The history of the Town brought alive.

DALEKS - Designed and built by Bill Roberts,
born in Penydarren, but who moved to Uxbridge, Middlesex in 1936,and subsequenlt set up an engineering company employing almost 40 personnel.
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Iron Ore Mining

3000 BC - 43 AD : BRONZE AGE

• 1805 : Ynysfach Ironworks opened

Stones of Wales

• 1825 : William Crawshay builds Cyfarthfa Castle at cost of £30,000

43 - 410 AD : ROMANS

• 1831 : Merthyr Riots

480 : SAXONS

• 1841 : Taff Vale Railway completed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel

1270 : Gilbert de Clare builds Morlais Castle

• 1860 : Brecon and Merthyr Tydfil Railway established with construction of Cefn and Pontsarn Viaducts

11478 : Small scale iron industry

• 1865 : Bessemer invented steel making process

1650 : Quakers Yard established

• 1879 : Deep Navigation Colliery completed

1759 : Dowlais Ironworks opened

• 1892 Boxer Jimmy Wilde born

1763 : Plymouth Ironworks opened

• 1950's : Merthyr AFC - Greatest non-league soccer side in the U.K.

1765 : Cyfarthfa Ironworks opened

• 1957 : Brecon Beacons National Park opened

1784 : Penydarren Ironworks opened

• 1966 : Aberfan Disaster

1785 : Josiah Guest born

• 1968 : Howard Winstone becomes World Featherweight Boxing Champion

1790-94 : Watkin George constructed firstIron Girder Bridge in Modern World

• 1985 : Sir Clive Sinclair builds revolutionary C5 at Pentrebach

1794 : Merthyr Tydfil and Cardiff Canal completed and Richard Crawshay purchases Cyfarthfa Works.

• 1987 : Owen Money takes to the Air Waves

1801 : Largest Town in Wales, population 8000

• 1997 : Julien Macdonald takes London Fashion Week by storm

1802 : Lord Nelson visits Cyfarthfa

• 1900's to Date : Heroes of Merthyr

1803 : Penydarren Tramway opens with horse- drawn loads.

1804: Richard Trevithick invented steam engine to run on rails

• Specialists in Industrial & Transport History

John Jenkins born 1838 – First ever Merthyr representative on Glamorgan County Council – grandson now living in Leicestershire.

John Collins VC