Photos courtesy of Margaret Garrett
your comments
Anthony Smith, Reading
What a great photo. My nan Meldreth John (Nurse John) was head nurse at the surgery for many, many years having moved down from Aberdare Hospital. My mum, Monica Smith, also worked there for many years and I vividly remember being taken there as a child when I was off school through illness. The place gave me the creeps, probably due to the ghost stories about the place nan would recount.
Hugh Hopkins from Aberdare
The Trap surgery was in Abernant Road.
Debbie Broxham (Reynolds), Queensland, Australia
Could not believe it when looking through your family album on the internet. I was brought up in Aberdare and lived in the Trap surgery with my grandparents and mother. Very happy times there - my nan was like a caretaker there but the doctors were like family to us. I have left Aberdare now and just moved with my husband & son (4yrs) to Queensland, Australia. The pictures that I saw brought happy thoughts.
Garth Manning from Canada
The old Trap Surgery was on the right side of Abernant Road, just after the High Level bridge and the turn off to Cwmbach. My grandmother was Anne Fletcher (Fletchers the Grocers of Commercial Street) who used to pasture her delivery horse in a field behind the Surgery - pre WW2.
Ann from Bath
If this is Trap Surgery, is it also Trap Road, Aberdare?
