school badge

Aberdare Boys’ Grammar School

Sporting Activities

Old School

1st XI Cricket Team 1963

from Colin Rees
 

1963 Cricket XI

Photo taken in the ‘Cow Field’
Back Row: C J Edwards*, Alan Evans, Colin Rees, Gareth Rees, Clive Harris, Derek Aust, Geoff Kerley
Front Row: Peter Williams, Stephen Lewis, Gabe Treharne (Captain), John Merriman, David Robert Davies
 

*Mr Caryl John Edwards was a master at the school from 1958 until Whitsun 1970; he taught Economics and History.
He succeeded Mr Edwin Davies who died unexpectedly while in the U.S.A. during the summer holidays of 1958.
Mr. Edwards left in 1970 to become headmaster at Aman Secondary School, Godreaman and later in Aberaman,
then moved from there in 1976, returning to his home county to become headmaster of Amman Valley Comprehensive School,
Ammanford, where he remained until 1992. (From September 2012 the school will be known as Ysgol Dyffryn Aman.)
He was awarded the OBE in June, 1987.