News
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Newport Branch – “We Don’t Always Know Who We Think We Are” : Richard Lockett
Richard, one of the Newport group members, gave his first talk to us on 29th August – and it was a very good one.
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Newport Branch- Solemn Sabbaths and Faraway Sundays
Peter Strong gave a very interesting talk (27 June 2018) on how Sundays were treated
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Newport 130th Field Ambulance (St John’s) Unit
Three Field Ambulance Units were set up at the start of World War I attached to the 38 Welsh Division. The 130th was formed from volunteers
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Chepstow – Schools and World War 1
Rhiannon Phillips an archivist from Gwent Archives came to talk, in March,
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Chepstow – Severn Bridge Disaster
On February 18th, David Harrison came to talk about the Severn Bridge Disaster,
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Newport – The Firbank Beneath My Foot (Will Cross)
Two families have eminence in the history of Newport. On the West side the Morgans (the Lords Tredegar) and on the East the Firbanks. Joseph Firbank became extremely rich
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Chepstow – WW1 and its impact upon School and children
Rhiannon Phillips an archivist from Gwent Archives came to talk, in March 2018, about school records and their significance in researching events
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Chepstow – Severn Bridge Disaster
In February 2018, David Harrison came to talk about the Severn Bridge Disaster, when two barges crashed into the Severn Railway Bridge..
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Newport – John Prior-Morris
The Insoles of Llandaff (John Prior-Morris) Our talk on 28th March was most unusual in that it was given by a gentleman dead over a hundred years- or, at least, […]
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Blackwood – Finding criminals
The Blackwood Branch welcomed the County Archivist, Mr Tony Hopkins, to the March meeting on the 13th. Mr Hopkins had chosen to tell us of “Little Used Sources in Family […]