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This church has now been painted white. As soon as I get chance I will take a pic and upload it.

Give me a week or two and I get in touch with me, I will look into it.

thanks

my dad got loads of old home movie films going back to the50s,can anyone k=help to get them on digi?x

As a child living in East View, Gilfach I remember playing on the banking above the Gilfach Fargoed halt looking out over the vast collery complex including the power station with its large coolong towers. As a group of youngsters we were an adventourious lot riding on the coal buckets across the valley venturing into the coal train marshalling yards between Gilfach and Brittannia and ocasionally falling into the "black" Rymney river and then I was in for a row at home. It was a hive of activity but what a dirty depressing place it was. I see it now and the river is clean with live fish and the dreadful pit has gone, life has to be better now that men dont have to go down those dangerious dirty holes in the ground to earn a living. Life has improved history should be marked but not through rose-tinted glases.

my past memories are of gilfach visits to my gran and grancha

i was 5 years old at that time , my mum would take myself and my sisters on the bus from hengoed . every week to visit gran and granch. my grandparents lived in gilfach street oposite the old fire station where we would sit in the window waiting for the engine to appear. good times.

i later in 1969 married a boy from gilfach and then went to live in the very same house my grandparents lived in. i now have left gilfach and living in hengoed.

my husband still as family there and we visit regular.

I can remember my mother taking me to The Emporium to buy my duffle coat. The counter staff wrapped it in brown paper and tied it with string - things seemed to be more"green" back then.