The list that follows gives brief details of accessions received by gift, deposit or purchase for the period 1 December 2004 - 28 February 2005. 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.

CENTRAL GOVERNMENT

Maritime and Coastguard Agency, Port of Cardiff ship registration papers (additional), 1911-1993 (DPRO/RBS/C5)

Probate Registry, indexes to Wills and administrations, 1951-1955 (DPRO/PRI)

LOCAL AUTHORITIES

Caerphilly County Borough Council, Register of Electors, 2005 (R/E)

Cardiff City, Development Dept., street plan with advertisements for local businesses, 1920s (2005/16)
‘21st Century Libraries …. a Green Paper’, 2004 (CC)
‘Cardiff 2011 – issues for the Unitary Development Plan’, 1997 (CC)

Cynffig Community Council, records including minutes, members register, accounts, Kenfig Hill Town Council miscellanea, 1975-2003 (P402)

Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council, Register of Electors, 2005 (R/E)

Rhondda Cynon Taf County Borough Council, Community Safety Strategy, 2002 – 2005; ‘Our Community Plan’, 200 (CRCT)
Emergency Duty Team log books, 1978–1996 (2005/27)

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RELIGION

Non-conformist

Llangynwyd, Bethesda Welsh Congregational church, minutes, accounts, register of members, 1864 – 2004 (DCONG1)

Twynyrodyn Unitarian chapel, sermon by the Rev. N. R. Williams, 1876 (D352)

Sermon by the Rev. N R Williams (D352)

EDUCATION

Llandaff, Howell’s School, Hywelian magazine 2005 (D131)

Whitchurch, Eglwys Newydd Primary School, log books, admission registers, stock books, 1923 – 1982 (E/SE64)

William Morgan Educational Foundation, minutes, correspondence, accounts, 1910 – 2003 (D348)

BUSINESS

David Morgan Limited, Cardiff, staff record cards, 1937 – 1995; plans, accounts, reports, 1897 – 2005 (DDM)

Stephenson and Alexander, chartered surveyors, Cardiff, client files, 1909 – 1938, (DSA12/2515 – 2545); property files including Rumney Building Co., 1935, 1941 (DSA14/60, 158); Crawshay Bailey estate, additional papers, 1855 – 1956 (DSA 83)

Treharne and Treharne , solicitors, Pentre, business and clients’ papers (additional), 1857 – 1967 (2005/13)

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PERSONAL

Alec Allen of Penarth, photographs and presscuttings on fishing, 1933 – 1976 (D354)

Fifth Annual Wales National Holocaust Memorial Day, order of service, 2005 (D99)

Robert Forrest, agent to Plymouth estate, papers, c1901 (2005/30)

Foulkes family, papers and photographs on the car trade in south Wales; papers of Prof. David Foulkes on the establishment of Cardiff University Law School, 1920s – 1988 (2005/25)

PICTORIAL

Cardiff Royal Infirmary, group photograph of staff, 1918 (DX639)

Hughesovka, photographs c1890 (DX409/18-25)

Pontlottyn, colour photographs of buildings and streets c1960 (D337)

Postcards of Cardiff, Creigiau, Ferndale, Penarth, Porthcawl, 1905 – 1936 (D3555)

Prince of Wales, souvenir serviette of visit to Cardiff, 1930 (2005/29)

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SOCIETIES AND ASSOCIATIONS

Cowbridge and District Local History Society, Newsletters 54, 56, 2004 (D130)

Cowbridge Record Society, Newsletter no 6, 2004 (2004/237)

Dinas Powys Women’s Institute, records, 1939 – 2002 (DXNO2)

Girl Guides, Cardiff and East Glamorgan, Whitchurch/Llandaff Ranger Unit log and minutes, 1967 – 1992; Cardiff Rangers log, 1942 – 1944; presentation books, 1928, 1964 (DGUIE)

Glamorgan Family History Society, Journals nos. 67, 74, 76, 2002, 2004 (D37)

Llancarfan Society, Newsletters Nos 113,124, 125, 2002, 2004 (DLCS/1)

Llandaff Society, Newsletters, 2004, 2005 (DLDS/1)

Llantrisant and District Local History Society, Meisgyn and Glynrhondda records NS3 vol. 1 ; newsletters (D134)

Women’s Archive of Wales/Archif Menywood Cymru Newsletter, 2004; Greenham Common papers including newscuttings, correspondence, videos, 1982 – 2000 (DWAW8,13)

SPORT Dinas Powis Lawn Tennis Club, records including minutes, accounts and photographs, 1902 – 2001 (D346)
TRANSPORT Cardiff International Airport, log books, 1998 – 2001 (DCAV)
	Programme from Dinas Powis Lawn Tennis Club, 1939

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Memorial Inscriptions, transcripts and indexes for :

Aberffrwd cemetery, Mountain Ash St Anne’s Church
Pontyclun with Talygarn

The Glamorgan Record Office in The Twenty First Century

Work is continuing to secure a new home for the Glamorgan Record Office. The objectives of this project are to:

• Provide a service that is accessible for the whole population

• Operate within an environment conducive to learning and research

• Have all the Collection available on demand

• Accommodate the needs of large user groups

• Store all the Collection in environmentally sound and future proof accommodation

• Operate modern conservation facilities

• Offer appropriate stewardship facilities

• Achieve optimal efficiency in service delivery

After extensive research, including a questionnaire completed by over 900 respondents, it has been decided that the best location for the new facility is Cardiff. All six local authorities to which the Record Office provides a service have agreed.

An Outline Business Case exploring the ways in which a new Office can be procured has also been produced. The Joint Archive Committee agreed to its recommendations in December 2004. Reports are currently being presented to the local authorities seeking agreement to its findings and support for the financing of the new building.

The proposed method of procurement is a single stage purchase of a site and building specially designed to meet our requirements. This has been demonstrated as the most effective way of providing the new accommodation.
To support this method of procurement a great deal of effort has been expended on producing an output specification which details exactly what the new building must do. The process began in 2001 with the production of a first draft of the design brief. This was tested in a joint project with the Welsh School of Architecture at Cardiff University in which four students produced plans and models from the brief, with Record Office staff acting as live clients.
More recently the staff have been working closely with the consultants WS Atkins (in a team which includes the architect of the recently opened Devon Record Office) to produce a detailed Design Criteria Statement. This lays out exactly what the new building needs to do. Throughout the development of the design stress has been laid most heavily on what the building needs to do rather than what it will look like. This is particularly important as the new building will be the home of the Glamorgan Record Office for many years to come.

A copy of the Design Criteria Statement will shortly be made available on the GRO web site. Other information will be added as it becomes available.

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STAFF NEWS

Lesley Clarke, after working for three years as a Records Assistant, left in December for a job nearer home in Caerphilly. Lesley worked in both the Document and Copy searchrooms.

Sally Mills, who is on a one year secondment from Whitchurch Library, was appointed in her place. Sally is looking forward to supervising in the Copy Searchroom.

Between January and March searchers using the Copy Searchroom would have come to recognize Rosanne Hendry who was employed in the office on a temporary contract; she has now moved on to work in the library of the Welsh College of Music and Drama.

We wish both Lesley and Rosanne good luck in their new jobs.

ARCHIVE NEWS

The American pop star Donny Osmond visited Merthyr Tydfil in December in search of his ancestors, the Martin family. The Record office provided documents relating to the ‘Martins’ and Donny was filmed examining them at Cyfarthfa Castle for a programme broadcast by the BBC.

Alec Allen from Penarth caught a sturgeon weighing 388lb while fishing for salmon in the River Towy in Carmarthenshire in 1933. We have received photographs of Mr Allen and his father with catches of salmon and of the sturgeon.
More confirmation on this fisherman’s tale is on the website
www.llanegwad-carmarthen.co.uk/fishytale.htm (D354)

Dinas Powis Lawn Tennis Club was founded in 1901 and between 1911 and 1964 hosted the Glamorgan Championships Tournament, becoming recognised as a major sports organisation. Its records include minute books, membership records, photographs and tournament programmes.

We should like to expand our holdings relating to sport, and would be glad to hear from other clubs wishing to deposit their records.

What would have happened at 58 degrees?

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