World War 1 Booklet Published!

We have great pleasure in presenting our World War 1 Booklet. The booklet has been published to accompany our  exhibition, on  World War One in the Garw Valley which as well as containing the Roll of Honour, will give biographical details of some of the men who went, the hardships they endured, and the medals…

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Exhibitions News

To mark the centenary of the outbreak of World War1 the Garw Valley Heritage Society will be holding a series of exhibitions between the end of April and the end of October. The exhibition will show posters, maps, banners, and photographs, as well as artefacts from the battlefields and letters written by Garw soldiers from…

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World War One Help Needed

In 2014, the Heritage Society is proposing to develop an exhibition and display of articles relevant to the centenary of the outbreak of World War 1. We would like to be able to show how this event was recorded in the Valley; how people lived here at that time and what their lives were like….

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Overview of the Year

Well what a busy year this has been for our Society. As well as attending local shows such as Llangeinor & Braich y cymmer fetes which we all enjoy, our members have once again taken part in the Bridgend Heritage’Open Door’ events with the Dr. Richard Price walk and the increasingly popular Calon Lan walk.

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Treboeth Heritage Society’s Calon Lan walk

On Wednesday June 20th, the G.V.H.S. played hosts to the Treboeth Heritage Society (Swansea). A coach party of 51 visitors came to explore and take a guided tour of Blaengarw, following in the footsteps of one of their own local heroes: the bard Daniel James, writer of Calon Lan. Arriving at 10:45am, and after stopping…

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