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By Torfaen Museum Micah Lewis, seated on the right, who was head packer at Town Forge in Pontypool for over 30 years, taken in 1920. Picture: Torfaen Museum. IN THE early nineteenth century, Molly Hanbury Leigh of Pontypool House introduced some regeneration and landscaping of Pontypool Park, including the building of the Shell Grotto, Rustic Arbour, picnic features along the brook, kitchen gardens and palm houses, a new stable block (now the museum) and other features - as was the garden fashion of the day. As part of the landscapi...

By Torfaen Museum The boatman's cottage (left) at Glyn Pits and the railway to Hafodyrynys pits in the twentieth century. Picture: Torfaen Museum. ONE of the most well known, early twentieth century photographs of the Pontypool area is that of the skaters on Glyn Ponds. The Glyn Ponds were in the Glyn Valley which ran from Lower Race to Hafodyrynys (‘Cwm Glyn’ became later known as ‘Crumlin’). The ponds were originally a source of water for the Glyn Furnace and the Town Forge as well as the Monmouthshire canal (Crumlin bran...