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  1. I called into TkMaxx/Home Sense lunchtime in #MerthyrTydfil to avoid the rain and was confronted with this enormous #pumpkin. This could be yours for two hundred and ninety-nine of your whole pounds and ninety - nine of your pennies.

    It was rather spectacular.
    And @druid, no, I didn't buy it.

    🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃
    #halloween

  2. Newly-recruited Reform councillor under fire after voicemail message branded racist

    A newly-recruited Reform councillor is under fire for comments made about the Pakistani community in a voicemail left to a journalist.

    On Wednesday 18 June, Councillor Andrew Barry, who is a Reform councillor for Merthyr Tydfil Council, left a voicemail seemingly in error to an ITV Wales journalist.

    In it, he is having a conversation with an unknown second person about the benefits system and housing. He goes on to say: “They’re putting the immigrants in the HMOs. They’re everywhere. The problem we’ve got, no one’s interested… (Inaudible)

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    Newly-recruited Reform councillor under fire after voicemail message branded racist, ITV

    #AndrewBarry #MerthyrTydfil #racism #TheySaidThat_

  3. I should have known more about the history of the #SinclairC5 and how it’s associated with the #MerthyrTydfil Hoover factory, but it still caught me by surprise to see a specimen in a castle in #Wales.

  4. "The town [Merthyr Tydfil], which had been plunged into poverty and unemployment after coalmine closures, had plenty of willing volunteers."

    theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2

    #Viagra #MerthyrTydfil

  5. The community project "Valleys Re-Told" currently run by Museum Wales uses art to discover and share community knowledge about their own history and heritage.

    One of the activities they have been undertaking in #MerthyrTydfil was with the Dowlais Visual Arts Group. The members created new collages using Heinz Koppel's fantastic (and quite frankly ENORMOUS) #painting 'Merthyr Blues' which he produced in 1955.

    Words cannot tell how delighted I am to see more and more people discover this magnificent piece of #VisualArt produced by a Jewish German refugee from Nazi persecution in his new adopted country, #Wales.

    Back in 2015, I was extremely lucky to loan the painting from NMW for a special exhibition in Swansea after it had been in storage for decades (eurovisions.bangor.ac.uk/exile). I sincerely hope that the work of Valleys Re-Told will bring more people to Koppel's body of work.
    @histodons @art #ArtHistory youtu.be/yekNCWuI2rI

  6. #JobFairy
    Project Manager: Foundation for Jewish Heritage

    Applications deadline: Wednesday 21st December

    The Foundation for Jewish Heritage is looking to commission a consultant or recruit an employee to serve as the Project Manager on the exciting project to create a Welsh Jewish Heritage Centre at the historic former synagogue in #MerthyrTydfil in #Wales.

    The synagogue is the most important Jewish heritage site in Wales.

    @heritage @wales

    Details: jewishheritage.wales/wp-conten