I remember Eddie so well. Used to mess about in his boxing gym in Penydarren where my elder brother gave me a pasting in the ring☹️ as a friend of Eddie junior we used to call on him, gather up all his cricket stuff (he had the lot) and play cricket up the cop fields. Eddie jnr was a good guitarist and singer as well. He used to take a huge radio with him and it’s on that, whilst walking to the cop to play that I heard my first Beatles song. Twist and shout, if I rem correctly. Such happy days😊😊😊😊
I left Merthyr in 1965, but remember the days when you could find Eddie Thomas, together with Howard Winstone and Johnny Gamble in the Station Cafe on Saturday mornings. A man I knew was friendly with Eddie and once, when Eddie was still boxing, went up to visit him at his family's drift mine. He found Eddie Thomas up to his waist in cold water, trying to fix a drainage pump in the mine. Okay, part of running a small drift mine, but Eddie had a fight in London four days from then! He was hard man, and it didn't come from gym work.
No pathetic one way system,no Turkish barbers,no smack heads,no immigrants,no friggin photo of narcissistic Dawn Bowden,those were the days, only thing that's better now than then is we have Witherspoon's 😅
Ah, Dowlais. Edward VIII came by in the 1930's and said, "Something must be done". It wasn't, and so we have it as it is now. Sad to see post industrial Wales. I remember it well....
I remember Eddie so well. Used to mess about in his boxing gym in Penydarren where my elder brother gave me a pasting in the ring☹️ as a friend of Eddie junior we used to call on him, gather up all his cricket stuff (he had the lot) and play cricket up the cop fields. Eddie jnr was a good guitarist and singer as well. He used to take a huge radio with him and it’s on that, whilst walking to the cop to play that I heard my first Beatles song. Twist and shout, if I rem correctly. Such happy days😊😊😊😊
I left Merthyr in 1965, but remember the days when you could find Eddie Thomas, together with Howard Winstone and Johnny Gamble in the Station Cafe on Saturday mornings. A man I knew
was friendly with Eddie and once, when Eddie was still boxing, went up to visit him at his family's drift mine. He found Eddie Thomas up to his waist in cold water, trying to fix a drainage pump
in the mine. Okay, part of running a small drift mine, but Eddie had a fight in London four days from then! He was hard man, and it didn't come from gym work.
He trained my mothers nephew maldwyn Isaacs of brynmawr a perfect gentleman just like all the good boxer's god bless
No pathetic one way system,no Turkish barbers,no smack heads,no immigrants,no friggin photo of narcissistic Dawn Bowden,those were the days, only thing that's better now than then is we have Witherspoon's 😅
Before our government turned soft and sold the country out, I'm 20 now, wouldn't want to imagine what the country will look like for my grandkids
Ah, Dowlais. Edward VIII came by in the 1930's and said, "Something must be done". It wasn't, and so we have it as it is now. Sad to see post industrial Wales. I remember it well....
My dad was in school with him
Reminiscing with stories about all the old folk dying and the ponies freezing to death.
Shame he doesn't have nicer memories than those.