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  • SWANSEA VALLEY HISTORY SOCIETY SUMMER NEWSLETTER – JULY 2020 Hello to all our members! I am pleased to send you each our Summer Newsletter, keeping you in touch with our latest news. It has been a difficult year in many ways with all our meetings and talks cancelled from last March. Due to continuing Coronavirus…

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    July 23, 2020
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  • ANTIQUES QUIZ EVENING

    Wednesday 21 December at the Heritage Centre 7pm.                             ANTIQUES QUIZ EVENING                              Hosted by Helen Hallesy                    Come and join us for a fun evening Prizes, raffles, tea and coffee, mulled wine and mince pies.                                 (Please bring a pen)

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    December 18, 2022
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  • Event: Swansea Bad Girls: Crime and Punishment

    Event: Swansea Bad Girls: Crime and Punishment

    Wednesday 27 July 2022. ‘Swansea Bad Girls: Crime and Punishment Meet at 7pm at the Heritage and Visitor Centre, Pontardawe An illustrated talk on the lives and crimes of women prisoners in Swansea Jail  1870s – 1914 The speaker will be Elizabeth Belcham, Local historian. Contact Helen on 01792 865451 or email helen@hallesy.com

    leonvincent1

    July 11, 2022
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  • Llangiwg – The lost name & history of the Swansea Valley

    Llangiwg – The lost name & history of the Swansea Valley

    By Leon Vincent. If any of you have stumbled across old maps of these parts (as you do), then you’d notice that the names Ystalyfera, Clydach, Morriston and Pontardawe are relatively new. For over one thousand years, Llangiwg (with various spellings) was the geographic identity of the mid-lower Swansea Valley and I worry that we…

    sizzleofbarum

    June 28, 2022
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  • SAY GOODBYE TO THE CUCKOO

    SAY GOODBYE TO THE CUCKOO

    Ask most people what they know about the Cuckoo, and the response probably would be that it is a bird that lays its eggs in other bird’s nests. Absolutely true, but there is much more to this bird. The bird’s scientific name is Cuculus Canorus. What a great name. Imagine that this Cuckoo lays an egg…

    sizzleofbarum

    June 28, 2022
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  • A Book review: Cefn Celfi

    A Book review: Cefn Celfi

    A forty page booklet has been written by B. M. Lodwick of Neath Abbey on the history of Cefn Celfi Farm, Rhos, Pontardawe. He starts with the 3 ancient stones mentioned in ‘Llyfr Du Caerfyrddin, the Black Book of Carmarthen; a collection of early Welsh poetry where the 3 stones with the names Cynon Cynfael…

    sizzleofbarum

    June 28, 2022
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  • To begin at the beginning – of Pontardawe

    To begin at the beginning – of Pontardawe

    Most people living in the present village or small town of Pontardawe probably consider that it has always been here. That is not in fact so – Pontardawe is a relatively new town only about two hundred years old. Three maps in particular show how the communities in the Swansea Valley including Pontardawe developed. In 1729 Emanuel Bowen produced his New and Accurate Map of South Waleswhich is now considered to be not at all very accurate. (See Around Pontardawe1996 for this map). However, he does identify places that are pertinent to this article. At the location we refer to as the Cross area of Pontardawe Mr Bowen has marked a Pont Cledach, and about…

    sizzleofbarum

    June 28, 2022
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  • 2020/21 Lecture Series. Just a note to bring you up to date regarding the Society’s lecture series normally held at The Cross Community Centre, Pontardawe. The current health emergency means that it is not possible to arrange for speakers to present the lectures or for the actual venue to be booked in advance as it…

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    July 3, 2020
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  • A decision has been taken to cancel all further meetings, lectures and also the A.G.M for 2020. The Society wish to thank all members, speakers and non members for their constant loyalty and support. Our thoughts are with you all at this perilous time. We will post another announcement when it is appropriate to resume…

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    March 19, 2020
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  • CANCELLED

    Please note the lecture on March 18th (The Tay Railway Bridge) has been cancelled

    sizzleofbarum

    March 10, 2020
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