Tabernacle Chapel & Vestry Survey
Please help us by completing this survey prepared by Garw Valley Heritage Society on behalf of the Trustee and members of Tabernacle chapel, Pontycymer.
Need Help with Family History? Here’s Where to Start
We regularly receive queries and requests from people looking to uncover more about local people and places, especially in connection with family history. While we’re always happy to provide photographs or copies of documents from our archives, we aren’t usually able to assist with building full family trees. But don’t worry—there are some great resources…
Our Work with the People’s Collection of Wales
One of the Garw Valley Heritage Society’s involvements of the last year or so has been with the People’s Collection of Wales (PCW), with whom we are pleased to be working in partnership. They have welcomed our participation and help in building their extensive collections of photographs, stories and articles on the history of Wales….
Help Request!
Has anybody seen our gunboat plaque? In 1942-3, during War Savings Week, the people of the Garw Valley contributed a large sum of money to buy a gunboat. Motor Gunboat no.57 (MGB57) was dedicated to the Garw with a plaque given. The gunboat itself was destroyed in a fire in the 2004, but the plaque…
WW1 Requests!
We are looking for household items that would have been used in the Garw Valley in the 1910s to 1920s, e.g. washing boards, tin baths or any games that would have been played by adults or children in that period. We would like to photograph items or borrow them for our exhibition in 2014. We…