SITE OF PLAQUE In the grounds of Bryn Bach Parc REASON FOR PLAQUE This plaque, on a piece of four foot quarried stone, was unveiled in remembrance of a wartime RAF bomber crash which killed one of its crew. The memorial is important because although many of the military aircraft crashes across south Wales have…
Gwalia Boot Factory This plaque was unveiled by BGHF to mark where the former Gwalia Boot Factory, which later became the ‘Brynmawr Experiment’ reopened by Peter Scott and the Quakers as the Brynmawr Furniture Factory. The factory was heavily involved in war production for things such the webbing for the Mosquito fighter bomber during the…
3rd Battalion of the Monmouthshire Battalion Site of Plaque This plaque is placed in the grounds of Bedwellty House and Park. It was put into position with a dedication ceremony to honour the locally recruited men of the 3rd Mons’ Battalion who gave their lives during the 1914-18 ‘Great War’. Reason for plaque the regiment…
SITE OF PLAQUE The Cambrian Inn, Tredegar REASON FOR PLAQUE BGHF funded this plaque in recognition of Rhys Davies, an engineer from Tredegar who is said to have changed American history. Rhys left South Wales in 1833 to help build Tredegar Ironworks in Richmond, Virginia, which was named in his honour. This Ironworks extended the…
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…
