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Great Western (Caerphilly) Garden Village Society Ltd was established in 1925, to provide housing for the workers of Caerphilly Railway Repair Works. The Society remained active until 1972.
Above St Martin's Road, a development of 58 houses called the Great Western Railway Garden Village, later Bryngwyn, was built for railway works employees and completed about 1926. Originally more than 200 houses were planned but only 58 were built - 50 in Bryngwyn itself and eight in St Martin's Road below. All semi-detached, there were three distinct designs but houses were not allocated according to grade or status of the employees. Also shown for the first time on the 4th edition of the Ordnance Survey 25in map of 1937, at the eastern end of Bryngwyn is a Hall; what connection if any this had with the Garden Village is not clear, but it was subsequently demolished and built over during the huge expansion of housing in the area.
Source: Howard C Jones, 'How Percy Coleman saw Caerphilly grow' in: Caerphilly No.4, the Journal of the Caerphilly Local History Society, March 1977.
B.A.Malaws, RCAHMW, 19 October 2011.