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2 unusual facts about Crumlin, Caerphilly


Conway Stewart

The company relocated to Crumlin in Wales in 1968 taking advantage of regional development grants but its financial health continued to deteriorate.

Crum Lynne, Pennsylvania

A station on the former Pennsylvania Railroad Philadelphia - Baltimore line, now the Crum Lynne SEPTA regional rail station, was named by Pennsylvania Railroad vice president after Crumlin, Wales, where his mother was born.


Arthur Hill-Trevor, 1st Viscount Dungannon

He married firstly Barbara Deane, of Crumlin, Dublin, daughter of Joseph Deane, Chief Baron of the Irish Exchequer who died young, and secondly in 1737 Anne Stafford of Brownstown, County Meath,.

Capital Region Tourism

Capital Region Tourism defines the region and therefore the area it serves as the local authority areas of: Blaenau Gwent, Bridgend, Caerphilly, Cardiff, Merthyr Tydfil, Monmouthshire, Newport, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Torfaen and Vale of Glamorgan.

Crumlin, Caerphilly

Even while demolition work was in progress, scenes for the film Arabesque which starred Sophia Loren and Gregory Peck were being shot on it.

Crumlin, Dublin

Martin Duffy, filmmaker and author was from Leighlin Road, Crumlin.

Donald Hodgen

The gang began to gather outside the Buffs Club on the corner of the Crumlin Road and Century Street, where their numbers were swollen by other young men from in and around the Shankill.

Gwilym Davies

Gwilym Ednyfed Hudson Davies (born 1929), Welsh Labour Party then SDP politician, Member of Parliament for Conway 1966–1970, Caerphilly 1979–1983

Hengoed

The A469 to the east of the village carries the Stagecoach service number 50, north to Bargoed and south to Caerphilly and Newport with a half hourly service in each direction during weekdays.

Here Come the Good Times

Proceeds went to charity, and €40,000 was raised for Our Lady's Hospital for Sick Children, Crumlin in Dublin.

Home Bargains

In August 2007, two stores in South Wales were opened in Barry and Caerphilly, these had been acquired from Netto which abandoned its plans to expand into the region.

Islwyn Borough Transport

Prior to its sale in 2010, Islwyn operated 18 local bus routes centred on Caerphilly and Blackwood, taking in Cardiff and Bargoed.

Johnny Adair

The gang regularly congregated outside the Buffs Club on the corner of the Crumlin Road and Century Street, where their numbers were swollen by other young men from in and around the Shankill.

Lynn Bowles

As of June 2009 Bowles was living in Wimbledon but regularly travelled back to her family home in the village of Rudry near Caerphilly.

Martin Cahill

The Cahill brothers soon turned to armed robbery, and by the early 1970s Gardai at the Dublin Central Detective Unit (CDU) had identified the Cahill brothers as major criminals, when they teamed up with the notorious Dunne gang in Crumlin to rob security vans conveying cash from banks.

In 1960, the family was moved to 210 Captains Road Crumlin as part of the Dublin slum clearances.

Michaelston

Michaelston-y-Fedw, a small rural village and community to the west of the city of Newport, Wales, on the border of Cardiff city and Caerphilly county borough

Mynydd Meio

Its eastern slopes drop away to Cwm yr Aber between Caerphilly and Abertridwr and its western slopes to the valley of the Taf.

National Cycle Route 4

After Newport, the route heads west to Caerphilly, then north towards Pontypridd during which it crosses the Taff Trail.

RG Jones Sound Engineering

RG Jones Sound Engineering was founded in 1926 by Ronald Geoffrey Jones of Caerphilly in Wales.

Sian Evans

Sian Evans (born 9 October 1973) is a Welsh singer-songwriter from Caerphilly.

The Crumlin-Drimnagh feud

By 2000 a group of young friends from Crumlin, Drimnagh and the south inner city had graduated from stealing cars and street dealing to become major suppliers of drugs in South Dublin.

Walnut Tree Viaduct

Finally the line circumvented the town of Caerphilly, and crossed the Rhymney Valley by means of the Llanbradach Viaduct, near Pwllypant, constructed to ease the gradient onto the BMR at Maesycwmmer.

Zephaniah Williams

Williams was born near Argoed, Sirhowy Valley, Monmouthshire, Wales, with much of his childhood spent near the then village of Blackwood, also living for some periods in Caerphilly and Nantyglo.


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