FREE TALK
Thursday 14th March
Bedwellty House, Tredegar – 2.00pm
…. all welcome
Find out more …
Friends of the Newport Ship
FRIENDS OF THE NEWPORT SHIP is a registered charity run by volunteers. They have an excellent website which shares lots of information about the excavation, preservation, conservation, recording and storage of ship. If you have the time, I would recommend visiting their site and exploring this information. However, if you are short on time, or are new to the Newport ship, try going straight to the page below.
Living Levels
LIVING LEVELS also have a great page on the Newport ship with two wonderful videos which I would absolutely recommend watching.
The Newport Medieval Ship – a digital reconstruction
The Newport Ship – an animated story of the ship’s final journey
SPRING TRIP
Thursday 28th March
The Winding House, New Tredegar
and
Llancaiach Fawr Manor, Nelson
Open the boxes to find out more …
STOP 1 – WINDING HOUSE
Cross Street,
New Tredegar,
Caerphilly,
NP24 6EG
10.15 – Meet in the Winding House car park
10.30 – Our private group tour starts
We will have an ex-miner as our guide and he will be running the engine. There is also a cafe and museum displays to look at.
Make your own way to Llancaiach Fawr Manor
STOP 2 – LLANCAIACH FAWR MANOR
Llancaiach Fawr Manor
Gelligaer Road
Nelson
Treharris
CF46 6ER
Find out more about Llancaiach Fawr Manor
12.30 – Re-convene for lunch.
13.30 – Guided group tour of the house
- WINDING HOUSE –Free
- LLANCAIACH FAWR MANOR – Adult: £8.50 Concessions: £6.95 (60+)
- TRANSPORT – own car
Lunchtime meal and refreshments to paid for individually on the day.
We do need to submit everyone’s main course choices prior to arrival though. Please look at the attached menu and indicate your choice/s on the CONTACT FORM when you register your intention to come.
Thank you
Carolyn
We are booked into both venues as a group but only have to pay for Llancaiach Fawr Manor. Rather than asking everyone to pay beforehand we propose that we pay individually when we arrive. This eases the difficulty of some of us qualifying for concessions. Llancaiach Fawr is happy for us to do this.
- Please register your intention to attend, using the CONTACT FORM below, so we know who is coming.
- Please choose your meal and add your choice to the CONTACT FORM.
- If your circumstances change, and you are unable to attend, please let us know so that we can pass this updated information on to the restaurant.
We look forward to you joining us. It should be a fun and interesting day.
Carolyn
HERITAGE DAY 2024
Saturday 12th October
CRIME AND PUNISHMENT IN WALES
SPEAKERS
Chris Parry – China in Merthyr Tydfil
Tony Hopkins – Law and Disorder in Monmouthshire, the Quarter Session Courts
Elizabeth Belcham – Swansea’s ‘Bad Girls’, Crime and Prostitution 1870s-1914
VENUE
Bedwellty House and Park, Tredegar
10.00am – 4.00pm
Ticket price includes a buffet lunch
EVENTS ORGANISED BY OTHERS
WALKS
Wednesday 10th April (starting)
North Gwent Ramblers – STEPPING STONES Walks
Click on the title above to find out more.
CONFERENCE
Saturday 27th April 2024
ANNUAL CONFERENCE
Oxford House Industrial History Group
TALKS PROGRAMME 2024
Venue: Bedwellty House, Tredegar
Thursday April 11th
Thursday May 9th
Thursday June 13th
Thursday July 11th
August – No talk
Thursday 12th September
Speaker – Ceri Thompson
Topic – Welsh Colliery Horses
Closely connected with coal mining since the early days of the industry, horses have been used to transport coal from the collieries to the customer, to power winding and pumping engines and to move coal from the coalface to the shaft.
Thursday 10th October
Speaker – Keir Waddinton
Topic – The Interconnections between Health and Pollution in Victorian and Edwardian Rural Environments. (This talk is BGHF contribution towards THE BEVAN FESTIVAL, Tredegar)
Saturday 12th October
HERITAGE DAY –
Thursday 14th November
December – No talk
MEETING DATES - 2024
Venue: Tredegar Library
Monday April 15th – AGM
Monday May 20th
Monday June 17th
Monday July 15th
Monday August 19th
Monday September 16th
Monday October 21st
Monday November 18th
Monday December 16th
DATES FOR YOUR DIARY - 2024
SPRING TRIP – Thursday 28th March
Visit the Winding House, New Tredegar in the morning, coffee, then drive on to Llancaiach Fawr for lunch followed by a guided afternoon tour, finishing around 3.15.
BEVAN FESTIVAL, TREDEGAR – This annual festival in July is a key event set up to celebrate the founder of the NHS. Our contribution to this, is our talk on Thursday 10th October. (Booking difficulties have resulted in it taking place at a later date)
AUTUMN TRIP – September 2024
HERITAGE DAY – Saturday 12th October
This year we will be inviting four speakers who will be exploring the theme of ‘Crime and Punishment in Wales’
CHRISTMAS LUNCH – Monday 16th December
Past Trips
Spring Trip 2022 – Blaenavon Ironworks
Spring Trip 2023 – Cyfarthfa Castle
Autumn Trip 2023 – Nantgarw China Works and Museum
KEEPING WELSH HISTORY ALIVE