I grew up in Creigiau and have very fond memories of it. When we first moved there, there was a row of thatched cottages opposite the village hall which were lived in by gypsies.

My father painted a canvas backdrop for the stage in the village hall showing the cottages because he realised that they wouild soon be pulled down.

The train service was quite regular, and we children used to play on the platform of the goods shed.

In the summer we played tennis on the two grass courts. Opposite the courts stood Castell Mynach Farm which was lived in by the Crook family who delivered milk from a horse and cart.

The two Miss Jones kept the village shop which was a tin shack really but they had everything one could wish for.

The 'New Road', which had been partly layed before the war but never finished, ended in the Primrose field, and rising up from this field was the land of another ancient farm where I used to go riding called Penllwyn. The quarry had yet to eat up this farm and all its land.

At the end of Pantygored Road stood Pantygored Farm, which by repute had once played host to the Black Prince. It was owned by the Thomas family.

The farm which had the dolmen shown in the other pictures on the site was called Llwnbrain and lived in by the Davies family.