Boxer Eddie Thomas reminisces as he drives from Merthyr to Dowlais.

Mae Eddie Thomas yn mynd ar daith sy’n son am ei fagwraeth yn ardal Merthyr . Mae’r siwrne yn dechrau yn nhref Merthyr wrth iddo son am ei ymweliadau i’r caffis Eidalaidd pan oedd yn ifanc. Maen eistedd yn sedd flaen y car yn son am y lleoliadau pwysig iddo wrth gofio am ei fagwraeth a straeon y teulu. Maen’t yn mynd ymlaen ar eu taith at Dowlais ac yn son am y daearyddiaeth a’r hinsawdd a sut mae pobl yr ardal yn ymdopi gyda’r tywydd ac yn effeithio arnynt . Mae’n trafod sut effaith mae hyn wedi cael ar ddynion oedd yn paffio ac enwogion o’r ardal.
Eddie Thomas drives through Merthyr and reminisces about his youth and visits to the local Bracchi café. The journey continues up to Dowlais, driving past landmarks and talking about his family and upbringing. The boxer talks about the climate and geography and how this has affected the people who live up on Dowlais top, and considers what makes a great boxer - and why so many famous boxers came from the Merthyr area.
04/06/1997 Champ from the Colliers’s Row: Eddie Thomas
BBC Cymru Wales
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[@philthomas9732]

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😊😊😊😊

[@garethdavies2538]

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.

[@jimandmarypowell9783]

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....

[@gwynbrown2763]

My dad was in school with him

[@brianedwards1733]

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 😅