My favourite thing about Merthyr is a road name near the council offices, The Rue de Clichy is shown twice on the dual sign showing that French is the same in Welsh as it is in English!
I have lived in Wales for 14 years and had 50 pubs in the valleys, Cardiff and Swansea and none of them spoke Welsh. I hear Welsh often in Carmarthen and further North and West. Merthyr is the most Welsh speaking southern town as the rurals migrated from the agriculture to the industry from the...