Winter Newsletter 2019
Here is our Winter newsletter. It is distributed throughout the Garw Valley. You can find it in libraries and other public buildings in our local area, or you can read it and download it below. Winter 2019 Newsletter
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
Autumn Newsletter 2019
Please read our latest newsletter. Click the link to download and enjoy!
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…