RISCA DIRECTORY

ISSUE 56 JANUARY / FEBRUARY 2018

SW DIRECTORIES COPY DEADLINE FOR THE MARCH/ APRIL EDITION Monday 29th January Welcome! Editor: Susan Woolford It's always good to try new things and aspire to improve our lives, Sales & Distribution: whether it's losing the extra pounds we put on over the festive Leslie Woolford season, attempting to become fitter, volunteering or helping a local The editor cannot accept charity, starting a new hobby or even starting a business. Trying any liability to any party for something new and having different experiences often makes us feel loss or damage caused by focused and happier in life. errors or omissions. All If you are interested in advertising your business in the directory, artwork is accepted on the please contact us to find out about the very competitive advertising strict condition that rates. You will always deal with us directly, like many of the permission has been given businesses that advertise in this magazine, we are a small, for use in the publication. independent business and fully appreciate how much your business SW Directories does not means to you. officially endorse any We wish you a Happy New Year advertising material included within this publication. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced without the prior Advertising enquiries: permission of the editor. Telephone Leslie on 07725 888070 or 01633 892771 or email [email protected] What is Chiropractic?

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January/February 2018 swdirectories.com 7 RISCA MUSEUM Waunfawr and the Black Vein Colliery Part 1, up to 1796

The information below is taken from a paper produced by the late Dr Tony Jukes who was one of the founders of the Risca Museum. Tony was a consummate local historian and the foremost authority on the history of Risca in spite of being a native of Portsmouth and living in Machen, on the wrong side of the hill! he outcrop of the coal on Tthe eastern breast of Mynydd Mach is marked by a series of bell pit workings, as it sweeps down in a northerly direction through several fields formerly known as Waun Fawr Henry Morgan of Penllwyn and through woodland (now Sarph. He was granted the right partially removed) that descends to drain his coal works through towards the confluence of the the lands of Henry Morgan and Sirhowy and Ebbw rivers. The also had the right 'to make a land had various leaseholders good, sound and sufficient and tenant farmers but was road or way from the said Coal children owned by the Tredegar estate Works through and over the said of Charles Phillips an eighth share who retained the mineral rights. lands to the great road leading in total and James Edwards of In 1692 Nathanial Tainton took a from Machen Village towards Machen an eighth share. lease on a 30 acre farm, a small Caerphilly'. Increased partners probably holding of 11 acres with two In 1770, Charles Phillips of Risca provided extra capital needed houses and the enclosure known House and John Oldfield, also of but, even so, the new company as Waun Fawr. The Tredegar Risca, leased the Waun Fawr coal was frequently in arrears of rent. estate 'reserved right of access works from the Tredegar estate John Oldfield died in 1791 and for their servants to cut wood, for a term of 21 years. They were although their lease expired that make charcoal, make gutters for also granted the right to erect a year, James Edwards and conveying water to or from the lime kiln on any convenient unlet Company carried on the Waun said coal or mineral works which ground and to dig and raise Fawr coal works until 1796. shall or may be advantageous to limestone. The upper farm was or prejudicial for the digging, rented by Henry Vigers and scouring and raising of any coal Company, lead miners; John Please consider becoming a or minerals doing as little damage Oldfield was involved with the Friend of Risca Museum to as possible to the said Nathanial lead company. ensure its future. Tainton'. The Waun Fawr coal Following the death of Charles Details from the website works had existed since at least Phillips in 1775, a new deed of www.riscamuseum.org.uk 1670 and possibly much earlier. partnership was drawn up in and Facebook page or visit In 1753, William Morgan of which John Oldfield held a the museum any Saturday Tredegar came to an agreement quarter share, Evan Phillips of 10.00am to 12.30pm. with the adjoining landowner, Machen a quarter share, the

8 swdirectories.com January/February 2018 January/February 2018 swdirectories.com 9 Risca choir at Danygraig Church Risca Latest from the Risca Male Choir On October 13th the choir choir was given a standing tradition throughout the world entertained their patrons at ovation. so let's endeavour to continue Danygraig church in Risca, On 10th November the choir this. this annual event is a much took part in the Armistice People say they can't sing but appreciated thank you for Service and Commemoration how do you know until you've their support to the choir at Moriah Baptist Church in tried - we are certainly not throughout the year. Musical Risca. Remembering the many expecting soloists but Director Geraint Davies who made the ultimate choristers who can blend with devised a varied programme sacrifice and those whose lives the rest of the choir. New to show the choir's versatility changed forever. Again under choristers will be placed in a by performing traditional the baton of Geraint Davies section most suited to their Welsh music, operetta and and accompanied by Alison vocal range and be given a spirituals along with songs Thomas the choir performed mentor to help them. There from the shows. 'Llef', 'Requiem Aeternam', may be no financial gain but The week previously the choir 'Morte Christe' and concluded the personal satisfaction of the had travelled over the bridge to with the 'Battle Hymn of the performance and the reward of Nailsea where they entertained Republic'. helping organisations whether a capacity audience at the This busy period continued on local or elsewhere in the Mizzymead Recreational the following evening where country to raise much needed Centre. At the request of the the choir entertained wedding funds to help others less organisers the choir opened guests at the Glen-yr-Afon fortunate. You also have the the evening with a Welsh Hotel in Usk, the choir opportunity to make new theme followed by choruses choosing a varied and friends and participate in social from opera and operetta, entertaining programme which events. music from the shows and enthralled the guests. Come along to our rehearsal spirituals. Choir soloist rooms in St. Mary's Street baritone Andrew Jenkins Risca Male Choir continues to seek new choristers to Risca on Thursdays 7pm to provided two musical slots 9pm and Sunday's 6pm to which included the much loved maintain the Male Choir tradition, not only for the area 8pm. We look forward to 'Stars' from Les Miserables seeing and meeting you. and 'Bali Hi' from South of Risca but for Wales itself. Pacific. On both occasions the We have a much envied Cliff James

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January/February 2018 swdirectories.com 11 Risca Remembered The Humanising of Risca Proper By Bernard Osment

In 1903, at a meeting of Risca By 1908 some of our streets Council, a letter was read had been named but the from Mr Frederick Jones, the Council was still discussing the postmaster at Risca Central question of numbering. By the Post Office, complaining that We had the High Street and the time of the 1911 Census most owing to the doors on several Main Road. A number of Rows, of the streets in Risca had been streets having no number, he Terraces, Cottages, Lanes, given the names and house had great difficulty in Squares, Places and numerous numbers that we recognise delivering letters to the ‘nears’, near the Church, the today, St. Mary Street - this was proper owners. When the Brewery, the Bridge, the Canal. matter was discussed the Many houses were known by clerk pointed out it would the name of the builder or cost about £100 to have all owner of the house or houses – the houses in the district Budding, Green, Taylor, the name given to the stretch of properly numbered. It was Whitmarsh, Oddfellow, and road down from the Church decided to defer the matter Philanthropic. Some of the House Inn, today we know it as for six months as the Council houses had names – Grove the Darran to Rose Cottage were not in a position to House, Ivy House, The Laurels. situated near the junction of spend that amount. Few of the houses had Railway Street and the Main Few of our streets had names. numbers. Road, just above the Long

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Bridge. The houses were 1843’. This was the site of the widened. The Plough and numbered evens on the down first Zoar Chapel built in 1810. adjacent buildings (Nos.92 to side, from 2 (The Church House Following the opening of the 104) were demolished to Inn) to 126 (1 Rose Cottage). New Zoar Chapel in 1860, the provide an access road to The odds on the other side old Chapel was converted into Trinity Court. In 1911 the Risca road, down from 57 (Y- Nyth) to a terrace of cottages (No’s 20, Workman’s Club occupied 85 (The Grove). 22 and 24). No.68. Today the Risca No numbers were given to the Numbers were given to the five Workman’s Club and Institute four religious establishments in (the Top Club) occupies No.60. the Street, The Church of St. In the past this building was Mary, Ebenezer, Wesley and known as The Ferns. In 1911 it Zoar Chapels. Closed in was occupied by Neil 1963 the Ebenezer Menzies and his family. Mr Chapel is now the Menzies, a Scotsman, Ebenezer Emporium. In was described as a 1932 the Wesley Dentist, Dental Surgeon Chapel was renamed as and manufacturer of the Chapel of St John. artificial teeth. Following the amalgamation For many years No.64 was of the three chapels in 1963 the Evan Pugh’s Grocer Shop. name was changed again, this Derelict, after being empty for time to the Trinity. Following the drinking establishments in the some time, in 1932 it was taken closure of the Trinity (it will Street, The Church House over by the Oxford Mining always be remembered as the (No.2), today we know it as the Distress Committee. Wesleyans) in 1991, the building Darran, the Albert (No.10), the Renovated, it became the Risca was purchased by the Coptic Exchange (No.56), the Unemployed Men’s Club. In Orthodox Church and is now Rifleman’s Arms (No.70) and 1936 the Oxford Committee known as the Church of St Mary the Plough (No.96). Only the purchased Grove House and Abu Saifain. After being Darran and Exchange exist (No.87), built in the 1850s for Dr closed for some years the Zoar today. The Albert was Robathan it had been occupied Chapel was demolished and is demolished in 1995 and is now by his family up until the early now the site of Chapel Court the site of Madison Garden 1900s. Up until its sale the Flats. A plaque on the wall of Flats. The Rifleman’s Arms was Grove continued to be occupied No.24 reads ‘Zoar Cottages, demolished and Rifleman Street by doctors, for many years Dr

January/February 2018 swdirectories.com 13 James Rhatigan. In 1936 work was said to have been built on of us remember as Penistans. began on adapting the the field that was used by For many years Mr Howell premises. The house was Riscaites in the past to practice Davies Evans had traded as a enlarged by the building of a their ‘Hedging’. Draper and Outfitter from the hall on one wing and a warden’s In the years before the Great building then known as Bristol house on the other. In 1938 the War there were at least fifteen House. Following his retirement Oxford House Settlement as we shops on the down side of the in the late 1880s the business know it today was opened. street, some of them were lock- was purchased by one of our In 1905 the Council purchased up shops. One of these shops earliest Risca entrepreneurs, Mr Y-Nyth, house and grounds. (No.46), sadly neglected and in Edwin Allen Taylor, he already The following year they sold on a bad state of repair, still stands owned shops on the other side the house to one of the today. Located near the of the Street and in Cross Keys. Councillors and in 1907 built pavement in front of No.48 Described as a Draper’s their new offices in the grounds. (Walnut Tree Cottage), some will Establishment, Bristol House In the mid 1930s Y-Nyth remember it as a Florist, but for occupied from No.61 to 67, St became the home of Dr most of its working life was a Mary Street. At the front and Alexander William Patterson. He Cobblers. Walnut Tree Cottage downstairs was the shop, at the changed the name of the house is the only one remaining of a back and upstairs the living to Forglen. Sadly, he was killed, row of four. Three of the shops quarters of the manager and his along with seven others from were on the triangular piece of staff. Following the death of Mr the Risca area, in the Llandow land (today a grass bank, bus Taylor in 1903 the business was air disaster in 1950.In the late pull-in and shelter) in front of purchased by Mr George 1950s the Council again Church Road Terrace. Davies. The Davies family purchased the house, this time Some will remember the continued to run the shop for to provide extra office space the next thirty odd years. and a care-takers residence. On Friday 15th October 1937, Some years ago Forglen House the grand opening of Risca’s was demolished and Forglen new store, Penistans, took House Day Centre built, on the place. The new owners were site. Messrs Walker and Penistans The Public Hall, built in 1884, White’s Chip Shop and Mr Ltd, who had shops in London, was used as a venue for all Clack the Monumental Stone Bristol and Newport. There kinds of entertainment, Mason, but who remembers the were special souvenir bargains including films from about 1905. ‘Tree’? Sometime in the past a and a ‘Special Souvenir By 1910 it was known as the Tree of Remembrance was Photograph of Yourself Free to Palace Picture House. It closed planted there, a memorial to the purchasers of 2/6 and over. as a cinema in 1914 following men of Risca who served in the Unrivalled shopping facilities the opening on the 12th Boer War. Surrounded by a low offered in all departments. December 1913 of the purpose wall, topped by an iron railing, it Provident Checks taken as built New Palace Picture House was known by some as St cash’. In April 1968 in Tredegar Street (today our James Park and by others as advertisements announced – Library). In December 1915 the Victoria Park. When the main ‘Final Two Weeks of Closing Public Hall reopened as the road was widened in the 1960s Down Sale. Ladies Coats were Hippodrome Theatre, with a the tree was dug up and 8 to 9 gns., reduced to clear ‘Grand Christmas Pantomime, replanted near the gate in the from £2 each. Cotton dresses Red Riding Hood’. The next grounds of our Cenotaph up to 52 in. from 12/6. Our loss building down from the Public Memorial. your opportunity to save, Hall, other than a Gent’s urinal Other than the Good Buy shop Provident, Bristol and Premier in between, was Risca Town at the Public Hall there are only Checks accepted at all times’. School, now demolished it is three others in the Street today. On the 28th November 1968 the site of Cwrt Yr Ysgol The three, a bike shop, sign Bristol House reopened as a houses. The school, previously maker and fireplace shop, V.G. Food Market. known as the British School, occupy the premises that most To be continued.

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January/February 2018 swdirectories.com 17 Twmbarlwm’s Past Set in Stone

A COUPLE OF RECENT events just got me to thinking of some of the reasons why the Twmbarlwm Society exists. First of all I saw a few posts on local social media groups where the author was posing the question “where is this?” and “what does it mean?” - referring to an unusual stone on top of a mountain. I was surprised to see in the comments how so few people had any idea of the location or their significance. Secondly, the Society were generously given a pile of One of the “Boundary of Minerals” markers remaindered books for us to sell in aid of the Society’s on Mynydd Maen Common work. The book in question is “Western Valley Walks” by local history enthusiast Ralph Collins. Some walks in the munitions during the Napoleonic wars and developed a tin- book are out of date due to the destruction of the forestry plating process used in the manufacture of Pontypool hereabouts, but much of it is still very relevant for the Japan-ware. Capel was also the Lord-Lieutenant of research and hard work that Ralph has put into it. Monmouthshire at the time of the Chartist Riots. Part of the Society’s remit is to raise awareness of the In the nineteenth century when gentlemen such as this beautiful landscape that’s on our doorstep and to pair needed to legitimise their business interests they had investigate the history that has created it. We also wish to to make application to parliament by way of a Private Act. encourage people to get out there, walk the hills, and It was through this process that the Boundary of Minerals explore for themselves – and in the process Act was passed in 1839 and the stones duly become fitter and better informed. erected to mark the areas which are defined in the Act’s 53 page documentation - a copy of Ralph’s book describes various walks and which Ralph was lucky enough to be given explains where many of these mysterious access, at the Pontypool Parks Estate archive. stones can be found, and his in-depth research throws light on why they are there. Ralph’s book gives a fascinating insight into the two gentlemen involved in this intriguing story Ralph’s walk “The Stones of Mynydd Maen” is a and this is just one of several walks he describes in detail. great walk to illustrate this. It’s a fairly straight forward walk of about 7.5 miles, it starts and finishes above CTS often organise walks such as this and it is our Hafodyrynys, there are no steep valley sides to climb, and intention to follow similar walks in the coming year so it takes in several of these engraved stones. The stones please make sure you look out for announcements on our are in fact “Boundary of Minerals” markers. website and Facebook page. There are similar stones on other local commons with We are very grateful for Ralph’s donation of these books different inscriptions but the four encountered on this and if you would like to obtain a copy of “Western Valley particular walk look a little like gravestones and are incised Walks” please visit our website for details. on one side with the initials BH and on the other side with Terry Evans - Chairman, Cymdeithas Twmbarlwm Society the initials CHL. The stones were placed to mark a Private Act of Parliament for effecting an Exchange of Mines and Lands between Sir Benjamin Hall, Capel Hanbury Leigh Esq. and others. But who were these people and why were the stones erected on this rugged mountain top. Sir Benjamin Hall was, of course, famous for lending his nickname “Big CTS members find one of the Ben” to the Great Bell installed at the mysterious stones on a group walk Palace of Westminster when he was First Commissioner of Works during CTS meet at the car park below Twmbarlwm’s summit for a litter pick the rebuilding of the Houses of and volunteer workday on the last Sunday of every month to which Parliament in the 1830s. everyone is invited, it’s not all hard work and it’s a great opportunity to find Capel Hanbury Leigh was an your way around up there. We organise walks and other events up the important member of the Hanbury mountain and at Crosskeys RFC throughout the year so watch our website family, industrialists who increased and Facebook page for details – come and join us some time. their wealth by making iron and www.twmbarlwm.co.uk

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To reach Grosmont from Pontrilas, leave the A465 by Grosmont Castle turning right on to the B4347 and follow this road, for about 2½ miles, to Grosmont village. The castle lies to the left of the village. The Welsh lords of Upper Gwent selected Grosmont as a suitable site for a fortress long before the Normans arrived, and it is recorded that Aeddan and family lived here until driven out by the invaders. The Normans then commenced to make ‘Le Gros Mont’ a stronghold for themselves. The very first castle would have been a simple wooden building, surrounded by palisade and ditch. A century later the Normans constructed Grosmont Castle, in stone, as a fortified residence with a hall, circular keep and all enclosed by a deep dry ditch; rather than a water filled moat. The Keep is the earliest surviving part of the present castle and dates from about 1210, when it was surrounded by a wooden palisade and ditch. At a later date a massive protective curtain wall was constructed, linked by three semicircular towers The Gatehouse projects towards to the portcullis chamber. The and a gatehouse to enclose the the dry moat from the southern Castle is situated on top of a hill inner ward. A number of curtain wall, and has a vaulted and on every side, except facing apartments were built on each side entrance passage supporting two the village, the hillside falls steeply of the north-west tower. The upper rooms, one of which formed down to the River Monnow, which elegant octagonal chimney, rising the portcullis chamber. The west forms a natural defensive outer from the upper chambers, is wall of the Gatehouse contains a moat. known as Queen Eleanor's small staircase accessing the top of In the castle gardens grew wild red chimney. the curtain wall, and also leading roses and the castle was known as

32 swdirectories.com January/February 2018 the castle of the Red Rose, this flower becoming a Lancastrian Grosmont Church emblem. The castle was held by the Lancaster family for a considerable period and became one of their most popular residences. John of Gaunt once lived here and then King Henry IV inherited the castle and the castle then became a crown property. A short street of attractive houses complete with flower filled gardens forms the village of Grosmont. The old building in the centre is the Town Hall, built in 1832 on the site of an earlier large half- timbered hall. The present Town Hall houses a 14th Century red

Grosmont Town Hall

Grosmont church is cruciform in interior of the church indicates the plan with a central tower topped now disused part of the nave. The by an octagonal spire, all congregation using this church constructed in the local red was originally much more sandstone. The church is dedicated numerous, particularly when they to St. Nicholas and tradition holds included the castle garrison. A that it was designed and built by a former vicar of the church, who French architect, employed by was a descendant of the preacher Queen Eleanor, wife of King John Wesley, once owned the old Henry III. It has been suggested farm cart contained within the that the Queen, in constructing nave. Grosmont church, used the In the next article we will move on masons who had originally built to examine the second castle sited the north transept of Hereford adjacent to the little village of Cathedral, for Peter de Skenfith. Aquablanca. (To be continued) The photograph showing the

Market Stone sandstone block about 3 feet wide and high. The upper part was once octagonal and carved with quatrefoil decorations. This old stone is reputed to have been the market-stone and early arrivals at the market rushed to place their baskets on the stone, the first one escaping the market toll. Grosmont Church Interior

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January/February 2018 swdirectories.com 35 A Two Part Story But sadly It doesn't end well

The rate at which swans grow from hatching, usually in early May, to starting to fly in late summer, to finally leaving the nest area any time from early autumn onwards is a phenomenon which never ceases to amaze us. I knew we shouldn’t have gone flying so early o put this in context, a certainty is that these juvenile T newly hatched cygnet is birds are inexperienced fliers, likely to weigh roughly and consequently run the risk of local resident shepherded the 220 grams; by the time it is meeting with disaster as they bird into her back garden, and it starting to fly, it could easily start to make their way in an was from here that we rescued weigh upwards of 8 kg! increasingly dangerous world. At it. Inevitably, early flights have a least those which do become tendency not to end too well. By grounded, and to which our A very short distance away is the end of October, we had attention is drawn always have Rowing Club with its already rescued nine juveniles an opportunity to 'have another easy access directly to the which had landed in what are go'. water's edge, the obvious place best described as One such bird came down in to release him. As we let him go 'inappropriate' locations, often Granville Street in Monmouth we were slightly concerned at well away from water. We during the morning on 26th the strength of the current cannot know whether these October. He was seen to be following recent rain. flights are made, as it were flying along with two siblings Nevertheless, he gave himself a 'voluntarily' resulting from a close to buildings near the river. good shaking and dusted growing feeling of Tired and confused, he landed himself down, so to speak, and independence, or as is certainly on a patch of grass, and seeing his four siblings and one the case as time wears on, parent some 150 metres under pressure, particularly from thankfully, uninjured. Clearly, he upstream, rejoined them. the adult male, as the start of knew where the river was, and Sometimes in these situations, the next breeding season starts seemed intent on trying to walk to appear over the horizon. back, but to no avail and in any we find we have an audience; What we feel with some case, far too many hazards. A here was a case in point. Dan

36 swdirectories.com January/February 2018 chanced along and was clearly wounds carried by this swan to go into defensive mode, interested in what had unfortunate bird left us in little and who is to say how a dog will happened. Following a brief doubt as to what had react to what is now a conversation, we parted, but not happened; they had the potentially incendiary situation? before we had given him one of hallmark of a dog attack. The Over the years, we've seen too our calling cards. tail could not have been sheared many examples of what can Forward eight days to the end of off by fast moving traffic, and happen, including fatalities, to the following week. It had the penetrating wounds in the know the only correct answer is become necessary to travel to flank could only have been for dogs to be on a lead at all Yorkshire on family business. caused by teeth. The attack times if there is even the Some 10 miles north of Ross, must have occurred on the river remotest chance of an incident on the M50, the phone rang. It bank no more than 100 metres such as we have described was Dan. Armed with our card or so away, and in a desperate occurring. In passing, it should he was calling from a short attempt to escape, the bird be noted, all such attacks are distance from the Dixton managed to get sufficiently illegal. roundabout at Monmouth on the airborne to cross one narrow

Things are beginning Thank goodness I’m Back with my family to look up out of his clutches! but I wonder for how long?

A40. He and his partner were field, clear the hedge and two standing guard over a very lanes of the A40 dual badly injured swan (fortunately, carriageway. We try to close our well onto the verge), and what minds to the idea about how advice could we offer. Well, it much worse it might have been. was an easy decision; the We cannot allow this Ledbury junction was just a mile opportunity to pass without away, so we simply turned making a comment about some round and went back. dog owners. This was not a fox Given the time of year, we were attack, they attack from the fully expecting to find it was a front taking the head and neck. juvenile swan in distress; far Responsible dog owners, of from it, this was a beautiful adult whom there are very many keep swan with its tail entirely missing their animals on a lead. On the and another serious injury to the occasions we have confronted left flank under its wing. Our an owner whose dog is not on a intended route to Yorkshire lead, we are always 'informed' passes Wychbold Swan Rescue in a holier than thou manner that just off junction 5 of the M5, so 'my dog is not interested in the it was obvious what we had to swan, and wouldn't touch it'. do, having made the necessary We make no apologies; this just Tail bitten warning phone calls. Sadly, this isn't good enough. The off in a violent could not end well; the injuries proximity of a dog to a swan, a dog attack were so severe that healing and wild creature, will cause the repair were out of the question, so a visit to a local vet had to be Text by Peter; photographs by Ellen and John arranged very hurriedly. For swan and all other wildlife problems please contact; A close examination of the Peter & Ellen on 01633 895241 or 07802 472788

January/February 2018 swdirectories.com 37 38 Please contact me if you would like your Place of Worship added to this page: 07725 888070 [email protected] swdirectories.com Places of Worship Pontywain Trinity Congregational Church, Sunday 11.00am Crosskeys MethodistChurch Sunday 11.00;6.00pm St DavidsShared Church, Ty Sign The Revd.IanWaugh. 01633619163 10.30–12noon Friday Coffee Morning Wednesday Prayer&BibleStudy7.15pm Sunday 10.30am;6.00pm. Bethany BaptistChurch www.moriahrisca.com Secretary: SylviaWare 01633612789 Friday Babies&Tots 9.30am-11.30am Sunday 11.00am;6.00pm Moriah BaptistChurch www.riscasalvationarmy.org.uk 01633 613794 Captain JohnStark Guides Weds 6.30pm Brownies Weds 6.00pm Rainbow Weds 5.00pm Luncheon Club–Wednesday12.00pm Parent &Toddlers, Tuesday 9.30am Sunday –10.30am&5.00pm The SalvationArmy [email protected] Reverend MartynEvans01633619425 Weds 10.00am St. Margaret’s Pontymister Sunday 10.00am2ndand4thofthemonth St. Margaret’s Pontymister Sunday 10.00am1stand3rd Sundayofthemonth St. Mary’sRisca Benefice ofLowerIslwyn Channel View CommunityCentreChannel View Agape CommunityChurch, Ty-Sign Thursday 7.15pmBible Study Tuesday 7.15pm prayermeeting Sunday School11.00am Gladstone Street. Sunday10.30am; 6.00pm Crosskeys PentecostalChurch [email protected] 07980 236936 Fr. KevinPaineTel.01495 233304 Church opento visitors10.00am–2.00pm followed byMass10.30am Monday 11.00am.FridayExposition10.00am Saturday Mass6.00pm.Sunday Mass9.30am The Sacred Heart(RC),Pontllanfraith Church opentovisitors12.00–2.00pm Sunday Mass6.00pm.Thursday1.30pm Our LadyofPeace(RC)Newbridge with coffee andteaintheChurch Hall 10.00am. Church opentovisitors10.00–1.00pm Wednesday Exposition9.30amfollowedbyMass Tuesday Mass7.00pm Sunday Mass11.00am Ss. AnthonyandClare (RC)Risca 01633 483039 Caerleon Town Hall.1st&3rd Sundays10.30am Society ofFriends(Quakers) Tuesday PrayerMeeting7.30pm Sunday EveningService6.00pm Sunday Communion11.00am Clyde Street Pentecostal Church Contact: StuartGodfrey 01495272227 Friday (termtime)K’sChildrens meeting6.00pm Thursday Sisterhood7.00pm Wednesday LuncheonClub12.15pm Tuesday PrayerMeeting7.00pm Sunday 11.00am;6.00pm Hope BaptistChurch, Crosskeys www.stowparkchurch.org.uk /01633843730 Friday only. Volunteers welcome. Cafe withlightmealsandshopisnowopenTuesday to Wednesday Prayers10.00am,BibleClass11.15am Sunday 5.30pmInformalServicewithTea Service) Sunday 3.00pmOedfaGymraeg(Welsh Language Sunday 10.45am Stow ParkChurch Centre, BrynhyfrydRd,Newpor Sunday 11.00am.RevPaulaParish-Foley t www.agapeonline.org.uk Sunday 10.30am.PastorMarkJones078836608085 Newport ChristianSpiritualistChurch 5.00pm. 01633244453 Lower DockStreet, Newport.Sunday10.30amand King’s Church [email protected] 01633 212077(TheAdministrator’sOffice) Sunday 9.30amHolyEucharist St Martins-in-the-Gaer Additional Eucharistat10.30ameachTuesday 7.00pm ChoralEvensong(FriTerm timeonly) 5.00pm EveningPrayer(Mon-Thurs) 8.15am HolyEucharist Prayer 8.00am Morning Every Weekday 5.00pm ChoralEucharist 10.30am SungEucharist 8.00am HolyEucharist Sunday [email protected] Elin Maher01633243700 Sian [email protected] www.mynyddseion.org.uk speakers andlearners. A warmwelcometofluentWelsh Croeso CynnesiBawb Welsh LanguageServiceat10.30amonSundays Oedfa Gymraegam10.30Bore SulacYsgol Hill Street, Casnewydd NP20 1LZ Eglwys AnnibynnolMynyddSeion [email protected] www.fogwales.com 07888 313523 Tydu CommunityHall,Rogerstone.Sunday10am-2pm Newport CitywideFamilyofGodChurch 07454 179892.www.fcconline.org.uk John's). Sunday10.30am.PastorsMike&HelenTaylor IndustrialEstate,NP109FQ.(oppositeCedric Wern Faith CommunityChurch, Pillmawr Road.Sunday3.00pm Malpas CommunityCentre Grace BaptistAssembly www.tyisafbaptist.com 01633 866580 Pastor StephenTucker Friday (termtime)Children’s Club6.00pm Thursday Prayer/BibleStudy7.00pm Sunday 11.00am;6.00pm Ty-Isaf BaptistChurch The Minister, Rev LesJones01291623782 General ContactMichael Gray01495270253,or Contact RuthGray01495 270253 Thursdays -LadiesGroup 2pmto4pm Contact MichaelGray 01495270253 Mondays -Wesley Guild7pmto9pm Sunday Worship 11am Crosskeys MethodistChurch Rev. PaulaParish-Foley01633549803 Thursday10.30am Coffee morning Tuesday 10.30amCoffee morning Monday 7.00pmGuild Sunday School11.00am Sunday 11.00amand6.00pm. Dan-y-Graig Church Risca Pastor Tony Capron 07990540966 Facebook- NewbeginningsChurch Sunday 10.30am Ebenezer Drive,RogerstoneNP109YX Rogerstone PrimarySchool New BeginningsChurch Haydn Jefferies 07949220135 We meetat5pmeachSunday. 37 LlanoverStreet, West NP114SX End,Abercarn New LifeChristianChurch Tuesday HealingClinic6.30pm-8.30pm Sunday Service6.30pm-8.00pm Friday Service7.00pm-8.30pm Orchard LaneCommunityCentre off Stafford Road January/February 2018 Leaky Shower??? We have a Shower Pod Solution

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Newport Bathroom Centre Ltd Based @ George Street Furnishers 19­24 George Street, Newport. NP20 1EN Tel: 01633 26 26 29 January/February 2018 [email protected] 39 Risca Western Valley Camera Club Western Valley Camera Club is one of the leading LIBRARY Camera Clubs in South Wales. Risca Palace Unit B, 75 Tredegar Street We meet on a Thursday evening at Cross Keys Rugby 01443 864780 Club and operate for people who are interested in www.caerphilly.gov.uk photography and wish to develop and enhance new and existing skills. Monday 9.30am - 1.00pm The club holds meetings throughout the year on a variety 2.00pm - 6.00pm of topics and aims to provide a varied programme which features the following broad topic areas: Tuesday 9.30am - 1.00pm • Competitions 2.00pm - 5.00pm • Practical sessions • Demonstrations Wednesday 9.30am - 1.00pm • Talks and presentations from members and quality 2.00pm - 6.00pm external speakers Thursday 9.30am - 1.00pm We hold our meetings in the 2.00pm - 5.00pm Dudley Suite, Cross Keys Rugby Club (Pandy Park, Friday 9.30am - 1.00pm Woodward Avenue, Cross Keys, NP11 7BS) at 7.30pm 2.00pm - 5.00pm and aim to finish by 10.00pm Saturday 9.30am - 4.00pm For further information please go to the club web page at www.westernvalley.co.uk Reading Group meet on the 1st Tuesday of every month from 11am-12pm 1 2 3 4 5 (The reading groups are fun, friendly A D A D P 6 7 discussions about a book we have all S CHOOL E AR chosen to read over the month. Tea and H G L F E coffee provided) 8 9 10 S ETS E VENT Crafters Corner P R Y N E meets weekly on Friday’s at 11am-12pm 11 A A B C N (Informal craft session over tea and 12 13 14 coffee, bring your own projects) R IVER H ERD R E I A I Story Time and Crafts 15 16 (for children under4) – weekly on O IL C ARESS Tuesdays and Saturdays from 11am-12pm W S K M K Puzzle Solutions

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Art of Combat Rogerstone Tydu Taekwon-Do has clubs Community centre NP10 9EQ based in Rogerstone Tuesdays: and Cwmcarn. 5.30 - 6.15 Little Dragons Ages 4-7 We are an open and welcoming 6.30 - 7.30 Juniors ages 7 - 13 club that is passionate about 7.30 - 8.30 Adults ages 13+ and having the highest possible senior grades standard of Taekwon-Do. We Thursday: take great pride in being a club 5.30 - 6.15 Little Dragons Ages 4-7 who accepts everyone from all 6.30 - 7.30 Juniors ages 7 - 13 and walks of life regardless to race, senior belts religion, ability and 7.30 - 8.30 BOXERCISE Adults ages circumstances. Our goal is to 13+ help unite communities through our passion of martial arts and bring people together to end Cwmcarn O.A.P Hall, Newport bullying and isolation. We Road Cwmcarn NP11 7LZ believe we can all unite from our Mondays passion and to use our skills not 5.45 - 6.30 Little Dragons Ages 4-7 only to defend when necessary, 6.30 - 7.30 Juniors ages 7 - 13 but to use our self control to 7.30 - 8.30 Adults ages 13+ and find understanding in times senior grades when people need it. Fridays: Art of Combat students are 5.45 - 6.30 Little Dragons Ages 4-7 regularly involved in raising 6.30 - 7.30 Juniors ages 7 - 13 money for charities and take 7.30 - 8.30 Adults ages 13+ and part in sponsored events once a senior grades year to raise money to give to those who need it most. We take our skills we learn from classes and find a way to give back to the community. We start students from as young as 4 years old and take them right the way through to adulthood. Email: [email protected] Website: www.artofcombattaekwondo.co.uk Tel: 07891 054890

January/February 2018 swdirectories.com 41 Afon Belles WI Friendship and activities within the community

Afon Belles is a local branch of the W.I. based in Afon village. It originated as a ladies group to encourage friendship and activities within the community. For the last 18 months it has been affiliated with the W.I. This group is a far cry from the stereotypical view of the W.I. as elderly, middleclass do- gooders, making jam and doing flower arranging. It is a We get together vibrant friendly group, on the 1st and 3rd attracting members from all Tuesday in the month from walks of life and surrounding would love to welcome new 7.30pm to 9.00pm at River- villages and from ages 18 members, so why not call in for mead Community Centre, upwards. a taster session, a warm Afon Village. Our programme for 2018 welcome will be guaranteed. includes a Cheese & Wine night, Samba Drumming, a Beetle For more information please contact Drive, Belly Dancing and a St Karen Powell on 07870 116546 or email John’s ambulance evening. We [email protected]

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A night run, jog, or walk round the Usk Reservoir First prize in the Brecon Beacons National Park /usr/stdavidshospicecare – an International Dark Sky Reserve £1500! 50% of the fee will go to St David’s Hospice Care £500 Second Prize Play online at: /retailcharityshops www.stdavidshospicecare.org www.stdavidshospicecare.org 01633 851051 Photograph kindly supplied by Craig Y Nos Castle £250 Third Prize www.stdavidshospicecare.org or ring us: 01633 851051 Supported by: £50 Fourth Prize www.stdavidshospicecare.org 01633 851051 Plus a further 20 prizes of £10 Find us on: Find us on: Registered charity number: 1010576 Registered Charity No: 1010576

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January/February 2018 swdirectories.com 43 Llandegfedd Reservoir VISITOR CENTRE

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Set in the rolling landscape of There is a south east Wales, small gift Llandegfedd Reservoir is a site shop on the ground floor, of special scientific interest. It accessible via stairs or a lift from is set within 434 acres of water the café. Parking for the visitor and acres of woodland and centre and walking routes is at grasslands with over four miles the main public car park of footpaths, three miles of overlooking the reservoir, disabled banks for angling and a large parking is provided adjacent to sailing area. the shop. The visitor centre hosts a café The Centre opens at 9am on with floor to ceiling glass weekdays and 8am on providing an unrivalled view of the weekends, school holiday and reservoir and ongoing activities. bank holidays.

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There is something I can't get enough of. It isn't tobacco or alcohol but the fragrance of old books. Like any connoisseur of olfactory literature, one should place the ancient volume close to the nostrils and breathe in deeply, letting the bouquet wash over appreciative nasal receptors like rain falling on dry soil. Elderly tomes are often home to mildew and this, together with the breakdown of lignin in the paper, can release volatile chemicals. It is these that conspire to produce the familiar scent of antiquity. One scientist, who has investigated the nature of the aroma, declared it to be "a combination of grassy notes with a tang of acids and a hint of vanilla over an underlying mustiness". A book that I enjoyed sniffing recently was 'Monmouthshire' by Olive Phillips. My battered copy may not have been a Knobbler, cigarettes. Sadly, he died in 1919 dates back to 1951 and has was Arthur Gould. As a boy at his home in Llanthewy Road at discoloured green boards with growing up in Victorian Newport, the comparatively young age of plenty of spotting on the pages. Gould would often clamber up 54. His funeral was reported to In other words, it is positively ripe trees, earning himself the have been the largest ever seen in with smells! As I flicked through nickname of "Monkey" or "Monk" Wales at that time and he was the chapters, in between for short. He was said to be to interred at . inhalations, I came across an rugby as what W G Grace was to In 1923, a memorial fund was entry regarding "Knobblers". Well, cricket and in the late nineteenth started in his name and I couldn't let that pass without century, he captained Newport donations, which amounted to further investigation. and Wales, the latter on no less £1525, came from all over the It seems this was a pastime than 18 occasions - a record that world. The money was later enjoyed almost exclusively by stood for almost a hundred years. passed to the Royal Gwent members of Newport Rugby Club After retiring from the game in Hospital, which used it to pay for during the summer months. 1897, Gould became an agent for the Arthur Gould Memorial Bed. Knobblers, which referred both to Phillips & Sons, a local brewery. Affixed to the wall above it, was a the game and its participants, This job may not have been tablet [how apt for a hospital!] that involved throwing pebbles at a entirely coincidental since the read: "To the memory of Arthur small tower of stones. Like some Phillips family had been Gould - Greatest of Rugby rocky variation of boule, the instrumental in setting up the Football Players". Unfortunately, purpose was to hit the target or at town's rugby team in 1875. They the bed went missing when part least land as close as possible to even provided the first ball to be of the building was demolished the stack. It appears to have used by the fledgling side. sometime after the Second World mainly occurred near the Gould has been described as the War. If you happen to see it on Lighthouse at St Bride's and was earliest superstar of the sport and your travels though, I'm sure the still popular well into the 1930s. his image was used to promote Royal Gwent would be delighted One rugby player, who may or everything from chocolates to to have it back!

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January/February 2018 swdirectories.com 47 The beginning of the 21st Century and the end of the Metal Industries in Rogerstone By Brian Stephen (Rogerstone Local History Society)

In 2004 there was another The dismantling name change from British Alcan Rolled Products to Novelis. The Cut to Length process was installed in Rogerstone in 2005 after being transferred from Falkirk. Over 500 tonnes of equipment was moved. On the 15th May 2007, Novelis announced the completion of its acquisition by Hindalco Industries Limited. This transaction made it the world’s The Office largest aluminium rolled products company. from Shropshire to work and After new processes were ironically the last coil rolled successfully implemented was destined for Bridgenorth through the Hot Line and the in Shropshire. Cold Bay, Rogerstone was The mills were then stripped capable of producing Foilstock down and left to the de- coil to a rolled thickness of 4.5 commissioning team and micron without breaking the finally for the demolition strip or having holes in the metal company. Dismantling of the Limited (human hair is around 60-90 site started in January 2010 and extensive micron thick). Rogerstone re- carried out by Hindalco remediation and reclamation entered the Lithographic contractors and the installation work to started during the markets in 2007. of the equipment in India started spring. The office block was the The Closure in October 2010 at Hirakud last building of the Novelis site On 5th March 2009 the Orissa. Some parts of the works to be demolished in September announcement of the plant also went to China with former 2012. closure was made, with the loss employees going over to help Planning application was of 440 jobs. But there were still start it up. submitted for a residential led orders to complete, so on 7th The next phase of the site redevelopment of the site, April the last coil was rolled on In March 2012, the former including: the Hot Line by D shift. Alcan/Novelis factory complex • Up to 1,200 houses As mentioned in earlier articles, in Rogerstone was bought by • a primary school people came to Rogerstone Walters Land (Rogerstone) • a neighbourhood centre • riverside park, a green grid of July 2012 open space and a prominent position for the remains of Rogerstone Castle The first phase of the housing development started in February 2014 and by the end of 2017, there are around 350 houses finished and occupied. Cotswold Windows & Doors

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