Talybont on Usk though time: a photographic journey

This account contains images, documents and local information and research relating to the Talybont-on-Usk community, originally made accessible via the website https://www.talybontonusk.wales/ ‘Talybont on Usk though time: a photographic journey’.

The collection comprises 237 items, organized according to their original publication and thematic categories. These themes include Landscape, History, Places of Worship, Transport and Industry, Land Use, Settlements, Schools, Wartime, Societies, Entertainment and Events, and Attractions.

Each item has been grouped into collections within these primary themes.

Introduction from original website:

Talybont on Usk – Our Community – Past to the Present

A record of our community spanning the centuries has been long overdue and with encouragement I have spent several years building a collection of generously donated images – both old and new. In addition listening to local knowledge and research have resulted in this website. This format will allow users to readily access the different sections, contribute further images, make comments and possible corrections – dates have been problematic – to what must remain as work in progress.

— John Jones

Acknowledgements:

This project would not have been possible without the photographs – both old and new, knowledge of events over decades, sources of information and suggestions of topics from so many people.

My special thanks go to Peter Seaman for current photographs and skilful enhancement of old images and his pertinent comments, Seamus Hamill-Keays for being an enthusiastic detective turning up so many newspaper articles, photographs and background information, Ron Leyton for researching and producing a detailed map of the land holdings in the Glyn, the late Roger Walker who rekindled my earlier thoughts about this project and got it under way, and Nic Carter-Jones of New Millennium Internet who designed and created this website most professionally and patiently.

Other valued contributors are Geoff Sykes for showing me his vast collection of photographs and exchange of images, Margaret Probert for her encyclopedic knowledge of Talybont, David Evans, Sara Osborne, Brenda Powell, Glasnant, Linda and Huw Morgan, Sandra Briskham, Tim Lewis, Pam Langton, Stella Powell, Karen Farr, Alan Jones, Gill Needham, Simon Smith, Bill Davies, Robert Hansel, Pat Stroud, Glen Harris, Gareth Williams, Howard Morgan, Margaret Roderick, Pat Wilkie, Craig Burdon, Brecon Museum and library, Powys County Archives, Kidderminster Railway Museum.