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…
Image: Birds eye view of Tredegar and the Upper Sirhowy valley. Photo courtesy of Mike Williams Places of Worship in Tredegar and the Upper Sirhowy Area Ken Davies (b.1952) passed away suddenly in 2022 leaving behind Meryl, Huw and family. Ken was a keen photographer and avid local historian, who had amassed a large collection…
