Sir Daniel Gooch

SITE OF PLAQUE The Railway Tavern, Tredegar REASON FOR PLAQUE BGHF funded this plaque  in recognition of Sir Daniel Gooch, the world-famous engineer who received his early training at Tredegar Iron Works and later became Locomotive Engineer for Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s Great Western Railway. He employed Brunel’s ‘Great Eastern’ steamship to lay the first Trans-Atlantic…

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Ginger Parsons

One of the oldest miners in the UK, Ginger Parsons, visiting an exhibit to the Marine Colliery disaster of 1927 (Image: Blaenau Gwent CBC) Ginger Parsons – believed to be one of, if not the, oldest former miner in the UK celebrates his 102nd birthday! Ginger revealed his incredible life story while visiting an exhibition…

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Brian Davies

Picture: Brian in dialogue with Michael Sheen at the Welsh Oak (BBC 2015) Picture is taken from Les James’ editorial in the latest edition of Chartist eMAGAZINE As a Forum we are all deeply saddened to hear of the very recent, and sudden, death of Brian Davies of Mountain Ash. He made a significant contribution…