23/11/2009 by admin.

Until the 10th Anniversary Book launch at Ogmore Vale Primary School on Friday 27th November.

The night will start around 7pm, with our usual nibbles and wine but you may want to come early as we are expecting more than usual this year with a significant increase in Community Councilors and also a minibus full from the Garw Valley Heritage Society also attending…..

We`ll also have samples of our commemorative “Mugs” and “Crystals” on view…..For you to order lots of, naturally:-)

There`s also a chance for you to see the Ogmore Valley Miners Memorial, Archive and Timeline all situated in the School.

We look forward to seeing you there……

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11/11/2009 by admin.

Journal 2009 now safely printed and looking very good….We have found an excellent printers in Carrick, hopefully we`ll be using them for many years to come…..All advance postal orders will be despatched on 27th November along with the BCBC library copies.The Legal Deposit Libraries will be despatched asap.The “Winter” clean up of our Digital Archive is going well, though it`s been interrupted by grant applications for our next “project”….Fingers crossed we`ll be successful before too long.We`ve had another superb image of Margaret Davies of Cardiff. This one is a 1924 image of the Mount Zion band taken in Bryn Bedw house and most of the personnel are also named, including John Davies, father of James Llewellyn Davies VC.We`ll also be offering our members a secure web exchange portal shortly so that images, information and Journal 2010 articles for editing can be uploaded to, amended and viewed only by our members with the login (available only from our secretary).More news of this when up and running……..Still waiting (patiently) for someone else (anyone?!?!) to post other than me…..There must be someone out there with information or questions on the Valley????

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22/10/2009 by admin.

The proof for Journal 2009 was dropped off this morning by our new Publishers (Carrick) and it looks stunning….

As does the articles contained within…..

We are taking advance orders, with postal orders despatched on the 28th November.

Those able to attend on the book launch on the 27th I`ll see you there……

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18/10/2009 by admin.

The timeline @ http://www.ovlhs.btik.com/p_About_Us.ikml has now been updated…..

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14/10/2009 by admin.

We have now amended the advert for Journal 2009 so just awaiting Final Copy for sign off, then full steam ahead for the printers……

We have also (belatedly) submitted our charity Commission accounts, so another job done:-)

Seeing as you are “lurking” and not actually posing a lot (yet)…..Some information we are after, in no order of priority, and any further information would be a big help:-)

Of course ANY Images of the valley that you are willing to loan us would be very eagerly recieved, scanned and returned…..

Any information on the “Catholic Church” building at the bottom of River Street for my J2010 article….The period most required (ie I have least info on) is from the early 1970`s after the Church in Wales “left the building”… I believe it was briefly used as the Scout Hut, followed by a period of disuse, then it was a furniture store for a few years in the 1990s? Followed by demolition sometime in the early 2000`s (exact date would be great).

And of course if anyone has any additional photos of the building it would be a massive help, particularly of the interior????

Still looking for any information on the “Cloth Hall” in nantymoel, we have a number of theories but nothing concrete yet….

Looking at researching the custom of announcing funerals in the Valleys by using several strategic lamposts throughout the valley - When mentioning this custom to non Valley residents, they think we are barking mad and cannot understand it at all!! Mind you as it currently stands we have very little solid information on the custom also…..

Information on the “Ivorites” which were once very active in the Valley, but not general info on Ivorites, we have that,  we are after any specific info on the Valley`s Lodge….

Information on Ogmore Valley Golf Club (and/or the course itself) seems to have virtually vanished from the record books…..

That should be enough to keep you busy for a while:-) Whilst I clean up the Society`s Digital Image Archive……

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13/10/2009 by admin.

Now that this years Journal is all but finished, I can now continue converting all our previous Journals to E-Copies and also carry out a clean up of our archive and eliminate any duplicates we`ve naturally built up over the years……

I can also catch up with the large back log of scanning, both personal photos and some outstanding Society images and complete the secondary back-ups to Blu Ray discs……

We also have a possible funding avenue to finally carry out the scanning of the surviving Llandyfodwg Registers, this will be a very interesting project as not only have the registers for St Peters and St Pauls also become available, but we are hoping to purchase the equipament to carry out the scanning ourselves!!!

If this is actually realised then this will make any future book scanning much easier (and cheaper) in future…..We could even provide a service to other Local History Society`s in archiving their material (for a small fee of course)……

Interesting times ahead hopefully and don`t forget, we are still after some more articles for Journal 2010…..You have a full year to get typing:-)

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13/10/2009 by admin.

YEEEHAAAA………

The Journal  is now at the publishers, just some fine tuning with one advert and then full steam ahead converting the Amazon`s finest ex-trees into readable printed matter for you all to buy:-)

For  those that don`t yet know, we will be holding our 10th Annual Book Launch at Ogmore Vale Primary School on Friday 28th November, starting at 7pm….

Trevor, Wendy and myself also had a very good meeting with Alyson Jone, the new head of Nantymoel Primary School on Friday (9th Oct), and they are very keen to involve the school asnd pupils in the Nantymoel Memorial Clock project…..More news on that when we have it…..

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11/10/2009 by admin.

Also loaned to us on Wednesday was the image below of an as yet unknown Railway Station, though favourite amongst those present on Wednesday was Bridgend Station followed by Maesteg as a possible.

The scene looks like late Victorian/early Edwardian and whilst there is a British Government armourial shield fixed to one post, suggesting this is a formal occasion, none of the guests in the carriages have yet been identified.

The Footmen are in very fine outfits and with the presence of many military personnel, this suggest an important event, like an official opening of some description…..We would love to identify the scene, can you help????

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11/10/2009 by admin.

Hi All,

A very good meeting on Wednesday, not many there so most of you won`t have seen our latest “Fund Raising”crystals, which are very similar to our Mugs in that a numberof images are available, but a small additional fee we can add any image you give us to scan…..

See the examples below using the Ogmore Hall and Ogmore Railway Station Postcard images…..All Crystals come with their own sturdy protective cases….

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03/10/2009 by admin.

We have now converted Journal 2004 to “E-Journal” and have nearly completed this years Journal 2009 - All articles complete, just waiting some last minute advertisers then it`s off to the new publishers in time for our 10th Annual launch on the 27th November…..

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