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Adrodd fel Amhriodol
Testun Gwreiddiol (Anodiad: EPW053947 / 659657)
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This was the Tharsis Sulpher & Copper Works reservoir known locally as the Copperworks Pond. When Tharsis pulled out of the town that 'Pond' was left unfenced & was a magnet for local children. I myself fished for stickleback in it as a 8yr old. The brick sides of it sloped steeply into the depths so it was impossible to 'plodge' or you'd just slide into the water. About 1950 ish a lad called Colqhoun who was my age drowned in it. In previous years other children from the close by Newtown houses also drowned in it.
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