Isitfair was started in October 2002 by Christine and John Melsom as a local action group in Hampshire. They were incensed about the proposed huge increase in Council Tax bills for the year 2003/04. This was the year when the average increase was 12.9%! Although the Government knew that this was going to happen, they did absolutely nothing to prevent it. Instead, they blamed the local councils!

This article, written by David Walter Morris in 1996, describes parts of the town centre as they were seventy years earlier in 1926. David was born in 1912 and lived firstly in Broniestyn Terrace and then in Commercial Street. His father was a hosier and outfitter and when the family moved to Commercial Street, the town became very familiar to DWM, which no doubt enabled him to write accurately about the shops and other premises after such a long period of time. Photographs that illustrate some of the paragraphs are used with the permission of Rhondda Cynon Tâf Libraries, and can be found in the online Photographic Archive