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Road bridge over the Sirhowy, Tredegar
View from Park Place. The river here flows on the east side of the A4048.
Image: © Jaggery
Taken: 5 Sep 2013
0.03 miles
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Mark Williams Snooker Club, Tredegar
Previously named Tredegar Snooker Centre, this building in Park Place has been Mark Williams Snooker Club since 2010. It is owned by Mark Williams MBE, a Welsh professional snooker player. He was World Snooker Champion twice, in 2000 and 2003.
Image: © Jaggery
Taken: 5 Sep 2013
0.05 miles
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Park Place houses, Georgetown, Tredegar
The houses in this part of Park Place face a fence and trees lining the east bank of the Sirhowy River.
Image: © Jaggery
Taken: 5 Sep 2013
0.06 miles
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Mark Williams Snooker Club, Vale Terrace, Georgetown
Image: © Ian S
Taken: 24 May 2014
0.06 miles
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Venue 1 and Kidz R Us, Tredegar
The former Presbyterian Park Place Chapel is now Venue 1, a party & conference venue and also the home of Kidz R Us, where a wide variety of weekly classes for children take place. There are classes for drama, street dance, choir & vocal coaching, karate, Zumba etc.
Image: © Jaggery
Taken: 5 Sep 2013
0.07 miles
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Stable Lane, Tredegar
Looking north towards the B4256, past St James Parade http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3639056 on the left.
Image: © Jaggery
Taken: 5 Sep 2013
0.07 miles
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Nisa Local and Georgetown post office, Tredegar
Viewed across Park Place.
Image: © Jaggery
Taken: 5 Sep 2013
0.08 miles
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Royal Mail Delivery Office, Tredegar
Viewed across Promenade d'Orvault, Tredegar.
Image: © Jaggery
Taken: 5 Sep 2013
0.08 miles
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Hillside houses, Georgetown
A view from the centre of Tredegar across the Sirhowy Valley.
This is the view to the right of that shown here http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3716726 .
Image: © Robin Drayton
Taken: 23 Oct 2013
0.08 miles
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Left turn for the Cholera Cemetery, Tredegar
A sign alongside the B4256 points left towards the Register Office, Leisure Centre and Cholera Cemetery. The cemetery is some distance away, located in Cefn Golau. http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/498760
One of the first outbreaks of cholera, known as the King of Terrors, in Tredegar occurred in the early 1830s. The generally unsanitary conditions in houses (here and elsewhere in the UK) led to a rapid spread of the disease, which is transmitted primarily by drinking water or eating food that has been contaminated by the faeces of an infected person. Tredegar residents buried their dead as far away from the town as possible, hoping that out of sight meant out of mind.
Housing conditions were very bad, without ventilation or drainage. The gaps between houses were unpaved, often following the lines of the streams serving as conduits for excrement. In 1849 Wales experienced its worst cholera outbreak. In Merthyr Tydfil 1,682 people died of cholera, 1 in 50 of the town's population. In Tredegar the death toll from this outbreak was 203. Scarcely a street in the town was unaffected. The last outbreak of cholera here was in 1866.
Image: © Jaggery
Taken: 5 Sep 2013
0.08 miles