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The papers comprise Welshpool burgess rolls, 1882-1914 (Robert Owen Collection, 436.1.1934); and Welshpool voters lists, 1885-1914 (Robert Owen Collection, 436.2.1934).

Ink sketch on tracing paper of the east window in Welshpool church, taken down in 1856, and the old font. Dated April 19 1843, and with the instructions 'copy from t[he] other sketch which is better drawn', and 'Mont. Coll., vol. XV, to face p. 278'.

Welshpool Field Club: researches and itineraries during season 1911. Reprinted from J. M. Pearson's reports in the Oswestry & Border Counties Advertiser. Presented by Betty Richards, Nov. 1954. Formerly Powysland Ref. Library, Robert Owen Collection.

Names, residences, occupations and signatures etc. of applicants for a gas supply. The first 232 names are numbered, and the first dated application is no. 217, 25 March 1888. Formerly Robert Owen Collection, 320.11.1934.

The papers include: a note of interment of Henry Arthur Herbert, earl of Powis, 10 Sept. 1772; note on Huw Morus, with covering note identifying the hand as that of Gwallter Mechain (Rev. Walter Davies), [?c.1823] (presented by Richard Williams); apportionment of tithe rent-charges in lower Division of p. Pool, 1844, and covering notes by T. T. T(homas) (768.15.1934); admission card to the consecration of Welch-Pool New Church (Christ Church), 2 Oct. 1844; A form of prayer to be used in all churches and chapels ... (printed, 1847); Welshpool Cricket Club member's ticket, 1859 (302.12.1934); Newtown Company of Volunteer Rifles donations and subscriptions, 21 Dec. 1859 (384.8.1934); Welch-Pool Temperance Society report, 1861 (1078.1.1936); declaration of assent by stipendiary curate, George Hill Adams, 11 Jan. 1874; coloured lithograph of St Mary's church from Church Street, [?1875x1900]; testimonial of Rev. E. B. C. Frith, 15 March 1876; Welch-pool British School, report of committee, 1881; Welshpool steeplechases, 1881-1920 (bank book, 1881-1887, minutes, 1919-1920, meeting of stewards announcement, 8 Feb. 1887, subscription requests (3), [n.d.], and blank entry form, [n.d.]) (Robert Owen Collection, 308.13-14.1934); Welshpool Literary & Parliamentary Debating Society member's ticket, 1884-1885; Welshpool Lawn Tennis Club membership and rules books (2), 1894 and 1914; special services at St Mary's, Welshpool, 1898-1918 (Sunday school festival, 17 July 1898, Form of service at depositing of the colours of 4th battalion the South Wales Borders, 4 Aug. 1908, Forms of service (2) in commemoration of Edward VII, 1910, Memorial service, 20 May 1910, Memorial service for Percy Robert Herbert, viscount Clive, 17 Oct. 1916, Memorial service, All Saints Day 1917, Memorial Service, All Saints Day 1918); Llangyniew (Llangynyw) church anniversary services, 13 Sept. 1907; Welshpool Golf Club membership card, 1908-1909 (799.10.1934); photograph of St Mary's from Salop Road, [c.1910]; Robert Owen, Ecclesia de Pola (1910); printed canvasing card for opposition to the Established Church (Wales) Bill, [1914x1920] (519.3.1936); roll of honour of Welshpool residents belonging to naval and military forces, 5 Aug. 1914; poster for sale of stock and furniture, and Moeldrehaiarn, Dolanog, 11 March 1915; roll of honour in memory of men of Welshpool borough dying in First World War, 1914-1918; lithograph of Powis Memorial Church House, Welshpool, [c.1920]; programme of laying-up of colours of Montgomeryshire Yeomanry, 20 Sept. 1920; poster for the dedication of memorial lych gate, Berriew, 28 Aug. 1921; letter of Gittins of Newtown rel. to Welshpool banks, 14 Feb. 1924; order of service (3) of unveiling dedication of a memorial in St Mary's, 1 Sept. 1928; the 'Orient', a model missionary exhibition in town hall, Welshpool, 29-31 March 1933 (484.5.1935); Remembrance Day and civic service, 11 Nov. 1934; Special forms of service in commemoration of ... George V (1936); Civic service, 18 Nov. 1945; Select portion of psalms and hymns ... (printed by Robert Owen, Welshpool, 1956); Welshpool PCC, rotas of sidesmen 1957-8, 1967-8; institution of Rev. R. R. Thomas, 18 Dec. 1958; Thanksgiving, 16 April 1963; service for R. R. Thomas, vicar of Welshpool, 15 Oct. 1964; Welshpool PCC, statements of accounts, 1964-5 (2), 1966-7, 1968-9; institution of Rev. Owen Thomas, 22 Feb. 1965; Civic Service, 30 May 1965; and re-dedication of bells, 2 April 1967. And also the following undated material: Vesper; Borough of Welshpool remembrance and dedication (2); Eglwys St Mair, Trallwm, hymn sheet (Cymraeg); photographic card of illuminated address to Ven. Archdeacon Clive; Welshpool PCC spring fair poster; photograph of memorial plate to William Wynne, vicar of Welshpool, 1697; photograph of memorial plate to Samuel Davies, vicar of Welshpool and Guilsfield, 27 March 1693; St Mary's church, Christ church and Belan mission church information booklet; copy of ink 'bird's-eye' view of Welshpool Church; plan of St Mary's, from Mont. Colls; plate for Mont. Colls of old church [Capel Llywelyn] at Welshpool, destroyed by fire 1659; Welch-pool National Schools, suspension summons for breach of school rules; The Fight at Dame Europa's School, political pamphlet (Robert Owen Collection, 307.13.1934); and Blease, Map of Welshpool, 1629, from Mont. Colls.

The papers include: a grant by (1) Robert ap David of Hope, co. Mont., gent., to (2) Edward Davies of Salop, of 2 burgages and 1 great orchard of slope in town of Poole extending from the brode streete of payment to a little 'broke' called Lledinge, between land of George Pryers and church land, 16 Feb. 1582/3, rent, £8 (19 cent. transcript); an agreement between (1) Morris Jones of Welsh Pool and (2) Moses Evans of Worcester to let m. with shop, yard and apps called the Corner Shop, Welsh Pool, and warehouse, 16 April 1828; Lord Powis's tickets for dinners for workmen for the Queen's Accession, [1837]; Oswestry & Welshpool Naturalists' Field Club & Archaeological Society report of meetings, 1857-1864; Kynaston papers (M.C. Jones), 1868 (index of deeds relating to Welshpool, 1281-1736, and Welsh Town, 1652-1661, index of references to co. Mont in same, and index to Llansantffraid, Penley and Plas-yn-Dinas manor); Queen's Jubilee, Welshpool, Women and Girls Jubilee, and programme of same, 1887; Queen's Diamond Jubilee, notice card of meeting, Fancy Dress Ball card, and programme of festivities, 1897; Montgomery Coronation, 1901; Welshpool Victoria Nursing Institute, 3rd annual report 1900 (1901); Welshpool Coronation festivities, official programme, 1902; R. Owens, A short historical sketch of Powis Castle (1902); R. Owen, 'The New Eyle' A.D. 1678-1769 (1905); R. Owen, 'Ecclesia de Pola', part 1 (1905) (2); Borough of Welshpool, a description of the line of the boundary of the borough of Pool 1818 (reprinted 1906); Bishop's Family Almanacs, 1906, 1910 and n.d. (245.17.1933); H. Payne's Penny Almanacs, Welshpool, 1906, 1908, 1910-1913, 1916-1918, 1920; Welshpool Field Club, journals, 1908-1913, and excursion cards, 1909-1921; Pool Castle, Lymors Shoot, 1909, and South Side and Rhallt Shoots; Royal visit, five tickets to Powis Castle deer park, 1909; Welshpool Coronation festivities, programme and minute book, 1911 (238.4.1934); notice of a royal visit to Plas Machynlleth, 1911; investiture of HRH Prince of Wales, Caernarfon Castle, 1911; photograph of Welshpool celebrations of coronation of George V, children's procession marshalling, 1911; Welshpool, official guide of the town council (c.1920) (380.13.1934); R. Owen, 'The Lights of Pola' 1832-1932 (1932) (5); borough of Welshpool Coronation Day sports, 1937; decorations catalogue for celebration of coronation of Edward VIII, 1937 (A. Stanley Davies Collection, 515.12.1936); borough of Welshpool, souvenir programme of coronation celebrations, 1937; Welshpool Boys' County School, The Powysian, 1938; Welshpool Girls' County School Magazine, vol. 2 (1939); borough of Welshpool, schedule of public footpaths, 1938-1940 (R. Owen Collection); borough of Welshpool, standing orders etc. of borough council (1952); and Powis Castle: a short historical note (County Times, n.d.).

Formerly Powysland Ref. Library, 493.1.1938.

Formerly Robert Owen Collection, 316.4.1934.

Minute book of a public meeting (12 April 1897) and committee in furtherance of the Queen's diamond jubilee, and the successor Festivities sub-committee and Welshpool Victorian Nursing Institute. Loose papers enclosed include a report on the proposed festivities, 20-22 June 1897, rules of the Institute, 1897, letters, 1899-1901, Institute admission forms, 1901, and an unused collecting card for the Queen Victoria's Jubilee Nurses, [c.1901].

A notebook, containing, from one end, an early 20 cent. transcript of the 'Particulars of sundry estates situate and lying in the town and borough of Welch-Pool and in the several parishes of Pool, Buttington, Guilsfield, Castle Caereinion, Myvod, Llangyrniew, Llanwyddelan, Manafon and Llanfair in the county of Montgomery, the property of Gilbert Jodrel, esq., deceased, which are proposed to be sold in lots at the Castle Inn, in Welchpool ...', 4 Nov. 1772. The other end of the volume contains rough notes on national and co. Mont. history, c.1919.

Two numbers: cyfrol 21, rhif 3 (Awst-Hydref 1914) and cyfrol 28, rhif 3 (Awst-Hydref 1921). The 1914 issue has lost its covers, and those of the 1921 issue are loose.

The covers are loose.