> I am a volunteer archives trainee at the Planned Environment Therapy > Trust Archive and Study Centre in Toddington, Gloucestershire, and am > writing to ask your help and to let you know about some information > we have which may be of interest to your readers. The information I > have prepared is at > <http://www.pettrust.org.uk/>http://www.pettrust.org.uk (Click on > "New: Press Release"). > > The Archive and Study Centre hosts a large collection of papers, > documents and other materials related to the field of therapeutic > care. Among this collection are a number of photographs taken at > Risca in the early 1930s, where an educational settlement was > established to help unemployed coal miners and their families. David > Wills and his wife Ruth were joint wardens at the Educational > Settlement at Oxford House, Risca, and they worked to set up a number > of groups including an unemployed men's club and boys' and girls' > clubs. David Wills kept a photograph album of this time. More > information about this and photographs can be found at our website: > > <http://www.pettrust.org.uk/>http://www.pettrust.org.uk/ > > Please click on 'RISCA' and you will be taken to thumbnails of our > photos. By clicking on the 'Larger' link, you will then be able to > see a bigger version of the photo and find out more information about it. > > The photographs from David Wills' album show the people of Risca > engaged in different activities at Oxford House and also on camping > trips and holidays in the surrounding countryside. Our hope is you > will publicise this within the Gwent Family History Society, and that > your clients will view our collection of photographs online. Some of > them may be able to recognise themselves or family members, and > reconnect themselves with the Monmouthshire of the 1930s. We also > hope that they may be willing to share some of their memories and > information with us, perhaps by using the online form. > > We would be grateful if you would consider making this information > available to your society's users. If you require more details or > information please see the Press Release > (<http://www.pettrust.org.uk/>http://www.pettrust.org.uk) or contact > me or the archivist, Dr. Craig Fees, at this e-mail address. > > Yours sincerely, > > Sharon Boyle

Hi Ann I can't get that URL to work. Have you tried it? I have copied it out as well just in case. Regards Dawn dawn.cumbley@virgin.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ann Macey" <annmacey@ntlworld.com> To: <monmouthshire@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, July 27, 2007 8:14 PM Subject: [MON] Risca Ancestors? look here > >> I am a volunteer archives trainee at the Planned Environment Therapy >> Trust Archive and Study Centre in Toddington, Gloucestershire, and am >> writing to ask your help and to let you know about some information >> we have which may be of interest to your readers. The information I >> have prepared is at >> <http://www.pettrust.org.uk/>http://www.pettrust.org.uk (Click on >> "New: Press Release"). >> >> The Archive and Study Centre hosts a large collection of papers, >> documents and other materials related to the field of therapeutic >> care. Among this collection are a number of photographs taken at >> Risca in the early 1930s, where an educational settlement was >> established to help unemployed coal miners and their families. David >> Wills and his wife Ruth were joint wardens at the Educational >> Settlement at Oxford House, Risca, and they worked to set up a number >> of groups including an unemployed men's club and boys' and girls' >> clubs. David Wills kept a photograph album of this time. More >> information about this and photographs can be found at our website: >> >> <http://www.pettrust.org.uk/>http://www.pettrust.org.uk/ >> >> Please click on 'RISCA' and you will be taken to thumbnails of our >> photos. By clicking on the 'Larger' link, you will then be able to >> see a bigger version of the photo and find out more information about it. >> >> The photographs from David Wills' album show the people of Risca >> engaged in different activities at Oxford House and also on camping >> trips and holidays in the surrounding countryside. Our hope is you >> will publicise this within the Gwent Family History Society, and that >> your clients will view our collection of photographs online. Some of >> them may be able to recognise themselves or family members, and >> reconnect themselves with the Monmouthshire of the 1930s. We also >> hope that they may be willing to share some of their memories and >> information with us, perhaps by using the online form. >> >> We would be grateful if you would consider making this information >> available to your society's users. If you require more details or >> information please see the Press Release >> (<http://www.pettrust.org.uk/>http://www.pettrust.org.uk) or contact >> me or the archivist, Dr. Craig Fees, at this e-mail address. >> >> Yours sincerely, >> >> Sharon Boyle > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > MONMOUTHSHIRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.476 / Virus Database: 269.10.22/922 - Release Date: > 27/07/2007 06:08 > >