Richard Price Returns

The Garw Valley Heritage Society is pleased to announce that the Richard Price exhibition will be available again to the public at Carnegie House, Wyndham Street, in Bridgend, CF31 1EF on Wednesday and Thursday, 18 and 19 October.

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Fannie Margaret Thomas of Pontycymer

 ‘A doughty warrior in the women’s cause’: by Ryland  Wallacern In April 1912 Miss F. M. Thomas, headmistress of the Ffaldau Girls’ School at Pontycymer in the Garw Valley, rose to address the National Federation of Women Teachers (NFWT) at its annual conference in Hull. This organisation was a pressure group within the National Union…

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