Old Harp Cottage

[Daiwalker]

Hi All, I'm trying to locate the whereabout of 2, Old Harp Cottage, Troedyrhiw, Merthyr. Thanks in advance for any help  kind regards

[softly softly]

Your not looking for people who lived there are you.

SS

[Mabel Bagshawe]

The next property on the 1911 census is 1 Tydfil Terrace, so I suspect the Old Harp and associated cottages might be where there's now a garage on the main road through the village

[AlanBoyd]

In support of that theory, in 1921, 1 and 2 Old Harp Cottages are followed by addresses in Willow Terrace which is across the road from the garage. I haven’t found any sign of them on any map however.

[hanes teulu]

1881 Census - addresses read

12 Quarry Row
Old Harp No 1 (thatched house by roadside)
Old Harp No 2
Tai Winches?

A broad spread of electoral rolls show "1 and 2 Old Harp, Plymouth Ward"  - yet to see mention of an Old Harp Cottage

[Mabel Bagshawe]

I wouldn't be surprised if 1 and 2 Old Harp were also referred to as Old Harp Cottages

If you look at https://maps.nls.uk/view/102182700 you can see a  building on the main road just outside the village heading away from Tydfil Terrace which could be them. Quarry Row is the uphil northeast of that block

[Mabel Bagshawe]

This from a 1901 newspaper obit - the Welsh newspaper site sems to be having some techie issues so I can only grab this excerpt from the search results

..daughter of Rees Jones, of Brith- waenydd Farm, and the young couple lived in Bridge street next door to the saddler's shop. It was here that the Rev Rees Morgan was born. His parents afterwards removed to what is still known as the Old Harp,on the Cardiff-road, an old house nestling by the rubbish tips created by the Dyffryn Blast Furnaces, where the father continued his labours as schoolmaster

Also, from 1910

Troedyrhiw Building Club propose building 34 houses on the west side of the main road, near the Old Harp, at Troedyrhiw

[hanes teulu]

I wouldn't be surprised if 1 and 2 Old Harp were also referred to as Old Harp Cottages

I'm treating "Old Harp Cottages" as "1/2 Old Harp".
I recall one electoral roll that gave the address "Duffryn, Old Harp"" - think it was the Edgar family who seemed to be there a while.

[hanes teulu]

Problem - the URL is not delivering the correct image. The item is from an 1890 Welsh language publication "Tywysydd y plant" and links to the Morgan family mentioned at post #6.

" ... the Old Harp between Troedrhiw and Dyffryn ..."