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MERTHYR TYDFIL, CF47 8JD

High Street pub. A silver-on-black banner across two upstairs windows proclaims THE VULCAN NIGHTCLUB MERTHYR'S PREMIER VENUE.

Chinese restaurant at 1-2 Pontmorlais, a separately-named part of High Street. The premise's name is a partial reference to the building's former use as Ye Olde Express Inn.

Town centre pub at 96 Pontmorlais. There is a Referred Commercial for sale sign on the building.

The exchange (code SWMT/EX) in Merthyr Tydfil town centre provides broadband and telephone services for about 17,300 residential premises and 680 non-residential premises.

On the right here https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6168951 the green cabinet is a Western Power Distribution electricity substation. Its identifier is CASTLE ST GPO S/S 55-2942.

This sculpture by David Appleyard was installed in Penderyn Square in Merthyr Tydfil in 2017. It honours Richard Lewis, known as Dic Penderyn, who was hanged in Cardiff on the 13th August 1831, for his part in the Chartist Rising in Merthyr. Penderyn was convicted of stabbing and wounding a soldier with a bayonet, on very shaky evidence, and came to be considered a martyr by the working people of the town and of Wales generally. The heart is made from steel derived from iron from the Cyfarthfa ironworks in the town; cuts to the wages of the already hard-pressed workers at Cyfarthfa were among the sparks that ignited the uprising. Before the heart are four sandstone slabs, letter-carved by John Neilsen with a poem commissioned from Gillian Clarke: The Rising Bearing their Welsh, their hunger, cold, they trudged the roads from Ceredigion, Carmarthenshire, the lonely upland farms, to Merthyr and a dream of gold. Ironstone miners, puddlers. Their hearts of iron made their masters rich, Merthyr our biggest town, twenty-thousand by eighteen thirty one, that blazing day a working class was born. They gathered beneath the peaks of Pen-y-Fan, Corn Ddu, Cribyn, and soldiers shot them down. Lament injustice, slaughter, the good man hanged as a warning: Dic Penderyn. Yn gweithio ym mwyngloddiau’r dwyrain, ifanc, dewr, Dic Penderyn, calon gref, calon haearn, dieuog i’r crocbren. The final stanza is an englyn, a traditional Welsh poetic form, and speaks of Penderyn's "strong heart, iron heart, innocent to the gallows." For the inscriptions, see Image] and Image See also David Appleyard's site https://www.davidappleyard.co.uk/merthyr-heart , also Wikipedia on Penderyn https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dic_Penderyn and on the Merthyr Rising https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merthyr_Rising .

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This OS cut mark can be found on a wall post in front of Hope Chapel. It marks a point 179.207m above mean sea level.

This OS cut mark can be found on the building which was once the Mile End PH. It marks a point 180.4197m above mean sea level.