2000 - 2025
2001 Julien McDonald, Merthyr Tydfil's fashion guru is signed up by leading French Fashion house Givenchy.
2002 Trelewis War Memorial restored and re-sited
2004 Merthyr Tydfil attempted to enter the Guinness Book of Records for the longest Locomotion Dance- in celebration of Trevithick’s first steam locomotive at Penydarren.
2004 Margaret Pritchard of Cefn Coed celebrated her 108th birthday.
2005 The Welsh Academi has opened its prestigious Glyn Jones Centre named after the writer born in Merthyr Tydfil in the same year as Incorporation.
on the ground floor of the new Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff
2005 Teenage singing sensation Donny Osmond was shown on national television flying into Merthyr Tydfil to trace his family history.
2005 Merthyr Tydfil celebrates 100 years as a Borough
2006 Merthyr Tydfil
2006 Establishing a university presence in Merthyr Tydfil by the University of Glamorgan
2006 The construction of an entire Welsh Assembly Government Ministry in Merthyr Tydfil at Rhydycar
2006 Formal agreement with a private partner for the complete reconstruction of the principal Leisure Centre at Rhydycar.
2006 The establishment of a hugely successful out of town shopping complex at Cyfarthfa Retail Park.
2006 The major expansion of a new Tesco superstore in the town centre and Planning applications for the re-building of St Tydfil’s Shopping Centre
2006 Planning application for the construction of 2,000 new homes at a new “Merthyr Village”.
2006 Lord Rowlands, Retired MP for the area, became Freeman of the County Borough
What would you add as your notable events from 2006?...
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