Charity No. 1187117
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…
The Garw Valley Heritage Society is looking to expand its website (www.garwheritage.co.uk) and urgently needs more photographs, memories, and items of historical interest from Garw residents, especially from the Betws and Llangeinor areas which are currently under-represented. If you have anything of interest that can be copied and returned, please call secretary Jean Fowlds on…
Submitted by Keith Brocklebank I went to work on the afternoon shift on this day, my workmate Keith Dyer was waiting at the pithead and we went down together. It was just an ordinary shift to us, as soon as we got to our workplace we got going. On afternoons everyone was trying their best…
Submitted by David Dimmick During the late 1970s I worked as a foreman renovating a WW2 Rifle range at the former R.A.F airfield at Stormy Down, Porthcawl, which was being adapted for use by the Territorial Army. Part of the job entailed removing the spent bullets from the sand at the back of the range,…
The Garw Valley Heritage Society has produced its 4th newsletter, for Autumn 2013, and includes articles about the 1961 Ffaldau pit accident and some early recollections from a Llangeinor boyhood and some finds in Stormy Down. Copies have been distributed throughout the Valley at Blaengarw Hall, in Danymynydd, Pontycymmer Leisure Centre, the BAVO office in…