Photo Archive News

More Photos Added to Our Flickr Archive We’ve been busy behind the scenes and are delighted to share that we’ve added lots more photographs to our online archive on Flickr. Our growing collection captures the people, places and stories of the Garw Valley, helping to preserve local history and making it easy for everyone to…

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Tylagwyn Chapel Closure

It is sad to relate that this chapel will be closing on December 16th, with its final service at 11.30am. Tylagwyn  Chapel is the oldest chapel in the valley, having opened in 1831  as Craig Wen Particular Baptist Cwmgarw. It was renamed in the 1880s after enlargement as Tylagwyn Baptist Chapel. Older Garw residents have…

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2022 Society Update

The Garw Valley Heritage Society is currently involved in plans for exhibitions and talks throughout this year, in various venues up and down the Garw valley, now that there is more freedom of movement and the virus hopefully losing its grip. Details of these will be announced on the GVHS website and also on our…

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Garw Heritage News

What we have been doing… Not a lot publicly, obviously, but our website has been busy with visitors via Facebook and Twitter. We have been holding our monthly meetings via the Zoom connection on the internet, so have managed to keep in touch, with our main concerns being to archive and register the large amount…

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