Clocking in and clocking off, watching the clock as tick follows tock. Yes indeed, it’s all part and parcel of the working game, and back in the day the only game in town for a lot of hardworking players was Coopers Filters in Llanfoist.

Coopers was a big employer for people in the Abergavenny area, but like a lot of industries it is now but a memory. Which brings us quite nicely to this week’s blast from the past.

Pictured are the Abergavenny Amateurs in the mid-1960s. In the front row left to right we have Mike Rouse, who supplied the pic, Ray Powell, Pat Tolland, Len Reynolds, and Ray Hamer.

In the back row left to right we have Peter Bennet, John ‘Hockey’ Fraser, Bryan Coots, Mike James, David Gladwin, and Jeff Williams.

Mike told the Chronicle that most of the team worked at Coopers, where they would finish at 11am on a Saturday before hitting the field of dreams and playing a bit of footy.

Talking of the beautiful game, die-hard Abergavenny Thursdays’ fans out there may recognise the serious looking fella in the white coat in the other picture. He was of course one of the key movers and shakers in the Abergavenny Thursdays’ rise to prominence in what was later to become known as their ‘Golden Age’ - Mr Harold Warren.

Harold is seen here working at Coopers in a photograph kindly supplied to the Chronicle by former Coopers employee, David Jones.

Mr Jones as provided us with a lot of other great pics which candidly capture the working life of Coopers Filters employees, which we will feature later this month.

Until then, if you’ve got any engaging and striking pictures from the past that could do with an airing and benefit from the oxygen of publicity, then why let them linger and gather dust in the drawer a day longer? Send them to [email protected].