Ebbw Vale - what a coincidence!
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I've just finished tagging a photo for facebook from 1973 of a family birthday party in Ebbw Vale - at the same time OH is watching a Welsh comedian (Rhod Gilbert ?) on C4 who has also just mentioned Ebbw Vale :eek:
How often do you ever hear the words 'Ebbw Vale' mentioned in a normal day - unless you live somewhere near of course!!
What similar coincidences have you experienced?
How often do you ever hear the words 'Ebbw Vale' mentioned in a normal day - unless you live somewhere near of course!!
What similar coincidences have you experienced?
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Oh God - another coincidence! ........ What's going on :eek:
"A little town called Tredegar"
"Good God, is the Tredegar Arms still open ?"
It turned out the "Australian" had emigrated from Tredegar 30 years before :eek:
Also, I'm a season ticket holder at the Cardiff Devils ice hockey club.
I went to watch a hockey game while in New Jersey, and ended up queueing for the bar behind the guy who sits in the seats behind me in Cardiff
I don't know who was more surprised !
I have walked from Ebbw Vale to Tredegar in my younger days mind you
A mate of mine decided to do that after a drunken argument with someone at his sister's birthday party.
He woke up in the bushes at the roadside at about 5am the following morning, bleeding and covered in scratches, wondering what the hell he was doing there...
We felt very sheepish - hah
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First one was about 20 years ago. My cousin was over visiting from Canada and we'd been in the town shopping and were standing at a bus stop waiting for a bus home chatting away. Guy overhears us and asks my cousin if he is from Canada and it goes from there. Turns out the guys relatives lived 4 doors up from my cousin in Gold River on Vancouver Island.
Second one was earlier this year. My family isn't close at all on my dads side so I've got cousins on that side I've only seen a couple times since my folks moved to Aberdeen about 25 years ago. Last year I was sharing a flat with a girl who was from the same town as I knew a couple of my cousins lived in the last time we were in contact so I asked her if she knew them but she said no so I thought that was the end of it. After visiting her, she moved back down there, and going out with her and her pals a couple of them added me on FB and being a nosey sod I went through their friends list and up popped my cousins name. I speak to my friend saying "xxx is pals with my cousin, are you sure you don't know him?" She has a look at the profile and recognises him straight away, she only knew him by his nickname so didn't recognise the name. Turns out her cousin is best friends with my cousin!
http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/BlaenauGwent/1999-12/0944992582
Well - there's a coincidence! My uncle worked in the steelworks - maybe he danced with your mum
Maybe! She certainly danced with Neil Kinnock back then which has led to many a family joke about my parentage!
Have you got ginger hair then
You do not have to answer the above if you feel it may incriminate your mother.
Haha nope I'm not!
Well going by this thread everyone has an Ebbw Vale connection somewhere!
You sure that wasn't Eden Vale ?
Same.
I can remember texting a friend once asking how her day had been and about a second later she text me pretty much the same thing, nearly word for word. :eek: