Tonypandy in the Parish of Ystradyfodwg

Tonypandy Library
De Winton Street
Tonypandy
CF40 2QZ

See Welsh Chapels and Churches for a photograph of;

• Tonypandy De Winton St United Reformed    (English Congregational chapel (United Reformed Church), De Winton St, Tonypandy)  
• Tonypandy Thomas St English Primitive Methodist
• Tonypandy Pandy Square Bethania Chapel      (Bethania CM chapel (Trefnyddion Bethania Calfinaidd), Church St, Tonypandy)
• Tonypandy Llwynypia Jerusalem Welsh Baptist       (Jerusalem Welsh Baptist chapel, Llwynypia Rd, Tonypandy)
• Tonypandy Methodist Church    (Tonypandy Methodist Church, Llwynypia - used to be Zion Primitive Methodist))
• Tonypandy St Andrews Church
• Tonypandy Trinity Church     (Trinity English CM chapel, Dunraven St/Trinity Rd, Tonypandy)
• Tonypandy Dunraven Street, Ebenezer Welsh Congregational - built 1869 - now Grade II Listed

Various items  - on the People's Collection Wales site

• Ebenezer Chapel, Tonypandy
• English Congregational Chapel, Tonypandy
• Bethania Chapel, Tonypandy

For full and up-to-date details of their holdings see the sites of Glamorgan Record Office and/or West Glamorgan Archives

See Welsh Chapels and Churches for a photograph

The church is dedicated to St. Andrew, is in the Benefice of Tonypandy with Clydach Vale, and the diocese of Llandaff. Details of the present incumbent of this benefice can be found at the Church in Wales website. The church can be located at grid reference SS993928.

Historic Landscape Characterisation: The Rhondda - on the CADW site.  
Fully explore the site - there are separate detailed sections for places in the area

Tonypandy - on the Rhondda Cynon Taf Libraries Heritage Trail site

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Transcript of complete name listing for Treherbert and Ystrad-Rhondda, with the parish and hamlets of Ystradyfodwg, Blaen-y-cwm, Blaen-y-Rhondda, Cwmdare, Cwmpark, Llwynpia, Pen-y-graig, Penyrenglyn, Pentre, Ton-pentre-ystrad, Ton-y-pandy, Treorky, Tynewydd and Tynybedw, from Slaters Directory for 1880.

Extract From Kelly's South Wales Directory 1923  (ArchiveCDBooks)  - transcribed by Gareth Hicks

• "YNYSCYNON is a township forming part of the Urban District of Rhondda, on the eastern side of Rhondda valley, 7 miles, north-west from Pontypridd and about a quarter of a mile from Llwynypia station on the Rhondda branch of the Great Western railway. It was formed into a separate ecclesiastical parish on Jan. 3rd 1922  from the parish of St. Andrew, Tonypandy. The church of St. Cynon, erected in 1922 at a cost of £3000 is built in the North French Gothic style, with Byzantine windows, and has sittings for 450 persons. The living is a vicarage with Sherwood, net yearly value £250 in the gift of the Bishop of Llandaff and the Board Patronage, and held since 1923 by the Rev. Thomas James Meredith Morris L.Th. of Durham University and L.Div. The parish hall, erected in 1904 at a cost of £400, has seating accommodation for 265 persons"

• Ask for a calculation of the distance from Tonypandy in the Parish of Ystradyfodwg to another place.

Various items  - on the People's Collection Wales site

• Dunraven Street, Tonypandy c1911 
• Empire Theatre, Dunraven Street, Tonypandy, about 1912

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SS993924 (Lat/Lon: 51.621381, -3.455999), Tonypandy in the Parish of Ystradyfodwg which are provided by:

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• StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
• OpenStreetMap Cymru (Welsh counties only)
• Bing (was Multimap)
• Old Maps Online
• National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey maps)
• Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
• Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
• GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)

• All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.

Tonypandy 1910 - the dispute at the Cambrian Combine leading to riots in the streets of Tonypandy - on the Rhondda Cynon Taf Libraries Heritage Trail site

Various items - on the People's Collection Wales site

• Collecting for the miners, Tonypandy 
• Police Officers at the Tonypandy Coal Strike, 1910-1911
• Miners waiting to go into a mass meeting at the Empire Theatre , Tonypandy, November 1910, during the Cambrian Combine strike.
• Collier boy named 'Hapenny', from the Tonypandy area, about 1920
• Black and white film negative of a photograph showing a surface view of Nantgwyn Colliery, Tonypandy.
• Postcard of Glamorgan Constabulary police officers taking part in rifle drill at Tonypandy, Rhondda Valleys October 1914.
• A section of Glamorgan Constabulary officers on duty at Pandy Pits, Tonypandy in the Rhondda Valley during the 1921 coal strike. 

Details of extant records on Archives Network Wales for the following;

• Tonypandy Comprehensive School records     1978-2000          "............ was established in 1978. It was originally known as Mid Rhondda Comprehensive school but was renamed in 1982. The school was created through the merger of several other local schools, being Tonypandy Grammar, Tonypandy Secondary, Blaenclydach Secondary Modern and Bodringallt Secondary Modern. ......................"                   "........... comprising of admission registers, 1978-1991; log book, 1978-2000; upper school admission registers, 1979-1990"
• Tonypandy Grammar school records             "........... comprising of admissions registers, 1945-1978"
• "Tonypandy Secondary school was built in 1915, and opened its doors to its first pupils in 1916. It was a mixed school. It ceased to exist in 1978"               ".............. comprising of admission registers, 1916-1947; past students register, 1915-1926; staff register, 1915-1950; printed reports of inspections and examinations, 1933-1948; log books, 1915-1978"

An image of the Tonypandy Cricket Club during the 1950s. - on the People's Collection Wales site