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calendar gifBrecknock Group (Breconshire)

Meetings are held at Kensington Churchroom, Watergate, Brecon at 7.30 pm.
With the exception of the April Meeting which will be held at Trefecca, Talgarth.
Car park close by.

Monday 26th October 2009
Speaker: Richard Rees

'How London stole 415 million gallons of water from Wales'

Monday 30th November 2009
Speaker: Tony Birdwood
'The history and current operation of the Heart of Wales Railway Line'

Sunday 31st January 2010
Annual lunch

Monday 22nd February 2010
Speaker: Lloyd Lewis

'The flooding of the Elan and Claerwen Valleys'

Monday 29th March 2010
Speaker: Brynich Parri
'Welsh Comic Postcards'

Monday 26th April 2010
Visit to Trefecca College, near Talgarth

To include a brief history of the College, and the life and times of Howell Harris.

Monday 24th May 2010
Speaker: Nigel Blackamoore, Senior Curator Brecon Museum and Art Gallery

'My journey to the centre of Brecknock'

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calendar gif Montgomeryshire Group

Saturday February 27th 2010, 2pm

Research Afternoon
Various items for research will be:- Marriage Indexes, Census Returns - local and national, 1881; National Burial Index; Wills proven of Bangor and St Asaph Dioceses; Index of Shropshire and Montgomeryshire wills proved at Shrewsbury District Probate Registry 1858 - 1940 and a variety of other useful items. Help will be available.
United Reformed Church Schoolroom, New Church Street, Newtown.


Saturday March 27th 2010, 2pm

The Drovers and Their Journeys

Speaker Mr I Evans
Welshpool Town Hall, 42a Broad Street, Welshpool


Saturday April 24th 2010, 2pm

Where did your family live, work and worship: Records in the National Monuments Records of Wales
Speaker Mrs Patricia Moore of the Royal Commission of Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales, Aberystwyth.
United Reformed Church Schoolroom, New Church Street, Newtown.

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calendar gif Radnorshire Group

Radnor Group Secretary - Barbara Gayther

 

Meetings of the Radnor Group are held at 7pm in Llandewy Ystradenny Village Hall.
Refreshments are served after the meetings.

 

July - NO Meeting

 

August - NO Meeting

 

Thursday 24th September 2009
Joel Williams
Recollections of Llandrindod Wells

 

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