All Graig Du Theatre Players Pages (108)

Dinas Road before the clearance.

Ebenezer Chapel is in the background and the open space is where the Boot Inn once stood. Many of the early houses in Dinas, Porth, and Cymmer were built of Pennant Sandstone, sourced from local quar… View »

Boot Inn, Dinas.

This photograph shows the Boot Inn, Dinas Road, with Ebenezer Chapel behind it.. View »

Death of Arthur Rees, Appletree, Dinas. 1908.

I mentioned the tragic early death of Arthur Rees, the boy-genius, in an earlier blog. This is the supplement from the Rhondda Leader of April 11th, 1908. View »

The Dinas Pals'1914.

Another rare photograph is the one shown above of the Dinas Pals'. It was sent home to my grandmother Morfydd by her brother Phillip Davies, Brook Cottage, who served with the Suffolk Regiment and wa… View »

Brook Cottage, Dinas.

The photograph that  I have choose to represent the Graig Du Theatre Players is a rare image from Dinas, Rhondda, taken in the 1890s of my great-grandparents William and Sarah Ann Davies. Their cot… View »

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