Journal 26 offers a range of topics from covering events during the 19th and 20th centuries. We are fortunate to be able to include new work offered for our publication by Mr Martyn Thomas, a Ph.D. Candidate, now relocated to Hay, as well as a personal journal from WWI which has not been published before. A strange case of ‘murder’ as well as a complete chapel history and ‘pub crawl’ can all be found in this journal.
Journal 26
Page 7: Rodger Burchell – An unusual verdict. The strange case of “Felo De Se” in Beaufort
Page 17: Contributed by Mr Phillip Prosser – A Globetrotter in Tredegar.
Page 19: Martyn Thomas – Interwar Relief Work in The Ebbw Fach Valley.
Page 29: John B. Hilling – Early ‘New Towns’ in the Valleys.
Page 36: Rodger Burchell and Janet Karn – A First World War Journey,The Journal of Corporal Henry Vicks.
Page 56: Robert Short – A History of Tabernacle Baptist Church Tredegar
Page 69: Biographical Notes
Page 70: Information for Contributors
Brought up in Ebbw Vale Rodger spent much of his life working at Ebbw Vale steel works. Afterr this he worked as a lecturer in Archaeological fieldwork and Practice, spent 5 years as a geophysical specialist for SiteScan Archaeological, as a field archaeologist for Glamorgan Gwent Archaeological Trust, (GGAT), Church & Site Archaeology and CADW among others.He is an active member of several history and archaeology societies and is a practitioner of the ‘Chartered Institute for Archaeology’. His studies included Welsh History and its sources, manuscripts, maps, etc, Archaeology, Industrial Archaeology, Local History, Landscape History and Archaeology. His MA (Wales) focussed on the history of Milling in Gwent and he has written several ‘historic’ walks for the surrounding area.
We are looking for contributions for our next Journal – issue 27
Do you have a story to tell or interesting information you would like to share with us? We invite contributions relating to historic Blaenau Gwent for inclusion in Issue 27.
We are looking for articles from new contributors as well as from more regular ones so please contact us if you have work that you would like to submit.
Guidance Notes for Contributers
We ask that all contributors refer to the guidance notes below and can offer help and support if anyone would like this.
