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COVID-19 UPDATE
All of our events for 2020 have been cancelled.
However, I am leaving the information on our coach trip and Talks programme for your information because it is very likely that we will run these in 2021.
NOTICEBOARD
2020 MEETINGS DATES
Every Friday each month at 10.00am
Tredegar Library
March – Friday
April – Friday
May – Friday AGM
June – Friday
July – Friday
August – Friday
September – Friday
October – Friday
November – Friday
December – Friday
Monthly Meeting – Tredegar Library
10.00am – 11.ooam
Everyone is welcome to attend these meetings and we always look forward to seeing new faces.
Heritage Day
THEME – TRANSPORT
VENUE: Ty Ebbw Fach
DATE: October
COACH TRIP
Senghenydd Mining Memorial and Garden and Llancaiach Fawr Manor
Download trip details: click here… Trip Schedule
Your ticket includes: bus fare – morning tea/coffee and welsh-cakes – entry into Llancaiach Fawr Manor
Your ticket does not include: lunch or afternoon tea and cakes
© David Bowen
Click on the image to go to the Aber Valley Heritage Group website.
Llancaiach Fawr Manor
Click on the image to go to Llancaiach Fawr Manor website.
Senghenydd Colliery Disaster 1913 – Memorial Museum and Garden
At 8.00am on Tuesday 14 October 1913 a huge explosion rocked the small town of Senghenydd, to the north of Caerphilly. It came from the coal mine belonging to the Universal Colliery.
This explosion, and subsequent release of poisonous gas, killed 439 miners, (both men and boys) making the Senghenydd pit disaster the most lethal and tragic mining disaster in British history.
Llancaiach Fawr Manor
Built in 1550 for Dafydd ap Richard, Llancaiach Fawr was designed to be easily defended during the turbulent reigns of Tudor kings and queens. It is one of the finest examples of a semi-fortified manor house in Wales today.
It has been restored and furnished as it would have been in 1645 and all of the furnishings in the rooms are accurate reproductions of items from the time of the Prichard’s in the 16th and 17th centuries.
© Image used with the kind permission of Gwyn Jenkins
2020 HERITAGE TALKS PROGRAMME
The Rich History of Blaenau Gwent
Bedwellty House
2nd Thursday each month at 2.00pm
Morgan Street, Tredegar, NP22 3XN
Bedwellty House, Tredegar
In our Talks Programme this year we will be exploring the rich and varied history of Blaenau Gwent. The dates for our talks are listed below so come along and join us. As well as here on our website, all of our talks are advertised on our facebook page and in Bedwellty House.
Download the complete TALK list
Click on the link below to download the complete list. Please be aware that the dates won’t change but the order of speakers could do so, and this download list might not be updated as quickly as the website. If there is a discrepancy the website dates will be correct.
Click here to download – Blaenau Gwent Heritage Forum Talks 2020
Aerial Photos of Blaenau Gwent
To link in with our talks this year, and to help give an overview of the landscape of BLAENAU GWENT, I am adding some aerial images … see below.
We are very grateful to Richard Whitcombe, Bill Hillier, Gwyn Jenkins and Mike Williams for their generosity in allowing us to use their photos on this page. We would definitely recommend searching out more of their work, as between them, they have produced a wealth of fascinating and informative ‘bird’s eye’ images of the locality.
Follow the links below to look at their websites
Bill Hillier –Website: WALES FROM ABOVE
Gwyn Jenkins – Facebook page: GWYN’S NOW AND THEN AERIAL PHOTOS
Richard Whitcombe – Facebook group (private): Ebbw Vale PAST and PRESENT
Mike Williams – Facebook Page: BIRD’S EYE VIEW OF TREDEGAR
Please click on the individual images below to enlarge them
Blaenau Gwent
© Bill Hillier
Thursday – January
An Overview of the Rich History of Blaenau Gwent
Speaker: Frank Olding
Brynmawr
© Bill Hillier
Thursday – February
Unexpected Buildings in Brynmawr
Speaker: Eifion Lloyd Davies
Abertillery
©Bill Hillier
Thursday – March
Abertillery
Speaker: David Llewellyn
Blaina, Cwmcelyn and Nantyglo
©Bill Hillier
Thursday – April
Nantyglo and Blaina
Speaker: Steve Jones
Beaufort
© Richard Whitcombe
Thursday – May
Beaufort and Rassau
Speaker: Rodger Burchell
Tredegar
© Mike Williams
Thursday – June
Tredegar and Sirhowy
Speaker: tbc
Thursday – July
Trefil
Speaker: Alyson Tippings
Parc Bryn Bach
© Richard Whitcombe
August
No Talk
Ebbw Vale
© Richard Whitcombe
Thursday – September
Ebbw Vale and Surrounding Farms
Speaker: Rodger Burchell
Cwm
© Richard Whitcombe
Thursday – October
Cwm
Speaker: Martyn Morgan Jones
Bedwellty House
© Gwyn Jenkins
Thursday – November
The History of Bedwellty House
Speaker: Idris Powers
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Guardian and Six Bells
© Bill Hillier
December
No Talk
Nye Bevan and his Legacy
