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  • Frank Moody (1900-63) was the most successful of the seven fighting Moody brothers from Pontypridd. He started work in the collieries at the age of 11, but turned to boxing full time in the 1920s, and continued boxing throughout the 1920s and 1930s. He became British middleweight and light heavyweight champion, and fought 52 times in America, winning 32 of these bouts and drawing another 9. He possessed an explosive punch which led him to be dubbed the 'Pontypridd Puncher', and made him a tremendous crowd pleaser at home and in the United States. Source: Pontypridd Museum
Frank Moody (1900-63), boxing champion from Pontypridd, c. 1930
  • Tabernacl Welsh Baptist Chapel was built in 1861, at a time when the town of Pontypridd was growing in size and importance as the collieries of the Rhondda valleys were being opened up. In 1910 - the centenary of the arrival of the Baptist movement in the town - the chapel was extended, and the organ, ornate wood and plasterwork ceiling, and stained glass windows were added. A baptismal bath was also built under the pulpit. The organ was built in Huddersfield. The chapel closed as a place of worship in 1983, and Pontypridd Town Council converted it into the Pontypridd Historical and Cultural Centre, which opened in July 1986.
Interior of Tabernacl Welsh Baptist Chapel, Pontypridd (now Pontypridd Museum)
  • James James was a Pontypridd musician, who earned his living playing the harp in local inns. The music for Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau was composed in January 1856, and was first performed in the vestry of Capel Tabor in Maesteg in early 1856. The singer was a lady called Elizabeth John, also from Pontypridd.
James James, composer of the music for 'Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau', 1833 - 1902
  • Taliesin James was the son of James James, composer of the music for the Welsh National Anthem, Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau. He followed in his father's footsteps as a harpist of note.
Detail from the harp of Taliesin James, son of James James, composer of the Welsh National Anthem, 1800s
Taliesin James, harpist and son of James James, composer of the Welsh National Anthem, 1800s
  • The banner reads: 'Wele yr Hauwr a aeth allan i hau'; ''Y maes yw y byd' ('Behold the Sower went out to sow'; 'The field is the world').
Banner and stained glass windows of Tabernacl Baptist Chapel, Pontypridd, now Pontypridd Museum