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unusual facts about Old Bridge, Pontypridd



Alun Morgan

Alun Morgan (born 1928, Pontypridd, Wales) is a British jazz critic and writer.

Cefn Gwyngul

Minor roads ascend the slopes of the hill from Ferndale, Ynysybwl and Pontypridd converging at the elevated hamlet of Llanwonno.

Chris Corcoran

Along with Elis James he regularly performs as 'Mr Chairman' in Chris Corcoran's Committee Meeting, a live comedy show at The Ponty Muni arts centre in Pontypridd.

Côr Meibion Pontypridd

Links have been forged with Liederkranz Oberensingen, a German male choir from Pontypridd's twin town, Nürtingen.

David Moffett

During the 2003-04 season 50% of the ownership of the Celtic Warriors region was given to the WRU by Leighton Samuel who had acquired the Pontypridd share because that club was effectively bankrupt.

Derek Brockway

He later went to Coleg Morgannwg in Pontypridd, and Reading College of Technology where he received a BTEC Higher National Certificate in Mathematics, Statistics and Physics in 1993.

Frank Wrentmore

Frank Wrentmore (birth registered during October→December 1884 in Pontypridd) was a Welsh rugby union and professional rugby league footballer of the 1900s, playing club level rugby union (RU) for Penygraig RFC, and playing club level rugby league (RL) for Mid-Rhondda, he served with the Somerset Light Infantry with the British Expeditionary Force in World War I.

Graigwen

Graigwen is served by one pub - the Tŷ Mawr Hotel in Pantygraigwen, (which was used in the BBC Wales soap, Belonging), one club - the Pontypridd District Club, a garage and two news agents/grocery stores one of which previously served as Graigwen Post Office.

GTFM

The station broadcasts locally on 107.9 FM and online via the station's website, from studios and offices on Pinewood Avenue in Rhydyfelin, near Pontypridd.

Leighton Rees

He attended the local Mill Street School in Pontypridd where one of his teachers famously declared on his report card that he would be "good only for reading the sports pages of the South Wales Echo".

Llantwit

Llantwit Fardre - village between Pontypridd and Bridgend, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales

Martyn Williams

Williams played club rugby for Pontypridd, with whom he won the 1996-97 Welsh league, then moved to Cardiff RFC in 1999.

Merthyr Synagogue

Unlike the "simple," "charming" Gothic synagogues that once graced Llanelli and Pontypridd, however, the synagogue of Merthyr Tydfil is a "Disneyland" fantasy of a building that architectural historian Sharman Kadish calls a "double-turreted Gothic folly" of a building.

National Cycle Route 4

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

Old Bridge, Pontypridd

Representations of William Edwards' Bridge can be seen in local heraldic and civic stationery, including the crest of Pontypridd Rugby Football Club, and Cilfynydd Rugby Football Club.

Pontypridd Urban District Council Tramways

There was a branch line connecting to Cilfynydd, which was worked as a single route via Pontypridd.

Rob Hartill

Robert Hartill (Born 30 January 1969 in Pontypridd, Wales) is a computer programmer and web designer best known for his work on the Internet Movie Database website and the Apache web server and is notable for playing a key role in the initial growth of the World Wide Web.

Robin Parfitt

Born in 1946 in Rhydyfelin, Pontypridd, he was educated at Loughborough Grammar School and studied history and music at University College, Cardiff, before gaining an MA in theology, and then attended Brasenose College, Oxford to work towards a D.Phil.

Show Me the Funny

The six remaining contenders headed to South Wales, where they had to organise a night of entertainment for locals at a pub in Pontypridd, before performing new material for a group of rugby players.

Starview

The Home Office had granted several experimental licenses to broadcast subscription television services, of which Rediffusion received licenses for five areas, Burnley, Hull, Pontypridd, Reading and Tunbridge Wells.


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