Mountain Ash?

[[Ray]]

Hi

Use the link given [ http://www.zoopla.co.uk/property/3-ifor-street/mountain-ash/cf45-3hn/4316052 ]

Travel to the top of Darran Road / junction High Street.
Pan the camera right, so you are looking down the major length of High Street.
Look at the background mountain and note the green patch just down and right of the "kink" at the top middle.
Then compare the "kink" and light-coloured patch on the original photograph.
Close?

Could they have gone to the local "park" ("Bryn Ifor") to have the photo taken?
Ifor street is quite low and the original photo has been taken from above some rows of houses.

Of course another major problem is that most of the chimneys have been removed?

Ray

[pmarrs]

i was refering to who the people were my aunt and grandmother were originally from mountain ash but move to birmingham. the man at the back and to the right is my grandfather norman horton. They still had relitives there in the 1990s probably still do.

[[Ray]]

Hi pmarrs and Welcome to Rootschat

I was referring to the initial request of the thread to identify the location of where the photo was taken,
which hadn't appeared to have been answered.

Ray


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Posted by: SandraAmy
« on: March 23, 2010, 12:32:02 PM »
I have a photograph which I think was taken in the early 1930's.
I think it was taken in Mountain Ash.
Can anyone verify this, please?
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[bessant]

hello.......the photo was taken looking north, looking towards cefn penner , location...at the rear garden of No 1 ifor street at the junction of napier st .the high brick wall just visible in the photo  is that of what was a large building that has been altered one storey reduction .the high 3 to 4 storey buildings in the foreground is the mountain ash workingman's club and inst; other buildings in the foreground were chapels etc , now demolished . go to google earth the workingman's club is in oxford st, part of the main road thro "the mount" check it out. i was a t.v service engineer in mountain ash in the 1960/ 1970 's  the mount has deteriorated and not a patch on it's former self, i am 99.99% certain of this ,correct me if i'm wrong.

[Allan John]

This photo was certainly taken in Mountain Ash. The fields above the large building belong to Gelli Du Farm with Mynydd Merthyr in the background above. The large building is the Workman's Hall and given the proximity of Ivor Street to Oxford Street (Where the Workman's Hall is located) one can be pretty sure it was taken in or around Ivor Street.