The list that follows gives brief details of accessions received by gift, deposit or purchase for the period 1 June to 30 September 2004. Please note that not all items shown are available for immediate consultation, and some dates given are approximate. Some items may be on restricted access. Accession numbers are given in brackets.

LOCAL AUTHORITIES

Aberdare UDC, Bylaws, posters, Acts of Parliament and newspapers, 1900-1970 (2004/109)

Cardiff Borough/City, representations for alteration of boundaries, 1889; programme for visit of Prince of Wales, 1896; programme for laying foundation stones, Town Hall and Law Courts, 1901; building plan, Museum Avenue public convenience, 1930 (2004/143)

Gelligaer UDC, epitome of account, 1946-1954 (UDG/T/14)

Glamorgan County Council, plans for basement of County Hall, Cathays Park (Record Office), C20 (2004/139)

Mid Glamorgan County Council, Land and Buildings Department. Papers, 1969-1996 (2004/141)

Rhondda UDC, register of teaching staff, 1912 (UD/RE/53)

Rhymney Valley District Council, Treasurer’s records, 1973-1988 (DCRV/T/1-15)

South Glamorgan County Council, research maps and plans, 1970’s-1990’s (2004/150); Social Services Committee agenda and reports, 1989-1991 (SC/SO); Groundwork Wales agenda and reports, 1991-1994 (2004/160)

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RELIGION

Church In Wales:

Caerphilly, St Martin, plans of graveyard, 1906 (2004/117); Memorial Inscription recording forms, 1985 (2004/118)

Llandough with Leckwith, parish magazines, 1973-2004 (P35CW/1)

Llandough with Leckwith parish magazine (P35CW)

Llansannor and Llanfrynach, parish newsletter, 1991-1994 (P20CW/1)

Penmark, charity account book and correspondence, 1843-1898 (P47CW/35)

Penydarren, register of baptisms, 1872-1981, marriages, 1872-1970, minutes, accounts and other records, 1892-1993 (P20CW/1-33)

Skewen, registers of banns, marriages, confirmations; service registers; All Saints church service registers, 1961-2004 (2004/166)

Nonconformist:

Maesteg, Bethel Baptist Church, marriage registers, 1952-1976 (DBAPMARR23)

Maesteg, Bethlehem Calvinistic Methodist Church, marriage registers, 1958-1998 (DMARRMISC4)

Maesteg, English Congregational Church, marriage registers, 1938-1981 (DECONGMARR23)

Penarth, Albert Road Methodist Church, photographs and newspapers articles, 1900-1976 (2004/115)

Penydarren, Noddfa Baptist Church, membership records, 1908-1948 (2004/120)

Rhiwbina Methodist Church, baptism register, 1925-1989; steward’s accounts, 1956-1985 (DWESCR570)

Tondu Methodist Church, marriage registers, 1951-1976; minutes 1941-1975 (DWES1)

Catholic

Gabalfa, Our Lady of Lourdes, marriage registers, 1981-1998 (2004/121)

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ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT

Cor Cochion Caerdydd, posters and exhibition material mainly relating to Palestine, 1990’s (D254)

Programmes, for concerts, theatre and school entertainments, 1918-1988 (D309)

EDUCATION

Cardiff, Bishop of Llandaff High School, magazines, speech day programmes, inspector’s report, 1963-1997 (DX827)

Fochrhiw Infants and Junior School, account books, 1967-1971 (E/GC20)

Pengam, Lewis Boys’ School, photographs of staff and sports teams, 1948-1960’s (DX500/27)

INDUSTRY AND BUSINESS

David Morgan Ltd, Cardiff, minutes, financial and personnel records, plans, records of Cardiff Arcade Company, 1868-1980’s (DDM)

Rule book from the David Morgan collection(DDM)

Quakers Yard Gas and Water Company, time sheets, share certificate, c.1910 (2004/116)

Stephenson and Alexander, Surveyors, client files, plans, C19-20 (DSA)

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ESTATES AND PERSONAL

Castellau, Llantrisant, sale particulars, 2004 (DX856/6)

Anne and Annie Cunningham, Rumney, medical papers, 1941-1966 (D180)

Lisbeth David, family correspondence, 1940’s (2004/140)

Elwyn Davies, notebooks and diaries relating to naval service,1890-1950’s (2004/114)

Councillor R T Davies, Bedwas, papers relating to local elections, 2004 (2004/147)

Iorwerth Howells, papers and photographs relating to Canton High School and Pontypridd Educational Settlement, 1930’s-1946 (2004/156)

Canton High School

Councillor John Smith, Cardiff, correspondence and reports, 1990’s-2004 (2004/142)

Miss E M Stark, Penarth, diaries, 1987-2002 (D318; 30 year closure)

Peterston-Super-Ely, Gwern Y Gedrych farm sale particulars, c2004 (DX856/8)

PICTORAL

Glamorgan Record Office, photographs of events, 1999-2002 (DXGC135/29-39)

Captain Thomas Morgan, MN, of Cardiff, photograph c1902 (DX400/51)

Pontlottyn, photographs of clergy and of a Sunday School procession, 1875, 1903 (2004/112)

Pontlottyn Sunday School Procession(2004/112)

Royal Commission on Ancient and Historic Monuments (Wales), duplicate photographs from chapel survey, 1990’s (2004/132)

POOR LAW

Cardiff Union Workhouse, admission and discharge register, 1846-1847 (U/C 108/1); notes on the history of the workhouse, slides, late C20 (D308)

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SOCIETIES AND ASSOCIATIONS

Cardiff Sympathetic Society, rules, 1832-1844 (D307)

Friend South Wales (Gay and Lesbian Switchboard), papers including minutes, correspondence, log books, 1970’s-2004 (D320)

Women for Life on Earth, correspondence 1991-1993 (DWAW12)

SPORT

Tylorstown Rugby Club, centenary book, 2004 (D326)

TRANSPORT

Rail Passengers’ Committee, minutes, correspondence and papers, 1968-2002 (DRPC)

MAPS AND PLANS

Cardiff and Barry, Admiralty plan of approaches to docks, 1939 (2004/137)

Cefn Cribbwr, British Railways plans and sections with reference book, 1988 (2004/138)

Cowbridge, elevation and section of houses, c1936 (2004/135)

Gelligaer, plans of proposed burial ground; Tiryberth farms; mine workings at Brithdir Chapel, 1842-1892 (D310)

Ordnance Survey Plans, 1950’s-1980’s (2004/157)

Penarth, town plan for building purposes, H. Snell, Surveyor, 1877 (D312)

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Glamorgan Family History Society Indexes:
Female case notes, Glamorgan County Asylum; Transcripts of Monumental Inscriptions for St Michael, Lower Machen; Siloam Congregational Chapel, Cefn Cribbwr; Jewish Cemetary, Cefn Coed Y Cymmer.

Two long lost books arrived at the Record Office in the past three months.

One is the rules of Cardiff Sympathetic Society (D307) which has returned to Wales after spending 60 years in the USA where is had been taken as a present for an American lady with historical interests.

The function of the Society was to care for the widows of its members by paying them an annuity. The rule book joins other records which we already hold including minutes, printed annual accounts and extensive correspondence all dating from the first half of the nineteenth century (DNMW14; DXGC12; DX760).

The Admission and Discharge Register for Cardiff Workhouse, 1846-1847 (U/C 108/1) is probably the only survivor of a series that must have contained around 100 volumes which were all believed lost when the Taff flooded St Davids Hospital, Canton in the 1970’s. It owes its existence to an historically-minded individual who rescued it. This single volume would itself be too fragile to handle in the original but it has been copied digitally and a facsimile can now be consulted in the Document Searchroom.

David Morgan opened his drapery shop in Cardiff in 1879, and it will close - now one of the largest department stores in the city - in the new year. Minutes, finances, personnel records and plans, 1907-1984, have been deposited in the Record Office by the Morgan family together with records of the Cardiff Arcade Company which built the Royal Arcade. Further accessions are anticipated.

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David Morris began work as Archivist to the ANW project in July.

Laura Gardner, this year’s archive trainee, came to the end of her contract in the middle of August. She worked in the office for another month on the Hughesovka Research Archive before leaving for the Archive Training Course at Liverpool.

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