When Bargoed is mentioned in Penarth or anyway around Cardiff people mutter curses or giggle at it. But why?
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Bargoed When Bargoed is mentioned in Penarth or anyway around Cardiff people mutter curses or giggle at it. But why? Is it the reason that it has a large crime reputation, or is that it is a largely working class town or is it the fact that is at the end of a train line and therefore must be an industrial wasteland. I find this an unfair assumption as I assume that the majority of the people that make uncomplimentary comments about the town have never ventured there and they have just heard the horror stories about the area, I on the other hand spent nine years of my life there and never heard the horror stories until I left. I remember once hearing someone say that they spent six hours in my home town and they claimed that they were the worst six of their life, I intend to...


