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This web-site was set up in February 2003 to enable me to share with you a large collection of photographs of the Bridgend area. On this site you will find pictures and information on a variety of subjects relating to the pictorial history of Bridgend and its surrounding towns and villages.

Over the years I have taken around 6000 negatives and 2000 slides dating from the early 1970s to the late 1990s and latterly using a digital camera. In addition there is a large quantity of inherited negatives dating from the early 1900s to the 1960s. Included are also a number of photographs from other sources, post cards, school photos etc. Of this large collection less than 5% is of Bridgend and the district.

www.opobs.co.uk

Bridgend - South Wales - UK

Generally, all photographs will be credited to a photographer or source. I have included images in all good faith, but if you believe a picture should be excluded or is incorrectly captioned or credited do please contact me. No photographs on this site have been copied from published sources (with a few exceptions duly credited). If some of the photos on this site look familiar to you, it's probably because a number of my pictures have appeared in local photographic history publications.

To navigate the site click on any of the blue or button links; this will take you to a subject page. The links will change colour when you have visited that page. On some pages a few of the photographs will enlarge by clicking on them.

If you click on a link that is hosted on another site, this will open in a new tab or window depending upon how you have set up your browser. To return to this site, simply close the page or tab that opens.

We hope you enjoy your visit and bookmark this page to frequently visit us again.

mjs@opobs.co.uk

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Recently, photographs from this website have started to appear on other sites, particularly social networks.

May I remind visitors that much of the material shown here is copyright and may only be used with permission.

Please contact me if you have a genuine reason to require the use of one of my pictures, I'm usually only too willing to help.

Many thanks, Mike - mjs@opobs.co.uk

LATEST UPDATES

08/02/14 - Comments boxes have been added to all pages.

17/01/2014 - Photographs added to Boys Brigade page courtesy of Mike Littlejohns.

21/11/13 - New page and 11 photos added to Schools section

19/11/13 - 21 photographs added to 1973 Porthcawl Carnival page.

15/11/13 - Childhood Memories page updated with many new links to my stories hosted by Wordpress.

24/10/13 - Four new pages and fifteen additional photos added to the schools section. Please visit the Schools Index for full details.

23/10/13 - New Page added - 1977 Ogwr Tiki Raft Race.

22/10/13 - Penybont School - some pages re-organised. Please visit the Schools Index for full details.
Heolgam School page also reorganised and updated with additional photograph.

	Bridgend Events
1948 - National Eisteddfod 1950s - Carnival Parade 1950s - Winter Snow 1960 - December - The Floods 1963 - January - Winter 1973 - Bridgend Carnival 1973 - Marching Bands Parade	1974 - Bridgend Show 1974 - Bridgend Carnival 1974 - Bridgend Steam Fayre 1975 - Bridgend Carnival 1975 - Ogwr Tiki Raft Race 1975 - Boy's Brigade Parade 1977 - Ogwr Tiki Raft Race	1978 - February - The Blizzard 1979 - January - Snow Storm 1981 - Grove Road Street Party 1982 - January - The Blizzard 1992 - Bridgend Model Show 2011 - Grove Road Street Party 2012 - Grove Road Jubilee Party

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Around Bridgend & District

Churches and Chapels
Hope Baptist Church
Litchard Mission Church
Stokes & Sons
Then & Now
The Bus Station
Mystery Photographs
Newbridge Fields
Little West Garden Railway
Tributaries of the Ogmore river
Boats on the River Ogmore
Margam Sawmill 1980
The buses of Coity Motors
The Market
The Embassy Cinema

Youth Organisations

ATC
Boy's Brigade
Scouts

Glamorgan Events

1911-14 Aberkenfig Carnivals
1971 - Cowbridge Carnival
1972 - Fire at Tythegston
1973 - Porthcawl Carnival
1973 - Picketston Steam Rally
1974 - Gower Agricultural Show
1975 - Cowbridge carnival
1975 - Southerndown Steam Rally
1976 - Southerndown Steam Rally
1970s - Maesteg Railways
1982 - Kenfig Hill Show
1985 - Little West Vintage Show
1980s - Ewenny Summer Show

Friends of opobs
Photographs from contributors which don't fit in with any of the themes of the site. This section is to show those pictures.

Jim Hatch

Brynley Hughes

David Roberts

Richard Williams

SCHOOL
PHOTOGRAPHS
33 pages with 336 photographs

POSTCARDS
of the Bridgend Area
2 pages with 60 illustrations

BRICKWORKS
of the Bridgend Area
13 pages with 41 illustrations

LINKS &
CONTACTS
Links to websites of local interest

1937
TOWN GUIDE
38 pages with illustrations and adverts