby union lock who played club rugby for Neath and was capped 18 times for Wales.Tom Arthur. Welsh Rugby Union A tough second row forward with a strong physique, Arthur was often criticised for being over-vigorous. Though his style of play was fairly typical for Welsh rugby at the time.
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Emyr Wyn Lewis (born 3 October 1982)Newport RFC playing profile blackandambers.co.uk is 17 stone, 6 ft retired Welsh rugby union footballer. Emyr signed on to play for Neath RFC for the 2009-2010 season. He moved from Spanish Giants, El Salvador at the end of the 2008-2009 season, after coming runners up in the countries Division De Honor league.
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He won the 2002–03 Celtic League with Munster, when they beat Neath to secure the title. He missed the 2005 Celtic Cup Final against Llanelli Scarlets through injury, a game which Munster won. In May 2006, Kelly was part of the Munster team that won the province's first Heineken Cup, defeating Biarritz Olympique 19–23 in the 2006 Heineken Cup Final.
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'Neath Brooklyn Bridge is a 1942 film released by Monogram Pictures. It is the eleventh installment in the East Side Kids series and one of the more dramatic films of the series, released at a time when they were making lighter, more humorous fare. The film is now in public domain and can be downloaded legally from numerous web sites.
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Ynysgerwyn Football Club was founded in 1981 by members of the Town's cricket club as a way for the players to stay fit when the cricket season ended. The club entered the amateur Neath & District League. The club achieved promotion in 1985 and by the early 1990s had reached the First Division. In the 1991–92 season, Ynysgerwyn finished First Division champions.
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There was intensive mining activity in the hills to the south of Aberdare and the Vale of Neath Railway had already opened a branch there. In 1866 the Dare Valley Railway, incorporated 1863, was opened from Aberdare to the Bwllfa Colliery.Some authors spell this Bwlffa, but that is a mistake. The line was worked by and leased to the TVR.
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Instead, they were still playing for their amateur clubs. Both Kerr and Couper broke into the Glasgow Warriors squad the following season 1999 - 2000. Kerr broke into the first team that season, but Couper found himself on the bench. He was a substitute in Glasgow's last match in the Welsh-Scottish League that season, an away tie with Neath RFC.
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Ah, when the need is sore Ye will not > fail the fire innate Your fathers gave you from their triumphing! Silent the > shrine of stone beneath the trees! The players’ shouting with the ended > flight Dies at the edges of this glimmering bower. The dial fades, and cease > The eking minutes ’neath the night. Heaven’s fountain breaks and rains the > eternal hour.
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Smith (1980), pg 52. Henry called for Mullock to be 'deposed' from his position within the WFU. At the 1890-1 WFU annual meeting, Swansea's William Gwynn, challenged Mullock's position and demanded that he step down on the grounds of financial mismanagement. While Tom Williams of Neath complained that Mullock, as treasurer, had not provided a balance sheet for members since 1884.
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Blaengwrach ( )John Wells's Phonetics BlogG.M. Miller, BBC Pronouncing Dictionary of British Names (Oxford UP, 1971), p. 16; "Welsh speakers pronounce 'gwrach' as one syllable by treating the 'w' as a rounding of the lips to accompany the 'r'," which also occurs with English /r/. is a community near Glynneath and Resolven in the county borough of Neath Port Talbot, Wales.
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Roger Donald Blake (born 21 December 1957 in Neath, Glamorgan) is a Welsh actor, impressionist and entertainer. He is best known for his portrayal of Prince Philip in Spitting Image and The Big Impression and Noël Coward in television commercials, and narrated Roald Dahl's The Enormous Crocodile, as well as the Topsy and Tim animated series from 1984 to 1989.
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In the Middle Ages St Mary Hill was located partly within two manors, Gelligarn and Ruthin. Gelligarn, known historically as Kilticar, belonged to the De Alweias (De Haweys) during the 12th century.Williams (1973), p.120 The De Alweias held the manor under the Le Sores of St Fagans, before it switched ownership to Neath Abbey during the reign of Henry II.Williams (1973), p.
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It was paid for by the Duke of Norfolk. The chancel was again rebuilt in 1923, completing the architect C. M. Hadfield's plan of 1914. It was the gift of churchwarden Harriet Jackson in memory of her husband Isaac, a local industrialist and great benefactor to the town. Neath Ancient Moss (1987) Text by Paul Bush; published by subscription by parishioners.
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Mark Harris (born Neath) is an IFBB professional bodybuilder from Wales. He is six times UKBFF Welsh champion and overall UKBFF (formerly EFBB) British champion of 2001. He nearly won the overall UKFBB British bodybuilding Championships in 2000 but was pipped to the post by Mike King. In 2001, a "shredded" Mark became overall British champion as a middleweight and turned pro.
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The Trade Centre Group advertises on TV, Radio, Digital, Outdoor and print. The company is famous for the advertising promise of ‘Probably the UK’s Cheapest Cars’. The group operates two vehicle preparation and cosmetic centres at Neath in South Wales and Wednesbury in the West Midlands and conducts a 99-point vehicle inspection and rectification process on cars before they are sold.
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A Neath Wobbly, who had been active in Mexico, trained volunteers in preparation for the journey to Spain. There, they joined the International Brigade to fight against Franco, but did not return. During the decade after World War II, the IWW had two active branches in London and Glasgow. These soon died off, before a modest resurgence in northwest England during the 1970s.
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Established in 2008 with four buses, New Adventure Travel has now grown to have over 100 buses and coaches in its fleet from May 2020 - with most buses being second-hand from London. New Adventure Travel purchased Humphrey's Coaches of Pontypridd in 2011, and has since purchased the businesses of VR Travel of Merthyr Tydfil in October 2013NAT Group officially purchases Merthyr Tydfil based VR Travel NAT Group and Select Local Bus of Neath in 2015.NAT Group purchases Select Local Bus of Neath NAT Group"NAT buys Select Bus Service assets" Coach & Bus Week 7 April 2015 NAT bought VR Travel and assumed control of its route 901 Rail linc - however this route is up for review by Caerphilly County Borough Council. Route 902 Rail linc spotted in Maerdy - an example of a Rail Linc feeder bus.
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Waterfall Country (or sometimes Waterfalls Country) is a name given to an area around the head of the Vale of Neath in South Wales where an unusually large number of publicly accessible waterfalls are located. The area is loosely defined but generally includes the group of falls on the Nedd Fechan, Pyrddin, Hepste and Mellte rivers, all of which lie in the country between the villages of Pontneddfechan and Ystradfellte in the southern part of the Brecon Beacons National Park. All of these falls lie within or on the boundary of the county of Brecknockshire, now part of the unitary authority of Powys. A few miles further west are Henrhyd Falls on the Nant Llech, a tributary of the Tawe and to the south-west are Melin Court Falls on the Melin Court Brook, a tributary of the River Neath.
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As well as carrying the traffic of the TVR to its new harbour, the Penarth company was interested in the traffic that might come from the Ely company, located as it was on the west side of Cardiff. A meeting took place between the two companies on 15 December 1858, at which the Penarth company suggested a narrow (standard) gauge link between them. When the Ely Valley Railway was planned, the only other railway in the vicinity was the broad gauge South Wales Railway, and it seemed obvious at the time to make the EVR line on the same gauge. On reflection, however, this posed some serious disadvantages; iron ore bound for the Merthyr and Dowlais smelters had to travel via Neath and the Vale of Neath Railway, and be transhipped near the end of the journey.
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Pontrhydyfen (or Pont-rhyd-y-fen) (Google Map Satellite View) is a small village in the Afan Valley, in Neath Port Talbot county borough in Wales (). The village sits at the confluence of the River Afan and the smaller Afon Pelenna, 1.8 miles (2.9 km) north of the larger village of Cwmavon and not far from the towns of Port Talbot and Neath. The views from the village are dominated by the hills of Foel Fynyddau (370 m) to the west, Moel y Fen (260 m) to the south-east and Mynydd Pen-rhys (280 m) to the north. This former coal mining community is distinguished by two large 19th-century bridges that span the valley: a railway viaduct (the red bridge) and a former aqueduct, known in the Welsh language as Y Bont Fawr ("The Big Bridge").
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The shortage of capital caused the directors to prioritise the Aberdare route, which opened from Neath on 24 September 1851 for passenger traffic, goods and minerals following in December. The Vale of Neath Railway was the biggest contributor of mineral traffic to the South Wales Railway, but most of that was destined for Swansea docks, so that no long haul income was derived from the connection. (In fact for many years a single daily mineral train to London was adequate for all the South Wales Railway's traffic.) The South Wales Mineral Railway built a line of about 12 miles from Briton Ferry to Glyncorrwg, opening from 1860. The Carmarthen and Cardigan Railway opened part of its line, from the SWR Carmarthen station to their own Carmarthen station; the SWR Station was renamed Carmarthen Junction on the same day, 1 July 1860.
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Baglan is said, on doubtful evidence, to have been a Breton prince, the son of Ithel Hael. He studied at Saint Illtud's monastic school at Llanilltud Fawr (Llantwit Major)T D Breverton(2000), The Book of Welsh Saints, Glyndwr publishing, pp 67-68, . and later travelled to the Vale of Neath as a missionary. He founded the church at Baglan and lived in a cell adjoining it.
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William "Bill" Sandham (Birth 10th March 1879 – death unknown) was a Welsh rugby union and professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1900s and 1910s. He played club level rugby union (RU) for Neath RFC, and representative level rugby league (RL) for Wales, and at club level for Hull Kingston Rovers, as a forward (prior to the specialist positions of; ), during the era of contested scrums.
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The station also streamed online via its website with a 192kbit/s .mp3 feed. Afan FM was rebranded as XS Wales on 7 January 2011 in order to reposition itself as Neath & Port Talbot's Hit Music Station, complete with a new logo, audio imaging, website, and a launched schedule. The station ended live programming on Tuesday 13 December 2011 and ceased broadcasting a day later.
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The 26 post-medieval sites are mostly connected to over 400 years of industrial activity in the area. All of the sites on this list (and the whole of Neath Port Talbot County Borough) are within the historic county of Glamorgan. 5 of the sites lie on or cross the border into neighbouring counties, and are included on both lists. Scheduled Ancient Monuments (SAMs) have statutory protection.
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Coombes settled in Resolven in the Vale of Neath and started work as a collier's helper in an anthracite mine. In 1913 he married Mary Rogers, the daughter of the secretary to the local lodge of the South Wales Miners' Federation. They had one daughter, Rose, born the following year, and a son, Peter, born ten years later. Their union was to last fifty-six years.
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He contested Putney in the 1983 and 1987 general elections but was defeated on both occasions by Conservative David Mellor. He was elected to the House of Commons at the by-election in April 1991 for the Neath constituency that followed the death of the sitting member, Donald Coleman. In 1995 he became a Labour whip and in 1996 became a shadow employment minister.
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At a club level, Norkett played for both Neath Athletic and Swansea Ladies, both feeder clubs for Ospreys. During the course of 2017, she played for Swansea. In rugby sevens, Norkett represented both Wales and the Great Britain students team. She was selected for the Wales women's national rugby union team at the 2014 Women's Rugby World Cup, becoming the youngest player at the tournament.
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Oliver Piper was born on 13 January 1884 in Neath. He was the son of Oliver Stephen Southwell Piper (born 1855), a prominent figure in the British shipbuilding industry, and his wife Ann (born 1851). Both Piper's parents were English and Oliver spent much of his early life in England and Wales. He was one of six children, though two siblings died before adulthood.
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Caledonia Reds folded in 1998 as the SRU cost cut. However Danny's days as a professional player were not yet over. In 2000, he answered Richie Dixon's injury problems by turning out for Glasgow Warriors, then known as Glasgow Caledonians. He made an appearance from the bench against Bridgend RFC and started against Neath RFC in Welsh-Scottish League matches towards the end of 1999-2000 season.
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Following a decision by UEFA not to allow Neath F.C. a license to compete both domestically and in continental competitions, it was ruled that they would be relegated no matter where in the league they finished. Bottom club Newtown were spared relegation. Gap Connah's Quay finished first in the 2011–12 Cymru Alliance to return to the Welsh Premier League after a two-year absence.
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When Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury died in 1612, Herbert hoped to succeed him as principal secretary of state, but James I left the office vacant until 1614. He was thereafter Secretary of State in name only. Herbert was of Neath Abbey. He died in Cardiff aged 67 on 9 July 1617, having fought a duel with Sir Lewis Tresham two months earlier.
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Swansea Canal Aqueduct at Ystalyfera Ystalyfera is a former industrial village and community in the upper Swansea Valley, on the River Tawe, about northeast of Swansea. It is an electoral ward and a community in the unitary authority of Neath Port Talbot, Wales, comprising a resident population of just over 3,000 people, approximately 60% of whom speak Welsh. National Cycle Route 43 passes through the village.
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He was created Baron Williams of Baglan, of Neath Port Talbot in Glamorgan on 23 July 2010 and, on being introduced into the House of Lords, took his seat on the Labour benches. He was granted a 12-month leave of absence from the House which ended in October 2011, and sat as a crossbencher. Williams died in Britain in April 2017 aged 67.
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There are for example, several instances within Great Britain. In Scotland the Great Glen Fault and Highland Boundary Fault give rise to lineaments as does the Malvern Line in western England and the Neath Disturbance in South Wales. The term 'megalineament' has been used to describe such features on a continental scale. The trace of the San Andreas Fault might be considered an example.
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Mynydd-y-Gaer is a hill that sits on the boundaries between the South Wales communities of Baglan (south-western quarter), Cwmavon (south-eastern quarter) and Briton Ferry, (northern half), all within Neath Port Talbot county borough. The summit, at , has grassland fields subdivided by dry stone walls. Foel Fynyddau lies 2 km to east. To the south is the coastal plain of the Bristol Channel.
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Leslie "Les" Anthony (21 November 1921 – 24 October 2010) was a Welsh rugby union, and professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1940s and 1950s. He played representative level rugby union (RU) for Wales, and at club level for Cwmllynfell RFC and Neath RFC (captain), as a prop, i.e. number 1 or 3, and club level rugby league (RL) for Oldham (Heritage №).Robert Gate (1986).
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The original (1923) route of the A48 was Worcester to Carmarthen via Malvern, Ledbury, Ross-on-Wye, Monmouth, Newport, Cardiff, Bridgend, Neath and Llanelli. In 1935 it was rerouted east of Newport, replacing the A437 between Newport and Gloucester. The road from Worcester to Newport became part of the A449, apart from the section between Ross and Monmouth (which became part of the A40).
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Thirteen speedway teams took part. Bradford, at their new venue at Greenfields Stadium, returned to the league after missing the previous season due to delays building their new track. The league season proved to be disastrous for Bradford and the club folded at the end of the year. New team Neath Welsh Dragons joined the league and Leicester joined after dropping down from the National League.
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Green played for BP, Mountain Ash, Newport Strikers, Newport County and Merthyr Tydfil prior to joining Bristol Rovers in 2003. The club changed its name to Bristol Academy two years later. Commuting from Neath, she scored four Premier League goals in her first season and one the next, in the derby against Bristol City. In May 2008 The Observer newspaper described Green as the club's star player.
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Wallace again started for Munster during the 2002 Heineken Cup Final against Leicester Tigers. Once again, Munster lost narrowly, being defeated 15–9. Injury ruled Wallace out of much of the 2002–03 Celtic League, meaning he missed Munster's victory against Neath that won the league. His first taste of silverware with Munster came against Scarlets in the Celtic Cup Final in May 2005.
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From 1974 to 1996 the Borough of Cynon Valley was one of thirty-seven districts of Wales. The district was formed from the Aberdare and Mountain Ash urban districts, the parish of Rhigos from Neath Rural District and the parish of Penderyn from Brecknockshire. It was one of six districts of Mid Glamorgan, and in 1996 was merged into the larger unitary authority of Rhondda Cynon Taf.
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Rees travelled with other committee members to Gloucester to view the All Blacks in action, and it is thought that Rees proposed the Welsh tactics that counteracted the New Zealand scrummage.The Welsh Rugby Union in Neath Rugbyrelics.com A week before the game, Rees set himself up at the Queen's Hotel in Cardiff, making himself available each day to "...receive all communications."Smith (1980), pg 153.
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Young is a member of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity. Young is an artist with work on display through the Art of the Olympians. In December 2019 Young was involved in a road traffic crash where he was the passenger on a double-decker bus which collided with a railway bridge on the Neath Road in Swansea, South Wales. Young suffered a head injury and two broken ribs.
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She was born at Plas-y-Felin, Neath, third of the seven children of Elijah Waring (1787–1857) and his wife, Deborah. Her family were Quakers, but she became an Anglican and was baptised into the Church of England in 1842, at St Martin Church, Winnall, Winchester. Several members of her family had literary interests. Her uncle, Samuel Miller Waring, published a hymn collection, Sacred melodies (1826).
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The Aberdare Leader was a weekly English-language newspaper that was published between 1902 and 1991 in south Wales. It circulated in the Aberdare Valley, Mountain Ash, Merthyr Tydfil, Pontypridd and Glyn Neath. The main content of the paper was local news. Between 1902 and 1967 the proprietors of the Aberdare Leader were W. Pugh and J. L. Rowlands, with the Celtic Press being the subsequent proprietor.
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In the early 19th century parts of Wales became heavily industrialised. Ironworks were set up in the South Wales Valleys, running south from the Brecon Beacons particularly around the new town of Merthyr Tydfil, with iron production later spreading westwards to the hinterlands of Neath and Swansea where anthracite coal was already being mined. From the 1840s coal mining spread to the Cynon and Rhondda valleys.
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In 1231, there was further fighting. Llywelyn was becoming concerned about the growing power of Hubert de Burgh. Some of his men had been taken prisoner by the garrison of Montgomery and beheaded, and Llywelyn responded by burning Montgomery, Powys, New Radnor, Hay, and Brecon before turning west to capture the castles of Neath and Kidwelly. He completed the campaign by recapturing Cardigan castle.
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The Times House of Commons, 1929 and had joined by the beginning of 1928. Liberal leader David Lloyd George who had been impressed by his rhetoric, recruited him to the Liberal headquarters speaking staff. He travelled around Britain speaking in support of the Liberal party's new industrial policies. In May 1928 he was selected by Neath Liberal Association to be their prospective parliamentary candidate.
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Vicari was born in Port Talbot, Wales, in 1932"Tributes as Saudi royal artist Andrew Vicari dies at home in Wales", South Wales Evening Post, 3 October 2016. Retrieved 6 October 2016. to Italian parents, Vittorio Vaccari ('tobacconist and confectioner'), and his wife, Italini Bertani, from Parma. He was evacuated to Aberdare during World War II. He later attended Neath Grammar School for Boys.
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Jones was born in Neath, Wales, in 1926. At the age of thirteen she ran away from home and eventually she was sent to an approved school because she was considered to be "beyond parental control." Hultén was born in Sweden in 1922 and had enlisted in the U.S. Army after the Attack on Pearl Harbor. On 3 October 1944, Jones met Hultén in a tea shop.
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As well as representing Neath, Birch also played for Glamorgan Police RFC, after joining the Glamorgan Constabulary in April 1910. In 1912 he switched clubs to first- class side Cardiff and spent three seasons with the club from 1912-13 to 1919-1920. He made 175 appearances for Cardiff. On his retirement he returned to Northampton where he served on the Northampton RFC committee.
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Cwmamman United started their history in 1976 in the Neath & District League Division Three. In Season 1981–82 Cwmamman entered a reserve side in Division Four of the same league. Further success came for the first team as they were once again promoted to Division One in 1983–84 season. It wasn't long before (season 1985–86) when Cwmamman were promoted to the Premier League.
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The county council considered a number of locations for a single county headquarters, including Bridgend, Llandaff, Merthyr Tydfil, Neath and Pontypridd. Cardiff offered a site in the centre of the city and the county council launched a competition in July 1908 inviting designs for a new building. County Hall was built on Edward VII Avenue, Cathays Park, completed in 1911 and opened in 1912.
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In 1991, a joint venture company involving Calor, SHV and Primagaz (in which SHV holds a 50% stake) had been started in both Poland and Slovakia. This was then followed by Hungary in 1992. In 1997 SHV acquired the rest of Calor's shares. In 2002 Calor opened 12 Customer Operations Centres at Grangemouth, Port Clarence, Stoney Stanton, Elland, Ellesmere Port, Coryton, Cranbrook, Saxham, Fawley, Neath, and Newbury.
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Subsequent references to the two companies are to them separately. The Mineral and Battery Company is recorded as mining in Ireland in 1741.Rees, 665 It may also have had a copper battery work at (or near) Rogerstone near Newport. A company called Mines Royal, which may (or may not) have been the same, had a copper works at Neath Abbey in Glamorgan from 1757.
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The Afan rises on the northern slopes of Mynydd Llangeinwyr to the east of Blaengwynfi, and flows in a generally south-westerly direction roughly parallel to the River Neath with which it shares its western watershed. The river passes the Afan Argoed Country Park in its middle reaches. It converges with the river Pelenna at Pontrhydyfen. From here it turns southward towards Port Talbot.
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Allmusic "A Maiden's Prayer" Bob Wills with music sample Retrieved 1 January 2012 His lyrics reflect the title, and the song, as written by Wills, opens with: Twilight falls, evening shadows find, There 'neath the stars, a maiden so fair divine. The moon on high seemed to see her there. In her eyes is a light, shining ever so bright, She whispered a silent prayer.
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The bird is an uncommon breeder in, and a scarce though increasing migrant to, Britain. Its most well-known summer population is in the New Forest (Hampshire) but it is also found in the Tyne Valley (Northumberland), Wareham Forest (Dorset), Swanton Novers Great Wood (Norfolk), the Neath Valleys (South Wales), the Clumber Park area (Nottinghamshire), near Wykeham Forest (North Yorkshire), Haldon Forest Park (Devon) and elsewhere.
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For almost 100 years from the mid 19th century to the early 1960s, Pontypool Road was an important station and key railway junction connecting to the main line from Newport to the Midlands and north of England (via Hereford) and branch lines to Neath and Merthyr. At its height, Pontypool Road featured a 50-line marshalling yard, engine sheds, goods sheds and refuelling facilities.
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Neath Abbey by John Syer John Syer (1815–1885) was an English painter. He painted landscape in a style formed chiefly upon that of William Muller, but failed as a colourist. He exhibited at the Royal Academy, the British Institution, and with the Royal West of England Academy in Bristol, as well as the British Artists, between 1832 and 1875. He died in July, 1885.
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Apart from his single cap, several stories about Pegge allude to his individualistic nature. During the 1887 season Neath RFC embarked on their first tour of the South West of England which would later become an annual fixture. When Pegge missed the departure of his team-mates on their journey to Devon, he chartered a special train to catch up with them.Smith (1980), pg 24.
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The builders name was Emrys Davies of Neath who was a sole trader employing skilled tradesmen. It is believed that the road names Elizabeth Close, Ian's Walk and Andrews Crescent are attributable to Mr Davies' relatives. Garth View takes its name from its aspect facing the hill opposite, known colloquially as 'The Garth'. Orpheus Road is probably in recognition of the famous Morriston Orpheus Choir.
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Smith (1980), pg 34–40. There is confusion regarding the official date of creation of the Welsh Rugby Union. In March 1880 nine teams supposedly met at the Tenby Hotel, Swansea with the intent of creating a new union. These teams are thought to have been, Cardiff RFC, Chepstow RFC, Haverfordwest RFC, Llandaff RFC, Llanelli RFC, Neath RFC, Newport RFC, Pontypridd RFC and Swansea RFC.
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It then carried on westwards along the coast to Swansea via the Swansea and Neath Railway. Despite its direct route to the coast, the line avoided most of the Swansea Valley. Bypassing the areas around Abercrave near Ystradgynlais where there was heavy industry including coal mining and iron-making. It was for these commercial reasons that the branch from Colbren to Ynysygeinon was conceived.
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David Morgan Evans (21 April 1911 – 24 May 1941) was a Welsh rugby union, and professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1930s. He played club level rugby union (RU) for Glynneath RFC and Neath RFC, as a forward, and representative level rugby league (RL) for Wales, and at club level for Huddersfield, as a , i.e. number 8 or 10, during the era of contested scrums.
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The film has many similarities to Thai 1980s drama Walli. The next movie was a period horror film called Neang Neath, which performed well at the Cambodia box office. The film was a remake of the Thai film Nang Nak., Movies and The culture around The World The company made several Karaoke as well in this period, but discontinued in late 2004 to concentrate on making movies.
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On 26 March 2010 he signed an initial one-month contract with the club with a view to a longer deal, making his debut the following day in a 3–0 win over Histon. On 12 July 2010, he joined Welsh Premier League side Neath. The club stated that "Kris is invaluable to add steel and direction to a young squad in readiness for next season".
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The MR was absorbed into the London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMSR) on 1 January 1923. Passenger services to Merthyr ended in 1958, Neath in October 1962 and Newport in December 1962. In 1962 the important line to Hereford closed. Therefore, Brecon lost all its train services before the 1963 Reshaping of British Railways report (often referred to as the Beeching Axe) was implemented.
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McKinney wrote the words and music to 149 hymns and gospel songs. His most famous are "The Nail Scarred Hand" (1924), "Let Others See Jesus in You" (1924), "Satisfied with Jesus" (1926), "Speak to My Heart" (1927), "'Neath the Old Olive Trees" (1934), "Breathe on Me" (1937), and "Wherever He Leads I'll Go" (1937). He was also the editor of the widely-used Broadman Hymnal (1940, Nashville).
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There are no "official" lyrics to "Waltzing Matilda" and slight variations can be found in different sources.For instance, compare the lyrics at the National Library of Australia to those at This version incorporates the famous "You'll never catch me alive said he" variation introduced by the Billy Tea company. Paterson's original lyrics referred to "drowning himself 'neath the Coolibah Tree". The following lyrics are the Cowan version.
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Dr John Graham Jones, "SAMUEL, WYNNE ISLWYN", Welsh Biography Online In the Second World War he was a conscientious objector. Samuel joined Plaid Cymru in the early 1930s, and became active in the party when he lost his job, following its policy of neutrality in World War II. He was the party's South Wales organiser from 1940 until 1950, also editing The Welsh Nation, its English-language magazine, and gaining election to Pontardawe Rural District Council. He established a base in Ystalyfera, recruiting sufficiently that it was home to the party's largest branch in South Wales, and he was the party's first Parliamentary candidate in the south, taking second place in the 1945 Neath by-election. Samuel stood for the party on several further occasions: Neath at the 1945 general election, Aberdare at a 1946 by-election and the 1950 and general elections, and Pembroke in 1970, but was never elected.
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Alfred W Arthurton, The Rhondda and Swansea Bay Railway, in the Railway Magazine, March 1914 A rival scheme, which was to become the Rhondda and Swansea Bay Railway, was promoted, running independently from Treherbert, through a long tunnel to the valley of the River Afan, and then following the valley down to Pontrhydyfen. From there it was to cross to Baglan Bay at Briton Ferry, then following the coast and crossing the River Neath near the sea by a tidal bridge. From Treherbert the line would descend almost all the way, giving an advantage to the loaded trains descending, although much of the colliery output in the Rhondda Valley would have to be hauled uphill to Treherbert to join the line there. The Bills went to the Parliamentary session of 1882 and the R&SBR; scheme found preference, but there was stiff opposition from interests in Neath.
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Dr John Lane (c. October 1678 – 1741) was an 18th-century doctor and metallurgist, who is said to have experimented with making metallic zinc, probably without result.J. Day, 'Copper, zinc, and brass production' in J. Day and R. F. Tylecote (eds.), The Industrial Revolution in Metals (Institute of Metals , London 1991), 150 179. He studied at the Exeter College, Oxford, and medicine at Leiden in 1702. He married Elizabeth Pollard, heiress of Marsh Baldon, Oxfordshire in 1713, who survived him, only dying in 1771 at the age of 83. In 1694, Lane and John Pollard (possibly his step father-in-law) became partners of Thomas Collins in copper works at Neath Abbey, but the partnership was dissolved in 1716.L. Ince, Neath Abbey and the Industrial Revolution (Tempus, Stroud, 2001), 14. In 1717 Lane and Pollard established the Llangyfelach copper works at Landore near Swansea,R.
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Easterby is married to Sarra Elgan Rees, the daughter of ex- rugby union player Elgan Rees who played for Neath RFC, Wales and the British and Irish Lions. Former Scarlets and Wales full back Matt Cardey was best man at the wedding. Sarra Elgan Easterby is a TV presenter and a fluent Welsh speaker. Their daughter, Soffia, was born in 2007, and their son, Ffredi, was born in 2009.
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Like many Baptist chapels in the locality, Thomas Price was involved in its formation and preached at the opening services, together with Benjamin Evans of Heolyfelin. Evans served as minister of Soar, as well as Heolyfelin, until his departure to Neath in 1861. His successor, William Harris, was also minister of Soar as well as Heolyfelin until 1876. Daniel Jones was the first minister from 1876 until 1898.
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Stradling is also mentioned by Lewys Dwnn among those who had written on the history or genealogies of the whole of Britain, a researcher in records kept by religious houses. The register of Neath Abbey was in Stradling's possession in 1574, but was later lost. In 1645–46 James Ussher spent almost a year at St. Donat's Castle, where he researched antiquarian matters that in 1686 had passed to Richard Parr.
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The village is also home to several sporting grounds, the most prominent of these being the Welfare Ground, home to Cwmavon RFC who are currently playing in the Welsh Rugby Union leagues. A second rugby union pitch along with a football pitch, tennis courts and bowling green are located at " Parc Siencyn Powell" (Formerly named Parc-y-Llyn), which is administered by Neath Port Talbot County Borough Council.
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Abertillery Bluebirds were promoted from the Gwent County League and Corus Steel were promoted from the South Wales Amateur League. Briton Ferry Athletic and Llansawel merged to form Briton Ferry Lansawel. Briton Ferry Llansawel - Official Website South Gower applied to join the league and were accepted replacing Llansawel. South Gower AFC - History Ystradgynlais were relegated to the Neath & District League and Merthyr Saints were relegated to the South Wales Amateur League.
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Ffestinog Railway The first Fairlie 0-4-4-0 was built for the Neath and Brecon Railway in 1866, but the design came to prominence in 1869 with Little Wonder for the Festiniog Railway in North Wales followed by five others. One locomotive was supplied to the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad in 1872. The type was also used in Mexico, New Zealand and Russia on Transcaucasian Railway.
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Steve Williams (born 3 October 1970) is a former Wales international rugby union player. A back row forward, he played his club rugby for Swansea, Neath, Cardiff, London Irish and Northampton RFC and has 29 international caps. He started in the 2002 Powergen Cup Final at Twickenham, as the London Irish defeated the Northampton Saints. He is the only man to have played 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8 for Wales.
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However the Barbarians website say that it wasn't him, that instead it was another Gwyn Thomas who also played rugby union for Neath RFC. Whilst playing for Huddersfield Thomas was selected to go on the 1920 Great Britain Lions tour of Australasia. He was vice-captain, and played at fullback in all three Test matches of the Ashes series. He also played in two Test matches against New Zealand.
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The Welsh Assembly aims to achieve 10% of all energy from renewable energy sources by the year 2010. Under the TAN8 plan, 38% of all potential sites within Wales have been located within Neath Port Talbot. NPowerRenewables recently completed 16 300 ft windfarm turbines on Ffynnon Oer. Spanish-owned Gamesa plans to build 14 603 ft turbines, four on Blaencorrwg, and 10 on Gelli Mountain, which stands directly above Croeserw.
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From 1949 to 1955 a Welsh league was run by the Welsh commission but it was disbanded due to lack of interest and finance. Founder members were Neath, Cardiff, Llanelli, Bridgend, Ystradgynlais, Aberavon, Amman Vale and Blaina. Harsh economic times in the 1980s meant that rugby union players such as Jonathan Davies and Scott Gibbs "went north" to play professional rugby league in order to earn a living.
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He later returned to the Cabinet from 2009 to 2010 as Welsh Secretary. Hain was Shadow Welsh Secretary in Ed Miliband's Shadow Cabinet from 2010 until 2012, when he announced his retirement from front-line politics. He announced in June 2014 he would stand down as the MP for Neath at the 2015 general election and was subsequently nominated for a life peerage in the 2015 Dissolution Honours.
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Hallowes' Victoria Cross is held as part of the collections of the National Army Museum, Chelsea, London. National Army Museum catalogue He was also a holder of the Military Cross. A peacetime scoutmaster, he is one of 32 Scouting related persons to win the Victoria Cross. There is a memorial to Rupert Hallowes on the ground floor of Neath Port Talbot Hospital at the entrance into 'Out Patients'.
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Gething first came to note as a rugby player when he represented Skewen RFC. By 1913 he had joined Neath, and it was during his time at the club that he was selected for his one and only international cap for Wales. Gething was chosen for the 1913 Five Nations Championship to face France, played away at Parc des Princes, in a close game which saw Wales win 11-8.
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Along the lower western flanks of the hill, entrepreneur John Christie ran the Brecon Forest Tramroad in the early part of the nineteenth century. Two lines of this can be seen to diverge from near their crossing of the Nant Gyhirych on the northern side of the hill. Subsequently, the Neath and Brecon Railway was constructed following the lower tramway route in part. This line closed in the 1960s.
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James William Hook (born 27 June 1985) is a former Welsh rugby union player. Hook has won 81 caps for Wales (currently 13th all-time) and is Wales' fourth highest all-time points scorer. Most often playing as a fly-half, Hook is known as a utility player, and has also played as a centre, wing and fullback. He began his club career with Neath, from 2004 to 2006.
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A bypass has been proposed for the community of Hafod for many years. Neath Road which runs through Hafod is a main entry point into the city of Swansea, and yet is a narrow road with terraced housing lining both sides of the street. Plans ratified by the City & County of Swansea in 2006TaweRivCorJune06pdf.pdf June 2006 allow for the redevelopment of the western bank of the river tawe.
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The line was owned by the GWR and access to the depot was under running powers. The Swansea Vale Railway had running powers over the Neath and Brecon Railway, so the Midland Railway, as successor to the SVR, ran through trains over the N&BR.; The Midland Railway offered to operate all the N&BR; domestic trains north of Colbren Junction for one third of receipts, about £4,000 annually.
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In 1947 he beat both Norman Jones and Des Jones in title eliminater contests to set up a return meeting with Davies, this time for the middleweight belt. Before facing Davies, Houlsten fought Johnny Williams, the result was a draw. On 12 January 1948, Houlston and Davies met at the Glyn Hall in Neath. The 15 round bout went the distance and the decision went with the champion, Davies.
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Margam Moors () is a community of Neath Port Talbot county borough, Wales. Together with the community of Margam, it forms the Margam electoral ward. There were three inhabitants in Margam Moors at the 2001 census, and most of the area is open moorland with the central and northern areas occupied by Port Talbot Steelworks and Port Talbot Docks. The south west of the community is Margam Sands beach.
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The Dulais Valley, one of the South Wales Valleys, is traversed by the River Dulais in southwest Wales north of the town of Neath. Settlements in the valley include Crynant, Seven Sisters, Banwen, and Dyffryn Cellwen, which are served by the A4109 road through the valley. The towns in the valley developed from the coal mining industry. Visitor attractions in the valley include the Cefn Coed Colliery Museum.
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P.W. King, 'Frizington Fraud' Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmoreland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society 4th series, 14 (2014), 164-5. Between 1730 and 1735, he may have even been concerned in the management of the Culnakyle ironworks at Abernethy of the York Buildings Company.King, 'Vale Royal', 10. In 1735, he became the manager of a furnace near Neath, perhaps Bryncoch Furnace, which belonged to a Quaker Company form Bristol.
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Daniel "Dan" Pascoe (7 July 1900 – 19 May 1971) born in Llanharan, was a Welsh rugby union, and professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1920s. He played representative level rugby union (RU) for Wales, and at club level for Bridgend RFC and Neath RFC, captaining both, as a flanker, i.e. number 6 or 7, and club level rugby league (RL) for Leeds,Robert Gate (1986). "Gone North - Volume 1".
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Thomas has played for various clubs during his career, including Bridgend, Bath, Cardiff Blues, Leeds Tykes, the Scarlets and Neath. He started for Bath in the victorious 1998 Heineken Cup Final as they defeated Brive. He played 9 times for Wales between 1996 and 1998,his last being against South Africa. Athletics Mick Crowell, former Welsh and British Road Race International, 4 times Welsh Marathon Champion and twice runner up.
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Several players have started with Garndiffaith and have gone on to win international caps. One such player was W. A. Williams who played outside half. He went on to Pontypool where he picked up an injury, when fit again he was left out of the side to face Neath. He then moved to Talywain before moving on to Newport, where he gained three Welsh caps in 1952/53.
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He fought James at least one more time, when the two met in Samuel's Saloon in Neath. St. John is reported to have been in poor shape going into the contest and James' superior fighting style put him in charge as the fight came to the end of its six-round distance. When the referee called the contest a draw, there was dissent from large portions of the crowd.
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Caerphilly made the national Bowl final in the principality stadium on 16 April 2017. The side lost to Shane Williams' Amman United 43-31. Caerphilly have featured in two recent cup finals, the European Shield Final 2003 (losing to French team Castres Olympique) & the Welsh Cup Final in 2004 (losing to Neath RFC). The club were also narrow runners up in Division One East in 2007/2008 season.
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Arwel Thomas won his first of his 23 caps against Italy in 1996 when he replaced the injured Neil Jenkins. He played club rugby for Swansea for seven years, scoring 1963 points including 40 tries. He turned down an offer to join Toulouse in 1999, and in 2005 he returned to Neath. In 2008 he announced his retirement from rugby after the 2008 Konica Minolta Cup final against Pontypridd.
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Moon played rugby for Abertillery RFC, Neath RFC, and, most famously, from 1990, Llanelli RFC, his 'spiritual home'. He played at scrum half. Moon went on to captain Llanelli, a team he played 272 games for over 12 years, scoring 77 tries. During the 1992 season, Moon captained Llanelli during their unprecedented triple success season, where they won the League and Cup, and beat then Rugby World Cup Champions Australia.
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Brian Radford (birth unknown – ) was a Welsh rugby union, and professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1940s and 1950s. He played club level rugby union (RU) for Kenfig Hill RFC, Aberavon RFC and Neath RFC, and representative level rugby league (RL) for Wales, and at club level for Bradford Northern, as a , or , i.e. number 8 or 10, or, 11 or 12, during the era of contested scrums.
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The instance always reminds this writer - who was 12 years old at the time and also living at the James farm - of Robert Frost's "Death of the Hired Man." Dodge had one sister who may have lived in the Johnson City area. He returned north in New York State and died in Utica, New York, at the age of 76. But his body was returned to be interred at Neath.
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Downstream of Pontneddfechan the river has few significant tributaries. Those that do join include the Melincwrt Brook and the Clydach Brook. The only major tributary to join is the River Dulais which has its source north of Seven Sisters. As the Dulais nears the Neath it descends a spectacular waterfall: the Dulais Falls, a popular tourist attraction owned and managed by the National Trust and the site of old iron workings.
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Swansea Bay Radio originally launched on 5 November 2006 from studios in Neath, with a soft Adult Contemporary and easy listening music format, before switching to playing only 1980s music in March 2012. The station was rebranded as Nation 80s on 1 June 2012, and on 16 January 2013, rebranded again as Nation Hits. On 1 March 2016, the station reverted to its original name of Swansea Bay Radio.
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Moseley was handed a 32-week ban for the offence, which at the time was the longest ban ever issued. Moseley moved from Pontypool to Newport RFC for the 1990/91 season, making his début on December 29 against Neath RFC. He briefly resumed his Wales career, making four appearances during the 1991 Rugby World Cup. He made 86 appearances for Newport before departing after the 1995/96 season.
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Lyrics to Glory, Glory Glory, Glory to ole Georgia! Glory, Glory to ole Georgia! Glory, Glory to ole Georgia! G-E- O-R-G-I-A Lyrics to Alma Mater From the hills of Georgia's northland Beams thy noble brow, And the sons of Georgia rising Pledge with sacred vow. ‘Neath the pine tree's stately shadow Spread thy riches rare, And thy sons, dear Alma Mater, Will thy treasure share.
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The constituency was created in 1885 when the previous Swansea District constituency - a combination of the boroughs of Swansea, Neath, Aberavon. Loughor and Kenfig, which had existed since 1832, was split into two. The new Swansea Town constituency consisted of the bulk of the borough of Swansea, while the northern part of the borough, centred on Morriston, together with the four smaller boroughs formed the new Swansea District constituency.
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The reservoir was constructed between 1907 and 1914 by Neath Rural District Council for the supply of water. A temporary railway track was constructed for from the village of Penderyn to transport building materials to the dam site. Limestone was obtained from Penderyn Quarry and puddle clay was excavated from the glacial till at nearby Cilhepste Coed. Sandstone may have been sourced from Gwaun Hepste just east of Ystradfellte.
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Five Nations – Cardiff, 25 March 1950 Wales (5) 21 – 0 (0) France (FT) ESPN Scrum.com Two months after the encounter with France, John was playing for the British Lions team touring Australia and New Zealand. Both he and Stephens were selected becoming the first players to represent the Lions from the Neath club. He played in twenty-two matches of the tour and played in all six Test matches.
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Communities of Colettine Poor Clares were founded in England at Baddesley Clinton (1850–2011),This community, reduced to four nuns, closed January 2011 and the nuns dispersed to other communities of the order, Ellesmere, Shropshire and Woodchester. They have communities in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and in Bothwell, Scotland (1952). In Wales, there is a monastery in Hawarden. The one that used to be based in Neath has moved to Glasgow.
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In the 1963/64 season the club had built a clubhouse and in 1977 the team joined the Pembrokeshire League. During the club's 25th anniversary they hosted first class team Pontypridd and for their 40th anniversary faced the 'Welsh All Blacks', Neath. Like many rugby clubs, St. Davids has undertaken several rugby tours, including trips to Ireland, England and France. The team has seen several players selected for Welsh schoolboy rugby.
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'Twas there the Tory dwelt of old, 'Twas there > they found him dead, 'Twas there they laid him 'neath the mould Within his > lonely bed. By Roxbury's deserted town The summers come and go, The sun's > successive smile or frown Above the winter snow. Go ask Buckminster, if you > will, Who is that ghost-like knave? He'll bid you hold your speech until > You've trod the Tory's Cave.
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Unlike the previous season, Pontypridd deployed Stoddart at fullback for most of his appearances in the 2004–05 season, and gradually earned a reputation as one of the most attacking prospects in the Premiership. The following year, Stoddart made the number 15 shirt at Sardis Road his own, and his explosive breaks were said to have provided the catalyst for Ponty's 2006 Konica Minolta Cup triumph over Neath.
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He was in demand as an administrator, and was known to be very fair- minded.Smith (1980), pg 51. He was also a progressive thinker, and voiced concerns about the North of England breaking away from the IRB years before the formation of rugby league. As the chair of the Welsh Football Union, he met with Neath secretary Walter E. Rees, with whom he later ran the WRU for near four decades.
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Owner of Cyfarthfa Ironworks, William T. Crawshay, was elected in the Cyfarthfa ward and four tinplate manufacturers were elected. Sir Hussey Vivian (shortly to become Lord Swansea) was elected in Tyrdennau and his brother Arthur was elected in Margam. The Earl of Dunraven was elected in Bridgend. The first meeting of the Council was held at the Gwyn Hall in Neath and Sir Hussey Vivian MP elected to the chair.
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The line depended for its business on coal mining, and as that industry declined, so the railway came into question. The Merthyr line passenger service was ended on 31 December 1962, and the main line lost its passenger service from 15 June 1964, and Glyn Neath to Hirwaun closed completely on 2 October 1967. On 29 November 1971 Aberdare (High Level: the VoNR station) to Middle Duffryn was closed completely.
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The club played in the Welsh Football League until 1997. After a season out of the league they rejoined for the 1998-99 season in Division Three where they remained until the end of the 2009-10 season when they left the league. The club then joined the Neath & District League. For the 2020–21 season the club joined the newly formed Tier 4 West Wales Premier League.
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39 In the western region of Morgannwg two monastic foundations were sited, a Savigniac house in Neath in 1130 and the Cistercian Margam Abbey in 1147. In the Vale a Benedictine monastery was founded in 1141, Ewenny Priory, a community under the patronage of St. Peter's Gloucester. The building of parish churches also began in the 12th century, densely in the Vale, but very sparsely in the upland and northern areas.
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Swansea Bay University Health Board (SBUHB) () is a local health board in Wales. It is the successor body to the former Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University Health Board following a change in name and boundary on 1 April 2019. SBUHB covers Swansea and Neath Port Talbot. In February 2019 it was decided to rename it Swansea Bay University Health Board and to alter the boundary with the Cwm Taf University Health Board.
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The Baglan electoral ward includes the communities of Baglan and Baglan Bay, in Neath Port Talbot county borough, Wales. Baglan falls within the parliamentary constituency of Aberavon. Baglan is bounded by the wards of Briton Ferry West and Briton Ferry East to the north; Bryn and Cwmavon and Port Talbot to the east; and Aberavon and Sandfields West to the south. The Baglan ward can be divided roughly into three zones.
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FitzRobert granted Neath, a town in Glamorgan, a charter. He was Lord of the manor of Glamorgan, as well as Caerleon, residing chiefly at Cardiff Castle. It was there that in 1158 he and his wife and son were captured by the Welsh Lord of Senghenydd, Ifor Bach ("Ivor the Little") and carried away into the woods, where they were held as prisoners until the Earl redressed Ivor's grievances.
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The history of Gadlys in the twentieth century was characterised by a series of comparatively brief ministries, none of which lasted for more than ten years. Myles Griffiths from Bangor College, but a native of Neath was inducted as minister in July 1902 at a service at which William Harris of Heolyfelin presided. He moved to Liverpool in 1906. R. Gwenffrwd Hughes arrived from Valley and Caergeiliog in Anglesey in 1908.
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The company's first locomotive was White Raven, a 2-4-2T built for the St Helens Railway in 1863. The second, built 1864, was a Fell locomotive for the Mont Cenis Railway. A 0-4-4-0T Fairlie locomotive named Progress was built in 1865 for the Neath and Brecon Railway. This was followed in 1866 by another 0-4-4-0T Fairlie named Mountaineer for the Anglesey Central Railway.
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Kenneth Crosby (1904–1998) was a British Wesleyan missionary, a Bible translator and language scholar, who worked in Sierra Leone. He is best known for his work in the Mende language. Crosby was born on 12 May 1904 at Briton Ferry, near Neath in South Wales. He graduated with a BD degree from the University of London in 1927, then a BA in philosophy from the same university.
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A Church dedicated to Saint Peter was first recorded on the site in 1291, from which the town partly took its name. This was replaced by a new and poorly built church by W. Wittington of Neath during the years 1836–8. This building, in turn, was replaced by the current church, designed by the English ecclesiastical architect R. J. Withers, and built during the years 1867–70.
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Trevor John Redmond (16 June 1927 – 17 September 1997)Bamford, R. & Shailes, G. (2003) Bristol Bulldogs: 50 Greats, Stroud: Tempus Publishing. was a New Zealand speedway rider who mainly rode for the Aldershot Shots, and the Wembley Lions. Redmond also opened a speedway track in Neath, Wales in 1962. He later became a promoter of stock car and hot rod racing, mainly in southwest England, through his Autospeed organisation.
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Kevin Hopkins (born 29 September 1961) is a retired Welsh International rugby union player. He made seven appearances for his country, as well as representing Cardiff RFC, Swansea RFC and Neath RFC in the top division of Welsh club rugby, and played twice for the Barbarians invitational side. Following his retirement from playing, Hopkins has held numerous coaching positions. His grandfather, Tom Hopkins, was also a Wales international rugby player.
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WTSWW work in the Vice-counties of Glamorgan, Carmarthenshire, Pembrokeshire and Cardiganshire. The suite of reserves includes the Melincwrt waterfalls (near Neath), Coed y Bwl (daffodil woods near Cardiff), Teifi Marshes (near Cardigan, including the Welsh Wildlife Centre, which has a cafe and shop, and is on the Cardigan-Cilgerran Offshoot trail of the Pembrokeshire Coast Path), Castle Woods in Llandeilo (with castle), and the islands of Skomer and Skokholm.
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Filming for the series took place in the United Kingdom, at Swansea, Neath, Port Talbot and Margam Castle in Wales. A studio in Swansea Gate Business Park was also used and several sets were built to resemble 15th-century Florence. Annie Symons was brought on board as the lead costume designer. Bear McCreary composed the score for the series, and orchestrated the main theme to reflect Leonardo's use of mirror writing.
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Mort joined the Independent Labour Party in 1906, and in 1915 became South Wales secretary of the Steel Trades Confederation. He was also involved in local politics as a member of Briton Ferry Urban District Council and Neath Borough Council. At the 1929 general election, he was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for Eccles. The Second Labour Government formed after the election subsequently collapsed and a National Government was formed.
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Tata is the largest employer with approximately 3,000 staff (although in 1979 its predecessor employed 12,600); other large employers include General Electric, Hi-Lex Cable Systems Ltd (closing in 2021 ), TRW Steering Systems recently closed, Envases (UK) Ltd, Crown Food UK & Ireland, Toyoda Koki, Sofidel, Cornelius Electronics, Excel Electronics Assemblies, and Tedeco. Port Talbot is also the site for Neath Port Talbot Hospital which is situated on Baglan Way, Port Talbot.
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League racing was not seen again at the stadium until 1963 when the Gulls entered the Provincial League, although the Neath Dragons did finish off their 1962 Provincial League fixtures at the stadium under promoter Trevor Redmond.Bamford, R. & Shailes, G. (2003) Bristol Bulldogs: 50 Greats, Stroud: Tempus Publishing. Redmond promoted the Gulls in 1963 but it turned out to be their only season of league racing until 1997.
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LMS passenger trains between Brecon and Swansea continued to stop at Colbren Junction until 1930. This service was then replaced by Brecon to Neath trains operated by the GWR. A short-lived passenger service continued to use the branch to Ynys-y-Geinon for a further two years; until finally ceasing in 1932. Subsequently both platforms on the Swansea branch fell into disuse except for occasional excursion trains.
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Baglan Bay from Mynydd Drumau Baglan Bay (Welsh: Bae Baglan) is a part of the Swansea Bay coastline and a district of Neath Port Talbot county borough, Wales. Baglan Bay is also the name of a local government community. Baglan Bay is served by the M4 Motorway and the A48 road which traverse the northeastern edge of the area. It is the only community in Wales with no residents.
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By the 1780s, industry in the area around Aberdare was developing. John Maybery and Thomas Wilkins owned an ironworks at Hirwaun, which was leased by Anthony Bacon. He died in 1786, and the lease was taken over by Samuel Glover from Birmingham, who built a tramway. The nearby Neath Canal was authorised in 1791, and from its terminus at Glynneath, a tramway could be constructed to reach Hirwaun.
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England was born in Ystalyfera in South Wales (Neath Port Talbot). He moved to Hong Kong when he was seven, attending Glenealy Junior School, and the Island School. On his return to the UK, he attended Kenilworth Grammar School (became Kenilworth School), and South Warwickshire College of Further Education (since 1993 Stratford-upon-Avon College) in Stratford-upon- Avon. He studied economic history at the University of Leeds, graduating in 1981.
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The inaugural ABP Newport Marathon took place on 29 April 2018. The winner was Neath Harriers' James Carpenter with a time of 2:33:31. The fastest female was Natasha Cockram of Mickey Morris Racing Team with a time of 2:44:58. The marathon saw a wide range of participants, from one of the oldest runners, 80 year old Sydney Wheeler of Chepstow Harriers, to former boxer Matthew Edmonds.
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He was made captain at Neath before being transferred to Llanelli. In 1988 Davies played a part in the Triple Crown success for Wales and between 1985 and 1997 he won 37 rugby union caps. Injuries during the 1988 New Zealand tour meant Davies captained the side in four games. The two Tests were lost by fifty point margins, although Davies did score a 90-metre try in the second.
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SVR shareholders would receive a permanent 6% dividend. Incidentally the Midland Railway was not interested in this kind of arrangement with the Neath and Brecon Railway, (which had taken over the SVJ&N;&BR;), as the N&BR; was considerably over-capitalised, following a series of financial improprieties and the failure of a contractor who was also financing much of the construction personally.Gwyn Briwnant Jones and Denis Dunstone, The Origins of the LMS in South Wales, Gomer Press, Ceredigion, 1999, Gwyn Briwnant Jones, Denis Dunstone and Tudor Watkins, The Neath and Brecon Railway: A History, Gomer press, Llandysul, 2005, D S M Barrie, The Brecon and Merthyr Railway, The Oakwood Press, Trowbridge, 1957 reprinted 1980, The capital of the Swansea Vale Railway at this time was £230,392, and there were loans in existence to the extent of £328,040.Miles, page 32 The lease of the Swansea Vale Railway by the Midland was authorised by Act of 30 July 1874; the Midland actually took possession in September 1874.
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A Carmarthen Journal from 1871 first confirms the existence of Llandeilo RFC; when it covered an event between the club and three other teams, namely Neath, Lampeter College and Llandovery College. In their inaugural year Llandeilo RFC played on a ground known as the Bridge Field. Due to the death of one of their players, rugby in Llandeilo appeared to wane and the game lost support. But in 1875 interest was rekindled by locals, and rugby was once again played, but now on Gurrey Fach Field. Competitive Rugby was first played by Llandeilo in the 1877–78 season when the club entered the South Wales Challenge Cup competition as one of the inaugurating teams;Fields of Praise, The Official History of The Welsh Rugby Union 1881–1981 pp43 David Smith, Gareth Williams (1980) and on 12 March 1881, Llandeilo RFC was one of the eleven clubs who met in Neath to found the Welsh Rugby Union.
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R Tourret, GWR Engineering Work, 1928 - 1938, Tourret Publishing, Abingdon, 2003, Considerable investment was made in the GWR dock facilities at Swansea, especially in modern mechanical handling equipment and adaptation to the changing pattern of mineral exports. The numerous small-scale marshalling yards at the Burrows (the R&SBR; section near Jersey Marine) were modernised, and the residual passenger service over this section was diverted to the GWR (former Swansea and Neath) line running parallel, so that the former R&SBR; lines were dedicated to goods and mineral traffic. The diversion from Riverside freed up the approach of goods traffic at the docks, which had previously conflicted with passenger trains crossing. The Swansea to Treherbert passenger service was diverted away, to use Swansea High Street station, running via Neath and the GWR main line; a shuttle service of GWR railcars ran from Briton Ferry to Swansea East Dock station instead of Riverside, which was closed to passengers.
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Nythe is an anglicised version of nidum (nest) and a name applied to forts elsewhere, such as Neath in Wales. So far no evidence of this has come to light, though some ditches uncovered during excavation might possibly be those from a marching camp. With the military emphasis moving north the site was abandoned for at least twenty years before Britons resettled the place as shown by the remains of roundhouses dated to that time.
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Barry Cennydd Morgan KStJ (born 31 January 1947) is a Welsh academic from Neath, Wales who, from 2003 to Jan 2017, was Archbishop of Wales. He was both Primate and Metropolitan of the Church in Wales; Morgan was the Bishop of Bangor from 1992 to 1999, and was the Bishop of Llandaff from 1999 until his retirement in January 2017. He was the longest serving archbishop in the entire Anglican Communion.Church in Wales news report .
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There is no exit from the motorway at this junction. Junction 41 comprises two different junctions; one for local traffic to and from the west and one from the east. The former leads to and from a spur leading to the roundabout in Briton Ferry, formerly known as junction 41a, and the original bridge over the River Neath, which would allow access onto the stretch of the M4 from junction 43 westward.
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De Burgh's defeat did not stop him from winning control of other Marcher lordships, further provoking Llywelyn. The Welsh prince led his armies into regions "where a Welsh army had not been seen for a century or more", wrote Davies. Llywelyn burned Brecon, marched through Glamorgan and destroyed Neath. Alarmed, Henry III appealed to Hiberno-Norman knights in Norman colonized Ireland and offered them any lands in Wales they might win from Llywelyn.
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3–7, Granville of Calwich Abbey His uncle was John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath (1628–1701), of Stowe, Kilkhampton in Cornwall, who played a prominent role in the Restoration of the Monarchy of 1660. His family was descended from Sir Richard I de Grenville (d. post 1142) (alias de Grainvilla, de Greinvill, etc.), one of the Twelve Knights of Glamorgan, of Neath Castle, Glamorgan and of Bideford, Devon and Stowe, Kilkhampton in Cornwall.
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Hughes was born on 28 April 1930 in Neath, Wales, the only child of Evan and Dellis May Hughes. He was raised in London and attended the Ancient Literary Company Trade School. During World War II, both of Hughes' parents contributed to the war effort – his father was drafted into the British Army and served in North Africa for three years. His mother was conscripted into the Government Post Office during that time as well.
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In London, Hain once found a letter bomb sent by the South African security services in her home. When her son, Peter Hain, was elected as a member of parliament in 1991, Hain began to work part-time for him at the House of Commons. She continued to work there until she was 82. In 2009, Hain moved to Neath, where her son, Peter, was the local MP. Her husband, Walter, died in 2016.
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Lewis was born in Herefordshire, but moved to South Wales to find work. On the outbreak of the Great War he was employed by the Great Western Railway as a bus driver at Neath. he joined up in March 1915. The GWR has no record of Lewis on its Rolls of Honour or War memorials, and it may be that he joined up without the company's agreement, and thus lost his post and pension rights.
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Lyell and Longford formed the most influential and pioneering partnerships in Australian film history. In 1913 Lyell starred in 'Neath Austral Skies as Eileen Delmont. Notably in this role she performed her own stunts, which included riding a horse with a knife between her teeth and diving into the sea. Another Longford/Lyell film made in 1913, Australia Calls, contained some 'special effects' such as cardboard planes flying down wires, annihilating some Sydney landmarks.
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In the Festival, Epsom College was defeated by Wellington College, while Neath Port Talbot ended Colston's Girls' dominance to take the title. In 2010, Millfield won the Open, Colts and Prep Schools tournaments; Tonbridge School beat Wellington in the Festival and Hartpury cruised to the Girls' title. In 2011, HSBC became the tournament's sponsor. By now, the event had four separate food outlet centres, 32 exhibitors and a large screen for results and advertising.
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Grahame Hodgson was born in Ogmore Vale and educated at what was then Ogmore Grammar School, and played club rugby for Aberavon RFC, Bridgend RFC, Exeter RFC, Exeter Saracens RFC, Teignmouth RFC, Torquay RFC and Neath RFC. He played 15 tests for Wales between 1962 and 1967. His position was full back. Gavin Thomas is a former Welsh international rugby union flanker, who was capped 24 times for Wales (2001 to 2010).
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Hal Jones won caps for Wales (RU) while at Neath RFC in 1929 against England, and Scotland. Jones also won three caps for Wales (RL) in 1935–1936 while at Keighley. Harold Jones was selected for Great Britain while at Keighley for the 1936 Great Britain Lions tour of Australia and New Zealand but did not play in any of the test matches, although he did play in some of the games against representative sides.
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He studied first in Neath at the town's Technical Institute in 1892 and 1893 under Mr. Kerr. From 1893 he spent three years at the Royal College of Art and then studied at the Royal Academy Schools from 1896 until 1901. In 1902, his Paolo and Francesca was hung in the Royal Academy and his portrait of his father was shown there in 1903. These were the first of 18 paintings by Williams exhibited there.
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He started the matches against Neath and Calvisano during the 2003 leg of the tournament. The following season, Béziers played in the 2003-04 European Challenge Cup, as opposed to the Heineken Cup. He started against Connacht, and scored a try in the game, as well as playing in the matches against Grenoble and Bath. In 2004 he made his international debut for France on 10 July, in a match against Canada.
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Holland made his Munster A debut on 19 November 2011, coming on as a substitute against Neath. He made his senior debut for Munster on 23 November 2013, coming on as a substitute against Cardiff Blues. Holland was awarded a development contract with the senior Munster squad for the 2014–15 season in March 2014. Holland was nominated for the John McCarthy Award for Munster Academy Player of the Year on 1 May 2014.
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Although Pontypool had been relegated from the top flight of rugby in Wales in 1995. Two highlights during this period were saving Pontypool from relegation from Division 1 with a victory over UWIC and the 16-15 win over Neath RFC in the Welsh Cup in 1999. Pontypool then played Cardiff in the next round of the cup, where they were heavily defeated, but Bishop faced his old adversary Robert Jones for the last time.
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Paul Morgan made his début for Aberavon RFC, and scored two tries, against Walsall RFC at Talbot Athletic Ground on Sunday 20 August 2000, his last match for Aberavon RFC was against Neath RFC at The Gnoll on Wednesday 15 September 2004, he scored three tries for Bridgend Blue Bulls in the 60–10 victory over Leeds Akkies in the 2005 Harry Jepson Trophy at Brewery Field on Sunday 28 August 2005.
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Born in Neath, Glamorgan, Wales, Edwards had a talent for comedy and formed her own repertory company, The Maudie Edwards Players, who performed in the Palace Theatre, Swansea. In films of the 1940s, she provided a singing voice for stars such as Diana Dors and Margaret Lockwood. She made her first screen appearance in 1936 and her last in 1972. In 1950, she appeared on stage with Frank Sinatra at the London Palladium.
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Ormrod was born in Neath, South Wales, in 1957 to David and Margaret Ormrod, and had two younger brothers. He attended the local grammar school, where he was head boy; he played and sang music. He passed his undergraduate degree at King's College, London in 1984, and undertook postgraduate study at Oxford University. He researched his D.Phil at Worcester College—examining Edward III's administration between 1346 and 1356—which was awarded in 1984.
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19 In the early 12th century Norman expansion continued, with castles being founded around Neath, Kenfig and Coity. In the same period Bishop Urban set up the Diocese of Llandaff under which Glynrhondda belonged to the large parish of Llantrisant.Royal Commission on Ancient and Historical Monuments (in Wales), HMSO Glamorgan Inventories, Vol 3, part 2. After the death of William, Lord of Glamorgan, his extensive holdings were eventually granted to Gilbert de Clare in 1217.
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Rothmans RL Yearbooks Richard 'Richie' Eyres (born 7 December 1966) is an English-born former professional rugby league and rugby union footballer who played in the 1980s and 1990s. He played international rugby league for Great Britain, England and Wales, and at club level for Widnes St. Maries ARLFC, Widnes (two spells), Leeds, Warrington Wolves, Sheffield Eagles and Rochdale Hornets, as a , or , and club level rugby union for Neath and Coventry.
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The arrival of Dafydd James and Gareth Thomas led to Durston's decision to leave Bridgend and sign a two-year contract with Neath RFC starting from the 2002/03 season. With the introduction of regional rugby in Wales, Durston moved to the Ospreys regional team from the 2003/04 season. Durston stayed with the Ospreys for two seasons before being released in Summer 2005. He signed a one-year deal with Viadana.
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The Gwyn Hall was previously a four-storey Victorian theatre in the town centre of Neath, Wales. Following a fire in 2007 it was substantially rebuilt, retaining its facade but moving the theatre to the ground floor, with flexible seating configurations. The third floor houses a cinema pod and a third screen for films with retractable seating. In addition, a glass atrium cafe was added to the frontage which was previously the car park.
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In 1989 the Gwyn Hall received a Grade 2 listed building status. Plans were made to improve the hall with a £4 million development but with just a few months to go before opening the building was destroyed by fire on 21 October 2007. Thanks to support from a strong friends group and a continued commitment from Neath-Port Talbot County Borough Council the Gwyn Hall is officially open once more on 8 March 2012.
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Following campaigning by local residents, Abercregan is now home to the only designated village green in the Neath Port Talbot area. Abercregan United Football Club, is nicknamed 'The Shire'. The nickname was bestowed on the club by local celebrity Matthew ‘Joe’ Pitman and is a reference to the shire in Lord Of The Rings which he thought resembled the village. The club has a proud history winning many league titles and cups since its formation.
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The Gnoll () in Neath, Wales is a sports ground, with a capacity of 6,000 (formerly 15,000). It is used primarily for rugby union and rugby league, although it has also been used previously for association football and cricket. The stadium has hosted international rugby matches, with it being the home ground of the Wales women's national rugby union team, and men's matches included one during the 2013 Rugby League World Cup against the Cook Islands.
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Thomas Leyson was a Welsh poet and physician in the 16th century. A member of the gentry, Leyson was born in Neath, Glamorgan circa 1549 and roughly 20 miles from St. Donat's Castle. He studied at Winchester College and New College, Oxford, where he held a fellowship for nearly two decades. Although the exact date is unknown, in the mid-1580s, Leyson settled into a medical practice in Bath, where he eventually died.
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The line is currently used mainly for freight traffic, but Transport for Wales run two or three services along the line in each direction on Mondays to Saturdays, one of which is the daytime boat train between Fishguard Harbour and Cardiff. The boat train service is run in connection with the Stena Line ferry to/from Rosslare in Ireland. By taking the Swansea District line, these passenger services bypass Neath, Swansea and Gowerton railway stations.
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He has also been a candidate in local and general elections throughout Wales. He stood as "Captain Beany of the Bean Party" in the 1991 Neath by-election, coming last with 262 votes (0.7%). He then stood as the "Real Bean" candidate in Aberavon in 1992, again coming last with 707 votes (1.8%). In 1997, he stood in Aberavon again, this time as an Independent, and came last again with 341 votes (1.0%).
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Nathan Thomas (born 22 January 1976 in Bridgend, Wales) is a Welsh former international rugby union footballer who played in the back row. Thomas has played for various clubs during his career, including Bridgend, Bath, Cardiff Blues, Leeds Tykes, the Scarlets and Neath. He started for Bath in the victorious 1998 Heineken Cup Final as they defeated Brive. He played 9 times for Wales between 1996 and 1998, his last being against South Africa.
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Thaxton was born in Neath, South Wales. He attended Grimston Primary School and Springwood High School in King's Lynn, Norfolk, and subsequently won a scholarship to the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, following a four-year vocal studies course, where he was awarded Young Welsh Musical Theatre Singer of the Year 2005 and was runner-up in the Kathleen Ferrier Young Singers’ Bursary. He was also a member of Only Men Aloud!.
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Bevan played for Abergavenny before attending university at St John's College, Cambridge. Bevan played for Cambridge University R.U.F.C., and while with Cambridge was selected to captain the first Welsh international, against England. The Rugby Football Union insisted that the England vs Wales match be played on 19 February 1881. This was the same day that Swansea were playing Llanelli at Neath in a semi-final cup-tie thus depriving Wales of several players.
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Tűnő Idő Tárlat is the third full-length release from Hungarian avant-garde metal group Thy Catafalque. This album showed their shift from symphonic black metal to a more electronic and atmospheric based sound, while still retaining their traditional black metal elements.Avantgarde-metal.com page Promo videos for "Csillagkohó" and "Neath Waters (Minden vízbe mártott test)" have been done. In 2010 Epidemie Records re-released the album in digipak format with different artwork.
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During the tour he scored two tries, one in the win against a joint Manawatu–Horowhenua team, and the other in the second Test against Australia.Roy John Lions profile Lionsrugby.com During the tour, John was used in three of the Tests as a number 8, both the Australian matches and the third Test to New Zealand at Wellington. During the 1950–51 season John was given the captaincy of the Neath team.
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England led the encounter in the first half with England scoring two tries when key Welsh player Lewis Jones was off the pitch for treatment. Wales responded strongly in the second half led by their pack with John dominating the line-out. Wales went on to win all three remaining games giving John his second Grand Slam title. 1952 also saw Neath tour Ireland, which John joined despite being on honeymoon there.
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Route of former Skewen Dram Road superimposed onto modern map The railway was built to take coal from Dyffryn and Bryncoch to Skewen Wharf via the Skewen Incline.Skewen Dram Roads. In 1871 the New Neath Abbey Coal Company, who operated the dram road across New Road, was requested to install level crossing gates. These were painted white and hence gave their name to the location, which is still known as White Gates.
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Llanrhaeadr Football Club is a Welsh football club based in Llanrhaeadr-ym- Mochnant, Powys. They currently play in the Cymru North. The home colours are blue shirts with blue shorts and socks.Llanrhaeadr on Mid Wales League The club was promoted to the Cymru Alliance in 2010–11 season and although finishing in the relegation zone secured survival in the 2011–12 season due to Neath FC becoming bankrupt from the Welsh Premier.
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Devergie played for RC Nîmes and for FC Grenoble (1994/95) in rugby union. He played a season for Paris Saint-Germain Rugby League (1995/96), returning to his previous code afterwards. He played for the Welsh team Neath RFC in the season of 1997/98, moving to Bristol Shoguns, in England the same season. Returning to France he would represent CA Brive (1998/99) and CA Bordeaux-Bègles Gironde (1999/2000).
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Williams opposed the Macmillan government's application for Britain to join the European Economic Community. In 1964, he urged the Conservative government to intervene in a dispute in the private Welsh steel industry by setting up a Court of Inquiry. Later that year Williams announced his retirement, stating that on medical advice his health would not stand up to another Parliament. Williams and his wife Jenny, lived in Cilfrew on the outskirts of Neath.
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The A465, the Neath to Abergavenny Trunk Road, is in Wales. The section westwards from Abergavenny is more commonly known as the Heads of the Valleys Road because it links the northern heads of the South Wales Valleys. Approximately following the southern boundary of the Brecon Beacons National Park, the Ordnance Survey Pathfinder guide describes it as the unofficial border between rural and industrial South Wales.OS Pathfinder Guide, Brecon Beacons and Glamorgan.
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Rees is a qualified barrister. Rees stood as the Labour candidate for Arfon in the Welsh Assembly elections in May 2011, and was placed fourth on the Labour's Wales wide list for the 2014 European Elections. Rees first became MP for Neath following the UK general election of 2015. Rees was appointed a Shadow Justice Minister in January 2016, but quit her position during the mass resignation of Shadow ministers following the EU referendum.
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Jamie Jones (born 14 February 1988) is a Welsh professional snooker player from Neath. At age 14, he was the youngest ever player to make a maximum 147 break in competition, a record that has since been beaten by Judd Trump. At the 2012 World Snooker Championship, Jones reached his first ranking quarter- final. He made his second appearance in the quarter-finals of a Triple Crown tournament at the 2016 UK Championship.
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The company operates around 200 bus services in the south Wales area, in and between Haverfordwest, Pembroke, Tenby, Carmarthen, Ammanford, Llanelli, Swansea, Pontardawe, Neath, Port Talbot, Maesteg, Bridgend and Cardiff. The company operates a bus rapid transit route in Swansea, branded Metro and a frequent shuttle service from Swansea to Cardiff branded X10. In addition to internal South Wales work, First Cymru also runs up to Mid Wales on the TrawsCymru T1 and T1S services.
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Ystradfellte is a village and community in Powys, Wales, with 556 inhabitants. It belongs to the historic county of Brecknockshire (Breconshire) and the Fforest Fawr area of the Brecon Beacons National Park, beside the Afon (river) Mellte. The village is linked by minor roads with Heol Senni to the north and the A4059 north of Penderyn, and with Pontneddfechan, which lies in the community, at the head of the Vale of Neath to the south.
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Steve Thomas () is an English rugby union and rugby league footballer who played for Bradford Bulls and London Broncos. He is a Wales international. Steve Thomas played rugby union for Gloucester, and made over 100 appearances for Neath winning 5 Principality Premiership titles, 2 Konika Minolta cups and represented Wales vs Papua New Guinea. In the process, he held the record for tries in a season with 30 - 22 league and 8 cup.
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Having returned to Division 3 and celebrating 125 years of competitive rugby, the ‘Fera finished in 6th place, the highest level to date in the National League. The season began early with six wins and three defeats into October. This was similar to the promotion season a year before, the defeats being two friendlies versus Glamorgan County and Welsh Cup holders (shortly to be League Champions) Neath. Glynneath home was the other.
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The Bill for the line went to the 1846 session of Parliament; Brunel as engineer gave evidence to the committees. He was questioned in detail about the gradients on the line, as the steep and lengthy gradients were not considered suitable for mineral lines. Brunel's persuasive evidence carried the matter through, and the Vale of Neath Railway was authorised by Act of Parliament of 3 August 1846. Share capital was to be £550,000.
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Cynffig was a community in the west of Bridgend County Borough, bordering Neath Port Talbot, Wales. The community included the villages of North Cornelly, South Cornelly, Kenfig and Pyle. Following The Bridgend (Cynffig, Cornelly and Pyle Communities) (Electoral Changes) Order 2002 the community was divided to create new Pyle and Cornelly communities, each with a new community council of nine members. The new council members were elected at the May 2004 elections.
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The reservoir was constructed by Wimpey Construction in the late 1960s and early 1970sEngineering Timelines in order to regulate the flow in the Tywi to support large potable water abstraction at Nantgaredig in the lower reaches of the river near Carmarthen; providing water to the Felindre water treatment works. The treated water is piped to a large area of South Wales which includes Swansea and Neath and the western periphery of Cardiff.
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There are 27,561 Catholics in the diocese which is served by 34 diocesan priests, 19 religious priests, 9 non-ordained male religious and 100 female religious. There are 34 Catholic educational institutions in the diocese. The geographic remit consists of the City and County of Swansea, Neath and Port Talbot, and the traditional counties of Brecknockshire, Cardiganshire, Carmarthenshire, Pembrokeshire and Radnorshire - an area of roughly. The cathedra is located at St. Joseph's Cathedral, Swansea.
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Most of the hamlet is high upon a ridge overlooking Cwmtwrch and most of the houses are over 900 feet above sea level. The majority of the houses date from the 1930s and were built by the local authority, then Glamorgan, now Neath Port Talbot council to house coal miners for a local colliery that has since been closed and returned to countryside. The village has been described as "a giant family".
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Ahead of the 1990–91 season, the Welsh Rugby Union announced that the top 38 clubs would play in the Heineken National League, split into four divisions with the top ten teams forming the Premier League. Each club would play each other home and away in a double round-robin format. The ten teams that were part of the inaugural Premier Division were Abertillery, Cardiff, Bridgend, Glamorgan Wanderers. Llanelli, Neath, Newbridge, Pontypool, Pontypridd and Swansea.
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Rosser Beynon (1811 - 3 January 1876) was a Welsh musician. He was born in the Vale of Neath, Glamorganshire, shortly before his family moved to Merthyr Tydfil where for a few years he attended George Williams' school. At eight years of age, he left school and began work in a local iron-works. From a young age he attended the Soar Congregational Chapel, where he became a precentor in 1835 and ran a music class.
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Davies (2008), p.3 The River Afan commences the wide sweep of Swansea Bay, which from Port Talbot arcs around taking in Baglan Bay, Briton Ferry, Swansea and ending in Mumbles. The whole bay is shut in by high hills and is thickly encircled with sands. Within the bay are two of the major estuaries of Glamorgan; from Port Talbot the first is the River Neath, which is protected by long breakwaters.
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In 1880 Chepstow RFC were thought to be one of the clubs at the Tenby Hotel in Swansea which is incorrectly believed to have been the founding meeting of the Welsh Rugby Union.Smith (1980), pg 37. The accepted founding actually took place in Neath in 1881, at which Chepstow RFC were not in attendance. In 1881 Chepstow player Edward Peake was selected to represent the very first Welsh rugby international, played against England.
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The tidal lagoon would be sited just south of the Queen's Dock between River Tawe and River Neath estuaries. This project is controversial, partly due to the amount of subsidy required to make the project viable and also because of the potential damage to an AONB and MCZ in Cornwall where Tidal Lagoon Swansea Bay seek to re-open a disused quarry at Dean Point from which to source the rock for the lagoon.
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The bridge is in length and the structure contains 1,400 tons of iron. Passenger services through to Swansea started on 14 March 1895, with passenger trains now diverted away from the Aberavon Dock station and calling at a new Aberavon Seaside station. Swansea itself was reached for the time being over the Swansea Harbour Trust lines. Also on 14 March 1895 the R&SBR; opened a passenger service to its own Neath station.
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A winger or fullback, he was signed as a youth by the Ospreys and played the 2005–06 season with the Ospreys U18s. Halfpenny then trained with Neath RFC during the 2006–07 season, before signing for the Cardiff Blues and spending the whole 2007–08 season playing for feeder club Cardiff RFC, before making his regional debut against Ulster at the Ravenhill Stadium in May 2008, scoring three conversions in the 17–26 victory.
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John Davies was born in Neath, Wales, he was a physical education teacher at Foxwood School, Seacroft, Leeds from 1963 until 1969, he suffered a suspected heart attack shortly after being stretchered from the field in the Heavy Woollen District local derby; Dewsbury's 8-7 victory over Batley at Crown Flatt, Dewsbury on Tuesday 15 April 1969, and he died aged 28 on the way to hospital in Dewsbury, West Riding of Yorkshire, England.
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Aberpergwm is the site of a colliery in the Vale of Neath near Glynneath in south Wales. The drift mine was reopened in 1996 after being closed by the National Coal Board in 1985. It is owned by Energybuild, a private company now wholly owned by Walter Energy of the United States (as of April 2011). The mine has probable recoverable reserves of 7.6 million tonnes of coal, which is a high-grade anthracite.
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There was considerable impropriety in John Dickson's handling of the affairs of the company, which he had been given exceptional licence to manage without much supervision. Heavily discounted shares and debentures were transferred to him, as well as surplus land. Moreover, major liabilities of the Company were indemnified by him personally. In September 1867 Dickson became bankrupt, heavily indebted to the Neath and Brecon Railway, and the Company itself was now in serious trouble.
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The gradient profile on the line had a summit in the centre, at Bwlch, 1,267 feet above sea level. From Brecon the line undulated as far as Aberbran, but then climbed almost continuously, steepening to 1 in 52 and 1 in 65. The descent to Neath was continuous, typically at 1 in 50 and 1 in 60. The junction line descended from Colbren to Ynysyygeinon, also at 1 in 55 and 1 in 50.
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Shreeves was born in Neath in South Wales where his mother had been evacuated to during the early stages of World War II, but was brought up in Islington, London. He began his career with non-league Finchley from where he joined Reading in January 1959. He made over 100 league appearances for Reading over the next seven years, but his professional career was curtailed by a broken leg.Captain Atherton's band of hopefuls. Findarticles.com.
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Summer season 2009 An Under 17 side was added in this season but was not successful and did not complete the season. An adult side played 2 friendly matches as a taster before entry for the league in the following season. Summer season 2010 The senior side debuted in the League against Neath Port Talbot Steelers and won the game. Under 13s first of the clubs sides to reach a play off series.
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The South Wales Cricket Association continued to operate, and became the other feeder to the South Wales Premier Cricket League. Before the 2015 season, the South Wales Premier Cricket League formed a Division Two by taking five further clubs from each of the two feeder leagues.List of ECB Premier Leagues The teams competing in Division One for 2019 are: Ammanford, Bridgend Town, Cardiff, Clydach, Mumbles, Neath, Newport, Pontarddulais, Port Talbot Town, and St Fagans.
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The Clive Cussler Isaac Bell novel The Thief is set aboard Mauretania. A terrible fire engulfs the forward storage area but it is brought under control. Mauretania is also mentioned in Rudyard Kipling's poem "The Secret of the Machines": > The boat-express is waiting your command! > You will find the Mauretania at the quay, > Till her captain turns the lever 'neath his hand, > And the monstrous nine-decked city goes to sea.
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National Cycle Route 43 passes by the southern edge of the town on the line of the former Swansea Vale Railway which linked Swansea via the Neath and Brecon Railway at Coelbren with Brecon. Ystradgynlais railway station was operational from 1869 to 1923. The A4067 road linking West Cross, Swansea, with Sennybridge ran through the town until the 1970s, when it was diverted onto the bypass that follows the line of the former Swansea Canal.
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Anthony Mark Bennett (born 26 January 1969) is a Welsh International rugby union player. He made three appearances for his country, as well as representing Swansea RFC, Cardiff RFC and Neath RFC in the top division of Welsh club rugby, and Bristol RFC in English club rugby. Following his retirement from playing, Bennett became a strength and conditioning coach, holding the position of conditioning coach for the Welsh national team for four years.
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Aeronautics fascinated Gertrude. She was the first woman in England to make a proper balloon ascent, with her father, in 1898. A more hair-raising balloon flight occurred on 15 November 1899, when John Mackenzie Bacon and Gertrude Bacon ascended with Stanley Spencer to observe the Leonid meteor shower from above the cloud layer. Ten hours later, they landed near Neath, South Wales, a narrow escape from drifting out over the Atlantic.
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Glyncorrwg is a village in the Afan Valley, in southern Wales. Glyncorrwg is also the name of an electoral ward and a community covering the village and surrounding countryside, in Neath Port Talbot county borough. Glyncorrwg community contains the villages of Abergwynfi, Blaengwynfi, Croeserw, Cymmer, Abercregan, Duffryn and Glyncorwg itself. The population of Glyncorrwg as a community, was recorded as 5,544 in the 2001 census, reducing to 5,283 at the 2011 census.
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Born in 1889 in San Francisco, Fraser directed over 80 films between 1925 and 1951, including the 1934 John Wayne film Randy Rides Alone and the Frank Buck 1937 cliffhanger serial Jungle Menace. He had a small acting role in the John Wayne film 'Neath the Arizona Skies. He also wrote screenplays. In his autobiography, Fraser described filming a scene in Jungle Menace in which a boa constrictor attacks the heroine Dorothy (Charlotte Henry).
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Two separate railway lines operated in the area operated by rival companies. The Dare and Aman Branch of the Vale of Neath Railway reached Bwllfa Colliery in 1857. This railway reached Cwmdare from Gelli Tarw near Llwydcoed, crossing the Gamlyn Viaduct at Penywaun and Dare Viaduct, both designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel.Cwmdare In 1866, an extension by the Taff Vale Railway followed a route near the River Dare from a junction close to Aberdare.
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'Neath the Puke Tree is an EP by Bill Callahan (also known as Smog). It was released on Drag City in 2000. Recorded by Brent Puncheon and Leah Baker, it includes remakes of previous work ("I Was a Stranger" from Red Apple Falls and "A Jar of Sand" from Sewn to the Sky) as well as three new songs. Charlie Gansa played guitar on the record; "Sloth" and Jim White played drums.
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Season 1, episode 07, on 11 October 2018 It has become a very popular venue for paranormal investigation events groups. In 2013 the Margam Ghost Walk (which seeks to explain the stories of the reputed hauntings but which does not undertake paranormal investigation) became the most popular attraction in the Neath Port Talbot authority area, according to the review website Tripadvisor. In 2020, a British horror feature film, The Haunting of Margam Castle, was shot there.
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Ambrose Baker (7 July 1897 – 24 November 1976)Ambrose Baker rugby union player profile Scrum.com was a dual-code international rugby player who played rugby union for Neath and rugby league with Oldham, as a forward (prior to the specialist positions of; ), during the era of contested scrums. He won five caps for Wales under the rugby union code and then represented his country at rugby league in two matches between 1925 and 1928, and Other Nationalities in 1924.
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Robin Hood’s Ball, despite the name, is entirely unrelated to the famous folklore hero Robin Hood. 19th-century maps indicate that Robin Hood’s Ball was the name given to a small circular copse of wood just to the northwest of the earthworks; it is probable that over time the name came to be associated with the enclosure instead. Greenwood's map of 1820 shows the copse named as Robin Hood's Ball and the enclosure named as Neath Barrow.
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Owners Wireless Group were offered FM frequencies for The Heads of the Valleys they wanted to share programming with neighbouring service Swansea Sound and relocate Swansea Sound to a new media centre in Neath. Wireless applied to extend Swansea Sound West as well and applied for a licence to broadcast from transmitters in Carmarthenshire at Llanelli Carmel and Carmarthen. But due to ownership rules the applications were refused by Ofcom. FM transmissions were not initiated in the area.
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Mynydd Allt-y-grug is a 338-metre-high hill immediately west of Ystalyfera in the county borough of Neath Port Talbot in South Wales. Its twin summits are around 400m apart. The upper part of the hill is largely covered in heather whilst conifers clothe its western slopes and gorse, bracken and bramble cover much of its rough landslipped eastern side which rises above the Swansea Valley, drainage on this side flowing to the River Tawe.
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The hill is drained to the west by a number of streams running into the Nedd Fechan river whilst to the east, rainwater spills into the upper reaches of the Afon Llia. Both ultimately drain via the River Neath to the sea at Swansea Bay. Its northern face overlooks the deep glacial hollow of Blaen Senni drained by the Afon Senni, a tributary of the River Usk. The hill presumably takes its name from that of the river.
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On September 18th 2018 two plaques honouring Allan Lewis (one in English and one in Welsh) were unveiled at Neath Station, by his great niece, Dawn Lewis. The Railway Heritage Trust funded these plaques. On September 21st 2018, the exact centenary of his death, a bronze statue of Lewis was unveiled in Hereford's Old Market Shopping Centre. The statue was designed by Jemma Pearson, and was unveiled by Her Majesty's Lord Lieutenant of Herefordshire, The Dowager Countess of Darnley.
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From Miles, Thomas and Watkins. The reference to Ystadgynlais is probably to the pits near there. The Ystradgynlais station of the Neath and Brecon Railway did not get built until 1876, and was not on the same line. Through the period from 1856 the company seems to have had trouble raising money for capital works, and a preference share issue was authorised in 1859, although the trading position of the railway was profitable throughout this period.
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Round, p.138 Likewise, he held a few manors in Devon from the feudal barony of Gloucester, one of these being Naissa (Ash Reigny) which was re-granted after his death by the overlord to the de Reigny family. This evidence that the lands of Richard de Grenville did not descend to the later Westcountry Grenville family suggested to Round that though the latter family claimed to descend from the lord of Neath, this was not the case.
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Lewis was educated at Cyfarthfa Grammar School, Bangor University, Oriel College, Oxford and St Michael's College, Llandaff. He was ordained deacon in 1960 and priest in 1961. After a curacy in Neath he was Vice-Principal of Salisbury Theological College from 1963 to 1969; Dean of Belize from 1969 to 1978; Vicar of St Mark, Newport from 1978 to 1982; a canon residentiary of Newport Cathedral from 1982 to 1990; and Dean of Monmouth from 1990 to 1996.
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In 1923 he was one of the founding members of the Welsh Secondary Schools Rugby Union (WSSRU),Smith (1980), pg240. to which the turn in fortune in Welsh rugby in the 1930s is attributed. He was a director of the Cardiff Arms Park Company and was a freeman of Haverfordwest. In 1948 Evans would replace fellow Neath stalwart, Walter E. Rees, as secretary of the Welsh Rugby Union, after acting as honorary assistant secretary for the previous two years.
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