This photograph is thought to have been
taken in the 1926-27 academic year. It belonged to Idwal Thomas Davies who attended The Town Council
School in Clifton Street prior to entering the County School in September
1925.
He lived at 34 Ynysllwyd St., in Foundry Town.
He passed the photo to his niece, Mrs Judith Rist, (née Davies, then
of Cwmbach). In 2006, Mrs Rist donated this picture to the Cynon Valley
Museum & Gallery, Gadlys, Aberdare.
We are most grateful to the museum staff for digitising the photograph
for us.
Teachers known to have taught Chemistry in this lab are as follows:
W.R. Williams (1904-1940), A.W. Elliott (1907-1913, & 1917-1930)*,
P.G. Jackson (1914-1917), T.R. Davies (1917-1918), C.A. Probert (1918),
W.H. Naylor (1926-1928), Samuel Evans (1928-1943), Gwilym Williams (1939-1964).
Those of us who inhabited this room can testify to the fact that the
laboratory had not changed at all by the time the last class was taught
there in July 1964.
*From 1913-1917 A.W. Elliott taught science at the newly opened Girls
Intermediate School at Plasdraw.
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