Salvation Army (1884)

Salvation Army, Pleasant Hill, Ferndale

Built: 1884

It would be a ferther five years after Porth that the Army 'opened fire' in The Rhondda Fach in Ferndale. Initial meetings were in the open air until a church hall was rented. They also worshipped in a shop.

  Image © Copyright Glamorgan Archives - Reference: MGCS/CS/54.077

It appears that they built their barracks also in the same year. The seating capacity appears to have been a more modest 600 hence my reservation about the quoted figures for Pentre.
    Once again, I have no information as to when the Army disbanded in Ferndale. The building was subsequently used as an Army Cadet Hall.

Source document - Sic R.M.Smith Unpublished Phesis.