Volume Ten - Pre-Victorian to the Present Day - Even more aspects - The Chronology of the Proposed Ely Branch : 1834 to 1851 . . .

This proposition was cordially responded to by the vast assemblage, and a large party afterwards adjourned to the Bridgewater Arms, where a handsome collation was served up by Mr. Roach, in his usual superior style of comfort and elegance. Some excellent speeches followed, in proposing and acknowledging the various toasts, and the company separated at an early hour, highly gratified by the events of the day.

The beautiful weather and the rich and magnificent scenery of the neighbourhood, rendered the spectacle on the banks of the Rhondda one of the most imposing of the kind it was ever our happiness to witness and there was not a particle of disorder among the immense crowd collected, to mar the beauty and harmony of the scene.' - The Cambrian [241] [361] 19th August 1837

	•  The bridge described in the foregoing article is the skewed viaduct spanning the Afon Rhondda at Newbridge to a design of Mr. I. K. Brunel. Newbridge became Pontypridd during 1856.