Family History Fair
Talks at the Fair: 11 am Richard Morgan – Place names of Glamorgan 12 pm Graham Davies – the Welsh Volunteers in the International Brigade 2 pm Jamie Baker – the 1919 Race Riots in Wales
Open Doors Event – guided walk
As part of CADW’s Open Doors Festival the Garw Valley Heritage Society is organising the following event: Saturday 14th September – Free guided walks in and around Blaengarw focusing on the life and times of Daniel James, who wrote the much loved Calon Lan hymn. The walk is illustrated with photographs contemporary with the time…
Tabernacle Open Doors Event
Another event for your diaries – please share! Saturday 21st September – 10-4pm Tabernacle chapel in Pontycymer will be hosting an exhibition on the social, cultural, industrial and mining history of the Garw Valley. Photographs, stories, pictures and artefacts will all be on display, and a non-stop projector showing many aspects of the last 100…
The Garw In Pictures – Event
The Garw Valley Heritage Society presents “The Garw in Pictures”, 23rd June at Blaengarw Rugby Club. Screened projections and static displays. Enjoy a walk down memory lane or see how your grandparents lived.
Betws Exhibition
Don’t forget that on Thursday, Friday and Saturday this week May 25-27, the Garw Valley Heritage Society will be holding an exhibition at Betws Community Club (next to the garage). Stories of famous Betws and Garw people, photographs and artefacts, maps and pictures, all with relevance to the last 150 years of the area. Entrance is…