News
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Blackwood – Forgotten Gadgets
Blackwood School Staff Room was the place to be on Tuesday 13th June. We were royally entertained
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Ebbw Vale – Sad news
My first post here as branch Secretary is a rather unfortunate one. It is to inform our branch and Society members of the death of Don Robinson.
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Newport – A History of Inn Signs
Tonight (27 Feb), we had our first meeting of the New Year with a return visit from Mr Bob Trett.
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Newport – Tracing Irish Ancestry
A good attendance listened carefully to a thorough review of Irish records from Diane Brook on 26 April. Certainly we heard about the problems- records, particularly censuses, destroyed by fire, […]
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Blackwood – When is a name not a name?
This evenings’ meeting could have been a bit of as disappointment. Because of a clash with other events, we had to change our usual meeting date from the second Tuesday […]
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Newport – No Job for a Girl
For our March meeting we had a most interesting survey of the role of Welsh women in domestic service in the inter-war years. Rosemary (Scadden)
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Blackwood – The Bevin Boys
About 20 members and 2 visitors gathered for the March meeting to hear a talk by Mark Batchelder from the Winding House on the subject of The Bevin Boys.
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Blackwood – Regular Meeting
Before we got on with the business for the evening, Hillary read out the notices. The most important of which was that, due to the school closing for Easter, the […]