Original message From:"Ceri Hywel Davies"< [email protected] >Date: 22 Sep 13 16:49:37Subject: Re: GLAMORGAN Digest, Vol 8, Issue 299To: [email protected],Ray,Can I direct you to the website of The South Wales Miner`s Library, which is based at Hendrefoilan House, Swansea, where I spent a happy year doing my post grad. Dip. There are email &tel. links on the website. You might find their collections of interest.Can I also refer you to The Report of the ChiefInspector of Mines, and The Ian Winstanley`s record of Mining Deaths. Just do a google.Ceri. ( From sunny Cwm Rhondda. ) Original message To contact the GLAMORGAN list administrator, send an email [email protected] post a message to the GLAMORGAN mailing list, send an email to [email protected] unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body of theemail with no additional text.End of GLAMORGAN Digest, Vol 8, Issue 299*****************************************Dear glamorganrequest! Get Yourself a cool, short @in.com Email ID now! Dear GLAMORGAN! Get Yourself a cool, short @in.com Email ID now!
Hi Ceri, Really nice to hear from you. I was only searching List Archives last week and saw your name and wondered if you were still about. Yes I am still 'almost' here! ;-)) I do miss seeing Selwyn's name on the List. He was so knowledgeable about the Rhondda and particularly 'my' patch of Lower Rhondda. Thanks for telling me about that Chapel as I was unaware that there was another Soar in Rhondda. Do you happen to have/know of any photos of it as a chapel Ceri? My best wishes, Jill http://www.welshchapelsandchurches.org/ Hello, Jill, Nice to know that you`re still there, On the question of Marian Street, Clydach Vale, Rhondda, on the corner of the junction with the main road stands an imposing chapel called Soar, which commandingly overlooks the valley, It has recently been converted into flats for the elderly. The minister of Soar and his family were relatives of mine, and lived in the chapel house at 1 Marian Street.. Thomas William Lewis, whose Bardic title was "TWL", and I have some examples of his poetry, had two sons who became prominent in the field of law. Michael ap Gwilym Lewis became a barrister and recorder of the Crown Court and served on several boards of enquiry, whilst his brother, His Honour Esyr ap Gwilym became a high court judge. Following his retirement from the court, he was involved in writing the constitutions of several Commonwealth countries. The family moved firstly to Narbeth, and then London, where Twl`s ministry was at Stamford Hill. I have to wait another 9 years before a plaque can be placed at the site, as both Esyr and Michael only passed away recently. Dymuniadau gorau,Ceri.