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Post by ken on Sept 6, 2010 22:33:44 GMT 1
Allan Sorry but I will be in MT in Sept,not Oct maybe some other time. Ken
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Post by mikegriffiths1999 on Sept 8, 2010 18:17:05 GMT 1
the best steam pies well the pies were much of a muchness
the queens was for after after work 5 o clock linda harding valmai rees philip ? GKIS just for meeting no place for pies monday to friday the best place was zannelies followed by the station cafe purely because it was very secluded steam pie with daddies sauce perfect the queens was fine if you went up stairs
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Post by andrew on Sept 9, 2012 16:47:25 GMT 1
Allan is correct in saying it "started" behind Plymouth street , it went down behind TBS after they had the FIRE. My grandfather and Stan snr were first cousins from what i believe, my grandfather used to live just up the steps opposite plymouth street on the tram road , next to the steps that lead into Fairview terrace Twyn.
Adlers cafe was a right greasy sthingy from what i remember , never seemed to be busy at all , My cousins lived next door before they left for OZ.
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Post by niccinite1234 on Dec 10, 2013 20:52:49 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. hi nice to know that you remember my family !!! stuart was my grandfather and its great tohere sumone talkking bout old jon gore brings bk so many memories of my childhood do you know who i am???
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Post by lewy on Dec 11, 2013 6:00:17 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. hi nice to know that you remember my family !!! stuart was my grandfather and its great tohere sumone talkking bout old jon gore brings bk so many memories of my childhood do you know who i am??? Sorry I don"t know who you are!
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Post by niccinite1234 on Dec 12, 2013 1:07:09 GMT 1
im stuart the farms granddaughter !!! gloria the hair dresser is my mother . i can rember jon gore very well but he passed wen i was a teenager i still hold very fond memories of him and the old gethin farm , its no longer there now all knocked down just a empty derilic space. webbers pond is all reeded over no -one goes there anymore , and pomplishous entrance is hard to find ,, kids dont play in the open air anymore they find their pleasure in video games ,, id give anything to go back to my childhood growing up on the farm
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Post by nikie on Sept 11, 2015 1:29:25 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 str
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Post by nikie on Sept 11, 2015 1:40:05 GMT 1
I totaly agree with you the bakery was behind Plymouth st, and the vans were park in a alley in front of it. We used to help ourselves to a few pasties on the way home on a Friday night walking back to Pentrebach.
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Post by twynboy on Sept 13, 2015 14:53:21 GMT 1
stan thomas lived up by thomastown park in the sixties. queens cafe best steam pies. xx
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Post by caedrawman on Jun 8, 2016 7:57:40 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 stan Thomas the pies he first started making and selling them from Plymouth street were he had a small bakery at the back was a lane were we as kids could buy [what was known as a buster [that's when the grave came on top off the pie] for 1d
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Post by pauly on Apr 22, 2018 8:46:48 GMT 1
My grandfather was Thomas John Weale and he delivered pies all over the valleys.
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