Photographs of Pontardawe 12
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Pontardawe
Local authors
1.Davies, John Henry of Cwmgors and Pontardawe
Mining engineer/college principal/author
This photograph is from the dust jacket to his book
History of Pontardawe and District published in 1967, he died 4 years later.
https://www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/GLA/Llangiwg/Pontardawe/PONTDIST
There is also a photograph of him as a much younger man with his brothers on my Davies web site
http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~tirbach/family/Albums/Tirbach2a/tirbach2…
2.Morgan, John (Hirfryn), Pontardawe
Author of local history books
This photograph comes from the inside cover of a photocopy of his book
The History of Pontardawe which he wrote in 1908/11
https://www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/GLA/Llangiwg/Pontardawe/Pontardawe
See also biographical entries for both men on Local People of Note
https://www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/GLA/Llangiwg/people
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