Labour politician and former Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald spoke there in the closing weeks of the General Strike of 1926.

The Wesley Dramatic Society entertained, as did the members of Siloam Chapel who performed many dramas and concerts.

The community centre is today mainly used as the venue for the meetings of Cefn Cribwr Labour Party.

Bedford Park, on the northern outskirts of Cefn Cribwr, is now an area of 40 acres (16 ha) of ancient woodland and meadows, glades and open spaces.

It was once an area of intense industrial activity after the Birmingham industrialist John Bedford built a blast furnace here in 1780.

Coal mining and brick making, however, continued throughout the 19th century, but industrial activity at Bedford Park ceased after World War I.

Several public footpaths and cycling routes pass through the park following the line of the old Dyffryn, Llynfi and Porthcawl Railway which linked the ironworks to the coast.

In September 2005, a new parish priest was appointed together with St Theodore's Church in Kenfig Hill, but it was closed in November 2012.

It is believed to have been built by volunteers, midway between Cefn Cribwr and Kenfig Hill alongside the main road overlooking the common.