Cymdeithas Hanes Blaenpennal,
Cyfarfod 14eg Tachwedd, 7.30 yh
Ystafell Hir, Capel Penial ,Blaenpennal
Tâl mynediad £2 i bawb nad sy’n aelod.
Blaenpennal Local History Society
Meeting, 14th November, 7.30pm
The Long Room, Penial Chapel, Blaenpennal
Entry fee £2 for Non members of Society.
– Blaenpennal History Society
The next meeting is to be held at 7.30pm on Wednesday 14 February 2018,
at Caffi Sali Mali, Pentre Bach, Blaenpennal
Help The National Library of Wales to ‘Unlock the Hidden History of The Great War’
If you would like further details, please contact Andrew Findon (Y Felin)
on 01974-251231, or email at blaenpennal@gmail.com
Dear Secretary of Cymdeithas Hanes Blaenpennal,
I write to invite you to become involved in an exciting project that will make part of the First World War’s secret heritage which is held at The National Library of Wales (NLW) accessible to the people of Wales and the world.
The National Library has received financial assistance from the Heritage Lottery Fund to deliver a project that will focus on the Cardiganshire Great War Tribunals Records. These were the tribunals that dealt with appeals against conscription to the armed forces on personal, economic, moral or religious grounds.
In 1921, the Government ordered that all tribunal records should be destroyed; nevertheless the Cardiganshire minutes survived. Now the archive is completely unique in Wales, and one of the few of its kind that exists in the United Kingdom.
Our project enables volunteers to use an online resource, recently developed by NLW, to transcribe and index the records so that they can be searched by name, address, date etc.
Staff and NLW volunteers will visit you to share the history of the records and to provide training on how to use the online resource. There will also be an opportunity during the information sessions to share and record local oral histories of the First World War.
The final resource will be available on the NLW website to researchers, family historians and anyone interested in the heritage of the Great War.
For further details contact Andrew on 01974-251231
or email – blaenpennal@gmail.com
Please bring a contribution of food and drink. Please indicate if sweet or savoury.
R.S.V.P A.S.A P
Blaenpennal History Society
The next meeting is to be held at 7.30pm on Wednesday 8 November 2017
at Caffi Sali Mali, Pentre Bach , Blaenpennal.
A presentation by Aled Williams
About his book – Cerrig Milltir/Milestones
If you would like further details, please contact Andrew Findon (Y Felin)
on 01974-251231, or email at blaenpennal@gmail.com
The £5 subscription for 2017 / 2018 is now due.
Cerrig Milltir/Milestones — Canon Aled Williams
THE life story of a semi-retired clergyman with strong connections in the Aberystwyth has been launched at a special event in Lampeter.
The Cambrian News reported “A native of Glamorganshire, Canon Aled W Williams moved as a young boy with his parents to Llanbadarn Fawr in 1957.
Brought up in a bilingual home, he attended Ysgol Gymraeg Aberystwyth and Ardwyn Grammar School, prior to enrolling at the then University College of Wales in the town, graduating in 1969. During this time he served as chorister, Sunday School teacher and organist at St Padarn’s Church, under the guidance of vicars Lloyd, Parry and Davies.
Following theological training in Cardiff, he was ordained in 1971 to a curacy in Llanelli, subsequently moving to a first incumbency in North Pembrokeshire. His love of rugby saw him play for one of the town’s teams during his short spell as a curate in Llanelli
Returning to Cardiganshire in 1981, he was inducted to the parish of Llanddewi Brefi, thence to Lampeter in 2001, serving also as Area Dean and as Canon of St. David’s Cathedral.
Retiring from full-time ministry in 2011, he and his wife Eirian, a native of Llanilar, moved to Llanllwni in Carmarthenshire, retaining, at the same time, family links with the Aberystwyth area.
He was later able to indulge his interest in agriculture, rearing store cattle and keeping a flock of sheep while living in vicarages with small parcels of land.
Aled, it might be said, could be described as something more than the conventional vicar”.
