Siopau a Busnesau Shops and Businesses - Tal-y-bont

Siopau a Busnesau
Bu llawer o newidiadau ym myd masnach
yn Nhal-y-bont yn ystod y ganrif. Bu yma
dros 30 o siopau ar un adeg yn gwerthu pob
peth o binnau bach i hadau gwair, bwydydd
anifeiliaid a beiciau ond bellach dim ond
dwy siop groser sydd yma sef Central Stores
a Golden Key, un fferyllfa, un siop trin
gwallt a’r garej sydd yn gwerthu llawer o
amrywiol nwyddau, sef bwydydd parod,
hufen iâ, paent a hoelion ac yn y blaen. Mae
yna hefyd siop lyfrau yn y Lolfa yn gwerthu
eu cynnyrch eu hunain.
Hyd at ddiwedd yr Ail Ryfel Byd roedd y
rhan fwyaf o’r nwyddau yn cyrraedd y
siopau yn rhydd ac yn cael eu pwyso fel
byddai’r angen. Ym mhob siop roedd rhesi o
boteli gwydr yn llawn o bob math o gandis
i demtio’r plant.
Ceisiaf restru’r busnesau sydd ar gof a
rhoi sylw byr ar bob un. Gobeithio nad
ydwyf wedi gadael allan yr un ohonynt; gan
na chefais fy ngeni tan 1927, rwyf wedi
gorfod dibynnu ar gyfeillion am lawer o’r
ffeithiau canlynol. Roedd rhai ohonynt yn
cofio dod â’u cynnyrch i’r siopau i’w
gwerthu er mwyn cael arian i brynu
nwyddau eraill. Roedd yn arferiad i
Shops and Businesses
There have been many changes in commerce
in Tal-y-bont during the century. There were
more than thirty shops here at one time
selling all kinds of things from pins to hay
seeds, animal foodstuffs to bikes, but now
there are only two grocery shops, Central
Stores and Golden Key, one chemist shop,
one hairdresser and the garage which sells a
variety of goods, such as convenience foods,
ice cream, paint and nails etc. There is also a
book-shop in Y Lolfa selling their own
products.
Until the end of the Second World War
most of the goods arrived at the shops in
loose form and were weighed as required. In
every shop there were rows of glass bottles
full of all kinds of sweets to tempt children.
I shall try to list the businesses that are
remembered and give a brief comment on
each one. I hope I have not left any out; as I
wasn’t born until 1927, I have had to obtain
many of the following facts from friends.
Several of them remember bringing their
produce to the shops to sell in order to get
money to purchase other goods. Farmers’
wives used to bring eggs and butter and
farmers used to sell vegetables. Many of the
Y Ffordd Fawr cyn lledu’r ffordd
The Main Road before it was widened
91

Ein Canrif – Our Century
Map yn dangos y busnesau
A map showing the businesses
92

Ein Canrif – Our Century
wragedd fferm ddod ag wyau a menyn a’r
ffermwyr yn gwerthu llysiau. Ym mharlwr
y tñ y byddai llawer o’r siopau bach.
1. Yn y pedwardegau fe ddaeth Mr Jim
Edwards o Aberystwyth, a oedd yn grydd, i
agor siop esgidiau yn un o siediau Anwylfa
ac yno roedd y ‘senedd’ yn cael ei chynnal.
Roedd dynion y pentref yn ymgyrchu yno i
gael sgwrs ac i drafod materion y dydd.
Caewyd y siop yn y saithdegau pan aeth yr
adeilad ar dân. Dymchwelwyd Anwylfa a’r
siediau ym 1978 i ledu’r ffordd
2. Ym Mhenlôn, lle mae Brian Jones yn byw
rwan, roedd siop cigydd a lladd-dy William
Davies a’i frawd David. Roedd William
Davies yn fardd ac yn ysgolhaig a cherddor
adnabyddus iawn. Bu farw ym 1939.
Yn y tridegau fe ddaeth David Jones o
Gorris i’r lladd-dy gan adeiladu siop drws
nesa i’r Bryn yn gwerthu cig ac ychydig o
nwyddau.
3. Hefyd ym Mhenlôn (Penlônlas rãan)
roedd siop groser Mrs Richards ac wedyn ei
mab Edwin yn gwerthu nwyddau o bob
math a chandis a pharaffin (oel lamp). Siop
Edwin oedd hi i bawb ond weithiau Siop
Penlôn os fydde rhywun dieithr yn clywed.
Hon oedd ‘tuck-shop’ plant ysgol Tal-y-bont;
roedd yma bob math o gandis. Caewyd y
siop pan fu Edwin farw yn y saithdegau.
4. Yn nes i lawr, gyferbyn â Mertyn, roedd
Walsall Stores, siop groser a dillad. Mr a Mrs
Meth Evans oedd yno hyd 1942. Roedd Meth
hefyd yn saer coed ac yn gwneud eirch i’r
meirw. Roedd ei weithdy tu ôl i Mertyn. I
Walsall Stores deuai Niclas Glais, y deintydd,
unwaith yr wythnos i dynnu dannedd.
Yn 1942 daeth Mr a Mrs Iorwerth Evans
a’r teulu yma o Lundain lle roeddent wedi
bod yn cadw busnes. Roeddent yn gwerthu
pob peth fel o’r blaen a mwy, sef papur wal
ac ati. Roeddent yn rhedeg clwb hefyd, i
gynorthwyo pobl i dalu fel y medrent gan
fod pres yn brin iawn yr adeg honno.
Caewyd y siop yn 1965 pan ymddeolodd
Mr a Mrs Evans.
5. I lawr eto i rif 1 New Street lle’r oedd siop
Richard Jones. Roedd ganddo farf fawr wen
fel Siôn Corn ac roedd yn cael ei
gynorthwyo yn y siop gan ei chwaer yng
nghyfraith, Miss Pierce. Roedd hon eto yn
small shops were located in the parlours of
houses.
1. In the 1940s Mr Jim Edwards, a cobbler,
came from Aberystwyth to open a cobbler’s
shop in one of Anwylfa’s sheds and it was
there that the ‘parliament’ was held. Men
from the village gathered there to converse
and discuss current affairs. The shop was
closed in the 1970s when the building
caught fire. Anwylfa and the sheds were
demolished in 1978 to widen the road.
2. At Penlôn, where Brian Jones now lives,
there was a butcher’s shop and slaughter
house which belonged to William Davies
and his brother David. William Davies was
a poet and scholar and a well known
musician. He died in 1939.
In the 1930s David Jones came to the
slaughter house from Corris and built a siop
next door to Bryn selling meat and some
other goods.
3. Also in Penlôn (Penlônlas now) was a
grocery shop belonging to Mrs Richards and
afterwards to her son Edwin where all kinds
of goods were sold including sweets and
paraffin (lamp oil). It was known as Edwin’s
Shop but occasionally, in front of strangers,
as the Penlôn Shop. This was the ‘tuck-shop’
for Tal-y-bont school children as there were
all sorts of sweets there. The shop was
closed when Edwin died in the 1970s.
4. Further down opposite Mertyn was
Walsall Stores, a grocer’s and draper’s. Mr
and Mrs Meth Evans were there until 1942.
Meth was also a carpenter and coffin maker.
His workshop was behind Mertyn. It was to
Walsall Stores that Niclas Glais, the dentist,
came once a week to extract teeth.
In 1942 Mr and Mrs Iorwerth Evans and
their family moved here from London
where they had been in business. They sold
everything as before and more, such as
wallpaper etc. They also ran a club to assist
payment as money was scarce in those days.
The shop was closed in 1965 when Mr
and Mrs Evans retired.
5. Further down again, at No 1 New Street
was Richard Jones’ shop. He had a long
white beard like Father Christmas; he was
assisted in the shop by his sister-in-law, Miss
Pierce. This shop was a grocer’s and
93

Ein Canrif – Our Century
Mr a Mrs Iorwerth Evans a’r teulu y tu allan i
Walsall Stores
Mr and Mrs Iorwerth Evans and family outside
Walsall Stores
siop groser a dillad, nwyddau haearn,
bwydydd anifeiliaid a pharaffin. Caewyd y
siop pan fu Mr Jones farw.
6. Drws nesa ym Morlais House roedd Mr a
Mrs Thomas James, perchnogion Ffatri Leri,
yn byw a byddent yn gwerthu cynnyrch y
ffatri yma. Yn nes ymlaen agoron nhw siop
yng Nghwm Road yn agos i’r ffatri.
7. Drws nesa eto yn rhif 3 New Street
(Nythfa rãan) roedd Mrs Williams, groser,
yn byw gyda’i merch Miss Maggie Lizzie
Williams a oedd yn rhoi gwersi piano ac yn
dysgu’r plant sut i ganu. Roeddent yn
gwerthu pob math o nwyddau ac un peth
arbennig sef ysgadan coch.
8. Ochr draw i’r ffordd, lle mae Green Cottage
rãan, roedd siop cigydd. Isaac Davies oedd
yno gyntaf ac wedyn Pugh Davies a’r lladddy
yn y cae tu ôl i’r Neuadd Goffa.
9. Isybanc – llaethdy Mrs Roberts. Roedd
ganddi gaeau a beudy tu ôl i’r Neuadd
Goffa. Y peth yr wyf yn cofio yw fod
Margaret, ei merch ieuengaf, yn dosbarthu’r
llaeth yn y pentref mewn cert fach a merlen.
10. Garej Davmor. Adeiladwyd y garej gan
Mr David Pryse Morgan a Mr Bertie Davies
ar ôl yr Ail Ryfel Byd.
draper’s which also sold hardware, animal
foodstuffs and paraffin. The shop closed
when Mr Jones died.
6. Next door at Morlais House lived Mr and
Mrs Thomas James, owners of Leri factory
and they sold the factory produce here.
They later opened a shop in Cwm Road near
the factory.
7. Next door at 3 New Street (now known as
Nythfa) lived Mrs Williams, grocer, with her
daughter Miss Maggie Lizzie Williams who
gave piano lessons and taught children to
sing. They sold all kinds of things including
red herrings.
8. Across the road where Green Cottage is
now was a butcher’s shop which first
belonged to Isaac Davies and then to Pugh
Davies. The slaughter house was located in
the field behind the Memorial Hall.
9. Isybanc – Mrs Roberts’ dairy. She had fields
and a cowshed behind the Memorial Hall. I
remember Margaret, her youngest daughter,
distributing milk around the village with a
pony and cart.
10. Davmor Garage. The garage was opened
after the Second World War by Mr David
Pryse Morgan and Mr Bertie Davies.
94

Ein Canrif – Our Century
Garej Davmor
Davmor Garage
Bellach Gwynfor a Jennifer Davies a’u
merch Nia sydd yn y garej. Maent yn
gwerthu llawer o nwyddau – bwydydd,
hufen-iâ, paent, hoelion ac yn y blaen.
11. Tyrrel Stores. Siop groser eto ar ddechrau’r
ganrif; Ann Davies oedd yno. Wedyn fe
ddaeth Mr a Mrs Evan Rees Morgan a’r teulu
The garage is now run by Gwynfor and
Jennifer Davies and their daughter Nia.
They sell many things such as food, ice
cream, paint, nails etc.
11. Tyrrel Stores. Again a grocer’s shop at
the beginning of the century owned by
Ann Davies. Then came Mr and Mrs Evan
Tyrrel Place
95

Ein Canrif – Our Century
yno. Roeddent yn gwerthu pob peth fel o’r
blaen a phapurau newydd hefyd.
Yn y pedwardegau fe ddaeth Mr a Mrs
Watkins a’r teulu yno, eto o Lundain. Yno y
buont hyd nes iddynt ymddeol ym 1956 pan
ddaeth Mr D.W. Davies y fferyllydd (Dai
Chemist, fel mae pawb yn ei adnabod) a’i
wraig Beatrice a’r teulu yma, i fyny o’r
Emporium, lle roedd wedi bod yn fferyllydd
ers 1954. Nid oeddent yn gwerthu nwyddau
groser, ond roeddent yn dal i werthu’r
papurau, cardiau, candis a llawer o bethau
amrywiol ynghyd â nwyddau fferyllydd.
Yn 1992 fe ymddeolodd Dai a bu Norman
a Doreen Thomas, Fferyllfa Borth, yn rhedeg
y siop hyd at 1999 pan ddaeth fferyllydd
newydd yma atom, sef Garry Jones a
Catherine. Nhw sydd bellach yn wynebu’r
mileniwm newydd.
12. Gyferbyn â Tyrrel Place yn Rhif 1
Birkenhead Street, roedd siop Marged Davies
y te. Roedd hi eto yn gwerthu nwyddau.
13. Dau dñ yn nes i lawr, yng Ngwelfryn, roedd
y ddwy Miss Jenkins yn gwerthu candis,
dillad, les ac anrhegion. Roeddent yn rhedeg
clwb i brynu nwyddau erbyn y Nadolig.
14. Drws nesa (lle mae Coed y Crib rãan)
roedd Mr a Mrs William Jones yn gwerthu
glo ond yn nes ymlaen bu Mr a Mrs Willie
Hughes, y peintiwr, a’u mab Dennis yn
gwerthu paent a phapur wal yno tan y
pumdegau.
15. Ychydig yn nes lawr mae Leicester
House lle roedd siop esgidiau Lewis
Morgan (brawd yr ysgolhaig Richard
Morgan) ac wedyn ei fab Emlyn a’i ferched
Gertie ac Adela. Roedd Emlyn yn grydd
hefyd. Roedd pobl yn dod o bell i brynu
esgidiau da Siop Lewis Morgan.
Bellach Ruth Jên yr arlunydd sydd yn byw
yma. Mae yn defnyddio’r siop fel stiwdio.
16. Yn nes i lawr eto mae Paris House (Bro
Ceulan rãan); siop teilwr Edwin Evans
oedd yno. Hefyd roedd yno Ystafell
Ddarllen hyd at y dauddegau. Yn ystod yr
Ail Ryfel Byd bu Swyddfa Gyflogi yma lle
roedd y bobl ifanc yn cofrestru i fynd i’r
rhyfel ynghyd â’r bobl ddi-waith yn casglu
pres y dôl. Yr adeg yma hefyd fe ddaeth
merch Mr Evans (sef Mrs Eunice Fraser)
adre i agor caffi gan fod ei gãr yn y rhyfel.
Rees Morgan and family. They sold all
kinds of goods as before along with
newspapers.
In the 1940s Mr and Mrs Watkins came
there from London. They remained there
until 1956 when Mr D.W. Davies the chemist
(known to all as Dai chemist) and his wife
Beatrice and family moved there from the
Emporium where he had been a chemist
since 1954. They didn’t sell groceries but
continued to sell newspapers, cards, sweets
and a variety of other things as well as
pharmaceuticals.
In 1992 Dai retired. Norman and Doreen
Thomas from the Borth pharmacy took over
the shop until 1999 when a new chemist
took over. Gary Jones and Catherine now
face the new millenium.
12. Opposite Tyrrel Place in No 1
Birkenhead Street, Marged Davies the tea
had her shop. She also sold groceries.
13. Two houses further down at Gwelfryn,
the two Misses Jenkins sold sweets, clothes,
lace and gifts. They ran a club so that goods
could be bought for Christmas.
14. Next door (where Coed y Crib is now)
Mr and Mrs William Jones sold coal but later
on Mr and Mrs Willie Hughes, the painter,
and their son Dennis sold paint and
wallpaper until the 1950s.
15. A little further down was Leicester
House where Lewis Morgan (brother of the
scholar Richard Morgan) and later his son
Emlyn and his daughters Gertie and Adela
had a shoe shop. Emlyn was also a cobbler.
People came from afar to buy good quality
shoes at Lewis Morgan’s shop.
Nowadays Ruth Jên the artist lives there.
She uses the shop as a studio.
16. Further down again is Paris House (Bro
Ceulan now) where Edwin Evans had a
tailor’s shop. There was also a Reading
Room there until the 1920s. During the
Second World War it was an Employment
Exchange where young people enlisted
and the unemployed collected dole money.
During this time also Mr Evans’ daughter,
Mrs Eunice Fraser, returned home to open
a café as her husband was in the war. It
was praised far and wide. Years later it
became a Nat West bank which had to
96

Ein Canrif – Our Century
Ar y chwith: Siop Esgidiau Lewis Morgan
On the left: Lewis Morgan’s Shoe Shop
Roedd canmoliaeth iddo ymhell ac agos.
Flynyddoedd yn ddiweddarach bu banc y
Nat West yno ond bu raid iddo symud pan
ddymchwelwyd y rhan flaen o’r tñ.
17. Drws nesa ym Maldwyn House roedd
siop sadler William Thomas James. Roedd
yn gwerthu, yn gwneud ac yn trwsio pob
peth wedi ei wneud o ledr. Yno roedd croeso
bob amser i blant ac oedolion i’w wylio ac i
gael sgwrs. Roedd arogl hyfryd y lledr a’r
tân mawr yn ein denu ato.
18. Yr ochr draw i’r ffordd roedd Ceulan Stores
(Central Stores rãan). Mr Williams oedd yma
hyd at 1906 pan adeiladodd Caerdova a
gwerthu’r siop i Samuel Morris Davies oedd
â siop ddillad yn Llundain. Ei chwaer yng
nghyfraith Kate Ann Read oedd yn gofalu am
yr eiddo yma gyda Mr Williams o Harlech yn
rheolwr ar y siop nes i fab Mr Davies, sef Evy,
ddod adre o’r rhyfel ym 1920. Roeddent yn
gwerthu popeth, bwydydd, llestri, anghenion
fferm a gardd, hadau gwair, nwyddau haearn
a blawd pobi mewn sachau anferth (2
canpwys). Ar y dechrau roeddent yn pobi
bara a phob nos Wener yn gwneud ffagots a
oedd yn boblogaidd iawn. Roeddent yn
dosbarthu bwydydd anifeiliaid ac ati gyda
chert a merlen hyd at y pedwardegau pan
ddaeth lori fach yno. Ym 1935 ail-adeiladwyd
y siop a newid yr enw i Central Stores gan fod
y ffasiwn i roi enwau Saesneg mwy ffansi yr
move when the front part of the house was
demolished.
17. Next door at Maldwyn House was
William Thomas James’ sadler’s shop. He
sold, made and mended all kinds of leather
goods. Children and adults were always
welcome to watch him and have a chat. A
wonderful smell of leather and a big fire
attracted us there.
18. Opposite was Ceulan Stores (now
Central Stores). Mr Williams was there
until 1906 when he built Caerdova and
sold the shop to Samuel Morris Davies
who had a draper’s shop in London. His
sister-in-law, Kate Ann Read was in charge
of the property with Mr Williams of
Harlech as manager of the shop until Mr
Davies’ son Evy came home from the war
in 1920. All kinds of things were sold there
– food, crockery, agricultural and
horticultural items, hay seeds, hardware
and baking flour in huge sacks (2 cwts). In
the beginning they baked bread and every
Friday evening made faggots which
proved to be very popular. They delivered
animal feed etc with a pony and cart up
until the 1940s when a small lorry replaced
them. In 1935 the shop was rebuilt and the
name changed to Central Stores as it was
fashionable at the time to use fancy
English names but there was no purpose to
97

Ein Canrif – Our Century
Sam Davies, Miss Read ac aelodau o’r teulu y tu
allan i Ceulan Stores
Sam Davies and Miss Read with members of the
family outside Ceulan Stores
adeg hynny ond doedd dim pwrpas i wneud
hynny gan mai ‘Siop Evy’ oedd hi i bawb. Ym
1940 daeth S.M. Davies a’i ferch Riggie lawr
yma o Lundain gan fod eu siop wedi ei
difrodi gan y bomiau. Roeddent hwy yn
gwerthu dillad yma hefyd ac ym 1941 fe
ddaeth Swyddfa’r Post yma gan fod Miss
Lizzie Griffiths, Bristol House, wedi ymddeol.
Roedd tri phostmon yn dosbarthu llythyron
oddi yno yr adeg honno. Yn ystod y rhyfel
roedd menywod y pentref yn casglu llus
duon, yn eu tymor, yn y coed tu ôl i Tanyrallt
ac yn dod â nhw i’r siop. Yna roedd cwmni
Bantons o Aberystwyth yn dod i’w casglu ac
yn talu pris da amdanynt, sef swllt a chwech
y pwys. Roedd galw mawr amdanynt i liwio
dillad y llu awyr a’r llynges.
Yno yng Ngheulan Stores gyda E.S.
Davies (Evy) dechreuwyd Ceulan, gre
enwog y merlod mynydd Cymreig.
Ar ôl marwolaeth Evy Davies yn 1972 a’i
fab yng nghyfraith John yn 1975 gwerthwyd
y siop ym 1976 i Ann a Tony Jones. Buont
hwy yno hyd at 1991. Erbyn hyn roedd y
papurau newydd yn cael eu gwerthu yno
ond roedd y Post wedi symud i’r Bryn gyda
theulu Davies a doedd dim nwyddau’r
warws yn cael eu gwerthu yno bellach.
Ym 1991 gwerthwyd y siop i Heulwen ac
this as it was still known by all as ‘Evy’s
Shop’. In 1940 S.M. Davies and his
daughter Riggie came down from London
after their shop had been damaged by
bombs. They also sold clothes here and in
1941 the Post Office came here when Miss
Lizzie Griffiths, Bristol House, retired.
There were three postmen delivering
letters in those days. During the war
women from the village would gather
whinberries, when in season, in the woods
behind Tanyrallt and take them to the
shop. They would then be collected by
Bantons Company from Aberystwyth
which paid a good price for them – one
shilling and sixpence a pound. They were
in great demand as dye for airforce and
navy uniforms.
It was at Ceulan Stores that E.S. Davies
(Evy) started Ceulan, the famous Welsh
Mountain Pony Stud.
After Evy Davies’ death in 1972 and his
son-in-law’s in 1975 the shop was sold in
1976 to Ann and Tony Jones. They remained
there until 1991. By now newspapers were
sold there but the Post had moved to the
Bryn with the Davies family and warehouse
goods were no longer sold there.
In 1991 the shop was sold to Heulwen
98

Ein Canrif – Our Century
Ceulan Stores
Ifan Astley a nhw sydd yma rãan. Fe
ddaeth y Swyddfa Bost nôl yma ym 1990.
19. Bryn. Bu’r Swyddfa Bost yma o
1976–1990. Roedd y post yn cael ei
ddosbarthu o Aberystwyth mewn dwy fan
erbyn hyn; felly nid oedd swyddfa ddidoli
yn Nhal-y-bont bellach.
20. Bryn Stores. Siop cigydd a groser a
adeiladwyd yn y tridegau gan Blodwen a
Dafydd Jones, Tegfan. Pan ymddeolodd ‘Jones
y Butcher’ daeth Hugh Davies a’i wraig Irene
o Dre’rddol i gadw’r siop ond bu’r ddau farw
yn ifanc iawn, Irene yn 1972 a Hugh ym 1982.
Yn nes ymlaen bu Banc y National
Westminster yn dod yno, unwaith yr
wythnos. Ond mae’r adeiliad bach wedi’i
newid yn dñ erbyn hyn.
21. Yn Rhif 1 Adam Street roedd Mary
Edwards (Mari’r Wern) yn gweu hosannau
o edafedd Ffatri Ceulan ac yn eu gwerthu.
Roedd hefyd yn gwneud eli llosg tân.
Byddai llawer o bobl yn y pentref yn
gwneud eli i wella rhywbeth neu’i gilydd, er
enghraifft, eryrod a darwden.
22. Railway View (Bronygan rãan). Dafydd
Edwards a’i fab Defi John oedd yma yn
gwerthu glo; roeddent yn cadw’r lori a’r glo
yn y Wern; byddent yn cludo’r glo o’r orsaf
yn Llandre.
and Ifan Astley and they remain there today.
The Post Office moved back in 1990.
19. Bryn. The Post Office was located here
between 1976–1990. The post was
delivered from Aberystwyth in two vans
and there was no longer a sorting office in
Tal-y-bont.
20. Bryn Stores. This was a butcher and
grocer’s shop built in the 1930s by Blodwen
and Dafydd Jones, Tegfan. When ‘Jones the
Butcher’ retired Hugh Davies and his wife
Irene from Tre’rddol took over but both
died very young, Irene in 1972 and Hugh in
1982.
Later the National Westminster Bank
came there once a week. The small building
has now been converted to a house.
21. At No 1 Adam Street Mary Edwards
(Mari ‘r Wern) knitted socks with wool from
the Ceulan factory and then sold them. She
also made an ointment for the treatment of
burns. Many people from the village made
ointments to cure things such as shingles
and ring worm.
22. Railway View (Bronygan nowadays).
Dafydd Edwards and his son Defi John sold
coal here; they kept the lorry and the coal at
the Wern and ferried the coal from Llandre
station.
99

Ein Canrif – Our Century
Defi John y glo, a’i dad Defi Edwards, Jones y
bwtsiwr ac Arthur Williams y tu allan i’r siop
Defi John the coal, his father Defi Edwards,
Jones the butcher and Arthur Williams outside
the shop
National Westminster Bank
23. Emporium View (Ardwyn rãan). Ar
ddechrau’r ganrif roedd yma siop lestri.
Kate Ann Reed oedd yn cadw hon ond ym
1906 fe symudodd y teulu i Ceulan Stores.
23. Emporium View (Ardwyn now). At the
beginning of the century there was a
crockery shop here. It was kept by Kate Ann
Read but in 1906 the family moved to
Ceulan Stores.
100

Ein Canrif – Our Century
D.J. Edwards (Defi John, y glo) a D.L. Edwards,
y Llew Du yn cario gwair yn y tri degau
D.J. Edwards (Defi John) and D.L. Edwards (the
Black Lion) harvesting hay in the 1930s
24. Nawr am yr Emporium, unig siop
adrannol Tal-y-bont! Dyma beth oedd siop!
Cafodd ei hadeiladu yn bwrpasol ddiwedd
y bedwaredd ganrif ar bymtheg gan deulu’r
Jonesiaid. Yn gyntaf, y tad Jams oedd yno
ond wedyn fe ddaeth un o’r meibion, John
(tad Eileen Evans, Maesglas), i redeg y siop.
Roedd pob peth fedrech feddwl amdano yn
cael ei werthu yno. Yn y rhan uchaf (lle mae
Brooklyn nawr) roedd siop feiciau ac
esgidiau ac wrth ochr hon roedd dyn o’r
enw Jack White yn trwsio esgidiau mewn
rhyw sied fach. Yn y brif siop roedd y
bwydydd ar yr un ochr a’r dillad ar yr ochr
arall. Roedd yno gownteri hir bob ochr i’r
siop a grisiau haearn troellog yn esgyn i’r
llofft lle roedd Lissie Griffiths yn gweithio’n
llawn amser fel ‘resident milliner’. Mr
Edwin Evans oedd y teiliwr hyd nes iddo
symud i Baris House a’i fusnes ei hunan.
Yn y pen isaf roedd y warws lle roedd
bwydydd anifeiliaid, y nwyddau haearn,
hadau gwair a sachau mawr o flawd pobi.
Roedd y gwragedd fferm i gyd yn pobi bara
eu hunain yr adeg honno. Roedd gan yr
Emporium geffyl a chert i ddosbarthu’r
24. Now for the Emporium, the only
department store in Tal-y-bont! It was
purpose built at the end of the nineteenth
century by the Jones family. At the outset it
was run by the father Jams Jones but then
one of the sons, John (Eileen Evans,
Maesglas’ father), took over the running of
the shop. Everything you could imagine was
sold there. In the upper part (now
Brooklyn) was a shop selling bicycles and
shoes and nearby a man called Jack White
mended shoes in a little shed. In the main
shop food was sold on one side and clothes
on the other. There were long counters on
each side of the shop and an iron spiral
staircase leading upstairs where Lissie
Griffiths was working full time as a resident
milliner. Mr Edwin Evans was the tailor
until he set up his own business at Paris
House.
At the lower end there was the warehouse
where animal foodstuffs, hardware, hay
seeds and large sacks of baking flour were
kept. All farmers’ wives baked their own
bread in those days. The Emporium had a
horse and cart to deliver goods. There was a
101

Ein Canrif – Our Century
Yr Emporium (E.O. Jones)
The Emporium (E.O. Jones)
nwyddau yma. Roedd stabl a chartws o dan
y warws.
Caewyd y siop pan fu farw John Jones ym
1932. Mewn amser fe werthwyd yr adeilad i
Mrs Tebby ac ym 1954 fe ddaeth D.W. Davies
(Dai Chemist) yno nes iddo brynu Tyrrel
Stores ym 1956. Bu llawer o fusnesau yno
wedyn; bu Mr a Mrs Herbert Ellis yn cadw
siop baent a phapur wal a Mr a Mrs Gareth
Hughes yn gwerthu nwyddau trydan ond
erbyn hyn mae’r adeilad wedi ei addasu yn
fflatiau a lle i bump o deuluoedd yno.
Yn y warws dechreuodd gwasg enwog Y
Lolfa ond buan iawn aeth y lle yn rhy fach a
bu’n rhaid symud i hen Swyddfa’r Heddlu
er mwyn ehangu. (Mae’r warws yn dal i fod
yn stordy i Wasg y Lolfa).
25 a 26. Roedd siopau hefyd rhwng yr
Emporium a’r Bont Fach ond
stable and carthouse underneath the
warehouse.
The shop closed when John Jones died in
1932. In due course the building was sold to
Mrs Tebby and in 1954 D.W. Davies (Dai
Chemist) came there until he bought Tyrrel
Stores in 1956. Several businesses have been
there since. Mr and Mrs Herbert Ellis kept a
paint and wallpaper shop there and Mr and
Mrs Gareth Hughes sold electrical goods.
The building has now been converted into
flats with accomodation for five families.
The famous publishing firm, Y Lolfa, started
in the warehouse but the place soon became
too small and in order to expand it moved to
the old Police Station. (The warehouse is still
used as a storeroom for Y Lolfa).
25 and 26. There were also shops between
the Emporium and the Little Bridge but they
102

Ein Canrif – Our Century
Siop Feiciau ac esgidiau yr Emporium
(E.O. Jones)
The Emporium’s bicycle and shoe shop
(E.O. Jones)
dymchwelwyd y rheiny ym 1935 er mwyn
lledu’r bont. Yma roedd Swyddfa’r Post am
amser hir yn cael ei rhedeg gan Mrs
Elizabeth Hughes a’i merch Olivia. Byddai
Owen Humphreys o Eglwysfach yn dod â’r
post o Orsaf Glandyfi mewn cert a merlen
bob dydd a thri o bostmyn yn eu dosbarthu
yn Nhal-y-bont a’r cylch, sef dalgylch
Bontgoch, Plas y Mynydd, Yr Hafan, Parsel
Henllys a Chwm Ceulan.
Bu yno siop gigydd hefyd – y perchennog
oedd Mr Howells ac ar un adeg bu siop
bysgod a sglodion – Annie a Dick Rees oedd
yn rhedeg honno.
27. Gyferbyn â’r siopau hynny roedd Leri
Stores. Mr a Mrs Edward Evans oedd yn
berchen ar hon ac roedd hon eto yn gwerthu
pob peth, bwydydd, bwydydd anifeiliaid,
offer fferm a gardd, hadau gwair a
nwyddau haearn. Roedd ganddynt hwy
geffyl a chert hefyd i ddosbarthu’r
nwyddau. Roedd Mrs Evans yn rhedeg
cangen o Fanc y Midland hefyd ac roedd yn
ddefnyddiol iawn i weision ffermydd gan
eu bod yn gweithio yn rhy hwyr i fynd i’r
dre i’r banciau. Roedd Miss Agnes Morgan
(nith Mrs Evans) yn byw yno gyda nhw ac
yn eu helpu. Fred Lewis, Nantllain, oedd yn
gofalu am y warws yn y dechrau. Ar ôl
marw Mrs Evans bu Agnes Morgan a Fred
were demolished in 1935 in order to widen
the bridge. The Post Office was here for a
long time run by Mrs Elizabeth Hughes and
her daughter Olivia. Owen Humphreys
from Eglwys Fach brought the post here
every day from Glandyfi Station in a horse
drawn cart and three postmen delivered it
around Tal-y-bont and the surrounding area
which included Bontgoch, Plas y Mynydd,
Yr Hafan, Parsel Henllys and Cwm Ceulan.
There was also a butcher’s shop there,
owned by Mr Howells, and at one time a
fish and chip shop run by Annie and Dick
Rees.
27. Opposite these shops was Leri Stores. It
was owned by Mr and Mrs Edward Evans
and this shop also sold all kinds of things –
food, animal foodstuffs, agricultural and
horticultural implements, hay seeds and
ironmongery. They also had a horse and cart
to deliver goods. Mrs Evans ran a branch of
the Midland Bank and this was most useful
for farm labourers as they worked long
hours and could not go to the banks in town.
Miss Agnes Morgan (Mrs Evans’ niece)
lived there with them and helped out. At
first Fred Lewis, Nantllain, looked after the
warehouse. After Mrs Evans’ death Agnes
Morgan and Fred ran the shop until they
retired and the shop was sold as a dwelling.
103

Ein Canrif – Our Century
Y postmon yn dod â’r post o orsaf Glandyfi
(E.O. Jones)
The postman delivering post from Glandyfi
station (E.O. Jones)
Miss Hughes, y post, gyda’r tri phostmon tu
allan i Swyddfa’r Post (E.O. Jones)
Miss Hughes, the post, with the three postmen
outside the Post Office (E.O. Jones)
104

Ein Canrif – Our Century
yn rhedeg y siop hyd nes iddynt ymddeol
pan werthwyd y siop fel tñ byw. Yn nes
ymlaen agorwyd siop gigydd yno gan Sid a
Doris Pierce a buont hwythau yno hyd
iddynt ymddeol. Tñ byw sydd yno bellach
ers rhai blynyddoedd.
28 a 29. Ar ochr y patshin glas mae dwy
dafarn, Y Llew Gwyn a’r Llew Du.
Y Llew Gwyn. Ar ddechrau’r ganrif Mrs
Jane Morgan oedd yno ond erbyn 1914 (yn
ôl Kelly’s Directory) roedd Mr a Mrs
Knighton Jones wedi dod yma o
Aberystwyth a buont yma am amser hir.
Wedyn daeth Mr a Mrs Faulkner, Mr a Mrs
Hides, Mr a Mrs Badger a Mr a Mrs Clark i
enwi ond ychydig. Dim ond un person yn
enedigol o Dal-y-bont fu yno erioed, sef
Margaret Gahan (Morris gynt). Mr a Mrs
Euron Jones sydd yma bellach.
Y Llew Du (Tñ Mawr gynt). Ddechrau’r
ganrif Mr a Mrs Richard Jenkins oedd yn
cadw’r dafarn. Ym 1920, eto yn ôl Kelly’s,
Mrs Ellen Jones oedd yno ond erbyn 1926
Mr a Mrs Theophilus John oedd yno. Roedd
Mrs John yn chwaer i Mrs Knighton Jones,
Y Llew Gwyn. Yn nes ymlaen fe ddaeth Mr
a Mrs David Edwards a buont yno am
gyfnod hir. Roeddynt yn ffermio’r tir hefyd.
Rhai eraill fu yno yn hir oedd Mr a Mrs
Chester.
Mae llawer iawn wedi bod yma ar ôl hyn
ond neb wedi aros am gyfnod hir; Mr a Mrs
Griffiths sydd yno bellach.
30. Rhwng y ddwy dafarn roedd tñ bach
gwyn a alwyd yn y cyfrifiad yn
‘Temperance Hotel’ lle gwnaethpwyd bwyd
ar ddiwrnod ffair. Mrs Anne Read a’i dwy
ferch oedd yn byw yno; byddent yn piclo
ysgadan ac yn gwneud ffagots a brôn ac yn
eu gwerthu.
31. Golden Key. Adeiladwyd Golden Key a
Bristol House ynghyd â James Street,
Pantycalch Street a Ceulan Terrace a hefyd
Maesgwyn, Bryngwyn, Llys Alaw ac Is y
Coed gan deulu’r Jonesiaid; roedd sawl
brawd yn gysylltiedig â’r fenter hon.
Ar ddechrau’r ganrif Mr Richard Jones
oedd yn cadw’r siop ond ar ddiwedd y
Rhyfel Cyntaf daeth mab Mr Jones, sef Mr
David Howell Jones a’i wraig a’i deulu adre
o’r De, i ofalu am y busnes, sef siop groser a
phopty. Roedd David Howell Jones yn ddyn
amryddawn iawn; roedd yn syrfëwr ac yn
Later on a butcher’s shop was opened there
by Sid and Doris Pierce and they remained
there until they retired. It has been a
dwelling for some years.
28 and 29. By the village green there are two
pubs, the White Lion and the Black Lion.
The White Lion. At the beginning of the
century Mrs Jane Morgan was there but by
1914 (according to Kelly’s Directory) Mr and
Mrs Knighton Jones came from
Aberystwyth and stayed there for a long
time. Then came Mr and Mrs Faulkner, Mr
and Mrs Hides, Mr and Mrs Badger, Mr and
Mrs Clark to name but a few. The only Taly-bont
person to be there was Margaret
Gahan (née Morris). At present it is kept by
Mr and Mrs Euron Jones.
The Black Lion (formerly Tñ Mawr). At the
beginning of the century the pub was kept
by Mr and Mrs Jenkins. In 1920, again
according to Kelly’s, Mrs Ellen Jones was
there but by 1926 Mr and Mrs Theophilus
John were there. Mrs John was a sister of
Mrs Knighton Jones, The White Lion.
Later on Mr and Mrs David Edwards
came there and stayed for a long time.
They farmed the land as well. Others who
stayed there for a long time were Mr and
Mrs Chester. Many have been there since
then but nobody has stayed for a long
period. Mr and Mrs Griffiths are there at
present.
30. Between the two public houses was a
little white house, (called ‘Temperance
Hotel’ in the census) where food was
prepared on fair days. Mrs Anne Read and
her two daughters lived there; they pickled
herrings and made faggots and brawn to
sell.
31. Golden Key. Golden Key and Bristol
House along with James Street, Pantycalch
Street and Ceulan Terrace and also
Maesgwyn, Bryngwyn, Llys Alaw and Is y
Coed were built by the Jones family;
several brothers were connected with this
venture.
At the beginning of the century Mr
Richard Jones kept the shop but by the end
of the First World War Mr Jones’ son, Mr
David Howell Jones, along with his wife
and family, returned from the South to take
over the business of a grocer’s shop and
bakehouse. David Howell Jones was a very
105

Ein Canrif – Our Century
Bristol House & Golden Key
arolygwr ffyrdd y Sir ac ef oedd yn gyfrifol
am ffordd osgoi Tre’rddôl a llawer iawn o
gynlluniau eraill hefyd.
Ar ôl i Mr a Mrs Jones ymddeol, un o’u
merched, sef Mrs Jennie Radford, fu’n gofalu
am y siop ac yn cael ei chynorthwyo gan ei
chwaer Mrs Sarah Margaret Williams ond
doedden nhw ddim yn pobi bara bellach.
Ar ôl Mrs Radford, Mr a Mrs Goronwy
Jones a’u nith Tegwen o Lundain ddaeth i
gadw’r siop. Buont yno hyd iddynt hwythau
ymddeol. Bellach Mr a Mrs Vickers sydd
yno.
32. Bristol House. Yma bu Swyddfa’r Post o
ganol y dauddegau hyd at 1941 pan
symudodd i Central Stores. Richard
Griffiths, Y Felin a’i deulu oedd yn ei redeg
cyn hynny; roedd Mr Griffiths yn berchen
ar y Felin (lle mae siop gwallt Richard
erbyn hyn). Merch Richard Griffiths, sef
Mrs Lizzie Griffiths, oedd yr olaf o’r teulu i
redeg y post. O orsaf Llandre deuai’r post
erbyn hyn yn cael ei gludo mewn cert a
merlen gan Tom Jenkins, un o’r tri
phostmon. Roedd un o’r rhain yn cerdded
â’r post bob dydd o Dal-y-bont i Bontgoch
a’r ffermydd cyfagos a dychwelyd yn y
talented man; he was County Surveyor and
Inspector of Roads and he was also
responsible for the Tre’rddôl by-pass and
many other projects.
After Mr and Mrs Jones retired one of
their daughters, Mrs Jennie Radford, took
over the shop, assisted by her sister, Mrs
Sarah Margaret Williams but they no longer
baked bread.
After Mrs Radford, Mr and Mrs Goronwy
Jones and their niece Tegwen from London
came to take over the shop. They remained
there until they retired. Today Mr and Mrs
Vickers own the business.
32. Bristol House. The Post Office was located
here from the mid 1920s until 1941 when it
moved to Central Stores. Before that Richard
Griffiths, the Felin, and his family ran it; Mr
Griffiths owned the Felin (where Richard
the hairdresser’s shop is now). Richard
Griffiths’ daughter, Miss Lizzie Griffiths,
was the last of the family to keep the Post
Office. The post was brought from Llandre
Station by Tom Jenkins, one of three
postmen, by pony and cart. One of the
postmen walked every day with the post
from Tal-y-bont to Bontgoch and the nearby
106

Ein Canrif – Our Century
prynhawn gan gasglu llythyron o’r
gwahanol flychau post ar y ffordd adre.
Cerbydau sydd yn gwneud y gwaith hyn
nawr ers blynyddoedd.
farms and returned in the afternoon
collecting mail from the various post boxes
on the way home. Vans have been used for
this work for many years.
Tom Jenkins gyda’i ferlen
Tom Jenkins with his mare
33. Goginan House (‘y bacws’). John Jones
(brawd i Richard Jones, Golden Key) a’i
deulu oedd yma. Siop groser a phobydd
oedd a bu mewn bodolaeth hyd at
ddechrau’r pumdegau. Roedd dwy ferch
efo Mr Jones a nhw gariodd ymlaen ar ôl i
Mr Jones ymddeol. Roedd gãr un
ohonynt, sef Mr Parry, yn dosbarthu’r bara
ar ei feic; roedd yn mynd heibio llawer o’r
ffermydd yn ogystal â phentrefi Tal-ybont,
Pentrebach, Taliesin, Tre’rddôl a
Bontgoch.
Ar ôl i’r siop gau, prynwyd y lle gan Mr a
Mrs Wall a buont yn rhedeg caffi yno;
wedyn fe ddaeth Mrs Myfanwy Jones a Mrs
Sarah Margaret Williams i gadw’r caffi.
Wedi iddynt ymddeol daeth mab y
perchennog a’i wraig, sef John a Jill Wall,
yno ac wedyn Mr a Mrs Harold Lewis. Yn
olaf, prynwyd y lle gan Nicholas a Karin
Hughes; buont hwythau yn cadw’r caffi am
ychydig. Bellach tñ byw sydd yno.
33. Goginan House (the ‘bacws’). John Jones
(brother to Richard Jones, Golden Key) and
his family lived here. It was a grocer’s shop
and a bakery which continued until the
early 1950s. Mr Jones had two daughters
and they continued in the business after Mr
Jones’ retirement. The husband of one of
them, Mr Parry, delivered bread on his bike;
he called at several farms as well as at the
villages of Tal-y-bont, Pentrebach, Taliesin,
Tre’rddôl and Bontgoch.
After the shop closed, it was bought by
Mr and Mrs Wall and they kept a cafe there;
then Mrs Myfanwy Jones and Mrs Sarah
Margaret Williams took over. When they
retired the owner’s son and his wife, John
and Jill Wall came here followed by Mr and
Mrs Harold Lewis. Finally, it was bought
by Nicholas and Karin Hughes who kept a
café there for a short while. Now it is a
house.
107

Ein Canrif – Our Century
34. Siop y Bont (lle roedd y Felin flawd yn
arfer bod). Bu hon am gyfnod yn gwerthu
cynnyrch y ffatri wlân, edafedd a brethyn
Ceulan. Roedd llawer o enwogion yn dod
yma i brynu ond erbyn hyn siop trin gwallt
Richard sydd yma.
34. Siop y Bont (where the flour mill used to
be). At one time products of the wool factory
were sold here, Ceulan wool and tweed.
Many famous people came here to buy but
nowadays Richard’s hairdresser shop is
located here.
Siop y Bont
35. Siop Wlân a Brethyn Ffatri Leri (Cwm
Road). Yn y dechrau roedd Mr a Mrs James
yn gwerthu eu cynnyrch ym Morlais House
ond yn nes ymlaen agorwyd siop yn un o’r
bythynnod yn agos i’r ffatri.
Yn y tridegau prynodd Mrs Pickering y
busnes. Roedd hi’n cael ei chynorthwyo yn y
siop gan Miss Gladys Morgan (Townsend
wedyn) a’i brawd Wil Morgan. Ar ôl marw
Mrs Pickering bu ei merch, sef Mrs Elizabeth
Hughes a’i gãr John, yn rhedeg y busnes
ond bellach mae’r siop a’r ffatri wedi cau.
Banciau. Yn ystod y ganrif bu tri banc, sef
National Provincial, Barclays a’r Midland â
changhennau yn y pentref. Roeddent yn
dod ar ddydd Iau gan fod y mart yma y
diwrnod hwnnw. Erbyn hyn nid oes yr un
ohonynt yn dod yma.
1. Bu’r Midland yn llawn amser yn Leri
Stores, lle’r oedd Mrs Evans yn ei redeg
35. Leri Factory Wool and Tweed Shop (Cwm
Road). At the outset Mr and Mrs James sold
products at Morlais House but later on a
shop was opened at one of the cottages near
the factory.
In the 1930s Mrs Pickering bought the
business. She was assisted in the shop by
Miss Gladys Morgan (later Townsend) and
her brother Will Morgan. When Mrs
Pickering died her daughter, Mrs Elizabeth
Hughes and her husband John, ran the
business but nowadays the shop and the
factory have closed.
Banks. During the century three banks,
National Provincial, Barclays and Midland,
have had branches in the village. They opened
on Thursdays as the mart was held on that
day. Today there are no banks in Tal-y-bont.
1. The Midland was open full time at Leri
Stores, where Mrs Evans ran it (see Leri
108

Ein Canrif – Our Century
(gweler hanes Leri Stores). Ar ôl i Mrs Evans
farw bu’r Midland yn dod i Bristol House
unwaith yr wythnos ar Ddydd Iau o 12 hyd
2 o’r gloch.
2. Bu’r National Provincial (National
Westminster wedyn) am flynyddoedd yn
Heulwen (Murmawr rãan); roedd clerc yn
dod o Aberystwyth am ddwy awr ar
brynhawn dydd Iau o 12 hyd 2 o’r gloch. Yn
nes ymlaen buont yn dod i Paris house ac
wedyn i Bryn Stores.
3. Roedd Barclays hefyd yn dod yma
unwaith yr wythnos i Anwylfan (Garreg
Lwyd rãan). Dydd Iau byddent hwythau
yn dod hefyd am y ddwy awr o 12 hyd 2 o’r
gloch.
Yn y Wern Fach roedd iard Felix y Carrier.
Fe brynodd y cwbwl ym 1903 oddi wrth
Isaac Davies, y Wern, sef y darn tir, y ffens,
y brêc, y ddau geffyl, y gwair, y domen, y
peiriant tsaffo a’r ceirch, yr oged a’r aradr i
gyd am £131.13.0d.
Roedd yn cario pobl i Landre i gwrdd â’r
trên bod dydd Llun; roedd yn rhaid rhoi’ch
enwau iddo ar ddydd Sadwrn.
Yn nes ymlaen roedd yn mynd â’r bobl i’r
dre ond roeddynt yn gorfod cerdded i fyny
Rhiw Sion Saer gan nad oedd y ceffylau yn
ddigon cryf i dynnu’r pwysau ond roedd y
plant yn cael aros ar y brêc ond buan daeth
cerbydau mecanyddol a bu diwedd ar y
brêc ceffylau.
Dosbarthwyr Llaeth a Chig. Roedd Mr
Edward Evans, Neuaddfawr, yn gwerthu
llaeth gyda merlen a chart a nai i Mr Evans,
sef Mr David Evans, tad Evan, sydd yn
Neuaddfawr rãan, yn gwerthu cig o dñ i
dñ mewn fan nes iddo symud i fyw i
Dregaron.
Nid wyf yn cofio Mr Edward Evans ond
cofiaf yn dda am y canlynol.
Pan oeddwn yn blentyn roedd Mr Owen
David Owen, Berthlwyd, tadcu David, sydd
yno rwan, yn dosbarthu llaeth a hufen
mewn cert a merlen. Roedd yn cadw
gwartheg Jersey ar un adeg. Peidiodd â
gwerthu yn y pedwardegau.
Dosbarthwr arall oedd Richard James,
Ynys Capel, ac wedyn Mr Richard Owen,
hefyd o Ynys Capel; roedd ei ferched, Mrs
Rita Jenkins, Tegfan, Mrs Williams, Morlais
a Mrs Davies, Llety Ifan Hen yn ei
gynorthwyo yn eu tro. Roeddent yn
gwerthu’r llaeth allan o fuddai mewn
Stores). When Mrs Evans died the Midland
transferred to Bristol House where it opened
once a week on Thursdays between 12 p.m.
and 2 p.m.
2. The National Provincial (later National
Westminster) was located at Heulwen (now
known as Murmawr) for years; the clerk
came up from Aberystwyth for two hours
on Thursdays between 12 p.m. and 2 p.m.
Later it moved to Paris House and then Bryn
Stores.
3. Barclays was open once a week, located
at Anwylfan (now known as Garreg Lwyd).
It would also open for two hours on
Thursdays between 12 p.m. and 2 p.m.
Felix, the carrier, had his yard in Wern
Fach. He had bought everything from Isaac
Davies in 1903; the land, fencing, the brake,
two horses, hay, dung heap, chaffing
machine and oats, the harrow and plough –
all for £131.13. 0d
He took people to Llandre to meet the
train every Monday; names had to be given
to him on the Saturday.
Later on he took people into town but
they had to walk up the Sion Saer Hill as the
horses couldn’t take the weight; children
were allowed to remain on the brake. Motor
engines soon replaced the horse drawn
brake.
Milk and Meat Distributors. Mr Edward
Evans, Neuaddfawr, sold milk from his
pony and cart and Mr Evans’ nephew, Mr
David Evans, father of Evan who now lives
at Neuaddfawr, went from house to house
selling meat from his van until he moved to
Tregaron.
I do not remember Mr Edward Evans but
I remember the following well.
When I was a child, Mr Owen David
Owen, Berthlwyd, the grandfather of David
who is there now, delivered milk and cream,
also using a pony and cart. He kept Jersey
cows at one time. He gave up selling in the
1940s.
Another distributor was Richard James,
Ynys Capel and afterwards Mr Richard
Owen also from Ynys Capel; his daughters
Mrs Rita Jenkins, Tegfan, Mrs Williams,
Morlais and Mrs Davies, Llety Ifan Hen
assisted him in turn. They sold milk from a
churn using brass measures of a half pint, a
pint and a quart. Again it was delivered
using a pony and cart. Everyone would take
109

Ein Canrif – Our Century
Gwerthu llaeth ar ddechrau’r ganrif
(E.O. Jones)
Milk delivery at the beginning of century
(E.O. Jones)
mesurau pres hanner peint, peint a chwart.
Eto, roedden nhw yn dosbarthu gyda
merlen a chert. Roedd pawb yn mynd a’u
jwgiau allan i’w cwrdd. Rhoddodd y gorau
i werthu yn y pumdegau.
Bu busnes llaeth gyda Mrs S.M. Roberts
yn Isybanc o’r tri i’r pum-degau. Gwelwyd
llawer o welliannau yn y cyfnod hwnnw – o
odro gyda llaw i gael peiriant godro (Mrs
Roberts oedd yr ail gyda Alfa Laval yn y
Sir). Yn y dechrau defnyddiwyd trydan 110f
oedd gan Lewis Morris, Ffatri Ceulan cyn
cael y prif gyflenwad ym 1948; dãr hefyd o
bistyll y Wern cyn cael cyflenwad y Sir o
Graigypistyll. Roedd eisiau llaeth a hufen
trwchus hefyd yr oes hynny – dim ‘fat-free’
a ‘half-fat’ pan roedd ei merch Margaret,
(Mrs Jones, Llysynyr, rãan) yn dosbarthu
poteli ar hyd y pentref gyda merlen a chert.
Diflannodd y botel hanner peint a’r
ffyrling yn eu tro.
their jugs out to meet him. He gave up
selling in the 1950s.
Mrs S.M. Roberts had a milk business at
Isybanc between the 30s and the 50s.
Many improvements were seen during
this period – milking by hand was
replaced by milking machines (Mrs
Roberts was the second in the county to
use Alfa Laval). 110v electricity from
Lewis Morris’ Ceulan Factory was used
before mains electricity came in 1948;
water from the spring at the Wern was
also used before the County supply from
Craigypistyll was available. The demand
at the time was for full cream milk – no
‘fat-free’ or ‘half-fat’ when her daughter
Margaret, (Mrs Jones, now of Llysynyr)
delivered milk in the village in bottles
with a pony and cart.
The half pint bottle and the farthing
disappeared in due course.
110

Ein Canrif – Our Century
Margaret Roberts gyda’r merlen a chert
Margaret Roberts with the pony and cart
Sefydlodd Inigo Jones a’i briod, rhieni Mr
Idris Jones, fuches o wartheg duon Cymreig
pedigri yn Llysynyr a gwerthu’r llaeth yn y
pentref yn y tridegau. Yn ddiweddarach
pan sefydlwyd y Bwrdd Marchnata Llaeth a
hufenfa ym Mhont Llanio, Tregaron,
rhoddwyd y gorau i’r ‘rownd laeth’ a
gwerthu i’r Bwrdd gyda chytundeb fod Mrs
Roberts, Isybanc yn cael faint a fynnai o
laeth Llysynyr i ychwanegu at ei gofynion
hi fel roedd busnes yn cynyddu.
Llaethdy Woodlands. Fe ddaeth Mr a Mrs
Alfred Morgan yn ôl o Lundain i’w cynefin
i werthu llaeth yn y pentref a phellach, o
Bow Street i Glandyfi. Yn y dechrau
roeddent yn dosbarthu yn y pentref efo
tractor a threiler mawr yn cael ei yrru gan
Mr William Jones ond roedd ‘float’ efo Mr
Morgan i fynd ymhellach.
Inigo Jones and his wife (Mr Idris Jones’
parents) established a herd of pedigree
Welsh Black cattle at Llysynyr and sold the
milk in the village in the 1930s. Later on,
when the Milk Marketing Board and a
creamery at Pont Llanio, Tregaron were
established they gave up their milk round
and sold to the Board with an agreement that
Mrs Roberts, Isybanc, was to have as much
milk as she wished from Llysynyr to add to
her requirements as business increased.
The Woodlands Dairy. Mr and Mrs Alfred
Morgan returned from London to sell milk
in the village and further afield from Bow
Street to Glandyfi. In the beginning they
delivered the milk in the village using a
tractor and trailer which was driven by Mr
William Jones but Mr Morgan had a float to
go further afield.
111

Ein Canrif – Our Century
Pan ymddeolodd Mr Morgan bu ei fab
Elfed a’i fab-yng-nghyfraith Peter Manley
yn dosbarthu ond erbyn hyn ei ferch Gwen
a’i gãr Peter sydd yn berchen y busnes.
Maent hefyd yn magu helfeirch.
Mae yma un cigydd sef Mr Wareing,
Braichgarw; mae ganddo siop yn Llanbadarn
a bydd yn dosbarthu ddwywaith yr wythnos
yn y pentref.
Y Fronallt. Tyddyn bach yw Fronallt hanner
ffordd rhwng Tal-y-bont a Bontgoch a phan
oedd Mr a Mrs Trefor Jones yn byw yno
roedd Mrs Jones, Rhoda, yn cadw siop fach
oedd yn rhoi gwasanaeth da i’r ffermydd
cyfagos, er enghraifft, gwertha‘i furum i’r
gwragedd i bobi bara ac ychydig o
nwyddau angenrheidiol eraill, sef siwgwr,
te, canhwyllau, oel lamp, matsis a sigarets ac
yn y blaen. Byddai hefyd yn gwneud te i
ymwelwyr pan oedd angen, ac yn cadw
lletywyr; bu bois y coed yn aros yno pan
oeddent yn torri coed y Winllan a Chwmere.
Kathleen Richards
When Mr Morgan retired his son Elfed
and his son-in-law Peter Manley delivered
the milk. Now his daughter Gwen and her
husband Peter own the business; they also
breed hunters.
There is one butcher, Mr Wareing,
Braichgarw who has a shop in Llanbadarn
and who delivers in the village twice a
week.
Y Fronallt is a smallholding half way
between Tal-y-bont and Bontgoch and when
Mr and Mrs Trefor Jones lived there Mrs
Jones, Rhoda, kept a small shop which
provided a good service to the nearby farms,
for example, she sold yeast so that the wives
could bake bread and some other necessities
such as sugar, tea, candles, lamp oil,
matches, cigarettes and so on. She also
provided tea for visitors as the need arose
and she kept lodgers; forestry workers
stayed there when they were cutting trees at
Winllan and Cwmere.
Kathleen Richards
112