wasps
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Post by wasps on Nov 21, 2010 15:56:52 GMT 1
I've seen a couple of references to it as "notorious" and "dangerous", but I've not yet run across any explanations as to why; it's just idle curiosity, but if anyone could help me out with this, that would be great!
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Post by cacasmum on Dec 7, 2010 23:00:23 GMT 1
I grew up on the Gurnos and during my childhood i can remember 2 drownings on this pond.
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Post by mjones7 on Dec 8, 2010 15:06:59 GMT 1
Not sure which pond you mean. The one that was up at the top of Goitre Lane (drained about 1963) or the one in front of Goitre School? (drained in the 70s if I recall correctly). I remember being in Gurnos Junior school one afternoon- would be about 1967, watching frogmen searching the lake for a youth who had drowned in the pond after falling of an old oil drum he was using as a raft- kids used to do that at the time . It took days to find him because he got caught under the weeds . Very sad.
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Post by malcolmharries on Dec 9, 2010 0:40:13 GMT 1
I've seen a couple of references to it as "notorious" and "dangerous", but I've not yet run across any explanations as to why; it's just idle curiosity, but if anyone could help me out with this, that would be great! The Goitre pond,was a place where many suicides were carried out.There were many stories told about how deep it was,and divers were supposed to have said it was very deep indeed.When it was draind,what a disapointment,it wasn't an old quarry as we had been told.If it was ten feet deep in the middle thats about all it was. Mal
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Post by merthyrlad on Dec 18, 2010 11:27:27 GMT 1
Good fishing in there with big Pike.Lots of swans that would attack you and weeds that would entangle you if you fell in or swam.
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lewy
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Post by lewy on Dec 20, 2010 9:01:33 GMT 1
As a kid I remember getting freshwater mussels out of the Goitre and looking for pearls in them!
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Post by mikegriffiths1999 on Dec 26, 2010 16:22:20 GMT 1
As a kid I remember getting freshwater mussels out of the Goitre and looking for pearls in them! i remember catcjing a large carp there putting in the bath a t home rowann way then returnining it un harmed wieighed about 7 pounds
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steff
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Post by steff on Apr 4, 2011 12:31:30 GMT 1
Do you mean Bryn Cae Owen pond inside Cyfarthfa Park opposite Goetre Scool. It was a popular course fishing attraction for many when i grew up on the Gurnos and we were taken on many field trips from Goetre School to see the frogs etc. i remember walking to school at Cyfarthfa during the spring and the schoolside path would be covered iin small frogs making their way from the pond making it difficult to walk without stepping on them. I remember the drowning of one of the Webber boys from Oak road who I think was using an oil drum. It was only dangerous if it wasn't treated with the respect that all water should be treated and it was a travesty that they filled it in to make a car park for the visit of the eisteddfod. It would be fantastic if it could be refilled to recreate what it once was in these days of encroaching suburbia and loss of natural habitat. The fish there were breem, tench, roach and carp and the fishermens tales spoke of a carp they called Aloycious who had been hooked many times but never caught. Goetre pond was at the top of Goetre lane just below Pen y Dre school, much bigger than BCO pond and i think they filled it in as part of the construction of the school
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Post by merthyrlad on Apr 4, 2011 13:23:02 GMT 1
The Goitre Pond could be accessed up Goitre Lane which ran up the side of Gwaenfarren Baths.This was totally different to the Top Pond in the Park.
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Post by malcolmjones on Apr 4, 2011 16:30:51 GMT 1
N or B ( ) Look at Penydarren page I to see Radcliffe Hall on fire. Uncle M xx
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Post by garethdg on Apr 6, 2011 13:34:14 GMT 1
Goitre pond was accross the road from Fir TreeClose and Magnolia Close ,it was drained in the late 60S
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Post by malcolmjones on Apr 7, 2011 16:49:15 GMT 1
The Goitre pond was drained much earlier than the late 1960s, more 1962 or 63 when I was in Gurnos Infants . I used to play in the fields above where the pond had been - with a stream, lots of wild flowers (for the class nature table) and frogs spawn in the Spring and horse- skeletons in the hedge rows!
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Post by tony47 on Apr 8, 2011 10:30:49 GMT 1
living in the gurnos cottages ( gurnos farm ) i used to walk past the goitre pond twice a day , back and forth to dowlais rc school ( gurnos estate wasnt built just then ,moved to galon uchaf 54 and the goitre became my playground , and good times i had there . i remember my good friend Albert pulling out a triumph engine and selling it to Des Snow who raced it at llandow under the name the goitre special , memories
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Post by empire on Oct 12, 2011 22:45:30 GMT 1
Hi all.
The pond was near an tram road. 1n 1838 a decomposed body of a child was found near the pond. which no body had reported missing. it was left undiscovered in brambles for up to three months.
The pond had may a story to tell!!!
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Post by gshmarazion on Jul 23, 2023 18:19:00 GMT 1
Hi all. The pond was near an tram road. 1n 1838 a decomposed body of a child was found near the pond. which no body had reported missing. it was left undiscovered in brambles for up to three months. The pond had may a story to tell!!!
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