Today's posting by Martin re. AXIS reminded me that I donated my late mother's Barry mementoes to the short-lived 'Living History' project while it was located at the Memorial Hall. The last time I enquired as to what had happened to the items they had collected, I was told they were all stored 'somewhere in the Valleys', presumably never to be seen by anyone interested in them. I still fee quite upset about this, as the items included a couple of things Mum had kept since girlhood, and a list of names from a collection fund on behalf of soldiers WW2, which my gt. aunt had been connected with.. At the time I thought I was 'doing the right thing' by donating them, and I hope that AXIS might be able to retrieve them, along with the rest of the collection. WENDY

Wendy I too visited the 'Living History' project at the Memo, and found quite a few things relating to my past. But as you say what happened to it all, is there anyone from Axis that can put light on the subject??. Barry and the Vale have been screaming out for years for some sort of museum. But for some unknown reasons of their own,the councils ( both ) have not listened. The area is so rich in history it's sad to see it being ignored. (sorry to rant .I've had my say, that's it, thank you.) -----Original Message----- From: glamorgan-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:glamorgan-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of WLawday@aol.com Sent: 24 April 2011 09:34 To: glamorgan@rootsweb.com Subject: [GLA] BARRY HISTORY Today's posting by Martin re. AXIS reminded me that I donated my late mother's Barry mementoes to the short-lived 'Living History' project while it was located at the Memorial Hall. The last time I enquired as to what had happened to the items they had collected, I was told they were all stored 'somewhere in the Valleys', presumably never to be seen by anyone interested in them. I still fee quite upset about this, as the items included a couple of things Mum had kept since girlhood, and a list of names from a collection fund on behalf of soldiers WW2, which my gt. aunt had been connected with.. At the time I thought I was 'doing the right thing' by donating them, and I hope that AXIS might be able to retrieve them, along with the rest of the collection. WENDY -- To send to the list send to glamorgan@rootsweb.com GLAMORGAN Family History Mailing List archives etc. are at http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/WLS/GLAMORGAN.html - A large amount of information, and a wide variety of useful links, may be found at http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/GLA/ - The South/West Wales Lookup Exchange and Gareth's Help Pages http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~walesle/wal/AW.html and http://home.clara.net/tirbach/hicks.html ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GLAMORGAN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message