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.
I know many of you who came to our Heritage Day were keen to meet Rob Blackmore and his mother (Michael’s wife) who were bringing some of Michael’s wonderful art work to display and sell. I also know that many of you were disappointed when he didn’t come.
I have been talking to Rob since the occasion, and he sends his sincerest apologies but unfortunately his mother was taken very ill, suddenly, on Thursday afternoon and rushed to The Grange where she had to stay. Rob’s mind was, understandably, on his mother at this time and he was unable attend our event. We all wish his mother a very speedy recovery.
Carolyn
We invite everyone to our –
VENUE: Bedwellty House, Tredegar
TIME: 2.00pm
REFRESHMENTS: Orchid House Tea Room
We invite everyone to our –
We are having a stall here. If you are attending, look out for us and come and say ‘Hello’.
BGHF – Pop-up Shop
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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