Tonypandy
Tonypandy is a
town in the county borough of
Rhondda Cynon Taff,
traditional county of
Glamorgan, south
Wales, lying in the
Rhondda Fawr Valley.
The town lies near the
Mynydd y Gelli Iron and
Bronze Age settlement and
stone circle. Famous people from the town include
George Thomas, 1st Viscount Tonypandy.
A major event in the town's history was the
Tonypandy Riot of
1910.
Tonypandy is also a term, coined by a character in
Josephine Tey's
1951 novel
The Daughter of Time, for faulty collective memory or popular history. The widely-known account of a historical event (such as the
Tonypandy Riot), it is argued, may very well be entirely fallacious.
Tonypandy has a
King George's Field, the Athletics Ground, in memorial to
King George V 
