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…

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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…

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The Garw In Pictures – Event

The Garw Valley Heritage Society presents “The Garw in Pictures”, 23rd June at Blaengarw Rugby Club. Screened projections and static displays. Enjoy a walk down memory lane or see how your grandparents lived. 

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Betws Exhibition

Don’t forget that on Thursday, Friday and  Saturday this week May 25-27, the Garw Valley Heritage Society will be holding an exhibition at Betws Community Club (next to the garage). Stories of famous Betws and Garw people, photographs and artefacts, maps and pictures, all with relevance to the last 150 years of the area. Entrance is…

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Mines Rescue Men Die in Foul Air Disaster

One hundred years ago this month a tragic set of events unfolded at the Duchy Colliery, Pontyrhyl. March 2nd  1917 It started with what was to be a quarterly training exercise for the men of the Duchy Colliery Mines Rescue Team, at the colliery a request had been made to the colliery manager, Mr. Eli…

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