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Recent Acquisitions
New documents are always arriving at the archives, and we're very pleased about that! If you have a document or collection you would like to deposit please contact us.
We have listed our new acquisitions below, and the list will be updated regularly. It takes us a while to get documents ready for the public, therefore you may not find the items on this page in the on-line collections. If you would like to know more about anything listed below please contact us.
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Books on local railway lines, and lead mining in Ceredigion (Ref: ADX /1189)
1. M.R.C. Price "The Whitland and Cardigan Railway" (Oakwood Press 1991)
2. R.W.Kidner "The Cambrian Railways" (Oakwood 1982)
3. Hugh Ballantyne "The Vale of Rheidol Railway" ( Railway Heritage/ Nostalgia Collection 2003)
4. M.R.C. Price "The Lampeter, Aberayron and New Quay Light Railway" (Oakwood 1995)
5. Felix J. Pole "Welsh Mountain Railways" (originally GWR, 1924, this facsimile edition undated)
6. C.C. Green "The Vale of Rheidol Light Railway" ( Wild Swan Publications 1986)
7.1 and 7.2 C.C. Green "The Coast Lines of the Cambrian Railways" Vols I & II ( Wild Swan Publications 1996)
8. "Rheilffordd Arfordir y Cambrian / Cambrian Coast Railway" : facsimile document pack (Public Transport Team & Archives Service, Gwynedd County Council n.d.)
9. comp. Lewis Cozens "Aberayron Transport" (self published 1957)
10.Simon S.J.Hughes "The Cwmystwyth Mines" (Special edition Hafod Church Restoration Fund 1993)
11. David Bick "Waller's Descriptions of the Mines in Cardiganshire" ( Black Dwarf Publications 2004)
Acc.No: 2608 Date of material: 1924 - present Extent: Access: Open Not yet in the catalogue
Peace Day 1919 photograph (Ref: MUS/91)
Large mounted photograph depicting the Mayor and Corporation of Aberystwyth with Officials, Peace Day, 1919.
Photograph by Culliford of Aberystwyth.
Acc.No: 2607 Date of material: 1919 Extent: 1 item Access: Open Not yet in the catalogue
1st Cardiganshire battalion Home Guard (Ref: MUS/83/2)
Photocopy of another copy of the same scrapbook as MUS/83/1 (Acc. 2599), also copy of newspaper cutting re the Battalion and copy of Certificate of Appreciation awarded to Lt. Col. D. C. Lewis, the Battalion’s Commanding Officer, by the Western Command on 1 January 1945
Acc.No: 2606 Date of material: 1945 Extent: Access: Open Not yet in the catalogue
Posters and notices (Ref: ADX/1188)
Posters and notices with public announcements, mostly printed by J.C. Roberts, Printer, Cardigan
Acc.No: 2605 Date of material: 1841-1940s Extent: Access: Open Not yet in the catalogue
Bwadrain mine plan (Ref: MUS/88)
Linen plan: Mine cross-section of Bwadrain Consols.
Acc.No: 2604 Date of material: Extent: 1 item Access: Open Not yet in the catalogue
Ceredigion Archives Christmas cards (Ref: CSC/DECS/RO/11)
Samples of Christmas cards printed for Ceredigion Archives office use, featuring images from the archival collections.
Acc.No: 2603 Date of material: Extent: accruing Access: Open Not yet in the catalogue
Various items with a connection to Llanarth (?) (Ref: MUS/87)
1. Religious pamphlet: 'Y Cawg Aur yn llawn o Ddwfr Pur, o Afon Bywyd' gan y Parch. Daniel Evans, Mynydd Bach. Llanymddyfri, 1831
2. Pamphlet: Adroddiad Cynadleddau Castellnedd a Dinbych - Coffaduriaeth Ddau Can Mlwyddol 1662-1862. Llanelli 1862
3. Penillion Coffaduriaethol i'r Diweddar William Lewis, Pandy, Llanarth (m. 1896) a'i briod Sarah Lewis (m. 1901) gan Elldeyrn, Nantglyn. Arwyddwyd gan 'Miss Jane Lewis'. C. 1903.
4. Adroddiad Pwyllgor Athrofa Annibynnol y Bala 1883-4. Bala 1884
5. Traethawd cyflwynedig i gystadleuaeth Eisteddfod Llanarth 1 Mawrth 1920: 'Nodweddion Cymreig'. gan 'Agricola'. Llawysgrif.
6. Newspaper cuttings (beg. 1894) in exercise book signed by GJC Thomas, and some loose notes incl. a poem ('Anerchiad i J. C. Jones fel Cadeirydd yn y National School, hefyd yn Capel Llanarth yr un wythnos'). 7 December 1911.
7. Rhaglen/Programme: Eisteddfod Gadeiriol Ceredigion, Aberaeron 1893.
8. Estate sale catalogue. Freehold Estates in the Parishes of Llanarth, Llanina, Cydplwyf, Henfynyw and Llandysiliogogo. Sale to be held by John Francis auctioneers at the Feathers Hotel, Aberaeron on 21 September 1889.
Acc.No: 2602 Date of material: Extent: 8 items Access: Open Not yet in the catalogue
National Farmers Union Cymru - Ceredigion branch records (Ref: DSO/118)
1. Register of members, including subscriptions paid, 1945-1950, 1954, 1973-1979 [7 volumes]
2. Income book, including details of cash subscriptions, 1963-1972 [1 volume]
3. Minutes of the Executive Committee, 1952-1973, 1981-1985; Executive Committee & Branch committee, 1943-1944; Executive Committee & Organisation, Legal and Finance committee, 1947-1948; Executive & Other (Sub) committees, 1979-1986; Organisation, Legal & Finance Committee, 1959-1964, 1967-1983; Aberystwyth branch committee, 1983-1997; Alphabetical extracts of minutes with content page, 1950s; and a list of Executive & Organisation, Legal & Fianance Committee members, 1937-1982 [11 folders]
Acc.No: 2601 Date of material: 1943-1997 Extent: 8 volumes, 11 folder Access: Some entries may be restricted under the Data Protection Act Not yet in the catalogue
Minutes of Ceredigion District Council (1973-1996) (Ref: CDD/SE/11)
Minutes of the Ceredigion District Council, enclosing the district now known as Cardiganshire, including information on planning applications, policy and resource, housing, amenities, environmental and selection committees. Second set available in the searchroom.
Acc.No: 2600 Date of material: 24/5/1973 - 13/3/96 Extent: Access: Open Not yet in the catalogue
1st Cardiganshire Battalion Home Guard (Ref: MUS/83/1)
Scrapbook-style book [photographs & duplicated typed notes] concerning the 1st Cardiganshire Battalion Home Guard. Text by Major S.J.F. Philpott
This may be one of only six copies produced by the Cambrian News.
Contains a history, information on individuals in the regiment, an illustrattion of the command structure and a number of photographs. The volume was presented to the Regimental Sergeant Major Jack Roberts 'for sterling services rendered'
See also ADX/1150 and DSO/93
Acc.No: 2599 Date of material: 1940s? Extent: 1 vol. Access: Open Not yet in the catalogue
Kronberg im Taunus guide (Ref: ABT/T/3)
Guidebook to Kronberg im Taunus, Germany (one of Aberystwyth's twin towns).
Acc.No: 2598 Date of material: 1995 Extent: 1 vol Access: Open Not yet in the catalogue
Aberystwyth Town Plan (Ref: CDD/PL/2)
Aberystwyth Town Plan - First Consultation Draft, May 1993
Acc.No: 2597 Date of material: 1993 Extent: 1 item Access: Open Not yet in the catalogue
On Devil's Bridge Railway (Ref: ADX/1187)
Coloured postcard captioned 'On Devil's Bridge Railway', showing view of Cwm Rheidol. Postally used in 1905. Sent by J. Harcourt to Mrs. Oakley, Clarence Lodge, Brockwell Park, London.
Acc.No: 2596 Date of material: Extent: 1 item Access: Open Not yet in the catalogue
Twinning of Aberystwyth with Kronberg (Ref: ABT/T/2)
Declaration made and signed by the Town Mayors and the Chairs of the Partnership Associations, on the 10th anniversary (2007) of the Twinning of Aberystwyth with Kronberg im Taunus affirming friendship and cooperation. Also colour picture of the towns' coats of arms.
Acc.No: 2595 Date of material: 2007 Extent: 2 items Access: Open Not yet in the catalogue
Tourism and Aberystwyth - projects by Archives Administration MSc students 2009/10 (Ref: CSC/DECS/RO/10)
1. North Road Tennis Grounds: the impact of tennis on Aberystwyth and a general view of the resort in the 1920s, by Lucy Smith
2. The Aberystwyth Tourist Trade c. 1903 and records relating to the Lion Royal Hotel, by Emily Gresham
Acc.No: 2594 Date of material: 2010 Extent: Access: Open Not yet in the catalogue
Ceredigion Community Safety Plan (Ref: CSC/CE/10)
Ceredigion Community Safety Plan / Cynllun Diogelwch a Chymunedol Ceredigion 2008-2011 (Partneriaeth Diogelwch Cymunedol Ceredigion Community Safety partnership)
Acc.No: 2593 Date of material: 2008 Extent: 1 item Access: Open Not yet in the catalogue
Coliseum - Beth Sydd Ymlaen / What's On (Ref: CSC/DECS/MUS/3)
Amgueddfa Ceredigion Museum, rhaglen y digwyddiadau / events programme, Ionawr-Mehefin 2010 / January-June 2010
Acc.No: 2592 Date of material: 2010 Extent: 1 item Access: Open Not yet in the catalogue
Funicular Railways (Ref: ADX/1186)
Cliff Hangers: Britain's Funicular Railways, by Robert Humm. Colour photocopy of article from The Railway Magazine, March 2010. Includes entry on Aberystwyth Cliff Railway.
Acc.No: 2591 Date of material: 2010 Extent: 3 ff. Access: Open Not yet in the catalogue
CPRW records (Ref: DSO/29 addl)
Additional Campaign for the Protection of Rural Wales records
Acc.No: 2590 Date of material: Extent: 3 boxes Access: Limited at present Not yet in the catalogue
Postcard (Ref: ADX/1185)
Coloured postcard depicting 'Pen y bont, Aberystwyth' (a view of a stone three-span bridge in a rural location, with Pen Dinas in the distance; probably the bridge near the present-day Morrison's supermarket). Sent to Mr. T[homas] Beddow, Breadenheath, Bettisfield, Shropshire; stamp has been removed along with the date stamp.
Acc.No: 2589 Date of material: Early 20th century Extent: 1 item Access: Open Not yet in the catalogue
Cardigan Cemetery records (Ref: CDM/SE/3/30-35)
Records of Cardigan Cemetery
30. Register of Public Graves (Unconsecrated) [St. Mary's Cardigan, N and S sections]
31. Register of Public Graves (Unconsecrated) [two entries only]
32. Register of Public Graves (Consecrated) [St. Mary's Cardigan, N and S sections]
33. Register of Public Graves (Consecrated) [Lawn Cemetery]
34. Notices of Interment
35. Memorial Plan Applications
Acc.No: 2588 Date of material: 1890s onwards Extent: 6 items Access: Not yet in the catalogue
Cardigan Union (Ref: CBG/CD/11)
Cardigan Union hospital records
Bed cards and other records of people admitted to the infirmary (incl. maternity admissions), also a few applications for detentions of lunatics, and daily statements of hospital diets.
Acc.No: 2587 Date of material: 1914-1935 Extent: Access: Restricted Not yet in the catalogue
Photograph album (Ref: ADX/1184)
Album of b/w photographs depicting an Aberystwyth family (identity unknown) and more particularly a baby, b. c. 1935.
Acc.No: 2586 Date of material: 1935 Extent: 1 item Access: Open Not yet in the catalogue
Photograph of New Quay (Ref: ADX/1183)
B/W photograph of New Quay showing the town from the seaward side
Acc.No: 2585 Date of material: c. 1960? Extent: 1 item Access: Open Not yet in the catalogue
Wesleyan Methodist records (Ref: WM (ANC/21 cont.))
Further records of the Wesleyan Methodists (Ceredigion circuit)
Includes some deeds to Ceredigion chapels
Acc.No: 2584 Date of material: Extent: Access: Not yet in the catalogue
Merched y Wawr, Cangen Penrhyncoch (Ref: DSO/33/12)
Cofnodion Merched y Wawr, Cangen Penrhyncoch
Acc.No: 2583 Date of material: Extent: 2 boxes Access: Not yet in the catalogue
Pennant School (Ref: 71b; 135A; ADX/1182)
Log book 1961 - 1998 71b
Admissions register 135A
Book: Ysgol Pennant 1873-2010 (ADX/1182)
Acc.No: 2582 Date of material: Extent: 2 items Access: Not yet in the catalogue
Cardiganshire Parochial Records (Ref: CPR)
Parochial records (vestry minutes etc.) of parishes in Cardiganshire. Transferred from the National Library of Wales.
Acc.No: 2581 Date of material: Extent: Access: Open (subject to condition of document) Not yet in the catalogue
Music Ephemera 2010 (Ref: CMS/09)
Leaflets, posters and other printed material advertising and promoting popular music events in Ceredigion
Acc.No: 2580 Date of material: 2010 Extent: accruing Access: Open Not yet in the catalogue
Local ephemera (general) 2010 (Ref: ADX/1181)
Local ephemera 2010.
(See also Political Ephemera, Business Ephemera, Music Ephemera)
Acc.No: 2579 Date of material: 2010 Extent: Access: Open Not yet in the catalogue
Business ephemera 2010 (Ref: DB/87)
Leaflets and other publicity material advertising and promoting local businesses
Acc.No: 2578 Date of material: 2010 Extent: Access: Open Not yet in the catalogue
Political ephemera 2010 (Ref: ADX/1180)
1. Materion Melindwr Matters (newsletter issued by Cllr. Rhodri Davies, Plaid Cymru) issue 7 (March 2010)
2. Ceredigion Today (a Lib-Dem campaign magazine)
3. Cymru Yfory / Tomorrow's Wales leaflet
4. Plaid Cymru Delivering for Rural Wales / Cyflawni dros Gymru wledig (leaflet)
5. Mark Williams MP (Lib-Dem) leaflet
6. Plaid Cymru Ar Waith/Action Ceredigion
7. Mark Williams MP's Community Survey
8. Plaid Cymru - the Trefeurig Newsletter, issue 10, Winter 2009-2010
Acc.No: 2577 Date of material: Extent: Access: Not yet in the catalogue
Election ephemera - General Election 2010 (Ref: ADX/1179)
A collection of posters, leaflets, newsletters etc. produced by political parties during the 2010 General Election campaign
Acc.No: 2576 Date of material: 2010 Extent: Access: Open Not yet in the catalogue
Material relating to Caerwedros school (Ref: ADX/1037 addl.)
Copies of school photographs, a calendar entitled 'The memory of Ysgol y Castell Caerwedros 2010' [Welsh] and a copy of a handwritten essay on the course of education in Llwyndafydd [Welsh], submitted to Caerwedros Eisteddfod, Christmas 1924
Acc.No: 2575 Date of material: Extent: 1 envelope Access: open Not yet in the catalogue
The Hopkinses of Llanfihangel y Creuddyn (Ref: ADX/1178)
Spiral-bound volume: 250 Years of the Hopkins Families of Llanfihangel y Creuddyn, by Joy Hamer and other family members.
Acc.No: 2574 Date of material: 2010 Extent: 1 item Access: Open Not yet in the catalogue
Aberystwyth Official Guide and Souvenir (Ref: ADX/1177)
Aberystwyth Official Guide and Souvenir
Published by the Aberystwyth Corporation
Acc.No: 2573 Date of material: C. 1922 Extent: 1 vol Access: Open Not yet in the catalogue
Llyfr Cofnodion Merched y Wawr Bro Ilar (Ref: DSO/33/11)
Llyfr Cofnodion Merched y Wawr Bro Ilar
Acc.No: 2572 Date of material: Medi 1989 - Chwefror 1998 Extent: 1eitem Access: Agored ond rhai gyfyngiadau DGD Not yet in the catalogue
Systems back-up (Ref: )
Back-up tapes for IT systems. Not to be produced.
Acc.No: 2571 Date of material: Extent: 1 box Access: Restricted to owners Not yet in the catalogue
Belle Vue Hotel, Aberystwyth and other properties (Ref: ABM/10)
Deeds and documents relating to the Belle Vue Hotel, Marine Parade, Aberystwyth and other properties mostly in the town of Aberystwyth ( part of Aberystwyth Borough Collection )
Acc.No: 2570 Date of material: 1813 - 1894 Extent: 1 box Access: open Not yet in the catalogue
Pant-glas CM chapel (Ref: ADX/1176)
Photocopy of postcard depicting a girl holding a baby in front of Pant-glas Calvinistic Methodist chapel, Pen-rhiw, near Llanilar. The postcard was sent in 1905.
Also a similar view of the chapel taken in 2010 by the County Archivist.
The chapel was built in 1824 and rebuilt in 1874.
Acc.No: 2569 Date of material: Extent: 3 ff Access: Open Not yet in the catalogue
Aberystwyth Cemetery records (Ref: ABM/SE/CE/15)
Notices to Sexton of Aberystwyth Burial Ground. Information recorded is: name, address and age of the deceased; location of grave and whether it is to be in the consecrated or unconsecrated portion of the cemetery; depth of grave and whether it is to be earthen or a brick vault; date of burial.
Acc.No: 2568 Date of material: 1860 onwards Extent: Access: Open Not yet in the catalogue
Papers of Kathleen A Humphreys (Ref: ADX/1175)
Papers of Kathleen A Humphreys (d. 2006 aged 84) formerly of Glanllolwyn, Llanfarian.
Correspondence, agenda, programmes, nwscuttings and pamphlets relating to her interest in CPRW (for which she was publicity officer during the 1980s), DNT and other bodies of which she may have been a member or officer.
Acc.No: 2567 Date of material: Extent: 1 box Access: Open Not yet in the catalogue
Llangwyryfon wind farm opposition (Ref: DSO/102 addl.)
Material relating to wind farm construction at Llangwyryfon 1991-1996. Particularly concerning sound, its measurement and abatement.
See also Acc. 2349
Acc.No: 2566 Date of material: 1991-1996 Extent: 1 box Access: Restricted (needs depositor's permission Not yet in the catalogue
Headed business notepaper (Ref: DB/86)
Sheet of headed notepaper: John James Jones, Ladies' Costumier & Gentlemen's Tailor, Harriston & Paris House, Llanon. Blank.
Acc.No: 2565 Date of material: 1920s Extent: 1 f. Access: Open Not yet in the catalogue
Deeds and documents (Ref: ADX/1174)
Deeds and documents associated with the depositor's family and the parish of Lledrod
1. Feoffment of lands in the p. of Lledrod [messuage called Bwlch y Bank Gwyn, part of tenement known as Tyr Bwlch y Goyfron] with a Covenant to produce Title Deeds.
Morgan Morgan of Navy Hall p. Lledrod gent. and Margaret his wife 1st part; Evan Davies of the town of Cardigan gent. 2nd part; David Jones of Tynewydd p. Lledrod 3rd part; Revd. Stephen Jones of Penblodoyn p. Llanddewi Brefi 4th part.
8 December 1809
Parchment (2 skins)
3 seals
Various endorsements
2. Sale of Berthdomled and Tynrhelig in the p. of Lledrod.
Richard Owens of Berthdomled gent. to Daniel Morgan of Foesgoy [Ffosgou, p. Lledrod] gent. and David Evans of Llanio Issa in the p. of Llanddewi Brefi husbandman.
16 July 1818
Parchment
Seal
3. Conveyance of Blaenywain in the p. of Lledrod.
Daniel Jones of Bankwint [Bancgwynt] p. Lledrod gent. 1st part; Thomas Jones of Blaenywain blacksmith 2nd part.
9 July 1830
Parchment
2 seals
4. Probate will of John Morgans of Bwlchygoifron, p. Lledrod.
18 November 1850
Parchment
Seal
5. Further Charge on the Messuage, Tenement and Lands called Berthdomled, p. Lledrod for securing £100 and Interest
The Revd. Richard William Owens of Llandelife Rectory, County of Montgomery, to Mr. William Henry Thomas of Aberystwyth, gent.
23 August 1864
6. Further Charge on a Messuage, Tenement and Lands called Berthdomled, p. Lledrod for securing £100 and Interest
The Revd. Richard William Owens of Llandylifau Rectory, County of Montgomery, to Mr. William Henry Thomas of Aberystwyth, gent.
7. Probate of the Will of Daniel Jones of Blaenywaun, p. Lledrod, farmer.
Extracted by Griffith Jones Solicitor, Aberystwyth
7 November 1877
Parchment
Seal
8. Counterpart lease of a Farm and Lands called Berthdomled, p. Lledrod. Term 21 years.
Robert Davies Roberts Esq. to Messrs. Thomas and Robert Bickerstaff
10 April 1880
9. Document certifying that Moses Gelly was ordained as Deacon in the parish church of Abergwili on 24 September 1911.
Episcopal Visitation stamps on dorse: 1934, 1938, 1941, 1944, 1947, 1951.
Parchment
Acc.No: 2564 Date of material: Extent: 9 items Access: Open Not yet in the catalogue
Business ledger (Ref: DB/85)
Accounts ledger of J.R. Jones, grocer, Great Darkgate Street, Aberystwyth
Acc.No: 2563 Date of material: 1868-1873 Extent: 1 vol Access: Open Not yet in the catalogue
Postcard (Ref: ADX/1173)
Postcard with Mid-Wales views (including Aberystwyth). Used postally in 1979.
Acc.No: 2562 Date of material: 1970s Extent: 1 item Access: Open Not yet in the catalogue
The Sylvanus (or Silvanus) Williams families of Llanbadarn Fawr (Ref: ADX/1172)
Research article: The Sylvanus (or Silvanus) Williams families of Llanbadarn Fawr, by Richard Anthony Hall Williams. Also scanned documents and photographs, and email correspondence.
Acc.No: 2561 Date of material: Extent: 1 file Access: Open but some DP restrictions (email addresses etc) Not yet in the catalogue
Miles family and Priory Estate - additional papers (Ref: )
Two deeds relating to the Miles family, owners of the Priory Estate, Cardigan
1. Mortgage of Tygwynne. C.W. Miles and C.N. Miles to William Forrester (1885), and subsequent Reconveyance from Wm. Forrester to C.N. Miles (1894)
2. Draft Mortgage of the Priory Estate to secure £15,800 and interset. Col. C.W. Miles, MP and Capt. C.N. Miles to Messrs. Wyndham and Jones (1885)
See also Acc. 1527.
Acc.No: 2560 Date of material: 1885 and 1894 Extent: 2 items Access: Open Not yet in the catalogue
Lledrod Community Council records (Ref: Lledrod CC)
Further records of Lledrod CC (lists in boxes)
Acc.No: 2559 Date of material: 1984-2007 Extent: Access: Not yet in the catalogue
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