I actually witnessed a movement of rats about 1967, was about 12 midnight and was talking to a mate on the way home, at the bottom of Rhyddings Street Ossy near the war memorial, when something ran across our feet, it was the biggest rat I'd ever seen, within seconds it was followed by thousands more they came from near the Fire Station (now Tesco) and went up Rhydding Street and off the top corner of Shopfitters, me and my mate were on the top step of the War Memorial, put the fear of God in use both. At the time there was a lot of work being carried out to repair the bridge on Union Road, which had been damaged when the top reservoir burst, taking to people afterwards they seem to think they had been disturbed by the work and decided to move out, just wished they'd have done it when I wasn't about
