Introduction: A great source of information for old stories of the village are the old newspaper archives. I found this particular story in The Aberdare Leader from 14th April 1914. It concerns a trip that was planned by the members of the Cork Club in the village to...
I was lucky enough to receive a four page article from Glyn Davies recently. The article was written by Graham Hall on why the small "Dale", Cwm Boyle, was so named. The article was researched and wonderfully written by Graham Hall whose links to the village go back...
What is a Drought: In the United Kingdom an absolute drought is currently defined "as a period of at least 15 consecutive days when there is less than 0.2 mm (0.008 inches) of rainfall", although before the 1990s a drought was defined as "15 consecutive days with...