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The Hanbury family home at Pontypool House and Park had established walled kitchen gardens on the slopes of Penygarn Hill, by the mid 1700s. Within the walled gardens in the early nineteenth century were built coal-heated Palm Houses (greenhouses) for growing ‘exotic’ fruit, such as peaches, pineapples and grapes. In 1850, they produced 112 pineapples, 103 melons, 406 nectarines, 359 peaches, 295 bunches of grapes, 213 figs and 406 plums. In 1855, the Hanbury-Leigh family employed a head gardener, then Henry Dalrymple - who had his own tied residence on Penygarn Hill, and 22 under gardeners as well as a night watchman for the gardens. The second photograph (below) shows one of the under gardeners, W H Barnwell in the Palm Houses.
By Torfaen Museum
Micah Lewis, seated on the right, who was head packer at Town Forge in Pontypool for over 30 years, taken in 1920. Picture: Torfaen Museum. IN THE early nineteenth century, Molly Hanbury Leigh of Pontypool House introduced some regeneration and landscaping of Pontypool Park, including the building of the Shell Grotto, Rustic Arbour, picnic features along the brook, kitchen gardens and palm houses, a new stable block (now the museum) and other features - as was the garden fashion of the day. As part of the landscaping, it was decided that the forge in the park would have to be removed to another site and so it was closed down in the park (now the site of Pontypool RFC) and moved across the river to the town behind Osborne Road (the area now the site of Riverside car park and adjacent housing) – utilising the water from the Afon Lwyd, like its sister Osborne Forge further up river at Pontnewynydd.
The Lodge Cottages for the Hanbury’s former home of Pontypool House. Picture: Torfaen Museum. THE HOUSES shown here are the Lodge Cottages for the Hanbury’s former home of Pontypool House, described as Town Lodge (as distinguished from the other, former Park Lodge at the Pontymoile Gates). There were three separate cottages within this building at the north entrance to the house and parkland – which you can see from the three chimneys on this photograph. One house faced towards the roadway to the stables (now museum) and Pontypool House (now St Alban’s R C High School), one faced towards Park Road, and the other to what is now the car park but was then a hedged entrance to the blacksmith s workshop to the rear of the stables.
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