Charity No. 1187117
Garw Valley Heritage Society Member Colin has received an award for his archiving skills having completed the “Digitising Materials” course provided by Dysgu Bro Ceredigion Community Learning / National Library of Wales. Well done Colin!
Traditional black and white film of men in the village of Llangynwyd carrying out the tradition of the Mari Lwyd, BBC Wales program, Lolfa, 1966.
Half way through 2014 we switched to Jetpack, an application that tracks activity on our website. The results for this (half) year are here.
Readers may like to know that we had reason to make a correction to a recent Glamorgan Gazette article. Details are as follows: “The Garw Valley Heritage Society, who were solely responsible for the investigation and research into the number of Garw men who had lost their lives in the First World War, would like…
The Garw Valley Heritage Society has produced its 4th newsletter, for Autumn 2013, and includes articles about the 1961 Ffaldau pit accident and some early recollections from a Llangeinor boyhood and some finds in Stormy Down. Copies have been distributed throughout the Valley at Blaengarw Hall, in Danymynydd, Pontycymmer Leisure Centre, the BAVO office in…