21/09/2009 by admin.

Thanks to the Con Club “Boys” we now have nearly all the names for the 1950s OVRFC image that David Roberts kindly send us…

See below for their heroic efforts….Now if we could only fill in the missing names:-)

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20/09/2009 by admin.

Hi All,

As this is our 10th year I have updated our logo  and added a “1o Year Logo”

see below for low res versions…..(Both are fully scaleable….)

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20/09/2009 by admin.

Hi All,

Now that this years Journal is virtually finished and as a result of selling out of several “Years” in our Journal Series I will be re-constructing all years in Electronic format, which will eventually give us a fully OCR`d PDF version for each of our publications, which will make them much easier to search on your PC`s.

The cost will be exactly the same as the  printed version as the same amount of work will go into producing the E-Journal`s as the printed Copies, though we will be able to utilise full colour throughout where available in the original images.

Naturally this will be more profitable for the Society than the printed versions, as the final costs (DVD, DVD Cases and printing of labels is not as high as paper printing costs, however the finished E-Journal`s will be still be excellent value for money and will perhaps be more suitable for today`s generation, particularly with the take off of “E-Readers” and the impending “E-Reader” war that is about to hit the high street with Amazon, Google and Sony to name just three big players all vying for slices of what they are all predicting will be a multi-billion pound market in a few years.

The OVLHS will be ready with our publictions, and even slightly ahead (as always) as our E-Journals will be in full colour whereas the major players E-Readers can only do gray scale at the moment:-).

We have even secured our first order for E-Journals for our out of print publications (J2000, J2004 and the Miners Memorial Journal), so we are already up and running…..

All I have to do now is complete those of Journals in quark, not yet available in E-Format, as our original publisher did all that end until 2006when we did everything and outputted a printable PDF to the printers……

Journal 2000 is available in our new E-Format, but no other years yet…..

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18/09/2009 by admin.

Hi All,

Recently been kindly sent this image by Mr David Roberts, ex valley boy.

Several have now been identified so far:

The names are now on the images along with those that have identified them for us….

Any  help to identify more personnel would be gratefully received…..

Either directly on here or on our mailing list (WLS–OGMORE-VALLEY@rootsweb.com)

(If you click on the image below you`ll get a much larger image to look at)

I`ll take a copy of the image to the Con Club tonight, hopefully get a few more names…..

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18/09/2009 by admin.

18th September 2009

Bert Jones, Mike Ridley and Huw Daniel trek to the remains of the Dimbath Colliery in Blackmill`s Dimbath Valley.

As you can see in the two images below there isn`t much left to see, but as identified by bert in the left image you can see the shaft in the bottom left and the remains of the Colliery Truck Shop to the right of the right of the left hand trees.

On the right hand image is another entrance to the mine.

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15/07/2009 by admin.

Congratulations to the 2009 “Ted Cox Award” Winner:

Adykie Hytmiah

Previous winners:

2008 - Rebecca Way

2007 - Sadie May Bishop

2006 - Elinor Hughes

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15/07/2009 by admin.

Our thanks this week to Mike Jones, (now of Basingstoke) who has donated the above Lamp Checks from Penllwyngwent Colliery but also several “Tare Tickets” from the same colliery which will be added to the Ogmore Valley Archive in due course.

Mike also donated several digital images for our archive including the one below with the only known information as “Lewistown 1944″ written on the back….So if anyone has any further information or names please let us know…..

Lewistown 1944

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