The lady to the far right of the picture is Mary James, Great Grandmother to our local councillor Mr Neil Waite
The photographs are of the Long Row and Maunds Row taken around the year 1910.
Some five hundred yards East of the Glyn Pits is the Upper Race. The cottages (together with a small chapel) in the picture above were situated close to the top of the Race Road, and close to the site of the original Blaendare furnaces, coke ovens, brickworks, Etc. These cottages were typical workers dwellings of the turn of the eighteenth century, and probably due to lack of money and maintenance, would have suffered from dampness, as they would not have had damp courses etc. nor, as in the picture above, rainwater gutters or down-pipes, although in the photograph of Long Row, the nearer houses are fitted with both. Undoubtedly, some of the men living here would have been employed at both the Glyn Pits and Blaendare Collieries.
