Cars, Lasses and Lads - A Photo Sharing Thread

2,585 · March 16

On 13/03/2026 at 12:41, The Old Bloke Next Door said:

Eclectic.

14,201 · March 16

7th Welsh Cycle Battalion.

My granddad was in the 1st Welsh Cyclists.

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17,879 · March 16

6 hours ago, The Old Bloke Next Door said:

@LightBulbFun - one you've seen?

15,823 · March 16

2 hours ago, myglaren said:

7th Welsh Cycle Battalion.

My granddad was in the 1st Welsh Cyclists.

Llantwit Major in the Vale of Glamorgan.

14,201 · March 16

26 minutes ago, artdjones said:

Llantwit Major in the Vale of Glamorgan.

Can you expand on that.

I only know about his military time because he was billeted in Whitby, where he met my grandmother.

They had two kids, moved back to Wales, then back to Whitby when my mother was in her teens.

She was called up in WW11 and after being shifted around during training, landed back in Whitby for a while, on the battery on the east cliff. Then Sunderland before being shipped to France, Holland, Belgium, Poland, Denmark and Germany.

My grandparents went to visit her at her billet where she was in the same corner of the same room in the same hotel as her dad had been. Probably went by surname.

Only knew he had been an iron miner but can't remember where, was gassed in the Somme and unable to do full time work so was a car park attendant, operated the cliff lift in summer, was a light house attendant and coastguard

3,113 · March 16

4 hours ago, myglaren said:

7th Welsh Cycle Battalion.

My granddad was in the 1st Welsh Cyclists.

1 hour ago, artdjones said:

Llantwit Major in the Vale of Glamorgan.

I think it might be Commercial Street ?

14,201 · March 16

1 minute ago, Momentary Lapse Of Reason said:

I think it might be Commercial Street ?

Aha, I thought that Llantwit Major was an army officer :oops: or suchlike.

I am woefully ignorant about Wales.

15,823 · March 16

1 hour ago, myglaren said:

Can you expand on that.

I only know about his military time because he was billeted in Whitby, where he met my grandmother.

They had two kids, moved back to Wales, then back to Whitby when my mother was in her teens.

She was called up in WW11 and after being shifted around during training, landed back in Whitby for a while, on the battery on the east cliff. Then Sunderland before being shipped to France, Holland, Belgium, Poland, Denmark and Germany.

My grandparents went to visit her at her billet where she was in the same corner of the same room in the same hotel as her dad had been. Probably went by surname.

Only knew he had been an iron miner but can't remember where, was gassed in the Somme and unable to do full time work so was a car park attendant, operated the cliff lift in summer, was a light house attendant and coastguard

I'm not aware of any iron mining in South Wales, but there was iron mining in the Forest of Dean, which is not too far over the border. My great grandfather was an iron miner from a place called Blaisdon in the Forest, who moved to Wales to be a collier around the 1890s.

What was his surname?

14,201 · March 16

7 minutes ago, artdjones said:

I'm not aware of any iron mining in South Wales, but there was iron mining in the Forest of Dean, which is not too far over the border. My great grandfather was an iron miner from a place called Blaisdon in the Forest, who moved to Wales to be a collier around the 1890s.

What was his surname?

He was Oliver Everson.

My mother did tell me where they lived but I can't remember. She spoke fluent Welsh and would go around the house all day singing in Welsh, which she die remarkably well.

15,823 · March 16

17 minutes ago, myglaren said:

He was Oliver Everson.

My mother did tell me where they lived but I can't remember. She spoke fluent Welsh and would go around the house all day singing in Welsh, which she die remarkably well.

I did a bit of research, and there was an ironstone mine at Llanharry which is to the West of Cardiff, just to the North of the M4 motorway. That's about 10 miles from Llantwit Major, where the original photo was taken.

3,210 · March 16

1 hour ago, artdjones said:

I did a bit of research, and there was an ironstone mine at Llanharry which is to the West of Cardiff, just to the North of the M4 motorway. That's about 10 miles from Llantwit Major, where the original photo was taken.

Plenty of iron & steelworks in South Wales, so I assumed there was a source of ironstone there. My Grandad used to take pride that Dowlais steelworks was one of the first to use the Bessemer method of making steel.

5,345 · March 16

6 hours ago, myglaren said:

I had a traction with a similar reg, I can't remember exactly but think it was 1495BC75

15,823 · March 16

29 minutes ago, Richard_FM said:

Plenty of iron & steelworks in South Wales, so I assumed there was a source of ironstone there. My Grandad used to take pride that Dowlais steelworks was one of the first to use the Bessemer method of making steel.

I don't think the ironstone sources were huge, if fact I hadn't heard of them before, but there was plenty of coal for the heat source. I think Gloucestershire had more iron, but most blast furnaces in the UK ended up using imported ironstone.