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| pierre |
Posted - 04/09/2010 : 19:29:15 September 2010. Thought they were going to pull this down ?

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| mike |
Posted - 06/06/2012 : 22:00:05 Well, I don't know what the inside of the new buildings is like, but it seems that they have made at least a reasonable attempt to capture the outside appearance.
Mike
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| pierre |
Posted - 06/06/2012 : 21:07:53 well, here is an update on the cottage homes site.
Look at the first picture, then look at the photo below.

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| morgan.m |
Posted - 31/03/2012 : 17:43:29 Hi Sweetiepie Check out the post by Vernon Flicker which is in Guest Book Forum 2/10/2011 he was at the homes from 1936---48
morgan |
| Sweetiepie |
Posted - 31/03/2012 : 11:48:06 I was there also from 1955 to 1959 ,i remember a lady we called nannie that we all loved. I recently went back in February this year and I was shown around by the site manager , he recalled that a gentleman had also called in to look around that may or not be Mr. Wilson Jnr. I would love to hear from anyone who has memories of living there also.
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| gatekeeper |
Posted - 27/09/2011 : 20:31:39 i see that the new building is almost done.
who will move in and when ? |
| tarkus |
Posted - 13/09/2010 : 17:39:58 I'm only a pup, i can only go as far back as horace 
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| fredd |
Posted - 13/09/2010 : 13:57:06 I was thinking of horace's father George Wilson who was indeed a coal miner and a damn good banjo player he lived at Tabernacle cottages in Dukestown. |
| tarkus |
Posted - 11/09/2010 : 17:28:00 Horace wilson
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| milkman |
Posted - 11/09/2010 : 14:54:20 You are right and I recalled that afterwards! He was known as "Darkie Wilson" and was regarded as a true gentleman by all who knew and worked with him (he was a miner, I believe) I think "Brown Bomber" was his son. He drove buses for Charlie Hill, Old age doesnt let us remember everything.
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| fredd |
Posted - 10/09/2010 : 22:02:21 quote: Originally posted by milkman
All boys from the Cottage Homes went to Earl St, I believe. There was a black boy named Flicka; unusual for we Tredegarites since there were no Black people in the town.
what about the gentleman called mr wilson?
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| milkman |
Posted - 10/09/2010 : 21:48:24 All boys from the Cottage Homes went to Earl St, I believe. There was a black boy named Flicka; unusual for we Tredegarites since there were no Black people in the town. |
| fredd |
Posted - 10/09/2010 : 21:24:50 quote: Originally posted by tarkus
We Had a boy in class in earl st from there nicknamed 'punch'he could to. little bugger was hard as nails but a nice boy.

i remember the name punch but i cant put a face to him or his name |
| tarkus |
Posted - 10/09/2010 : 19:05:28 We Had a boy in class in earl st from there nicknamed 'punch'he could to. little bugger was hard as nails but a nice boy.
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| milkman |
Posted - 10/09/2010 : 17:02:41 A number of "cottage-homers" went to the Grammar School and did pretty well. I recall Eddie Jones and Graham Treharne. Many of them were really good lads whose parents had some misfortune |
| fredd |
Posted - 04/09/2010 : 22:26:28 Went in there about 20 years ago , big rooms with high ceilings they where very spartan robust and pretty much probably how they had been for donkeys years. Very interesting buildings , i thought they should have been listed buildings ,i also thought this 5.6 million pound or probably more would more than have covered restoring these as well ? |
| gatekeeper |
Posted - 04/09/2010 : 21:41:33 by the look of the out side, not very good |
| oldcefnlad |
Posted - 04/09/2010 : 21:39:16 All the time that building has been there i have never been in there often wonder what it looks like inside. |