Last week we featured a scene from Pontymoile, near Pontypool

• The building to the right is the Horse and Jockey at Pontymoile, Pontypool The building to the left is the parish church of St Michael's.

During the 1850s my great-great-grandfather, Samuel Rees farmed 190 acres as a tenant farmer at Court Farm, a short distance away. One of his duties was to oversee the Parish Aid, which allocated money to local people to emigrate to the USA and other destinations. This duty was carried out in the Horse and Jockey.

My great-grandfather, Daniel Richards, was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1850.

Roger Nancarrow, Ponthir

• My mother, Mrs Olive Cavill, went to work in the Horse and Jockey Pub in 1934 when she was aged 14. The pub was owned by her second cousin, a Mrs Florence Smith, and my mother went to work there tor two summer seasons. She worked in the tea rooms and shop that was in the pub.

The tea rooms was very popular with charabancs full of hop-pickers returning from Hereford to the Rhondda Valley. Tea was tuppence a cup.

Julia Jones

• Now and Then is the Horse and Jockey pub on the old Pontypool to Little Mill road.

Next to the pub is Llanvihangel Church and graveyard, I think now it is only used on a part-time basis, the main church being St Mary's, New Inn.

Opposite is a garage that has been there for many years and was once run by a Mr Plenty and Son.

At the top of the Jockey pitch runs the Newport/Brecon canal.

The Horse and Jockey was a very busy pub with vehicles even parked on the main road. It's good to see the pub still doing a nice trade and I hope it continues for many years to come.

Herbert Williams, New Inn

• I remember the pub very well as being the Horse and Jockey in Mamhilad. Many years ago we used to regularly pass the pub on our way to Abergavenny, where we used to take our daughter swimming in Bailey Park. My daughter is 60 years old now, so that was quite a while ago.

William Price, Swffryd

• This week's photographs are of the Horse and Jockey Inn at Pontymoile, near Pontypool. Its Welsh translation is The bridge by, or near the bare hill'. In probability there has been a hostelry on this site for centuries, as it was on the main coaching route between Pontypool and the county town of Monmouth. In the 18th and 19th centuries the coach, after leaving the inn, would call in at Usk Square for a change of horses before tackling the hilly journey to Raglan, and then on to Monmouth.

Keith Richards

• The Now and Then picture is of Lanvihangel Pontymoile Church. I went to Sunday school there every week and I was also confirmed there and joined the choir. I also belonged to the Girls Friendly Society held at Mamhilad School.

I got married at the church in February 1968, the pub next door is The Horse and Jockey.

Mary Powell, Caerleon