Charity No. 1187117
When Italy won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1964, I was a 15-year-old boy growing up in the Garw. My friends and I used to gather in the café for a steamed pie and an espresso served from a huge chrome and brass Cimbali Grand Luce.
Griffith Jenkin Griffths was born on the 4/1/1850 at Penybryn farm, Bettws to Morgan and Margaret (nee Jenkins) Griffiths. In 1866 when Griffith was 16 he left Wales and took a ship to the U.S.A., America was still suffering from the after effects of its bloody Civil War. When Griffith landed in New York he knew no one,…
Here is our society member Gerald Jarvis telling the story of Ricahrd Price, an audio recording made for the Reach Heritage Website project called “Heroes and Legends.”
Daniel James was born on the 23rd of January 1848 in a cottage in Llangyfelach Rd, Treboeth, Nr Morriston Swansea. His parents were chapel goers and the young Daniel would attend worship with them at Mynnyddbach Chapel, Treboeth. His formal education was minimal, but he did attend a local drama school for a short time….
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…