The Terrace, Rhymney (1)

Image: © Robin Drayton Taken: 23 May 2012

19th century company houses. These houses belonged to the Rhymney Iron Company which in the 1880s was recorded as owning eight hundred houses, shops and a brewery. Thomas Jones, who moved into one of these houses in 1881 writes in 'Rhymney Memories' (1930): “The Terrace was a row of superior houses where the managers lived. The houses were graded to correspond to the industrial importance of their occupants. At each end was a large house standing in its own walled-in grounds with trees and garden to match: these were occupied by the manager of the Company Shop and the chief colliery manager. Then next to these came at each end a house of intermediate size, one occupied by the cashier and one by the assistant-general-manager; the rest of the row was filled in with houses half in size of the two intermediaries, for the lesser managers or superior foreman.”

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