This is the place to find out all you need to know about ‘What’s On’ , heritage-wise. This includes our free monthly talks, our spring and autumn trips and our annual Heritage Day. We also advertise upcoming events relating to the rich heritage of this area organised by others. To see an overview of our whole year of events, please click on the 2025 Overview of all Events button.
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REFRESHMENTS: Orchid House Tea Room
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VENUE: Bedwellty House, Tredegar
TIME: 2.00pm
REFRESHMENTS: Orchid House Tea Room
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TIME: 12.30pm
Tickets and menu coming soon.
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BRYNMAWR – The Tabor Centre: venue and parking
18 Davies Street, Brynmawr, Blaenau Gwent NP23 4AD.
OUR BGHF SHOP – We will be selling our newly published and updated version of ‘Powells History of Tredegar’ as well as our usual range of publications.
10.00 to 11.00 The History and Practices of Droving – Mark Davis
11.00 to 11.15 Break for tea and coffee
11.15 to 12.15 Monmouthshire, Abergavenny and Brecon Canals – Jayne Collier
12.15 to 12. 50 Presentation: The Tramways Project, identifying and mapping the historical Tramroad sites in the Brecon Beacons National Park – Roy Manning (our extra event)
1.00 to 2.00 Lunch
2.00 to 3.00 Overtaken by Steam, George Overton and the Railway – Stephen K Jones and Stephen Rowson
3.00 to 3.15 Break for tea and coffee
3.15 to 4.15 The Rolls Family of Monmouth – Roger James
EBBW VALE WORKS MUSEUM
GWENT ARCHIVES
COMMUNITY ARCHIVES COLLECTIVE – confirmed exhibits from the areas of CWM and LLANHILLETH
GILBERN CARS – Only production car manufactured in Wales
Some of our SPEAKERS are bringing their own small displays to supplement their talks.
We are very lucky to have ROB BLACKMORE coming along bringing a selection of art by the late MICHAEL BLACKMORE whose drawings and paintings depict the industrial past so accurately and beautifully. We hope some will be available to buy.
CHRIS PARFITT from CWM COMMUNITY ARCHIVE will also be bringing along some of his DRAGONSTONE figures.
Amgueddfa Cymru is celebrating the 250th anniversary of J.M.W. Turner’s birth by bringing his iconic artworks back on display at National Museum Cardiff.
To mark the 250th birthday of one of the greatest British painters, they are staging a celebratory display of works by Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775 – 1851)
Turner became one of the leading avant-garde artists of his time, pushing boundaries and challenging traditional academic ways of painting. He explored new ways of creating atmosphere in his works and once said that ‘atmosphere is my style’.
The display ranges from some of Turner’s early Welsh watercolour paintings, created when he was a young artist touring Wales during the 1790s, to his great late seascapes painted towards the end of his life. Turner found Wales’s dramatic landscapes and ancient ruins inspirational. One example is his Transept of Ewenny Priory, which he visited during his 1795 tour of south Wales.
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