User:Gareth Griffith-Jones





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Gareth Griffith-Jones, a Welshman, was born on 28 April 1942 in Cardiff and spent his early years on his grandfather's dairy farm, Pantrhiwgoch Farm, Tyla Lane, Castleton, Monmouthshire, midway between the cities of Cardiff and Newport, Wales.

Education was in England. At age 8, a prep school in Langley Road, Watford until passing the required Common Entrance Examination at 13. Then Merchant Taylors', a public school. Both were boarding schools in those days.

James Hywyl Thomas, his maternal grandfather, was born in Cynwyl Elfed, near Newcastle Emlyn, Carmarthenshire. He was a farmer/dairyman, a Producer/Retailer of farm TT milk (tuberculin tested milk). He and his wife, Sarah, moved to Pantrhiwgoch Farm in 1929. He sold his house in Cardiff that overlooked Roath Park Lake but retained his other property, also in the centre of Cardiff, which was his dairy and, above it, a home for his employee and family. The business was named "J H Thomas & Sons".

Elvet farmed Pwll Coch Farm, Druidstone Road, St Mellons – Idwal, the younger son, farmed Glanynant Farm, Holly Bush Road, Cyncoed. Their elder sister, Mary, was a teacher of domestic science until the summer of 1941. She had married Thomas Francis Griffith-Jones that January. He was an officer in the Royal Artillery, and had bought a house, "Abercray", Sherborne Avenue, Cyncoed, but because he was busy elsewhere, fighting the Nazis, Mary and Gareth remained throughout the remainder of World War II on Pant Farm. The telephone number was Castleton 37... just that.

Sadly, the dairy farm, which had been part of the Tredegar Estate, was devastated when the extension to the M4 from Tredegar Park was created right across its land, heading towards St Mellons. Work commenced during November 1975, and was opened to the public in October 1977. Subsequently, the M4 took another route to the north of the city and the new road was renamed the A48(M) and is the spur at the M4 junction 29 near Tredegar House; terminating in St Mellons at junction 29A, where it melds into Eastern Avenue (A48 dual-carriageway) and on to the city centre.