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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Cambrian Archaeological Association list of members 1917 (Ref: DSO/165)
Cambrian Archaeological Association list of members 1917
Acc.No: 3678 Date of material: 1917 Extent: 1 item Access: open Show catalogue(DSO/165)
Car taxation discs (Ref: ADX/1623)
Examples of car taxation discs (discontinued c. 2015) to show annual vehicle licence has been paid
Acc.No: 3677 Date of material: 2005-2012 Extent: 9 items Access: open Not yet in the catalogue
Photographs of properties in Chalybeate Street Aberystwyth (Ref: ADX/1622)
12 photographs showing front and rear of 18 Chalybeate Street Aberystwyth
Acc.No: 3676 Date of material: 18 September 1997 Extent: 12 items Access: open Not yet in the catalogue
Sales particulars Pentre and Pigeonsford and biography Parch. Jenkin Davies (Ref: ADX/1621)
Copies of sales particulars for Pentre Estate (1903) , Pigeonsford Estate (1907 & 1908) and 'Cofiant Yn Cynwys Ychydig o Hanes Bywyd y diweddar Barchedig Jenkin Davies' (Newcastle Emlyn 1845)
Acc.No: 3675 Date of material: 1845-1908 (modern copies) Extent: 5 items Access: open Not yet in the catalogue
Ephemera (Ref: DSO/83, ADX/356 addl, EC/2 addl)
Ephemera
Parc Natur Penglais newsletters (with DSO/83)
Records relating to The Parish of Aberystwyth (mostly Holy Trinity newsletters, special services, annual accounts &c.), Administration of Holy Communion during a Flu Pandemic ( rules ), Western Mail supplement on Llanerchaeron, 2002 and 'Llanerchaeron A Brief History' by Mair Lloyd Evans , 'Dyfed in Photographs - 1 - Cardigan Town'(1976), leaflets for Nantyrarian, Greener Aberystwyth Group, Llanarth Pottery, Borth Animalarium, Kite Country, Strata Florida, Dyfi Furnace
Acc.No: 3674 Date of material: 1976 - 2010 Extent: 1 bundle Access: open Not yet in the catalogue
Plans by Gareth Lewis, Architects for development of Alexandra Road School site, Aberystwyth (Ref: ADX/1620)
Plans by Gareth Lewis, Architects for development of Alexandra Road School (Ysgol Gymraeg) site, Aberystwyth into a 'social centre' (Canolfan Gymdeithasol).
Acc.No: 3673 Date of material: 1992 Extent: 1 item Access: open Not yet in the catalogue
Hanes Eglwys Bresbyteraidd Cymru Blaenannerch 1794-1994 (Ref: ANC/84)
Hanes Eglwys Bresbyteraidd Cymru Blaenannerch 1794-1994 gan Mair Davies (Aberteifi 1994)
Acc.No: 3672 Date of material: 1994 Extent: 1 item Access: open Show catalogue(ANC/84)
Wedding and furniture receipts (Ref: ADX/1650)
Wedding receipts from 1954 and receipts for furniture and equipment for first home at Llwynon, Tregaron.
Acc.No: 3671 Date of material: 1954 Extent: 19 items Access: Open Not yet in the catalogue
Poster Eisteddfod (Ref: D/EIS/18)
Poster 'Croeso i'r Eisteddfod' [Eisteddfod Genedlaethol, Aberystwyth 1992]. 2 gopi.
Acc.No: 3670 Date of material: 1992 Extent: 2 eitem Access: Agored Not yet in the catalogue
Rheilffordd Aberystwyth-Caerfyrddin / Aberystwyth-Carmarthen railway (Ref: ADX/1619)
Lluniau du-a-gwyn o hen reilffordd Aberystwyth-Caerfyrddin gan Richard E Huws
B/W photographs of the course of Aberystwyth-Carmarthen railway by Richard E Huws
Acc.No: 3669 Date of material: 1995 Extent: 1 bocs/box Access: Agored / Open Not yet in the catalogue
Cerdd coffadwriaeth [memorial poem] (Ref: ADX/1618)
Cerdd coffaduriaeth: 'Odlau hiraeth ar ol Miss Kate Lewis, Green Hill. Bu farw Gorphenaf 5ed, 1904 yn 19 mlwydd oed' gan E. Jones, Maenygroes. Argraffwyd gan JD Lewis, Gwasg Gomer, Llandyssul
Acc.No: 3668 Date of material: c. 1904 Extent: 1 ff Access: Agored/open Show catalogue(ADX/1618)
School photographs and Sunday School certificates (Ref: ADX/1617)
School photographs and Unitarian Sunday School certificates from the Cribyn area.
Acc.No: 3667 Date of material: 1912-1928 approx. Extent: 11 items Access: Open Not yet in the catalogue
Caring for Cardigan / Gofalu am Aberteifi (Ref: ADX/1616)
Report by Griff Davies Architectural Design and Conservation for the Cardigan Partnership. Contains a conservation area analysis of the town of Cardigan.
Acc.No: 3666 Date of material: 1998 Extent: 1 item Access: Open Show catalogue(ADX/1616)
Evan Richards, Parcyrhos, Pengarreg, Sir Gaerfyrddin (Ref: ADX/1615)
Deunydd sy'n ymwneud ag Evan Richards, Parcyrhos, Pengarreg, Sir Gaerfyrddin: lluniau, llawysgrifau, llyfrau gwaith, hanes Capel Bethel, Parcyrhos, dogfennau eraill.
Gweler hefyd ANC/83
Acc.No: 3665 Date of material: 19fed ganrif Extent: 1 box Access: Agored/open Show catalogue(ADX/1615)
Ffrwdwenith Uchaf, Aberporth (Ref: ADX/1614)
List of items relating to Evan Jones, farmer of Ffrwdwenith Uchaf, Aberporth, together with the transcript of his memoirs (in Welsh) and an English translation by the depositor and Helen Thomas.
The original items remain in the family's possession
Acc.No: 3664 Date of material: Originals late 19th c. Extent: Access: Open Not yet in the catalogue
Aberystwyth Big Style (Ref: ADX/1613)
Pamphlet: Aberystwyth Big Style containing poems by five Aberystwyth English students: Dreena Collins, Erica Howard, Lesley Aikman, Lizzy Nicholas, and Sara-Jane Davies.
The anthology was conceived at a retreat in Gregynog and it is dedicated to 'everyone who loves us because, and even though, we're FAT'
Acc.No: 3663 Date of material: c. 1994 Extent: 1 item Access: Open Show catalogue(ADX/1613)
Ar Lan y Mor & Tir a Mor (Ref: CSC/DESH/7; CSC/DESH/SAC/3)
CSC/DESH/7
Ar Lan y Mor: Newyddion Arfordir a Chefn Gwlad Ceredigion / Ceredigion Coast and Countryside News
Rhif/no. 9, Haf/Summer 1999
CSC/DESH/SAC/3
Tir a Mor: Newyddion Ardal Gadwraeth Arbennig Bae Ceredigion / Cardigan Bay Special Area of Conservation News
Rhif/no. 4, Haf/Summer 1999
Acc.No: 3662 Date of material: Extent: possibly accruing Access: Agored/open Show catalogue(CSC/DESH/7)
Business ephemera 2016-2017 (Ref: DB/110)
Leaflets, menus, programmes and other business ephemera collected from local businesses in Aberystwyth and Ceredigion
Acc.No: 3661 Date of material: 2016-2017 approx. Extent: 1 file Access: Open Not yet in the catalogue
Commemorative menu card for a retirement dinner for Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd (Ref: ADX/1612)
Commemorative menu card for the retirement dinner of Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd (John Thomas, Lord Chief Justice ) at the Senedd and hosted by the Counsel General for Wales Mick Antoniw on 27th October 2017 with englyn by Emyr Lewis
Acc.No: 3660 Date of material: 2017 Extent: 1 item Access: open Show catalogue(ADX/1612)
Hanes, Hynafiaethau ac Achyddiaeth Llanarth, Henfynyw, Llanllwchaiarn a Llandyssilio-gogo (Ref: ADX/1611)
Llanarth, Henfynyw, Llanllwchaiarn a Llandyssilio-gogo gan D.J.Davies. W. Spurrell Carmarthen 1930
Acc.No: 3659 Date of material: 1930 Extent: 1 item Access: open Show catalogue(ADX/1611)
3 inch discs containing the records, correspondence and documents of the Aberystwyth and District Football League 1993-2005 (Ref: DSO/42 addl.)
3 inch discs containing the records, correspondence and documents of the Aberystwyth and District Football League 1993-2005
Acc.No: 3658 Date of material: 1993-2005 Extent: 35 items Access: tbc Not yet in the catalogue
Cyngor Cymuned Llansantffraed Community Council: Cofnodion / Minutes 2004 - 2008 (Ref: Llansantffraed CC)
Cyngor Cymuned Llansantffraed Community Council : Cofnodion / Minutes 2004 - 2008
Acc.No: 3656 Date of material: 2004 - 2008 Extent: 1 item Access: open Show catalogue(Llansantffraed PC & CC)
Records of Mynach and Penllwyn Women's Institute, and Leri Group Minute Book (Ref: D/WI/MYN; D/WI/PLW; D/WI/LER (TBC))
Records of Mynach and Penllwyn Women's Institute, and Leri Group Minute Book
1. Leri Group minute book 1972 - 2001
2. Minute books of Mynach & District WI 1976-2013 (9 volumes and 2 x typescript notes)
3. Mynach and District tablecloth
4. Penllwyn WI Centenary scrapbook 2015
5. Penllwyn Committee Minute Book 1983-1997
6. Publications : Pathway to the 21st Century and Pathways to the Future (x 2)
Acc.No: 3655 Date of material: 1976-2013 Extent: 2 boxes Access: open tbc Not yet in the catalogue
Photographs of the Gogerddan Estate (Ref: ADX/1610)
Photographs of the Gogerddan Estate
1. The marriage of Mr Bancroft and Miss Jones, which took place at Gogerddan in 1914 (confirmed by online newspaper article despite inscription on back which reads 1912)
2. Group of unidentified people on the drive at Gogerddan c. 1910
3. Photograph of the front (?) of the house at Gogerddan. N.d. c. 1960?
The donor's father was a stable-boy at Gogerddan, his grandfather a carpenter, and his great grandfather a gardener on the estate.
Acc.No: 3654 Date of material: c1910-1960 Extent: 3 items Access: open Show catalogue(ADX/1610)
Slide collection relating to the natural history of Ceredigion and other matters (Ref: ADX/1609)
Slide collection relating to the academic career and private interests in natural history of David B James ( d. 2017) author of 'Ceredigion: Its Natural History' and other works.
Acc.No: 3653 Date of material: 1960s - c. 2010 Extent: 5 cubic feet Access: tbc but probably open Not yet in the catalogue
Casgliad / Collection of G.M. Jones and D.L. Jones of Aberaeron (Ref: DLJ (further records))
Scrap books compiled by G.M. Jones and D.L. Jones
Collection of Welsh ballads
Five files of photographs relating to Aberaeron ( streets and scenes, carnivals and celebrations, Aberaeron people, railway and transport & sea, sailors and harbour).
Four scrapbooks containing newspaper cuttings, photographs, funeral cards and other ephemera concerning Aberaeron, Lampeter and Cilcennin and further afield in Wales and beyond.
35mm slides, many are copies of old photographs and paintings, some relating to the "Exhibition of paintings of sailing Ships and Ships Equipment" staged in Aberaeron in 1971. A copy of the catalogue is also included.
1898 electoral register for Aberaeron
2 catalogues for Cardiganshire Horticultural Society Show ( 1938 and 1946)
Contemporaneous article on the Welsh Educatio Conference at Aberystwyth 1870
Programme of the Lampeter Eisteddfod 1894
Monograph "On the importance of a national collection of public documents for Wales" by J. Herbert Lewis MP ( 1912)
An article on the claim of the National Library of Wales to be included in the Copyright Bill etc. (1911)
And other items
Cyfansoddiadau Buddugol Eisteddfod Caersalem ( Llanbedr 1870)
Llawlyfr yr Ymwelydd ( Visitor's handbook ) Undeb yr Annibynwyr Cymreig, Cyfarfodydd Llanbedr Pont Steffan 1910
TO BE FINISHED
Acc.No: 3652 Date of material: 19th - 20th century Extent: Access: tbc Not yet in the catalogue
Papers of Benjamin Evans, butler to William Buck of Stradmore (Ref: ADX/1608)
Papers of Benjamin Evans, butler to William Buck of Stradmore
Acc.No: 3651 Date of material: 1850-1933 Extent: 1 box Access: Open Show catalogue(ADX/1608)
Examination papers (Ref: ADX/1607)
Examination papers for entry to secondary schools (Cardiganshire Education Committee, 1948) and O levels, (Welsh Joint Education Committee, 1952)
Acc.No: 3650 Date of material: Extent: 16 items Access: Not yet in the catalogue
Croeso i Gymru, Welcome to Wales (Ref: ADX/1606)
Guidebook, 'Croeso i Gymru, Welcome to Wales: Come to Wales - the country that is different', published by the Welsh Tourist and Holidays Board, Llandrindod Wells. Undated, but c. 1955.
Acc.No: 3649 Date of material: 1950s Extent: 1 item Access: Show catalogue(ADX/1606)
Lluniau a derbyniadau / photographs and receipts (Ref: ADX/1605)
Photographs (Lledrod Home Guard, members of Ceredigion District Council) and receipts for goods purchased by Gorslas Farm, Llangwyryfon. Also notes about the items taken at time of donation.
Acc.No: 3648 Date of material: 1899-modern Extent: 9 eitem/items Access: Agored/open Not yet in the catalogue
South Wales, The Country of Castles. (Ref: ADX/1604)
Book, 'South Wales: The Country of Castles. Its Annals, Antiquities and Attractions (Fourth Edition)'. Issued by the Great Western Railway Company, Paddington Station, London, general manager Felix J.C. Pole. General regional guide, albeit with a bias towards castles, aimed principally at attracting American visitors. Includes list of golf courses. Paper covered with folding map and illustrated by black and white plates.
Acc.No: 3647 Date of material: 1924 Extent: 1 item Access: Show catalogue(ADX/1604)
Invoices, T.C. Jenkins, Eagle House, Aberystwyth, 1897 (Ref: ADX/1603)
Invoices from T.C. Jenkins (late Evan Williams) family grocer, Eagle House, 26 Great Darkgate St., Aberystwyth, both made out to Mrs Davies, Pier St., for a sack of flour per T.G.J. & N.L. Jones, on 10 and 26 October 1897. First invoice has illustrated advertisement for Mazawattee Tea, the second, an altogether more splendid document, one in black, blue and red for Armour's Extract of Beef.
Acc.No: 3646 Date of material: 1897 Extent: 2 items Access: Show catalogue(ADX/1603)
Enwau tai a ffermydd Bont Goch (Ref: ADX/1602)
Book, Enwau tai a ffermydd Bont Goch (Elerch), Ceredigion: the house and farm names of Bont-goch (Elerch), Ceredigion, by Richard E. Huws, 2017.
Acc.No: 3645 Date of material: 2017 Extent: 1 item Access: Show catalogue(ADX/1602)
Postcard, Youth Fellowship Camp, Devil's Bridge (Ref: ADX/1601)
Valentine's real photograph postcard, 'Youth Fellowship Camp from valley, Devil's Bridge'. Pencoed Holiday Fellowship Camp (1927-1984) was located beside the A4120 just north of Devil's Bridge. It accommodated 80 in 1962 and in 1959 was a 'group of green-ainted timber huts' around a large dining hall offering rustic toilet facilities and primitive sanitation amongst the trees. The huts remain, in a fashionably decayed condition.
Acc.No: 3644 Date of material: 1955 Extent: 1 item Access: Show catalogue(ADX/1601)
Postcard, Our Tank Bank (Ref: ADX/1600)
Postcard by Goodall of Bolton, 'Our Tank Bank - A "Safe" Investment', black and white print, photograph of WWI 'male' tank with sentry whilst 'customers' purchase bonds and certificates from staff inside. Message on reverse, 'Clive, with best wishes for Xmas from Aunty Emma'. 'Tank banks'were sent out to cities by the National War Savings committee in the winter of 1917-18.
Acc.No: 3643 Date of material: 1917 Extent: 1 item Access: Show catalogue(MUS/473)
Records of Bethel Independent Chapel, Parcyrhos, Cwmann, Lampeter (Ref: ANC/83)
Records of the chapel including minute books of the Sunday School, membership lists, list of ministers and officials of the chapel, financial records including account books and other items
Acc.No: 3642 Date of material: 1855 - 2017 Extent: 4 boxes, 1 plan Access: tbc Show catalogue(ANC/83)
Transcriptions, Welsh translation of Culpeper? (Ref: ADX/1599)
56 notebooks or parts of, 10 of which are bound with covers, thought to contain passages from 'Y Llysieulyfr Teuluaidd', Culpeper's 'Complete Herbal', copy thought to have belonged to Martha Evans, Llanarth. Transcribed by Frances Charlot and Tim Davies of Carne, Cilcennin
Acc.No: 3641 Date of material: 1893 Extent: 56 items Access: Not yet in the catalogue
Two Blumen des Heiligen Landes; Blodau o'r Aighpt; Flowers of the Holy Land (Ref: ADX/1598)
Two books with olive wood slab covers, with title, 'Jerusalem', containing 12 tissue-covered pages with pressed flowers, each attributed to different biblical locations. Addressed from Port Said to: 1. M.A. Morgan, and 2. Mrs Catherine Williams, Aberarth, Catherine's book is rather damaged.
Acc.No: 3640 Date of material: 1904 Extent: 2 items Access: Not yet in the catalogue
John Hughes diary, 1907 (Ref: ADX/1597)
Congregational Year Book belonging to John Hughes, Cornelofan, Llanilar. Completed with Welsh language entries as well as selected notes from previous year. Covered in brown paper, with owner's name.
Acc.No: 3639 Date of material: 1907 Extent: I item Access: Not yet in the catalogue
Postcard, unidentified group photograph, sent from New Quay to Llandudno (Ref: ADX/1596)
Postcard, unidentified group photograph, mixed group of 23 persons, men, women and children, quite informal, but all in best clothes. Sent on 10 August from New Quay to Miss Nellie Howell at Newport House, Augustus St., Llandudno, 'Are you enjoying yourself. I've had a very good time. Hope you'll do ditto, D'.
Acc.No: 3638 Date of material: 1910 Extent: 1 item Access: Show catalogue(ADX/1596)
Cabinent cards, photographs of Blaendyffryn (Ref: ADX/1595)
Three cabinet cards by J. Price of New Quay, with New Quay on stamp crossed out and 25 Lammas Street, Carmarthen, written in. Photographs of Blaendyffryn mansion and grounds, Bangor Teifi. The house was offered for sale in 1881 and may have been refurbished thereafter. Price was active in New Quay in 1884, but had moved to Carmarthen by 1901. Compare photograph of 186-70 in Francis Jones' Historic Cardiganshire Homes (2004), 23-4.
Acc.No: 3637 Date of material: c. 1885 Extent: 3 items Access: Show catalogue(ADX/1595)
Postcard, Toll and Due List, New Quay Harbour (Ref: ADX/1594)
Valentine's Postcard, W 7158. Toll and Due list, New Quay Harbour, black and white.
Acc.No: 3636 Date of material: 20th c Extent: 1 item Access: Show catalogue(ADX/1594)
Postcard of Great Darkgate Street, Aberystwyth (Ref: ADX/1593)
Digital reprint, black and white photograph taken from North Parade, showing Hillman van, EJ 7480, registered to the Cardiganshire War Agricultural Committee in 1945, the clocktower, demolished in 1956, and the old Police Station, lacking its blue lamp since closure in 1952.
Acc.No: 3635 Date of material: 1952-1956 Extent: 1 item Access: Show catalogue(ADX/1593)
Portrait of a soldier (Ref: ADX/1592)
Photographic portrait of an unidentified WW1 soldier wearing uniform similar to that of the Royal Field Artillery. Found at 2 Edgehill Road, Aberystwyth following house clearance on sale of the house. Not connected with the donor or donor's family.
Large size, very poor condition
Acc.No: 3634 Date of material: 1914-1919 Extent: 1 item Access: Open Show catalogue(ADX/1592)
Llanwenog & Talybont Women's Institutes (Ref: D/WI/LWE; D/WI/TLB)
Llanwenog and Talybont Women's Institutes' records
3 lever arch files plus 2015 centenary scrapbook. Also minute books and other records from Talybont
Acc.No: 3633 Date of material: 1926 - 2015 Extent: 2 boxes Access: open Not yet in the catalogue
Footpaths and footbridges files (Ref: CDC/HI/9; CDD/TS/8)
County Council and District Council files relating to footpaths, footbridges etc.
Acc.No: 3632 Date of material: 1949-1980s Extent: 3 boxes Access: TBC Not yet in the catalogue
Records of Ceredigion Museum (Ref: CSC/MUS (TBC))
Admin files from Ceredigion Museum and some Aberystwyth Yesterday material
Acc.No: 3631 Date of material: Extent: Access: To be established Not yet in the catalogue
Eglwysfach WI Centenary Scrapbook (Ref: D/WI/EGL/10/4)
Printed book: Eglwysfach WI Scrapbook for the NFWI Centenary Year (2015)
Acc.No: 3630 Date of material: 2015 Extent: 1 vol Access: Open Show catalogue(D/WI/EGL)
Royal British Legion, Aberystwyth Branch (additional) (Ref: DSO/124 addl)
Further records of the Aberystwyth Branch
Acc.No: 3629 Date of material: Extent: 2 boxes Access: TBC Not yet in the catalogue
Royal British Legion, Ceredigion Branch (Ref: DSO/164)
Records of the Ceredigion Branch of the Royal British Legion.
Acc.No: 3628 Date of material: Extent: 2 boxes Access: TBC Not yet in the catalogue
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