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Some one has gone to considerable trouble to dump this sofa near Meirion Street, Trecynon.
Only a mile away is Bryn Pica, the local recycling facilities.
Rhondda Cynon Taf Council also collect this type of thing from your doorstep for FREE.
Jane from Mountain Ash blogs here with a story on the proposed opencast plans for Mountain Ash…
We had a knock at the door last night from a nice man called Ian. It was -3*C and he was going door to door with a petition. Ian was collecting residents signatures for his petition to raise awareness of one anonymous landowners intent to dig for coal on a small plot of land behind the graveyard in Caegarw, Mountain Ash.
We had been wondering about the sounds of heavy machinery and the Apex Drilling vans seen on our street over the past few weeks.
It appears that the plot of land was sold by Lord Aberdare in the ’60’s to this man and he has twice been denied permission to excavate the coal from a 100 year old tip.
We understand that the land has a preservation order on it due to its environmental value following the tree planting which has occured on it. It is close to a hospital and two
schools, not to mention hundreds of houses.
We wonder why this is being attempted again, when the council and Welsh Assembly Government have spent over £20 million on cleaning up the Cynon Valley, when there are plans for a new community hospital less than half a mile from the site and when there are concerned residents, the authorities have done nothing.
Has planning permission again been sought? If so, wouldn’t the residents who live within 500 metres of the plot have been told? Where is our voice in all this? We understand that the land is an old tip. We don’t want a return to dust and smoke – we value our environment and hope that the council and WAG do to. Anyone know anything about this???
The residents of Caegarw are a vociferous bunch and we welcome any information that can help us get to the bottom of the drilling, digging and the looming threat of coal dust again…
WORLD AGAINST WAR
Cardiff Peace Conference
Monday 3 March at 7.30 pm
Law Building
Cardiff University
Park Place
Hosted by CARDIFF STOP THE WAR COALITION
WITH SPEAKERS FROM AROUND THE GLOBE INCLUDING:
HASSAN JUMAA, Leader of the Iraqi Federation of Oil Unions (Iraq)
ROSE GENTLE, Military Families against the War (Scotland)
IBRAHIM MOUSAWI, Editor of Al-Intiqad, Hezbollah Newspaper (Lebanon)
ANNE GREAGSBY, Co-ordinator, No2MilitaryAcademy Campaign (Wales)
PROFESSOR JUSTIN LEWIS, Head of Cardiff School of Journalism (Wales)
Chaired by LEANNE WOOD AM
FREE ENTRY! ALL WELCOME!
Artwork by Carlos Latuff
The people behind Y Byd project had some not very nice things to say about Rhodri Glyn Thomas today.
Dyddiol Cyf. the company behind the project to launch a Welsh language daily newspaper today published a News Release today attacking the Welsh Assembly’s Culture Minister.
Rhodri Glyn Thomas’ decision not to give them the grant they wanted – around £1 million – to set up a daily Welsh language newspaper has irritated them. So they’ve hit back hard and low.
They invoke the One Wales political agreement of 27th June 2007 between Labour and Plaid Cymru, claiming that Rhodri Glyn Thomas has reneged on a “promise” within that manifesto.
And they claim (in Welsh) : Rydym fel cenedl yn haeddu papur dyddiol. Mae angen llais newyddiadurol ychwanegol ar Gymru er mwyn sicrhau plwraliaeth o fewn y cyfryngau. (We as a nation deserve a daily newspaper. Wales needs another journalistic voice to ensure pluralism within the media).
This is bunkum. Wales does not need a printed Welsh language daily newspaper subsidised by the taxpayer. The driving force behind this project is greed and vested private interests.
Ceredigioni, disgrifiad o’r proses o gofnodi Ceredigion (neu o leiaf, y pethau sy’n diddorol yng Ngheredigion) ar fap.
We are putting
Aberdare Town on the Map … with an
Aberdare Town Map and Guide.
There are notes and markers on places of interest in Aberdare Town, including notable landmarks, buildings and public places.
We have photos of most of these public places including the Churches and Chapels of Aberdare, sculptures such as Caradog (see photo on left of this post) and Keir Hardie.
What have we missed and what should we add to an Aberdare Town Map… you decide today. Let us know.
In future we hope to make the map searchable and also give readers the option to choose a type of place, eg. display only markers for all the local pubs and clubs, or churches and chapels etc.
Wedi ychwanegu
lluniau i’r Galeri o Gapel Ebeneser, Penparcau, ger Aberystwyth.
Capel bach eithaf syml o ran bensaerniaeth yw Capel Ebeneser.
Ceir llun o du fewn Capel Ebeneser yma (fel rhan o luniau Flickr Lyn Dafis)
Adeiladwyd Capel Ebeneser ym 1848 ac fe’i ail-adeiladwyd ym 1938.
Yn o+l Gwefan Capel y Morfa, Aberystwyth (Capel Presbyteraidd)
Roedd gweithgarwch amlwg ym mhentref Penparcau mor gynnar ag 1812, pan oedd Ysgol Sul yn cael ei chynnal yng nghartref Richard Hugh. Yn 1848 codwyd capel yn gangen i’r Tabernacl, a’i alw’n Ebeneser. Wedi 90 mlynedd, ac yn wyneb twf y boblogaeth yn yr ardal, penderfynwyd codi capel newydd, ac agorwyd yr Ebeneser presennol ar 14 Mehefin 1939.
The 2000th photo in the Gallery came from a
Set of Photos on Griffith Rhys Jones aka the Conductor from Trecynon of the famous ‘Côr Mawr’ of some 460 voices (the South Wales Choral Union), which twice won first prize at Crystal Palace choral competitions in London in the 1870s.
Apart from the Church of St Elvan’s, Caradog is the most prominent landmark in Aberdare Town, located at the head of Victoria Square, beyond the War Memorial.
We’ve beefed-up the Aberdare Blog Gallery with
Photos from Builth Wells in mid Wales.
Photographs include :
All these snaps are Mapped out, so you can pick photos from a Map if you prefer.
In the Photograph : Welsh Black Cattle sculpture at Builth Wells
With
so many interesting places in Mountain Ash Town we thought we would put them on map to make them easier to find.
Here’s a Map of Mountain Ash we baked earlier. Markers on the Map indicate a Link to Photos of interest.
Some of the things we’ve added to the map include :
Mountain Ash War Memorial; the Gorsedd Circle of Stones at Dyffryn Woods, Chapels including Providence, Nazareth, Soar, Ffrwd, Elim and others; Churches including St Margaret’s; Pubs including Napiers Arms, Mountain Ash Inn; the Workmen’s Club and Institute in Oxford Street, recently restored; the Town Hall; Mountain Library, and much more.
As this is a ‘work in progress’ if you would like to add photos, or suggest links, please get in touch.
Today Rhodri Morgan celebrates eight years as the Welsh Assembly Government First Minister.
He seems like a physically fit man. We reported a film clip of him swimming around Cardigan Bay, in August 2007 not long after his heart operation.
The important question is, whether Mr Morgan is politically fit to lead Wales in 2008.
Journalist Patrick Hannan - raised near Aberdare – comments on Rhodri Morgan in his recent book, When Arthur Met Maggie (Seren, Bridgend, 2006) :
Mrs Thatcher brought a ball and crane and other items of demolition machinery into industrial Britain. Almost fifteen years after she left office, Rhodri Morgan, marking his fifth anniversary as Welsh First Minister, told the press : “My own personal ambition is to try to undo the damage that Margaret Thatcher did to Wales – that’s what I have a burning ambition to do.”
Morgan’s political ambition reveals the poverty of Labour’s vision for Wales : a Party which can only define itself in opposition to some body else’s achievements.
Taking a short break from Welsh Nonconformist Chapels… we’ve
added Photos of some of the Anglican Churches from Cynon Valley, including :
Oh, hallelluia. The Welsh Assembly Gets Tough on Bloggers this week.
We noted some weeks ago the sudden disappearance of a Plaid Cymru Assembly Member’s blog in mysterious circumstances.
We called for Guidelines on the use of the Internet by Assembly Members, especially after dastardly projects like Natwatch – an anonymous blog – apparently funded by a Labour Party Assembly Member and his young researcher.
Today, leading Assembly Member bloggers Peter Black AM (in Blogging AMs) and Glyn Davies AM (in Bloggers Beware) discuss a Guidance Note sent to all Assembly Members via the Welsh Assembly’s Standards Committee.
Although parts of this missive are being discussed online, there is no copy available in the Transcript of the Standards Committee meeting of 29 January 2008 on the National Assembly website.
Perhaps Jeff Cuthbert as Chair of the Standards Committee will reveal his blogging ‘Guidance’ given to Assembly Members.
In his book
Chapels of the Cynon Valley (Gomer, Llandysul, 2004 Alan Vernon Jones presents an accountant-like view of the Chapels of this Valley.
He presents a ‘Chapel Balance Sheet’ thus :
Chapels of the Cynon Valley as at Autumn 2004 (the publication date of his book)
Active Chapels = 63 35%
Vacant Chapels = 11 6%
Converted Chapels = 50 28%
Demolished = 56 31%
Total chapels built = 180
So in summary, a third of Cynon Valley’s Chapels no longer exist after being demolished. The highest rate of demolition took placed during the period 1960-2000 when 45 Cynon Valley Chapels were demolished.
Then around another third have been converted (and those conversions have not always been sympathetic to the architectural integrity of the original chapel design).
The other third are still active as places of worship and continue to contribute to the cultural and spiritual life of the Valley. A photographic record of the majority of the remaining Chapels (and Churches) of the Cynon Valley are available in the Gallery.
In the Photograph : Bethania Chapel, Wind Street, Aberdare. Hiding behind the Black Lion Hotel. This Chapel is no longer active, the building is now derelict. It closed in the 1990s.
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