Books
The books are rough sorted into the following broad categories, and in random order thereafter; the name of the volunteer is at the end of each book entry.
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address page. The Yeoman of Yore. History of the Glamorgan Yeomanry, 1794-1965. Jack Smith. >Huw Daniel The Glamorgan Historian Volumes 1-11. >Parry Edwards Ordnance Survey Street Map- Cardiff, Swansea & Glamorgan >Huw Daniel 'Adjoining Parishes of Glamorgan' by Mary Kearns Trace >Huw Daniel The Glamorgan Regiments of Militia by Bryn Owen, published 1990. ISBN: 1-871904-01-3 >Huw Daniel HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF GLAMORGANSHIRE AND ITS FAMILIES. BY THOMAS NICHOLAS, LONDON:LONGMANS, GREEN CO, 1874. An index by Curtis Evans is available on INDEX >Curtis Evans ' The Parish Churches of Gwent, Glamorgan & Gower' by Mike Salter. >Huw Daniel Glamorgan, Its history and topography by C J O Evans >Wendy Angove Cadw guide to ancient and historic Wales- Glamorgan and Gwent >Wendy Angove 'The Glamorgan Village Book' by Glamorgan Federation of W.I.s >Huw Daniel Chronology of the Tinplate Works of Great Britain, by Edward Henry Brooke ,1944; & Appendix ; Chronology of Tinplate Works of Great Britain 1665-1949 E. H. Brook 1949 >Pat Morris Various old photograph books of Glamorgan >Huw Daniel The Parliamentary History of Glamorgan 1542-1976 by Raymond Grant >David Webb A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain Vol 12 SOUTH WALES D S M Barrie >Steve Keates The Buildings of Wales, Glamorgan Details of churches, chapels, houses etc in Glamorgan. Mainly architectural but useful details about the history of churches etc. >Bob Sanders South Wales (Eastern Division) - Masonic Year Books - 1916 ; 1936-37; 1938-39 to1948-49; 1951-52 to date. >Brian Comley THE SAILING PILOTS OF THE BRISTOL CHANNEL by PETER J
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address page. The Vale of Glamorgan in Old Photographs. By Roy Denning 1987 ISBN - 1-870402-10-3. Indexed by Huw Daniel 1999, see INDEX >Huw Daniel The Taff Vale Railway by D S Barrie 1950 >Steve Keates St Hilary, A History of the Place and its People, by Hilary M. Thomas.2000. An online index by Alan Jenkins is available on INDEX *Lookups not available* "A Thousand Names & Faces, People of Cefn Cribbwr, Kenfig Hill and Pyle " by Neville Granville . Full of facts and family histories. >Huw Daniel Llantwit Major A History and Guide. Edited by L.V. Kelly .Published by Llantwit Major Local History Society 1971 An online index compiled by John Ottery is on INDEX *Lookups not available* ' St. Brides Major, Southerndown & Ogmore by the Sea', a Chronicle of a Parish in the Vale of Glamorgan by S. W. Bevan, published in 1980 by D. Brown & Sons Ltd. Cowbridge & Bridgend. S.W. Bevan was born in 1900, so the recollections are 20th Century, but perhaps a source where census and other records might not be available. A partially completed online index by Pat Grimes is available on INDEX >Pat Grimes Porthcawl Rugby Football Club 1880-81 to 1990-91 - The Seaweeds by Alun Williams 1981 >Brian Comley Royal Porthcawl Golf Club, 1891-1991. Compiled and Edited by Leo McMahon. Printed and bound by D. Brown & Sons Ltd, Bridgend. It is not indexed but contains a List of Members for 1885. >Brian Comley Views of old Porthcawl, Volumes 1 & 2. Published by the Porthcawl Museum and Historical Society. Indexes compiled by Phil Mustoe are available online on Vol 1 Index and Vol 2 Index Cowbridge & Llanblethian: Past and Present. An illustrated history of Cowbridge area. >Bob Sanders Old Bridgend in Photographs . Published in 1978 by Stewart Williams, Barry .ISBN - 0-900807-30-X. An online index produced by Huw Daniel is available on INDEX but the book itself is not offered for lookups, it is in local libraries. Parc Hospital - The Last Days . [ Bridgend ] (ISBN - 0-9514831-4-5) by Mark Saunders >Huw Daniel The Cardiff Pals {11th Service Battalion, The Welch Regiment} by K. Cooper & J. E. Davies >Huw Daniel Various Volumes of Cardiff Yesterday and other Picture Albums of Cardiff & district e.g St.Fagans, Llandaff, Roath, Grangetown. Also some relating to Barry and the Vale of Glamorgan. >Bob Sanders A History of Methodism in the Cardiff Docks area.Published by Loudon Square Wesleyan Methodist Chapel >Bob Sanders Old Whitchurch by Edgar Chappell, published by Priory Press in 1945. >Phil Roderick The diaries of John Bird of Cardiff. clerk to the first Marquess of Bute 1790-1803 by Thomas, Hilary M. (ed) Cardiff. South Wales Record Society and Glamorgan Archive Service. 1987. > Phil Roderick Studies in Welsh history 3: Cardiff and The Marquesses of Bute by John Davies. 1981 > Phil Roderick Cardiff. A History of the City by William Rees >Bob Sanders Families and Farms in Lisvane 1850 -1950, by Philip Riden & Keith Edwards. First published 1993. ISBN 0 9520009 2 X >Steve Nicholas Annals of St Fagan's with Llanilterne - An Ancient Glamorgan Parish. By Charles F. Shepherd (1938). An online index has been compiled by David Webb on INDEX >David Webb St Nicholas. A Historical Survey of a Glamorganshire Parish. By Charles F.Shepherd 1934. An online index compiled by David Webb is available on INDEX >David Webb Glimpses of Old Dinas Powys. By Chrystal Tilney, 1982. An index by Jill Smith is available on INDEX >Jill Smith Cardiff Shipowners by Geraint Jenkins and David Jenkins. Biographical details restricted mainly to owners & managers, and details of ships owned. >Phil Roderick Sailing pilots of the Bristol Channel by Peter Stuckey; quite a bit about Cardiff, Swansea and Barry pilots in it. >Phil Roderick Special Excursions vol 2 1919-1939 by Chris Collard ; about the Campbells pleasure steamers that sailed the channel. >Phil Roderick CARDIFF
YESTERDAY. This is a cumulative index of c 7500 entries
compiled by Sue Mackay with the consent of the author Stewart
Williams, of all 36 volumes of the 'Cardiff Yesterday' series,
published between 1980 and 2000. Tiger Bay and the Docks by Dan O'Neill;the story of a remarkable corner of Cardiff and the characters that lived there. >Phil Roderick Butetown and Cardiff Docks by Brian Lee; a collection of photographs of the area. >Phil Roderick Cardiff remembered by Brian Lee; a mix of photos and some history of the town. >Phil Roderick Cardiff Voices by Brian Lee; a collection of memories from old residents of Cardiff . >Phil Roderick A rather special place by Winn Anderson; about growing up in Cardiff dockland.Her grandfather was Peter Evans one of Cardiff's best known pilots. >Phil Roderick Caerphilly Castle, various publications, some names >Wendy Angove Place names of Penarth by A R Thorne >Wendy Angove Penarth 1841-1871 by E.A.Benjamin .History of Penarth with information about the people of the town >Bob Sanders The History of Llantrisant by Dillwyn Lewis >Selwyn Davies Tonyrefail, the story of a community by Walter Jones >Selwyn Davies A History of Tonyrefail by Dillwyn Lewis >Selwyn Davies All Our Yesterdays - A pictorial history of Llantrisant and Pontyclun . Edited by A.Martin Reynolds and published by Parish Pump Press Pontyclun 1992 and 1993 An index by Philippa Wood is available on INDEX *Lookups are not available* The contact email addresses for the
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address page. Glanffrwd's History of Llanwonno, 1843-90 (Hanes Plwyf Llanwonno). By Rev. W.Thomas. Published in 1888 in serial form in the 'Darian' (Aberdare) & translated by Thomas Evans in 1950; published by Merthyr Express. Indexed by Glenys Travis INDEX >Glenys Travis The South Wales Iron Industry 1750 - 1885 by Laurence Ince, Merton Priory Press 1993 >Steve Keates Rhondda Coal, Cardiff Gold, The Insoles of Llandaff Coal Owners and Shippers by Richard Watson. Merton Priory Press 1997 >Steve Keates Housing in the Rhondda 1800-1940 by Malcolm J. Fisk, Merton Priory Press 1996 >Steve Keates Merthyr Tydfil in 1850, A study of the Spatial Structure of a Welsh Industrial Town, Harold Carter and Sandra Wheatley, Cardiff University of Wales 1982. >Steve Keates The Industrial Development of South Wales 1750 - 1850, by A. H. John Cardiff U.P. 1950 >Steve Keates The Canals of South Wales and the Border by Charles Hadfield, Cardiff U.P. 1960 >Steve Keates Small Mines of South Wales. A J Booth. >Huw Daniel The Fed by Hywel Francis & Dai Smith >Selwyn Davies Mining Deaths in Great Britain 1850-1914 by Ian Winstanley . This is only an index of names >Huw Daniel 'The Masters of the Coalfields' by Michael Eyers >Huw Daniel The History of the South Wales Miners by Ness Edwards >Selwyn Davies Pioneers of the Welsh Coalfield [Western Mail 1925] by Elizabeth Phillips >Selwyn Davies 'Heroes of Coal ' by Paul Linford >Curtis Evans The Cruel Inheritance [ Glamorgan Disasters] by Williams and Jones >Selwyn Davies Coal Society, a history of the South Wales Mining Valleys 1840-1980,by David Egan >Huw Daniel The Bitter Harvest [ Gwent Disasters ] by Williams and Jones >Selwyn Davies The Garth Colliery Disaster 1897 by Dr. L Jones & John Lyons (Llynfi Valley historical society] >Raynor LEWIS Aberfan, official report on the disaster >Wendy Angove One Saturday Afternoon [ Albion Colliery Explosion 1894 ] by M Evans >Selwyn Davies Disaster at Tynewydd by K Llewellyn >Selwyn Davies Senghenydd Book of Rememberance.Lists all the miners killed in the pit explosions of 1901 and 1913 ,with their addresses. >Phil Roderick The Aber Valley, various including " 50 years of Senghenydd Nursery" by Wendy Angove >Wendy Angove The Aber valley by Elias E. Evans published 1987 >Phil Roderick The valley of the shadow [Senghenydd] by J H Brown >Selwyn Davies or >Phil Roderick Requiem for Will - a Senghenydd residents war diary for WW1 which includes some wonderful letters written about the Pit disaster >Phil Roderick Senghenydd the Universal pit village 1890- 1930 by Michael Lieven ; a history of the village. >Phil Roderick Senghenydd a brave community by J. Basil PHILLIPS published 2002 >Phil Roderick Mining disaster reports for explosions in Cambrian Colliery 1905 & 1965 >Selwyn Davies Clydach Vale Flood disaster 1910 by D J Carpenter >Selwyn Davies The History of the Providence United Reform Church , Mountain Ash 1869-1987. By Alan Vernon Jones ARICS 1987. An online index by Martin Adlam is available on INDEX >Martin Adlam A translation from the Welsh of William Bevan's History of Mountain Ash, 1896. By Alan Vernon Jones. An online index by Martin Adlam is available on INDEX >Martin Adlam Mountain Ash and Penrhiwceiber Remembered in Pictures By Bernard Baldwin, 1986. ISBN 0-905928-50-4. An online index compiled by Jill Smith is available on INDEX >Jill Smith Pontypridd at War, 1939-45, The Second World War at Home by Don Powell 1999. >Sue Powell Victorian Pontypridd and its Villages by Don Powell 1996. >Sue Powell Pontypridd The Old Photographs
Series. Compiled from the Collection of Pontypridd Historical
and Cultural Centre by Simon Eckley and the staff of the Centre.
Chalford Publishing, Stroud, Glos. 1994. ISBN 07524 0017 7 . The
book introduction states that any of the photographs may be seen
&/or copies purchased at the Centre. Name index compiled by Jean
Gilson available online on Index
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Lookups Not Available Valley Views book 3 [ Merthyr Tydfil ] >Huw Daniel The Great Western & Lewis Merthyr Collieries by John Cornwell >Huw Daniel The Crawshays of Cyfarthfa Castle by Margaret Stewart Taylor >David Webb The Merthyr Rising by Gwyn A Williams. >Raynor LEWIS Dic Penderyn [ pamphlets] >Selwyn Davies The life and works of David Davies [ Gilfach Goch ] by Barry A Thomas >Selwyn Davies Glynogwr & Gilfach Goch , a History by Meirion Davies 1981. Publisher D. Brown and Sons Ltd.,Cowbridge and Bridgend . Early histories, boundries and events,prominent early inhabitants,land- tenure and usage, settlement pattern,religion,education,coal mining,transport and communication,origin of the name Gilfach Goch,farms,ministers of chapels,genealogy of the Muerig family,mines,61 pictures,8 maps. >Lynn Dunn Gilfach Goch in Cameo Vol 1,2&3 by Kate Olwen Pritchard >Selwyn Davies Rhondda Collieries Vol 1 by John Cornwell >Huw Daniel Rhondda Valleys in the 1840s from the Tithe Maps by Jeff Davies, 1997. >Jill Muir or Ron Davies Various other accounts of mining accidents in Rhondda [extracted from Western Mail] >Selwyn Davies The Rhondda Valleys by E D Lewis >Selwyn Davies Rhondda my valley brave by Emrys Pride >Selwyn Davies Rhondda past and future by K S Hopkins >Selwyn Davies Housing in the Rhondda 1800-1940 by Malcolm J Fiske >Selwyn Davies From Rosewall to Rhondda [ Life of Archibald Hood ] >Selwyn Davies Rhondda in ancient times by Glyn J Davies >Selwyn Davies Chapels in the Valley. A Study in the Sociology of Welsh Nonconformity. Fieldwork in the Aberdare Valley, Glamorgan. By D. Ben Rees. Merseyside 1975. There is an introduction to the book with chapter headings on Gareth's Help Page >Gareth Hicks Cynon Valley Place-names by Deric John 1998. The place name index from the book is reproduced here >Deric John Labour Strife in the South Wales Coalfield 1910-1911 by David Evans, subtitled: ' A Historical and Critical Record of the Mid-Rhondda, Aberdare Valley and other Strikes.' (published Cardiff 1911).This contains a detailed official account of those events. It is not indexed, but does include a 7-page list of casualties sustained by police (name, rank, force, nature of injury etc.), excluding 500 'minor injuries' INDEX > Lookups not available Ogmore Valley " Journal 2000"by the Ogmore Valley Local History & Heritage Society (ISBN 0 9539792 0 2) . A brief introduction is on Gareth's Help Page >Huw Daniel Old Maesteg and the Bridgend Valleys in Photographs, by Richard Keen. The copy I have has no covers and several pages missing, with only photographs of Ogmore Vale remaining. No ISBN or date but I think it was produced in the 1970`s. >Huw Daniel The Gwalia. The story of a valleys shop. [ National Museum of Wales ] >Huw Daniel The Valleys Autobiography Vols 1 & 2. A people's history of the Ogmore, Llynfi & Garw valleys >Huw Daniel Ogmore , Llynfi & Garw Valleys in old photographs by Richard Keen. Name index compiled by Huw Daniel available online at Index >Huw Daniel The History of the Llynfi Valley by Brinley Richards M.A 1982. Published by D Brown & sons Ltd, Eastgate Press, Cowbridge ISBN 0 905928 16 4. A contents list prepared by Daniel Verkys is on Genuki Soariana by John Thomas. A translation published by Glamorgan FHS. A History of Soar Chapel, Pen-y-graig [preachers names and brief history 1834-1901]. An index by Huw Daniel is available on INDEX >Huw Daniel The contact email addresses for the
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address page. Skewen & District - A History. By Bailey, John & Emyr Gough.1998 . An index by Dai Bevan >Dai Bevan A Skewen Boy Looks Back. George, David Graham. 1999/2000 ? An index by Dai Bevan >Dai Bevan Monks to Millennium, the Story of the Village of Cilffriw. (In Blaenhonddan, Cadoxton parish). By the Cilffriw Millennium Book Group, December 2000. Limited edition of 1000 copies. An online index compiled by Gareth Hicks is available on INDEX >Gareth Hicks The History of Pontardulais translated in 1985 by
Ivor Griffiths, from "Hanes Pontarddulais" written
in 1949 by various contributors, edited by E Lewis Evans. In
my copy, ' Rebecca in Pontardulais' translated by Ivor
Griffiths is appended to 'The History of Pontardulais''.
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Morgan The Rebecca Riots by David Williams 1986 >Gareth Hicks The Men of the Mumbles Head . The Story of the Mumbles Lifeboat from 1832. By Carl Smith 1977. Published by Gomer Press, Llandysul, Dyfed. An index compiled by Roger McFenton is available on INDEX >Roger McFenton Once upon a Village--aspects of life in the Mumbles 1901-1914 by Carol Powel. An online index compiled by Diana Davies is available on INDEX >Diana Davies The Story of the Village of Mumbles . By Gerald Gabb, M.A.1986. Published by D. Brown and Sons, Cowbridge in conjuction with The Ostreme Community Association, Mumbles. ISBN 0 905928 61 X. An online index compiled by Diana Davies is available on INDEX >Diana Davies Of Swansea West: Mumbles Past and Present . Norman L Thomas. Gomer Press. 1978. ISBN 0 906199 026. An online index compiled by Eluned Lloyd is available on INDEX. There is a review and list of chapter headings /illustrations on Gareth's Help Page >Eluned Lloyd Inklemakers--Life in C19 Oystermouth[Mumbles] By Carol Powell 1994/95. Printed in the village of Oystermouth by The Cottle Printing Company. No ISBN. Anindex compiled by Diana Davies is available on INDEX >Diana Davies A History of All Saints' Church Oystermouth . By Geoffrey R.Orrin and Dr. F.G.Cowley,1990.Gomer Press, Llandysul, Dyfed. ISBN 0 86383 705 0. An index compiled by Diana Davies is available on INDEX >Diana Davies Swansea Reflections in Black & White.Compiled by Bernard Mitchell 1983.An online index compiled by Roger McFenton is available on INDEX >Roger McFenton Jubilee Swansea A town in the 1890s.By Gerald Gabb 1995. An online index compiled by Charlene Morgan is available on INDEX >Charlene Morgan Jubilee Swansea II By Gerald Gabb 1999. An index by Charlene Morgan is available on INDEX >Charlene Morgan Swansea, its Port and Trade and Development, by Alderman Edward Harris, 1935. By kind permission of the publishers, Western Mail & Echo Ltd, there is an online detailed summary of this book inc. a Swansea timeline by Gareth Hicks The Economic Development of Swansea and of the Swansea District to 1921. By D Trevor Williams. University College of Swansea Pamphlet 4. 1940. The area covered by the book is extensive, as well as the anthracite coalfield, it includes Neath/Cwmavon/Maesteg/Pyle and south east Carmarthenshire There are large sections on coal-mining and the smelting industries. There is a substantial extract from the book on Not everyone knows this. There is a list of chapter headings on Gareth's Help Page >Gareth Hicks Morriston's Pictorial Past by Andr'e D.Scoville,1988. An index by Les Parsons is available on INDEX *Lookups not currently available* But the author can be contacted re particular photographs via the LE address page as normal The History of Brynteg, Gorseinon [Independent chapel]. By
John Ceri Williams and D. Tom Davies.Translated by Ivor Griffiths
2000. Index by Gareth Hicks INDEX
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Hicks Neath's Wicked World . A collection of essays by Dr Tom Davies.Published in 2000 by West Glamorgan Archives Service, Limited Edition of 800.There is a list of chapter headings on Gareth's Help Page. The original index has been extracted by Brian Wagstaffe and is online on INDEX >Sarah Wagstaffe Old Neath in Pictures in 4 Volumes. An online index of Old Neath in Pictures compiled by Brian Wagstaffe is available on Index >Dai Bevan Images of Neath & Port Talbot by David Roberts , South Wales Evening Post 1999. ISBN- 1 85983 1745. An online index by Brian Wagstaffe is available on Index >Sarah Wagstaffe History of the Vale of Neath by D Rhys Phillips 1925. A copy of the book's index has been provided online by Brian Wagstaffe on Index >Sarah Wagstaffe Neath & District - A Symposium edited by Elis Jenkins >Dai Bevan Neath Official Guide by authority of Neath Borough Council 1970 >Katy Jenkins History of Y Gwrhyd [in Llangiwg parish] by Joshua Lewis c 1897. An online index compiled by Gareth Hicks is available on INDEX >Darris Williams OR >Gareth Hicks The History of Pontardawe by John E Morgan [Hirfryn]
1911. Translated by Ivor Griffiths. An online index compiled by
Gareth Hicks is available on INDEX.
There is a list of section headings on Gareth's
Help Page >Gareth Hicks Two Centuries of Pontardawe 1794-1994 by Clive Reed, detailing industrial development; 1838 tithe maps and some personal names. An index of names by Phil Vaughan is available on INDEX . >Phil Vaughan Growing up in a Welsh Valley - Kathleen Healy, 1999, ISBN 0-7223-3206-8. About the Pontardawe area , near Swansea, period 1920-1940. An online index compiled by Jill Smith is available on INDEX >Jill Smith Around Pontardawe Compiled by the Pontardawe Historians 1996. An online index compiled by Gareth Hicks is available on INDEX >Gareth Hicks Around Pontardawe - The Second Selection ; Images of Wales series 1999. Compiled by the Pontardawe Historians. An online index compiled by Gareth Hicks is available on INDEX >Gareth Hicks The History of Pontardawe and District 1967 by John Henry Davies. An online index compiled by Gareth Hicks is available on INDEX. There is also an online summary of part of this book on the Cwmgors/Waun page >Gareth Hicks Old Characters of Gellinudd [near Pontardawe] by
John E Morgan [Hirfryn] 1908. Translated by Ivor Griffiths. An
online index compiled by Gareth Hicks is available on
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Hicks The History of Clydach (Clydach a'r cylch) by Evans, Rev.
T. Valentine. Translated by Ivor Griffiths Hen Gymeriadau Cwmgors a'r Waun o'r flwyddyn 1840 [Old Characters of Cwmgors and Gwauncaegurwen from the year 1840 ] by Jonah Evans 1907. Two villages in Llangiwg parish. The book has been indexed and translated by Jenni Hyatt and is on INDEX. Annibynwyr Gwaun-Cae-Gurwen by L C Huws 1942. History of Carmel Independent chapel, Gwauncaegurwen and Tabernacle chapel, Cwmgors, Llangiwg . The translation and index by Gareth Hicks are on INDEX Pit Memories [Up and Under] by William John Evans 1989 . Dinefwr Press, Llandybie. Or in Welsh "Atgofion y Pwll " [ Lan a Lawr]. The book is bi-lingual although the two sections are not identical. There is coverage of Betws[Ammanford] Colliery but also some on the villages /mines of Brynamman in CMN and Tairgwaith, Gwaun-Cae-Gurwen and Cwmgors in Glamorgan. There is an index of photographs in the book on Index and a listing of chapter headings on Gareth's Help Page >Gareth Hicks History of the Methodists in West Glamorgan By the
Rev. W Samlet Williams 1916. Translated by Ivor Griffiths. An online
index by Margaret Jones is available on INDEX
>Margaret Jones Hanes Eglwys Cwmllynfell. [The History of Cwmllynfell Church, an Independent chapel in Llangiwg parish]. By The Reverends J Dyfnallt Owen M.A , J D Jones and Ben Davies. Published by W Spurrell & Son, Carmarthen, 1935. This book has not been translated. There is an index by Gareth Hicks on INDEX *Not available for lookups* A History of Taibach to 1872 By Rev.Richard Morgan. This was originally written in Welsh, and called 'Gemau Margam', translation by Les Evans .An online index by Carole Wilkes is on INDEX *Not available for lookups*
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