Programme of Meetings

2023-24

Wednesday 20 September 2023:
Tip girls in the Welsh iron industry and female surface workers at Welsh coal mines – Norena Shopland

Wednesday 18 October 2023:
Death of an Icon: memories of the Plaza Cinema, Swansea – Ken Thomas

Wednesday 15 November 2023:
An Outbreak of Tropical Disease in Wales: Yellow Fever in Swansea – Professor Moya Jones

No meetings in December or January

Wednesday 21 February 2024:
Vegetation clearance, research and community excavations at Neath Abbey Iron Works – Peter Richards & Chris Jones-Jenkins (Friends of Neath Abbey Iron Company)

Wednesday 20 March 2024:
Annual General Meeting
Followed by an informal presentation:
The Mumbles Railway – Nigel T. Wassell

Wednesday 17 April 2024:
Industry on the Lower Clydach River – Ioan M. Richard

Wednesday 15 May 2024:
The Glyncorrwg Mineral Railway: was it Parsons’ Folly? – Paul Reynolds

2023-24 meetings venue

Please note that the evening meetings are held at Sketty Community Church Hall, 36 Carnglas Road, Sketty, Swansea SA2 9BP (opposite Tycoch Post Office), on the third Wednesday of each month. They each commence at 7.30 p.m. and are of approximately one-and-a-half hours duration.
Carnglas Road is one-way from Tycoch Square to its junction with Gower Road. Sketty Community Church Hall is near Tycoch Square. Off-road parking is available in front of the church hall.