A court leet record book, 25 April 1771-29 December 1806, of the manor of Bishopston, Glamorgan. The volume also contains loose sheets of notes in a 20th century hand relating to some of the records. The court records are written in what appear to be four different hands. There is some annotation, possibly in the same hand as the loose sheets. There is an index at the back of the volume; it appears that the last page of the index is written in a later hand and is pasted onto the recto of the previous page.
A manuscript containing copies of titlings for writs of covenant, entries of fines levied and recoveries suffered at courts of Great Sessions for Montgomeryshire and Denbighshire, 1799-1806.
The file comprises various newspaper and magazine cuttings, [Oct.] 1966-Dec. 1967, some in photocopied form, concerning the disaster at Aberfan on 21 October 1966, including cuttings regarding the subsequent public inquiry at Merthyr Tydfil, as reported in both the national and local press, as well as articles from the Colliery Guardian. Also included are some pages from a glossy magazine showing pictures of the scene immediately following the tragedy.
A copy of the Cwmaman [co. Glamorgan] Library and Reading Rooms, A Catalogue of the Books, Newspapers, Magazines, etc. ... (Aberdare, 1894), with manuscript additions of further English and Welsh accessions to c. 1909.
An address [by John House] on the history of literary meetings [at Penmachno] ('Cipdrem ar hanes Cyfarfodydd Llnyddol [sic] yr ardal') during the period 1860-1908.
A minute book of the Six-weekly Meetings of the Arfon District of Calvinistic Methodist Sunday Schools, Caernarvonshire, 1845-52, mainly in the hand of Richard Owen Williams, Bangor, and subsequently of Thomas Lewis (1821-97), Bangor, Member of Parliament for Anglesey.
Cyfrol mewn llawysgrif yn cynnwys emynau a phenillion cyfarch, coffa a diolchgarwch, ynghyd â chofnodion ariannol capeli Llanegryn ac Abergynolwyn, ac ysgrifau am brofiadau crefyddol.
Two committee minute-books, 1928-1956 and 1957-1968, of the Garn District, Cardiganshire, Calvinistic Methodist Singing Festival, the earliest also containing accounts, 1939-1951.
'Rhostryfan. Hanesion o'r Dyddiau Gynt', being a typescript copy of stories of local characters written by W. Gilbert Williams, Rhostryfan, July, 1936, and based on their associations with four ruined buildings in the district, namely 'Y Castell', 'Pen y Gaerwen', 'Y Felin Frag', and 'Y Pwrws'.
Williams, W. Gilbert (William Gilbert), 1874-1966.
Photocopied press cuttings relating to the activities, 1982-2007, of Cymru Cuba and celebrations held to mark the 25th anniversary of solidarity between Wales and Cuba.
A collecting book containing a printed statement of 'The Educational Difficulty at Cynwyd', Merioneth, 1887, and a list of subscribers for the establishment of a board school there.
Over nine hundred portraits, mostly studio, predominantly of First World War era British Soldiers. Most are individual portraits, some are in small groups with family or friends, also large group photographs. Many depicting a Territorial Force summer camp may well be from a 1913 camp held between Bridge and Lovelock farms, Ffairfach in the summer of 1913. The vast majority are anonymous but some can be given approximate dates by the presence of overseas service chevrons, good conduct stripes etc. Many of those dated 1914, especially the Pembroke Yeomanry, may well date from the years preceding the outbreak of WW1. Other portraits are of members of associated services and include veterans of earlier conflicts and servicemen & women from World War Two. The latter category including American troops from the 28th Division who were camped in South Wales from October 1943 until July 1944 as well as Free French and Belgian soldiers. Both US Corps of Engineers and infantry corps are represented. The engineers are believed to be men of the 103rd Engineer Battalion who served with the 28th Division. Their headquarters from October 1943 to April 1944 was the Hotel Belgrave, Tenby. There are also a considerable number of US Quartermaster Corps GI's including African-American soldiers.
A copy of the first volume of D. M. D. James's printed work 'Geological Studies in the Late Ordovician to Early Silurian of Central and South Wales', 1996.
A statement signed by Ebenezer Richard on behalf of the Cardiganshire Calvinistic Methodist monthly meeting, held at Ponterwyd, 19 September 1833, certifying that Phillips was 'an Accredited Preacher in the Welch Calvinistic Connexion'; a letter, 5 December 1839, from Lewis Edwards, Bala, to Phillips; an account of 'The Bangor Controversy - 'Dadl Bangor'' occasioned by a lecture given by Phillips at the Tabernacle Chapel, Bangor on 19 November 1850 on 'Romanism, the Church and Dissent'; a copy of John Phillips: Dadl Bangor, yn cynnwys Sylwadau a draddodwyd mewn Darlith Gyhoeddus ... (Caernarfon, 1852).
Three collecting books used for recording subscriptions received towards the formation of a 'Darllenfa', or reading-room, at Penparcau, near Aberystwyth, 1908-1909.
