NOSTALGIA: Getting into trouble on Broad Street in Blaenavon
Broad Street in Blaenavon at the turn of the twentieth century. Picture: Torfaen Museum. ONLY a couple of years after this photograph was taken, a tale of trauma was to take place under Broad Street, according to John Lewis and Malcolm Thomas in their book ‘Blaenavon through the years’. In 1917, a five-year-old called Bill George was collecting water for his chickens in a culvert in Amors Field to the rear of King Street. There had been a lot of recent rainfall and Bill fell into the culvert and disappeared into the fast flowing water course which swept him under the town and toward...
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