Ty Clarence, Pontypool
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Ty Clarence, Pontypool
Image: © Jaggery Taken: 30 Jun 2011
Located on Clarence Street, Ty Clarence is the premises of A4e, which began in South Yorkshire in the late 1980s at a time when many Sheffield steelworkers became redundant. The aim of A4e is to train redundant workers to enable them to find work in other industries. Ty Clarence was originally a tavern dating from the 1820s. It was the Clarence Hotel from c1870. There were major external alterations and extensions in the 1920s. The building was derelict http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/258748 for about two decades from the mid 1980s.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.698646
Longitude
-3.03885