This corner has seen a lot of changes over the years, and I think I ought to get a better angle, or maybe take a couple of photos.
Straight ahead you see the entrance to the schools. The sign says "No Unauthorised Vehicles", so that means you can't take your car up to see the monument to the mining disasters. Just off to the right of the picture is JJ's Garage, built on the site of the "Huts". These were the squallid dwellings which housed the first miners - the shaft sinkers and their families. They were arrayed along the road (little more than a track in those days) for many years before being demolished to make way for allotments and the Garage.
Further around to the right, a badly surfaced road leads up to some of the newest houses in Senghenydd. Behind the photographer is a building that used to be a bakery, then became a slate reclamation depot.
Just off to the left of the picture is the entrance to Cyril Evans' Coach Depot. Cyril Evans, Ferris Coaches and the Sawmills are the three major employers in the village. On the opposite corner of that road are some new houses, built on the site of the Ukranian Club (photograph above) which had many problems before being pulled down. Apparently the houses were built without planning permission, but someone found a way around that problem.
Commercial Street continues North/South, the schools are West, and East goes up the dodgy looking road.
Your choice of directions is
Map of Senghenydd