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Post by peteruns on Jan 16, 2009 23:40:00 GMT 1
Anyone remember the Cyfartha in the 70s & 80s? Billy in the TV room drinking (or dribbling) his cider. Bring your own LPs for Paul to play to the crowd in the back room. Mrs Davies coming into the back room and asking "Whats that funny smell", to uncontrollable giggles from us all!!! The best space invader machine in Merthyr and a great circle of friends who always provided good company any night of the week. Finally 10cc singing "The things we miss the most". Good times
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Post by derhavard on Jan 29, 2009 18:39:32 GMT 1
Anyone remember the Cyfartha in the 70s & 80s? Billy in the TV room drinking (or dribbling) his cider. Bring your own LPs for Paul to play to the crowd in the back room. Mrs Davies coming into the back room and asking "Whats that funny smell", to uncontrollable giggles from us all!!! The best space invader machine in Merthyr and a great circle of friends who always provided good company any night of the week. Finally 10cc singing "The things we miss the most". Good times Iwas a regular in the Cyfarthfa from about 1955 until 1959 when it was kept by David Watkins. My friends and I persuaded him to let us bring my old Dansette in to the tiny Lounge [ the Bar was even tinier]on a saturday night so I was the first DJ in that hot night-spot. Mr. Watkins kept hinting about 'the cost of the electric' but we ignored him. Bill Haley topped the pops. |
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Post by rogtatt on Sept 6, 2013 2:38:45 GMT 1
Anyone remember the Cyfartha in the 70s & 80s? Billy in the TV room drinking (or dribbling) his cider. Bring your own LPs for Paul to play to the crowd in the back room. Mrs Davies coming into the back room and asking "Whats that funny smell", to uncontrollable giggles from us all!!! The best space invader machine in Merthyr and a great circle of friends who always provided good company any night of the week. Finally 10cc singing "The things we miss the most". Good times yes i remember billy i was a young boy(tareaway) then lol living next door 89 my grandfather jim watkins run the pub for a bit with mrs davies the tv room was on the left hand side as u went in through the front door and serving hatch on right and straight through was the darts room on the left by celler and lounge on the right with space invader think it was submarine game spent most my money on tha haha toilets were out back good old days |
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Post by mj1956 on Sept 6, 2013 23:46:56 GMT 1
I remember going to the Cyfartha Arms in the early 70s. Was one of the pubs that you could get served under age (started going there when I was 15!). Had some great times there. Would drink Festival Vat cider. What a killer! Have never tasted strong cider like that since. Does it still exist?
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Post by juliansadler on Jul 30, 2014 12:10:26 GMT 1
Festival Vat was made by Coate's of Nailsea. It eventually became part of Taunton-Coates-Gaymer and Festival Vat is long since defunct.
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