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Post by tc on Aug 25, 2010 23:21:28 GMT 1
My grandad nearly ended up working in a joint venture with Pete (?) setting up a stall in London.
Can anyone tell me anything about the Pete's Pie factory in Merthyr
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Post by lee on Aug 27, 2010 22:53:14 GMT 1
The History of Peters Peter’s sprung into life back in the 1950’s as ‘Thomas Pies.’ Our freshly baked sausage rolls, pies and pasties were a huge hit in the South Wales valleys and by 1976 we were able to invest in our current state of the art home in Bedwas and changed our name to ‘Peter’s’. Success continued to grow and by the late 1980’s we were a household name. Our family run business was taken over in 1987 by Grand Metropolitan but passed to the worker’s ten years later when the managers bought the company. 10 years later in October 2007 Peter's hit another significant milestone after a £20m pound buyout by the management team and a private equity firm. South Wales born Mike Grimwood,a former executive of food group 'Northern Foods' has been appointed as Managing Director, ensuring that Britains best loved pies and pasties continue to get better and better.
Thomas' Pies began in Merthyr under Stan Thomas senior and sons Stan junior and Peter. They had their factory in Pentrebach where the old people's home is at present. It was there until the move to Bedwas.
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Post by mikegriffiths1999 on Aug 27, 2010 23:05:34 GMT 1
i do believe that stan thomas pies first appeared on the site of the old gas works lower merthyr upper abercanaidabercanaid before moving on i remember the old gs works in operation it was the old coke fuelled system dpes any body remember the cafe which we used to hang about , had a juke box in there big attraction then before the turn off for abercanaid brandy bridge
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Post by ken on Aug 28, 2010 1:04:31 GMT 1
In the 60s this cafe was run by two x coppers,I should know one of them book me for B and E it was mistaken identidy of course. Ned Kelly
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Post by lewy on Aug 30, 2010 0:01:51 GMT 1
Yeah I remember Thomas the pies in Abercanaid and like Mike said, they were located across the Brandy Bridge by the old gas works and next to Triumph office products - a place notorious for unguarded presses and chopped off fingers!
The transport caf on the other side of the Brandy bridge was called Adler's Cafe and my dad parked his lorries there for years. It was across the street from W.H. Baker the Ford car dealer.
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Post by mikegriffiths1999 on Aug 30, 2010 21:19:18 GMT 1
thanks lewy been destrying my last brain cell tryng to remember name of caff adlers my nan used to live oposite in 14gladstone terace we used to live in caff virtualy for jukebox but they didnt have steam pies which was sad because the pie (rats coffins) factory was just across the river
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Post by lewy on Aug 31, 2010 22:37:03 GMT 1
Hey Mike same here re: brain cells, however adlers came to me after about 20 minutes ...I used to work at the FMC meat wholesalers by the fountain bottom of town and we sold Thomas the pies all the beef lungs ...mmm tasty! I think the queen's caff had the best steamed pies but railway cafe might have been a close runner up.
btw, I'm an Abercanaid boy (gethin st) and in my 60's but don't remember the graingers ...brain cells again I guess!
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Post by mikegriffiths1999 on Sept 1, 2010 13:25:21 GMT 1
i was born in high street1945 i probably know you im 64 same age group doou remember christopher roderick lived at the end of chapel street
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Post by lewy on Sept 1, 2010 18:18:03 GMT 1
Mike, I know the name but can't place Christopher - I was born in '49 so I probably hung around with a different crowd - you would have been one of the "big boys" to us and no doubt we would have all been scared of you! My family is the Abercanaid Ingrams - maybe you knew my cousins Lyndon Ingram or Margaret Dowman? She lived in Chapel St and for a while in the early 60's our mothers ran the shop on Chapel St by the Library (where the bus stopped and turned around)
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Post by ken on Sept 1, 2010 22:33:22 GMT 1
Hi any of you guys know Garry Edwards,who lived in that town. Ken in OZ
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Post by mikegriffiths1999 on Sept 2, 2010 10:34:02 GMT 1
Mike, I know the name but can't place Christopher - I was born in '49 so I probably hung around with a different crowd - you would have been one of the "big boys" to us and no doubt we would have all been scared of you! My family is the Abercanaid Ingrams - maybe you knew my cousins Lyndon Ingram or Margaret Dowman? She lived in Chapel St and for a while in the early 60's our mothers ran the shop on Chapel St by the Library (where the bus stopped and turned around) certainley remember the shop and the library used to have a a litle park area inside with a large shed there i think it was a gardening thing also had a pub called the richards arms one of my relatives was born there do you rember gethin farm also one guy lived in gethin street used to sell fruit and veg off a cart aptly named donald the cart lost a arm in a shooting accident the horses name was duchess
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Post by lewy on Sept 2, 2010 18:31:22 GMT 1
I mostly remember that park area being locked but getting over the wall wasn't too hard from the gwlli round back - a good place for us kids to have a fag lifted from mam's pack of players ..The Richards is still going strong - my dad used to send me down there to put a bet on with Dai ben tip before the betting shops were around - I always went down there through the gwlli and went in from the back - there was an old bowling alley behind the Richards but I never remember it being used in my time. Donald the Cart? I remember him well - he lived on Donald St at the end of Gethin st just past "the patch" and the road that went up to the farm across the canal bank. The horse was stabled at the back of his house, wasn't it? I knew Stewart the farm and Windsor, his son. They used to deliver the milk, I think early on they used a horse and cart but switched over to a van by the early 60's.
Did you remember pompa? I think it was called pompalisha - it was about half way between Park Houses and the Incline on the canal bank, opposite the old pit.
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Post by mikegriffiths1999 on Sept 2, 2010 21:15:34 GMT 1
i cant remember pompa wasit a house? but remember windsor davies i think quite a good fotballer had a trial for wales schoolboys we used to walk through the farmyard on th way to Webbers pond to go fishing used to have a farm labourer called john goe used to patrol thfeilds on a big horse and chase us out of the fields
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Post by allan on Sept 3, 2010 21:25:46 GMT 1
I think you may all be mistaken , I think the first Thomas pies were made in the Bakery behind Plymouth Street , it was demolished several years ago. my father Jim Grainger opened a small machine shop there after the Thomas's left, sadly, the Luck didn't rub off ! Everyone must eat , selling turned parts was hard work , My Parents were friendly with a family across the Road, the Few's Lyn, Lorraine , Malcom and ? I seem to remeber pies been carried across the street.
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Post by mikegriffiths1999 on Sept 3, 2010 21:31:26 GMT 1
your mother was margeret jenkins? from nightingale street!! do yu know who i am?
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