To celebrate 165 years of worship at the Skewen Parish Church, St. John’s held a Flower Festival from Thursday 25th June to Saturday 27th June. The theme of the displays was the Victorian age.
The Society had a display entitled “Victorian Skewen”.
There was a lot of ingenuity to be seen in the many arrangements.
The Society’s display –
- Skewen & District Historical Society: Victorian Skewen
- Skewen& District Histoprical Society: Victorian Skewen
- Skewen & District Historical Society: Victorian Skewen
- Mrs. Kitty Griffiths at work on the display
- Mrs. Kitty Griffiths at work on the display
Examples of the displays on show:-
- The Vicarage garden provided all the plants in this display
- Helping Hands Longford: Musical Interlude
- St. Thomas Parish Church; Victorian Valentine
- Community of Christ: Mrs. Beaton
- Neath Abbey Women’s Institute: The Castle Hotel, the birthplace of the Welsh Rugby Union
- Messy Church: The building of St’ John’s in 1850
- Mother Craft Longford: Victorian Christening
- St. Mary’s Church: Queen Victoria & Prince Albert
- St. John’s Parish Weekly & Monthly Fellowship: A Victorian Tea Party
- Bethania Chapel: The Suffragette Movement
- Dyffryn Community Council: Song of the Earth
- The Neath Hospital League of Friends: Florence Nightingale
- Skewen OAP Ladies’ Section: Isambard Kingdom Brunel