Windsor Road

Griffithstown is a large community of Pontypool in the borough of Torfaen, Wales, within the historic boundaries of Monmouthshire. It is an ecclesiastical parish, formed in May, 1898, from Llanfrechfa Upper & Panteg, but under the provisions of the Local Government Act 1894, became a separate civil parish. It situated between two other Pontypool suburbs - Pontymoile to the north & Sebastopol to the south.

It is named after the first station master of Pontypool & New Inn railway station (then known as Pontypool Road), Henry Griffiths. Griffiths founded a "temporary terminating" Building Society to enable construction of houses in the village to enable his workforce to become freehold owner-occupiers, rather than constructing rental or leasehold housing as was the more usual practice in industrial South Wales & Monmouthshire. He lived in the substantial St. Dunstan's house (now demolished) on what is now Commercial Street & his memorial is in St Hilda's Church. Today the site is occupied by a nursing home & a modern house of the same name.

The gentleman in the yellow cap is my neighbour, Chris, with his dog.