Previous Trips Winter Trip 2025 – Ebbw Vale Works Museum and Gwent Archives Autumn Trip 2024 – The Brecon Mountain Railway Spring Trip 2024 -The Winding House and Llancaiach Fawr Manor Autumn Trip 2023 – Nantgarw China Works and Museum Spring Trip 2023 – Cyfarthfa Castle Spring Trip 2022 – Blaenavon Ironworks
New Logo We have recently updated our logo. This new, very colourful one, represents the range of local societies, museums, councils and residents who come together to contribute and support Blaenau Gwent Heritage Forum, and without whom we really couldn’t operate.
Blaenau Gwent Chartists Four plaques placed to commemorate 150 years since the march on Newport. Looking for the Blaenau Gwent Chartists Plaques – Eifion Lloyd Davies BRYNMAWR – commemorating David Lewis, ‘King Crispin’ and leader of the Brynmawr Chartists NANTYGLO – commemorating four local men who were killed in the Chartist Rising CWMTILLERY – in…
SITE OF PLAQUE In the grounds of Bryn Bach Parc REASON FOR PLAQUE This plaque, on a piece of four foot quarried stone, was unveiled in remembrance of a wartime RAF bomber crash which killed one of its crew. The memorial is important because although many of the military aircraft crashes across south Wales have…
THE GWALIA WORKS This Brynmawr factory was established in 1929 by an Order of Friends at a time when high unemployment and much hardship followed the 1920s decline of coal mining at Brynmawr.This lighter industrial work not only provided the chance for those unable to find work in the mines or in linked industry to…
3rd Battalion of the Monmouthshire Battalion Site of Plaque This plaque is placed in the grounds of Bedwellty House and Park. It was put into position with a dedication ceremony to honour the locally recruited men of the 3rd Mons’ Battalion who gave their lives during the 1914-18 ‘Great War’. Reason for plaque the regiment…
SITE OF PLAQUE The Cambrian Inn, Tredegar REASON FOR PLAQUE BGHF funded this plaque in recognition of Rhys Davies, an engineer from Tredegar who is said to have changed American history. Rhys left South Wales in 1833 to help build Tredegar Ironworks in Richmond, Virginia, which was named in his honour. This Ironworks extended the…
