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Those much needed Phone Numbers.

Council Offices 01495 350555
Recycling 01495 355614	Street Lighting 01495 355398	Pest Control 01495 311556
Environmental Health 01495 355056
Citizens Advice Bureau 01495 292506	Social Services 01495 355794	Social Security 01495 263000
Parent-line 0808 800 2222	Victim Support 0845 3030 900	Alcoholics Anonymous 0845 769 7555
Child Protection 01792 636 700	Child Line 0800 111 111	Child Support Agency 0845 609 0082
EMERGENCIES
National Flood-line 0845 988 1188	Electricity 0800 052 0400	Gas 0800 111 999
Gwent Doctors On Call 01495 321100	Neville Hall Hospital 01873 732 732
Schools
Roseheyworth Millennium 01495 322020	Blaentillery Primary School 01495 212412	Abertillery Primary School 01495 212684

Citizens Advice Bureau
Office address is: (old Arosfa day centre), High Street, Blaina, NP13 3AN.
Open door on Mondays 10 – 4.... Advice by appointment on Tue & Wed....Form filling on Thursday....
We also offer specialist Debt advice on Tue & Thursday and specialist employment advice on alternate Fridays.
OUR OUTREACH IN ABERTILLERY OPERATES EVERY THURSDAY FROM COMMUNITIES 1^ST OFFICE IN ABERTILLERY 12 – 4 AND CLIENTS CAN JUST DROP-IN.

Citizens Advice are hear to help you, just give us a call and if you are interested in volunteering to help – we are always looking for volunteers!

Places To Visit.

Abertillery and District Museum:- Located in Market Street Abertillery, it is full of history and heritage of the Abertillery District. See the Bronze Age axe from the settlement at Llanerch Padarn high in the Cwmtillery valley. The Colliery "Pit Bell" which called the miner to work and then which rang out at St.Paul's church. Visit the authentic miner's kitchen, complete with Zinc bath, and much much more.
The opening times of the museum are as follows; Monday-Thursday 10am-1pm 2pm-4pm Friday 10am-1pm, and Saturday 10am-1pm. Their phone number is (01495) 211140.

Big Pit Mining Museum One of the UK's leading tourist attractions, Big Pit, is now part of the family of National Museums & Galleries of Wales. Big Pit is a real colliery. It was the place of work for hundreds of men, women and children for over 200 years - a daily struggle to extract that precious mineral that stoked the furnaces and lit the household fires of the world. · For a brief look at what's in store for you at Big Pit - the National Mining Museum of Wales, see our guide to the Big Pit tour. · To help you plan your visit, see the information on the facilities at the site, how to get here, and opening times.

The Pontypool & Blaenavon RailwayStarted in 1981, and is operated exclusively by volunteers who form the Pontypool & Blaenavon Railway Company (1983) Ltd. and its support group the Pontypool & Blaenavon Railway Society.
Its situated just off the B4248 between Blaenavon and Brynmawr. It was formed with the aim of preserving some of the line as a steam railway. Interested, then take a look at there web site it contains Diary of events, History of line and rolling stock, new, membership details and much more
Visit its website Pontypool and Blaenavon Railway

Reference Books.

Voices Of Abertillery by Simon Eckley and Don Bearcroft	Old Abertillery by Jeffrey Thomas	Look back at Old Abertillery by Malcom Thomas and Ray Morris
Old Abertillery Vol 2 by Keith Thomas	Stone and Steam in the Black Mountains by David Tipper	Abertillery and District History 2000 by Abertillery and District Museum Society
Abertillery Rugby Football Club 1883 - 1983 by Irene and Keith Thomas	The Bitter Harvest by Roger Williams & David Jones	Look back at Old Abertillery and Six Bells by Malcom Thomas