Aberdare Athletic F. C.

They played their football league games at the Aberdare Athletic Ground and were known as the Darians.

The reserve team carried on as Aberaman and Aberdare Athletic for one more season but are now known as just Aberaman Athletic F. C.

The Aberdare Athletic Ground was the venue of the first rugby league international between Wales and the New Zealand All Golds on New Year's Day 1908, which was won by the Welsh 9-8.

Aberdare Athletic, Cardiff City, Merthyr Town, Newport County, Swansea City and Wrexham have all been members of the Football League.

Inspired by Stanley Cowie, the title was clinched in early May, and yet hopes of Barry being able to play in the Football League were scuppered just a month later, when their application failed and Charlton Athletic and Aberdare Athletic were elected instead.

Two new clubs are elected to this division: Aberdare Athletic ( 1921 – 1927 ) and Charlton Athletic.

The exceptions to this were Crystal Palace, who were promoted to the Second Division, Grimsby Town who transferred to the Third Division North and Aberdare Athletic and Charlton Athletic who joined for the first time.

By 1928 after three years in the wilderness football enthusiasts in the town including the groundsman / caretaker of Stebonheath Park Jack Goldsborough who had joined the club in 1922 as a player / trainer resolved the resurrect the club once more and fate decreed that they were able to succeed when they took over the fixtures of Aberdare Athletic in the Welsh League, another club by this time who were in dire straits and themselves had had to resign from the Welsh League for the same reason as Llanelli.

Aberdare Rugby Football Club are a rugby union team formed in 1890 which still play in Aberdare today at the Ynys Stadium.

The Welsh Football League's history stretches back to 1904 when the competition was first formed and Aberdare were crowned first champions of a seven-team First Division.

The Lamb FC, Glancynon FC, PT Civils and Hirwaun & Mackworth seconds play in the Heatwise Aberdare Valley Football League.

The White Rhino Hotel, Outspan Hotel, and the Aberdare Country Club at nearby Mweiga are relics of those colonial days.

His family soon moved to Aberdare, where his father had taken up the position of head professional at Aberdare Golf Club.

Rees began his career aged 16 as an assistant professional to his father at Aberdare Golf Club.

* Stereophonics-all three original members, Kelly Jones, Richard Jones and Stuart Cable were all brought up in Cwmaman, Aberdare

Lord Aberdare was one of the ninety-two elected hereditary peers that were allowed to remain in the House of Lords after the passing of the House of Lords Act 1999. the title is held by his son, the fifth Baron, who succeeded in 2005 and was elected to the House of Lords in 2009.

The other members of the committees were: Colonel Evan Hunter, General Secretary of the British Olympic Association, and Chef de mission for Great Britain ; Lord Aberdare, the other British member of the IOC ; Sir Noel Curtis-Bennett ; Alderman H. E.

Founded in 1893, Aberdare were Welsh Cup runners-up, in 1903 – 04 1904 – 05 and 1922 / 23.

The University of Wales was founded in Wales in 1893 as a federal university with three foundation colleges: University College Wales ( now Aberystwyth University ), which had been founded in 1872 and University College North Wales ( now Bangor University ) and University College South Wales and Monmouthshire ( now Cardiff University ) which were founded following the Aberdare Report in 1881.

Seven clubs formed the new top division and Aberdare were crowned as the inaugural champions, four points clear of Ebbw Vale following the round of 12 matches.

The Welsh rugby league team were contesting their first national fixture, and managed to beat the touring Kiwis 9-8 in Aberdare in front of 20, 000 spectators.

In 2005, following further grant from the Welsh Assembly Government, the stations at Abercynon, Penrhiwceiber, Fernhill, Cwmbach and Aberdare were extended to four-car length to accommodate longer peak trains in an initiative to relieve overcrowding, train leasing / running costs also funded by the Welsh Assembly Government.

However, after the Beeching Axe, in 1963 the line south to Neath, north to Merthyr and the former Aberdare Railway were all closed.

They were a freight version of the 3300 and 4120 classes designed for hauling coal trains between Aberdare and Swindon.

Many people from the village were also involved in the choir conducted by ' Caradog ' ( the statue of him can be seen in Aberdare town centre ).

Hirwaun moor, 4 miles to the north west of Aberdare, was according to tradition the scene of a battle at which Rhys ap Tewdwr, prince of Dyfed, was defeated by the allied forces of the Norman Robert Fitzhamon and Iestyn ap Gwrgant, the last Welsh prince of Glamorgan.

Steam coal was subsequently found in the Rhondda and further west, but many of the great companies of the Welsh coal industry's Gilded Age started operation in Aberdare and the lower Cynon Valley, including those of Samuel Thomas, David Davies and Sons, Nixon's Navigation and Powell Duffryn.

Aberdare, during its boom years, was considered a centre of Welsh culture: it hosted the first National Eisteddfod in 1861, again in 1885, and in 1956 at Aberdare Park where the Gorsedd standing stones still exist.

* Mihangel Morgan-leading Welsh language writer, born in Trecynon, some of his literary works feature Aberdare

* Roy Noble-popular Welsh broadcaster has lived near Aberdare for the past 30 years

Thomas Llewelyn of Aberdare won a competition for an unpublished collection of Welsh airs with a collection that included Glan Rhondda.

The first Labour MP, Keir Hardie, was elected as junior member for the Welsh constituency of Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare in 1900.

The bardic name Pencerdd Gwalia ( Chief of the Welsh minstrels ) was conferred on him at the 1861 Aberdare Eisteddfod.

Cynon Valley has two main towns ; Aberdare ( Welsh: Aberdâr ) located North of the Valley and Mountain Ash ( Welsh: Aberpennar ) located in the South of the Valley.

From 1974 to 1996 the Borough of Cynon Valley was one of thirty-seven districts of Wales, this borough was the Cynon Valley Borough Council ( Welsh: Cyngor Bwrdeistref Cwm Cynon ), this formed from the Aberdare and Mountain Ash urban districts, the parish of Rhigos from Neath Rural District and the parish of Penderyn from Brecknockshire.

Officially representing the mid-Glamorgan area, including Merthyr Tydfil, Aberdare, Pontypridd, Caerphilly, Maesteg and Bridgend, and south Powys, the Celtic Warriors was in practice a combination of the Pontypridd RFC and Bridgend RFC Welsh Premier League Clubs.

* Arthur Brown ( footballer born 1903 ) ( Arthur Ivor Brown, 1903-1971 ), Welsh international goalkeeper who played for Aberdare, Reading and Crewe Alexandra.

Nyahururu was founded as Thomson Falls after the 70 metre high Thomson's Falls on the nearby Ewaso Nyiro River, which drains from the Aberdare mountain ranges.

Aberdare () is an industrial town in the Cynon Valley area of Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales, at the confluence of the Rivers Dare ( Dâr ) and Cynon.

Aberdare is south-west of Merthyr Tydfil, north-west of Cardiff and east-north-east of Swansea.

With the ecclesiastical parishes of St Fagan's ( Trecynon ) and Aberaman carved out of the ancient parish, Aberdare had 12 Anglican churches and one Roman Catholic church, built in 1866 in Monk Street near the site of a cell attached to Penrhys monastery, and at one time had over 50 Nonconformist chapels.

There are several cairns and the remains of a circular British encampment on the mountain between Aberdare and Merthyr.

Coal mined in Aberdare parish rose from in 1844 to in 1850, and the coal trade, which after 1875 was the chief support of the town, soon reached huge dimensions.

On May 11, 1919, an extensive fire broke out on Cardiff Street, Aberdare.

Aberdare was the birthplace of the Second World War poet Alun Lewis, and there is a plaque commemorating him, including a quotation from his poem The Mountain over Aberdare.

In the town centre is St Elvan's Church, a Church in Wales church at the heart of the Parish of Aberdare.

In the Parish of Aberdare St Fagan, churches serve the communities of Trecynon, Cwmdare and Llwydcoed-St Fagans, St Luke's and St James's respectively.

The town is served by Aberdare railway station and Aberdare bus station, opposite each other in the town centre.

* St. John the Baptist School ( Aberdare )