Maerdy Workingmens Hall
From Rhondda Cynon Taff Wiki
Maerdy Workingmen's Hall and Institute was built in 1905 on land given to the workmen of the collieries in Maerdy by landlords. The hall has something of a chequered history.
The institute cost £9,000 to build and furnish and was on three floors and had a lesser hall, billiards room and offices in the basement, with a women’s reading room, men’s reading room, library and refreshment room.
The third floor had a large hall capable of holding 1,000 people. In 1922 the building burnt down, killing its then treasurer, John Jones, whose body was found in the caretakers’ cottage next door.
A little more than two years later, in 1925, the institute was reopened, the miners having raised £20,000 for its rebuilding.
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