Flower Festival at St. John’s Church, Skewen

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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 –

Examples of the displays on show:-

 

 

 

 

 

Life Membership awarded to Mrs. Kitty Griffiths

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It was with great pleasure that Life Membership of the Society was awarded to Mrs. Kitty Griffiths  at the AGM held on March 2nd .

Mrs. Griffiths is one of the founder members of the Society, and has been a very active member of the Committee carrying out her duties as  Secretary for the past eighteen years with great diligence and efficiency throughout.  We look forward to her continuing with her duties for many years to come.

The whole Society offers its congratulations to Mrs. Griffiths.

 

Information/photographs needed on the United Welsh Bus Company

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The Society has had a request from Mr. Andrew Porter  for any information or photographs on the United Welsh Bus Company or any of the independent companies that were amalgamated into the United Welsh e.g. the Abbey, Richmond Motor Services, Osborne Services, Blue Bird Services, Neath Omnibus Company, Willmore Motors etc..

Mr. Porter is conducting research into the company in order to write a book on the history of the United Welsh.  He can be contacted by email –

asporter@btinternet.com

or information can be handed to any member of the committee, or brought along to any of our meetings.   

 

 

The Society at the Waterfront Museum

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The Society has taken part in two recent events in the Waterfront Museum.  The first event was “Local History Live” at which several members of the committee represented the Society and “manned” a display of some of the material we have gathered on Skewen and WW1 – see below.

The second event was “Cartooning in WW1”.   This event proved to be very helpful for the research being undertaken for the Society’s book on Skewen and WW1.  Here are some examples of cartoons from the WW1 period.

 

 

Thanks to Cardiff University for allowing us to reproduce the cartoons.

 

WW1 Heritage Day, Monday, 1st September

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Our WW1 Heritage Day proved to be a real success with over 200 visitors viewing the displays.  We were provided with new information and material for our researches in preparation for the book we are planning on Skewen and WW1, plus we had many people providing us with oral reminiscences.   A big thank you to all who made the day such a success and to all those who attended.

 

Thanks to our photographer Ken Jones