Images of Wales

Merthyr Tydfil
Glamorgan

Photography by John Ball - 30th April 1998
(with Agfa ePhoto307 digital camera)

Scenes taken on a sunny spring day in the centre of the old town of Merthyr Tydfil, once one of the most important industrial centres in Britain.

Left: The old Town Hall building. Erected in 1896, it is now [1998] a night club.

Above: Chaplin's Café Bar in High Street.

Above: Roberts Lane.

Above: High Street Baptist Chapel, built in 1841.
This image of an early painting of the chapel is reproduced by kind permission of John Eaton who
explains, I was given this old picture of a Chapel in Merthyr. It is where my great grandmother
was married.

Below left: A modern photograph of High Street Baptist Chapel.

Above right: The Scala is now [1998] a snooker hall, but in 1852 it was the Temperance Hall.

Above: A terrace of workers' cottages in Tramroadside North.