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Cynefin Tithe Maps Workshop, 10 November …

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The Cynefin project is digitising the tithe maps of Wales and is looking for volunteers to help with the transcription work online.

The workshop at Glamorgan Archives will provide an opportunity for potential volunteers to get to grips with the Cynefin website, and to learn about the different tasks which volunteers can contribute to online. There is no commitment in terms of volunteering hours, we would be grateful for any contribution.

We would appreciate if those who are interested could contact us to register for the event to avoid disappointment on the day, as there are a limited number of computers available at the archives. Our contact details are on the leaflet.

http://www.glamarchives.gov.uk/ Next to the Cardiff City football ground. A nice new building.

Cynefin Workhop 10 November 2015 EnglishCynefin Workhop 10 November 2015 Welshhttp://cynefin.archiveswales.org.uk/

 

Help Restore a Vintage Swansea Tram …

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Recently the Amman Valley Railway Society rescued a vintage Swansea tram from the Brecon Beacons National Park, and our aim is to restore this 135-year-old historic gem to its former glory for the benefit of generations to come.

However, we’re a small charity with insufficient resources to finance the restoration ourselves.

Consequently we’re launching a crowd funding website with Indiegogo to help raise the money we need.

The site will go live this coming Thursday October 8th, and I’m appealing to you for your support on that day. According to Indiegogo, the more we can raise on day one, the more likely we are to meet our target of £28,000.

And every donation will help, no matter how small.

find out more about our charity at http://www.avrsonline.co.uk, and more about our appeal at http://www.swanseatrams.cymru.

The money we raise from this appeal will be spent on the tools and materials we need to carry out initial restoration work on the tram.

Please help us by spreading the word about our campaign via FaceBook, Twitter and and any other social media networks you use.

I’m looking forward to your support,

Mike Smith
CEO

Welsh Wildlife Volunteer Programme October …

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Please find the October volunteer programme attached, which I’d be very grateful if you would advertise and pass on to your contacts and mailing lists.

Welsh Wildlife October 2015 work programme

If you know of anyone who would really like to come, but is struggling due to transport, I will have a very limited number of spaces available (3) on first come first served basis from an en-route pick up point (to be agreed).

Thank you very much.

Kind regards,

Tara Daniels

West Glamorgan’s Wild Woodland Project Officer (WGWW)
07855009622 / 01656 724100 / t.daniels@welshwildlife.org

Wildlife Trust of South and West Wales, The Nature Centre, Fountain Road, Tondu, Bridgend CF32 0EH

Local and Family History Fair, Waterfront Museum, Saturday 10 October …

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The Local & Family History Fair 2015 will be held for the fifth year at the National Waterfront Museum on Saturday 10 October. Formerly Local History . . . Live!, the event has been expanded to reflect the varied interests of participants and visitors.

The 60 Second Show and Tell starts at 2pm. Root through your sheds and attics and bring an object to baffle the Museum’s curators – watch them squirm as they try to explain an object without hesitation or deviation in just one minute!

Organisations participating include:

  • Amman Valley Railway Society
  • Bryngold Books
  • Caswell Photo Restoration
  • Mynyddbach Chapel Society
  • Neath and Tennant Canals Trust
  • National Waterfront Museum
  • Penllergare Valley Woods
  • Royal Institute of South Wales
  • Swansea Community Boat Trust
  • Skewen Historical Society
  • Swansea Canal Society
  • Swansea Railway Modellers Society
  • Swansea Your Story
  • Treboeth History Society
  • Historical Association
  • Llansamlet Historical Society
  • Connected Communities
  • Hafod-Morfa (Copperopolis)
  • Friends of White Rock
  • People’s Collection Wales
  • National Library of Wales
  • Cynefin Tithe Maps Project
  • Dylan Thomas Bus

The ever-popular Oxfam Book Swap will be in full flow.

We will be serenaded by the Aberdulais Water Wheelers choir, and children will be able to try their hand at the printing press.

The Fair is open all day, admission free. Organised by the Swansea Branch of the Historical Association.

John Ashley
www.haswansea.org.uk

http://www.museumwales.ac.uk/swansea/whatson/8367/Local–Family-History-Fair/


http://www.museumwales.ac.uk/swansea/whatson/8368/60-Second-Show–Tell/

The Heritage Apprentice – Calling All Budding Historians! …

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RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ARTS AND HUMANITIES

‘The Heritage Apprentice’

Calling all budding historians!

Do you have fresh ideas and a love of history?

Come and take on our ‘Lord Sugar’!

Open to young adults in the 14-18 age categories from all schools, colleges and youth groups from Swansea and its hinterlands, this unique programme offers an opportunity to compete in a team event modeled on the BBC TV series ‘The Apprentice’. Selected school teams will be given a brief to develop a project associated with the Hafod-Morfa copperworks, an ambitious heritage-led regeneration initiative focusing on the 12.5 acre former site of the Hafod-Morfa Copperworks.

Heritage Apprentice

Applicants will have a lunch at Swansea University with the Hafod project team followed by a tour of the Hafod-Morfa Copperworks site, led by Professor Huw Bowen, professor of Public History at Swansea University. Teams will have a week to prepare their ideas before presenting them before a panel of judges, including our very own ‘Lord Sugar’. An Award Ceremony will take place at the National Waterfront Museum on November 19th.

This is a unique opportunity to engage with an important local and global historical site and contribute to its development. Applicants will also gain knowledge, transferable skills and experience in the history, business, IT, design and tourism and leisure sectors.

The deadline for applications is 3:30pm, October 14th 2015.

To apply: please send a 150-word summary telling us why your school / youth group is the right team for the programme to Kate Spiller, Project Co-ordinator: k.spiller@swansea.ac.uk. Please include email contact address, telephone number, teacher / youth group leader name.

Further information:

  • Team info – 3 teams of 4 or 4 teams of 3.
  • Schools will be informed by telephone on Friday 16th October if they have been successful.
  • Event day (lunch and Hafod site tour) November 12th 12 – 2.30 pm.
  • Award Ceremony at the National Waterfront Museum 19th November 12 – 2 pm.

**Part of ‘Heritage, Health and Wellbeing’, Swansea University’s programme of events for ‘Being Human’, the UK’s second festival of the humanities led by the School of Advanced Study, University of London, 12-22 November 2015.

http://beinghumanfestival.org/event/the-young-heritage-apprentice/

History Day and Minerva Launch, 26th September, Swansea Museum …

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History Day and Minerva Launch, 26th September, 10:00am – 4:30pm, Swansea Museum.

Jointly organised by the Royal Institution of South Wales and the Swansea Branch of the Historical Association.

Volume 23 of the Swansea History Journal/Minerva will be launched at 10.00, followed by five talks and a lunchtime discussion led by Peter Stead. The HA’s John Ashley (White Rock) and Colin James (Swansea Castle) will give two of the talks.

You can attend the whole day or whichever part appeals to you, but please note that if at any time the room reaches capacity, it’s first come, first served – and be warned, it was popular last year!

Free entry and bara brith!

COME – just to get your Swansea History Journal/ Minerva – available all day
OR – stay for a talk or two
THEN MAYBE – have some food & contribute to the midday debate
AND THEN YOU MAY AS WELL – hear the rest of the talks as well!

http://www.risw.org/news.htm?id=6

 

White Rock Tump clearance, 29 September …

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The tump (aka the mound) was mowed by the Parks Department last week, but unfortunately the cuttings were not collected. As you can see from Rose Revera’s Welsh Wildlife Trust analysis below, the tump is an important ecosystem that needs management.

Rose has arranged for a team of WWT volunteers with appropriate tools to help clear the cuttings on Tuesday 29 September. We will start at 9.30am and finish when we are done, but certainly by 2pm.

If ever there was a case of many hands making light work this is it! Come along at any time during that window to help conserve an important new aspect to White Rock. Bring a rake if you have one for making piles of the stuff taken off the hill with the big rakes. Any questions to info@friendsofwhiterock.org.uk.

“The spoil heap tump at White Rock has this year been identified as a valuable wildflower meadow by ecologists from the Wildlife Trust of South and West Wales. Over the summer months, the tump is covered in wildflowers including oxeye daisies, bee orchids and kidney vetch, which is the food plant for the fast declining small blue butterfly. Visit on a warm summer day and the meadow covering the spoil heap is alive with buzzing bees and beautiful butterflies.

“In the centre of Swansea, this gem is a haven for wildlife that should be preserved. The best way to manage meadows like this is to cut them as if they were going for hay, in late August or early September. If the cut material is left on the soil, it will rot down and enrich the nutrients. When soil is enriched, grasses, brambles and nettles find it easier to grow and out-compete the wildflowers, leading to a much reduced number of wildflowers.

“Therefore, it is essential that the cuttings are removed to help the meadow look as beautiful next year. The tump has been mowed in the last few weeks but now we need your help to rake off the cuttings and help the wildflowers to grow next year.”

Rose Revera, Welsh Wildlife Trust, 15 September.

 

The Gower Railway talk, 15 September …

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Tuesday, 15 September 2015, sees the first of the Swansea Railway Modeller’s Group Autumn lectures. It will be given at 7.30pm in the first floor former chapel at the Club’s premises, 300 Carmarthen Road, Swansea. SA5 8NJ by Rob Hulme. It is titled “The Gower Railway” and traces various attempts to build a railway between Killay and Port Eynon between the 1890’s and 1920’s to permit coal, other freight and passenger access to Gower to combat the deplorable state of the roads in existence during the period.

There will be no charge for the lecture and tea and coffee will be available in the Club’s top floor premises afterwards.

www.srmg.org.uk