On May 6th, the Society was invited once again to take part in the annual Family History Event at the Waterfront Museum. This enables us to showcase the Society’s activities to a wider audience.
The Society was very pleased that the Lord Lieutenant Byron Davies and his wife Hilary were able to accept our invitation to join us at the Towers Hotel for the celebration of the 20th anniversary of the Society’s founding. We were given a very interesting and informative talk on the Lord Lieutenant’s personal history and his role as Lord Lieutenant.
It is with great sadness the Society has to report that one of the WW1 memorial trees that was planted earlier this year has been vandalised. Mr. Chris Richards and his team will do their best to save the tree but he is not hopeful of success.
If anyone has any information about the perpetrators of the vandalism, please get in touch with the Society, Mr. Richards at the park or the local police.
The split in the main trunk of the tree can be seen clearly.
The Society has presented a copy of its book “Skewen & District: Our Village in WW1 The Diary of a Welsh Village” to two local schools. On Friday, 25th November a copy was presented to Crymlyn Primary School, and on Tuesday, 29th November to Coedffranc Primary School.
The Society hopes to present a copy to Abbey Primary soon.
