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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Medal and chain of office for NALGO Cardiganshire (Ref: DSO/162)
Medal and chain of office for NALGO (National and Local Government Officers' Association) Cardiganshire, with ribbon and the names of nine of the people who acted as Chair
Acc.No: 3526 Date of material: 1974-1982 Extent: 1item in box Access: open Show catalogue(DSO/162)
Conveyance of two dwelling houses in Bridge Street Aberystwyth (Ref: ADX/1547)
Conveyance of two dwelling houses in Bridge Street Aberystwyth : a sale between Revd. W.H. Sinnett and the trustes of his life estate and Mr David Williams
Acc.No: 3525 Date of material: 2nd February 1885 Extent: 1 item Access: open Not yet in the catalogue
Photograph of Borth carnival (Ref: ADX/1546)
Photograph of Borth carnival crowd taken outside the Cambrian Hotel (latterly Pantyfedwen) . Many in fancy dress.
Acc.No: 3524 Date of material: n.d. c. 1950 ? Extent: 1 item Access: open Show catalogue(ADX/1546)
Photograph of UCW Aberystwyth French Department staff and students 1946 (Ref: ADX/1545)
Photograph of UCW Aberystwyth French Department staff and students 1946 - the identities of some of the sitters shown on back of the photograph
Acc.No: 3523 Date of material: 1946 Extent: 1 item Access: open Show catalogue(ADX/1545)
Letters, telegrams and postcards relating to the military career of Griffith George Davies (Ref: ADX/1544)
Letters, telegrams and postcards relating to the military career of Griffith George Davies, Royal Artillery who was imprisoned in Java during the second world war.
Acc.No: 3522 Date of material: 1942-1945 Extent: 9 items Access: open Not yet in the catalogue
Ticket for Grand Charity Football Match between Cardiganshire County Council and Cardiganshire Police Force (Ref: ADX/1543)
Ticket for Grand Charity Football Match between "County Council Administrative" and Cardiganshire Police on Park Avenue Ground . Admission 6d
Acc.No: 3521 Date of material: 20 April 1938 Extent: 1 item Access: open Show catalogue(ADX/1543)
Movement of Animals Book (Ref: ADX/ 1542)
The book concerns the Movement of Animals (Records ) Order of 1925 and relates to D. Evans, Cwmere, Talybont. The book records the transfer of sheep and cattle from the farm
Acc.No: 3520 Date of material: 1939-1969 Extent: 1 item Access: open Show catalogue(ADX/1542)
Railway Plan & Photograph ( Sheep Dog Trial Officials) (Ref: ADX/1541)
1. East and West Wales Railway Plans and Sections 1898 by G. Croydon Marks and Ridley Henderson. Marked 'Parish of Llanilar'
2. Photograph of the officials and committee of the Penuwch and District Sheep Dog Trials, Thursday August 25th 1927. Photograph by A James of Lampeter
Acc.No: 3519 Date of material: 1898 & 1927 Extent: 2 items Access: open Show catalogue(ADX/1541)
Photograph of the Wednesday Shop Assistants Football Club 1898/9 (Ref: ADX/1540)
Photograph of the Wednesday Shop Assistants Football Club probably 1895/6 or 1898/9. The photograph is by H.H.Davies of Pier Street Aberystwyth and is accompanied by an identification guide to the sitters written at a later date. Amongst the 'boys' is Alfred Noyes the poet.
Acc.No: 3518 Date of material: Late nineteenth century and later notes Extent: 2 items Access: open Show catalogue(ADX/1540)
GPO (General Post Office) wedding telegram (Ref: ADX/1539)
GPO ( General Post Office ) congratulatory wedding telegram to Mr & Mrs Green of 33 Glanyrafon terrace Aberystwyth from Eileen
Acc.No: 3517 Date of material: 15 July 1942 Extent: 1 item Access: open Show catalogue(ADX/1539)
Llyfrau gan / books by Gerwyn Morgan (Ref: ADX/1538)
1. Beulah: The story of a Ceredigion village and its people. Aberteifi, 2016. Signed copy.
2. Beulah Remembers / Beulah yn cofio: 1914-18, 1939-45. Gerwyn Morgan 2015.
Acc.No: 3516 Date of material: 2015 & 2016 Extent: 2 gyfrol/vols. Access: Agored/open Show catalogue(ADX/1538)
Aberbanc Ein Bore Bach (Ref: ADX/1537)
Llyfr/Book: Aberbanc Ein Bore Bach: Ysgol Cynradd Aberbanc 1848-2016 [History of Aberbanc Primary School which closed in 2016]. Cymdeithas Cyn-ddisgyblion Ysgol Gynradd Aberbanc, 2016
Acc.No: 3515 Date of material: 2016 Extent: 1 cyfrol/volume Access: Agored/Open Show catalogue(ADX/1537)
Records of Aberbanc Primary School (Ref: ABB)
Records of Aberbanc Primary School: log books, admissions register, stocks and stores books and other.The school closed in 2016.
Acc.No: 3514 Date of material: 1897-2016 Extent: Access: Restricted Not yet in the catalogue
Further items from Ceredigion Libraries (Ref: LIB)
Box of archival material which used to form part of the local history collections in Ceredigion Libraries
Acc.No: 3513 Date of material: 19th & 20th c. Extent: 1 box Access: Open Not yet in the catalogue
Copy tithe map, Dihewyd parish (Ref: ADX/1536)
Colour copy of the diocesan copy of Dihewyd tithe map and schedule.
Copy was made by the NLW from the map held there and given to Ceredigion Archives in the course of the Pint of History project.
Acc.No: 3512 Date of material: 1845 [copied 2017] Extent: 3 items Access: Open Show catalogue(ADX/1536)
New bridge at Llanychaiarn (Ref: ADX/1535)
'Agreement for Building a bridge at the South end of Llanychaiarn Bridge on the River Ystwith'
Thomas Williams and The Reverend Richard Evans with Evan Charles
Contains a Plan of the bridge and a Specification of Works dated 30 January 1823, and the Articles of Agreement, dated 1 Febryuary 1823
Acc.No: 3511 Date of material: 1823 Extent: 2 items Access: Open Show catalogue(ADX/1535)
Planning registers (Ref: CSC/PL)
Planning registers
Acc.No: 3510 Date of material: Extent: Access: TBC Not yet in the catalogue
Coroner's Records - Ceredigion. (Ref: TCR/2)
Coroner's records for Ceredigion : 1977 to 1996 but apparently lacking 1979.
Acc.No: 3509 Date of material: 1977 - 1996 Extent: 23 boxes/ 7 metre Access: Closed, contents available to appropriate parties via Coroner's office Not yet in the catalogue
Football match programmes (Ref: ADX/1534)
Football match programmes
Acc.No: 3508 Date of material: Extent: Access: Open Not yet in the catalogue
Postcard of Pantyfedwen, Borth (Ref: ADX/1533)
Colour postcard (J. Arthur Dixon, no. Wales 7394) depicting Pantyfedwen, Borth. The caption reads: 'College of Librarianship, Wales - the Hostel, Aberystwyth. Originally built as an hotel, Pantyfedwen was donated to the Welsh League of Youth by Sir David James. During the winter months it is used as a Hall of Residence by the College of Librarianship Wales'
Acc.No: 3507 Date of material: c. 1950s Extent: 1 item Access: Open Not yet in the catalogue
Postcard of Aberystwyth Pier pavillion (Ref: ADX/1532)
B/W postcard depicting the interior of the Pier Pavillion in Aberystwyth c. 1920s.
Acc.No: 3506 Date of material: Extent: 1 item Access: Open Not yet in the catalogue
Cambrian News Staff Outing and Ardwyn Old Pupils' Association first Victory welome home dinner and dance invitation (Ref: ADX/1531)
1. "The Cambrian News" staff outing to Birmingham June 7th 1947
2. Invitation of Mr T. Nepaulin Jones to the Ardwyn Old Pupils' Association first Victory welcome home dinner and dance Friday 7th June 1946
Acc.No: 3505 Date of material: 1946, 1947 Extent: 2 items Access: Open Not yet in the catalogue
World War II greetings cards (Ref: ADX/1530)
Two World War II greeting cards from France. Field Service Postcard [not filled in]. From Gwynfrun Jones, Storws (Store House), Ysbyty Ystwyth.
Acc.No: 3504 Date of material: 1940s Extent: 3 items Access: Open Not yet in the catalogue
Church and chapel marriage registers (Ref: )
Church and chapel marriage registers
Established Church
PR/NAN/7: Nancwnlle (one entry only, dated 1984)
PR/BRG/7: Brongwyn 1971-2011
PR/BRG/8: Brongwyn (one entry only, dated 2012)
PR/LDY/12: Llandysul 1978-1987
PR/LDG/12: Llandygwydd 1973-1986 (three entries only)
Nonconformist
ANC/14/2: Horeb Baptist Chapel, Penrhyncoch 1998-2007
Blaencefn Chapel, Ferwig (Calvinistic Methodist) 1976-2001 [to be transferred to the NLW]
Acc.No: 3503 Date of material: 1971-2011 Extent: 7 vols Access: To be confirmed Show catalogue(ANC/14)
Slides of local interest (Ref: ADX/1529)
Two boxes of slides of local interest
Acc.No: 3502 Date of material: Extent: 2 boxes Access: Open Not yet in the catalogue
Family memorabilia (Ref: ADX/1528)
Miscellaneous family memorabilia, incl. recipes, postcards, letters, a hymn book, several publications relating to the Siloh chapel in Aberystwyth, etc.
Acc.No: 3501 Date of material: Extent: Access: Open Not yet in the catalogue
Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses, Lampeter: Register of Marriages (Ref: ANC/78)
1. Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses, Lampeter: Register of Marriages no. 1. Contains one entry only (in 2005) after which it was cancelled because the trustees of the above Church no longer wished to have the building licensed for marriages. One copy of the register was forwarded to the Superintendent Registrar for Ceredigion, the other to Ceredigion Archives.
Acc.No: 3500 Date of material: 2005 Extent: 1 item Access: Open Not yet in the catalogue
Aberystwyth & District Civic Society - further records (Ref: DSO/18 addl.)
Aberystwyth & District Civic Society - records relating to plaques in Aberystwyth (including photographs and a DVD)
Acc.No: 3499 Date of material: Extent: 1 folder Access: To be determined Not yet in the catalogue
Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) Aberystwyth (Ref: ANC/19 additional)
Architect's plans of the Friends' Meeting House in Penparcau, Aberystwyth indicating proposals to extend the existing building. Drawn by Lionel Curtis.
Acc.No: 3498 Date of material: 2001-2002 Extent: 10 items approx. Access: Open Not yet in the catalogue
Papers of Brigadier Lieut. Col. William MacLean (Ref: ADX/1527)
Papers of Brigadier Lieut. Col. William MacLean, some relating to his service in Egypt during WW2.
Acc.No: 3497 Date of material: 1940s Extent: 16 items Access: Open Not yet in the catalogue
Probus Club, Aberystwyth - further records (Ref: DSO/16 addl.)
Further records of the Probus Club, contained in a ring binder:
- Branch meeting minutes September 2006-March 2016
- Annotated Branch photographs 2010 & 2013
- Photograph of outing to Milford Haven
- AGM minutes 2010-2015
- Application forms & CVs of deceased members
Acc.No: 3496 Date of material: 2010-2016 Extent: Access: Restricted Not yet in the catalogue
Rotary Club, Aberystwyth (Ref: DSO/161)
Records of the Aberystwyth Rotarians.
Acc.No: 3495 Date of material: Extent: 3 boxes Access: Not yet in the catalogue
Rotary Club, Cardigan (Ref: DSO/160)
Records of the Cardigan branch of the Rotarians.
Acc.No: 3494 Date of material: 1969 onwards Extent: 2 boxes Access: Not yet in the catalogue
Start the Clock and Cue the Band: A Life in Television (Ref: ADX/1526)
Book: Start the Clock and Cue the Band: A Life in Television by David Lloyd
Published by Y Lolfa
With author's dedication to staff of Ceredigion Archives
Acc.No: 3493 Date of material: 2015 Extent: 1 vol. Access: Open Not yet in the catalogue
Tenancy agreement, Storehouse, Hafod Estate (Ref: ADX/1525)
Tenancy agreement and rent receipt, Storehouse, Hafod Uchtryd Estate
Acc.No: 3492 Date of material: 1901 & 1946 Extent: Access: Open Show catalogue(ADX/1525)
Horeb Chapel near Llandysul (Ref: ADX/1524)
Postcard photograph of Horeb Chapel before 1950 and demolition/replacement of chapel schoolroom with new vestry. Inscription on reverse: 'H.M. Davies / Capel Horeb fel ag yr oedd cyn 1950'
Acc.No: 3491 Date of material: pre-1950 Extent: 1 item Access: Open Show catalogue(ADX/1524)
Welsh elections (May 2016) and Euro referendum (June 2016) ephemera (Ref: ADX/1523)
2016 political ephemera, largely relating to the elections to the Welsh Assembly, election of the Police and Crime Commissioner, and the referendum on Britain's membership of the European Union
Acc.No: 3490 Date of material: 2016 Extent: Access: Open Not yet in the catalogue
Museum leaflets and ephemera (Ref: CSC/MUS/2)
Leaflets, posters, and other ephemera from Ceredigion Museum post-2013 reorganization of Ceredigion Council's departments and services. Some are in electronic format only.
Acc.No: 3489 Date of material: 2013 onward Extent: accruing Access: Open Not yet in the catalogue
Concert programmes (Ref: ADX/1522)
Programmes for concerts:
1. London Philharmonic Orchestra Tour of South Wales November-December 1963. Includes a performance at the King's Hall, Aberystwyth on 28 November 1963
2. UCW Aberystwyth Dept. of Music Choral Society concert, King's Hall, Aberystwyth, 16 March 1964
Acc.No: 3488 Date of material: 1963-1964 Extent: 2 items Access: Open Show catalogue(ADX/1522)
Albums of ephemera associated with the office of Chair of Ceredigion District Council (Ref: ADX/1521)
Albums of photographs and ephemera associated with the office of Chair of Ceredigion District Council when it was held by Cllr. Mrs. Cecilia P. Barton
Acc.No: 3487 Date of material: 1975-1976 Extent: 3 albums Access: Open Not yet in the catalogue
Photographs (Ref: ADX/1520)
Photographs depicting Forestry Commission work, mostly in Cardiganshire.
Acc.No: 3486 Date of material: 1940s-1970s Extent: 48 items Access: Open Show catalogue(ADX/1520)
Various items and ephemera (Ref: ADX/1519)
Various items and ephemera, mostly in electronic format (loaned for scanning)
The physical items are:
1. Pamphlet: The Student Movement, Welsh Localised Edition, October 1910 [refers to the student section of the Christian missionary movement]
2-4. Three record sleeves, no date, possibly 1940s. Two are printed with 'Evered Davies & Son, 26 Pier Street, Aberystwyth'
The electronic items are a selection of family ephemera mainly relating to Mr C White
Acc.No: 3485 Date of material: Extent: Access: Open Not yet in the catalogue
The Tranquilian Travellers (Ref: ADX/1518)
Book: The Tranquilian Travellers by Evan Yardley. Published by Repro2000, Aberystwyth. No date but author's handwritten dedication to 'Les' is dated 2000.
Acc.No: 3484 Date of material: c. 2000 Extent: 1 vol. Access: Open Show catalogue(ADX/1518)
Ysbyty Bronglais Hospital, Aberystwyth and chapel reports (Ref: DSO/159; ANC/76; ANC/77)
DSO/159/1. Llais, newsletter of Bronglais General Hospital
1. Llais vol. 1 no. 1, August 1967
2. Llais vol. 1 no. 3, December 1967
3. Llais, January 1968
4. Llais, February 1968
5. Llais, March 1968
6. Llais, April 1968
7. Llais, May 1968
8. Llais, June 1968
9. Llais, July 1968
10. Llais, August 1968
11. Llais, September 1968
12. Llais, October 1968
13. Llais, November 2016
14. Llais, January 1969
15. Llais, March 1969
16. Llais, April 1969
17. Llais, May 1969
18. Llais, June 1969
19. Llais, August 1969
20. Llais, September 1969
21. Llais, October 1969
22. Llais, November 1969
23. Llais, February 1971
24. Llais, March 1971
25. Llais, April 1971
26. Llais, July 1971
27. Llais, September 1971
DSO/159/2. Programme of official opening of the Bronglais Hospital post-graduate centre, nurse training unit and residential accommodation on 19 April 1973
ANC/76/1. Eglwysi Annibynnol Bow Street a Borth: Adroddiad am y flwyddyn 1952
ANC/76/2. Eglwysi Annibynnol Gogledd Ceredigion: Capel y Morfa, Borth, Adroddiad 1987
ANC/77. Eglwys Rehoboth Taliesin (Methodistiaid Calfinaidd): Adroddiad am 1989
Acc.No: 3483 Date of material: 1967-1973 Extent: 28 items Access: Open Show catalogue(DSO/159)
Llanddeiniol tithe map and schedule (Ref: TM Llanddeiniol)
Llanddeiniol tithe map and schedule
Acc.No: 3482 Date of material: 1840 Extent: 2 items Access: Open Not yet in the catalogue
Llancynfelin (Taliesin) School records (Ref: LCY)
Records of Llancynfelin School deposited after it closed in 2016
Logbook 1976-1995 - LCY/5
Logbook 1995-2008 - LCY/6
Admissions Register 1954-2009 - LCY/R/2
Summary Register 1987-1992 - LCY/SR/1
Acc.No: 3481 Date of material: Extent: Access: Not yet in the catalogue
Cwmpadarn Primary School records (Ref: CDC/ED/22 additional)
Records of the Cwmpadarn Primary School, Llanbadarn Fawr, deposited after the school closed in 2016.
Includes material relating to the process of closure, governors' records, headteacher's reports, policy booklets etc., as well as albums of photographs and a commemorative plate.
Also arrived with the above, the Padarn Cup and its wooden display case.
Acc.No: 3480 Date of material: Extent: 4 boxes & 1 case Access: TBC Not yet in the catalogue
Various school records (Ref: CSC/ED/27; POS; LDY; CDC/ED/44; CDC/ED/45)
Further records of several primary schools: Pontsian, Llandysul, Coedybryn.
CBL/2: Coedybryn School logbook 1931-2000, 2016
CBL/R/2: Coedybryn School Admissions register 1921-1968
CBL/R/3: Coedybryn School Admissions register 1971-2014
CSC/ED/27: Coedybryn School, photograph albums, yearbooks, etc.
POS/2: Pontsian School logbook 1914-1972
POS/3: Pontsian School logbook 1972-1993
POS/4: Pontsian School logbook 1993-2006
POS/5: Pontsian School logbook 2006-2015
POS/R/2: Pontsian School, admissions register 1962-2016 (overlaps with previous one).
POS/SR/ - Pontsian School, summary registers
2. 1958-63
2. 1963-68
3. 1968-73
4. 1974-78
5. 1978-83
6. 1983-87
POS/AR: Pontsian School attendance registers x 9 (sampled):
1. Form 1, standards 5-7, 1945/46
2. Form 2, 1945/46
3. Form 2, 1946/47
4. Form 1, standards 4-7, 1948/49
5. Form ?, 1949/50
6. Form 1, 1950/51
7. Forms 2, 3, 4, 1951/52
8. Forms 2, 3, 4, 1964/65
9. Forms 2, 3, 4, 1975/76
POS/X: Pontsian school, other records:
1. Stocks and Stores Book 1902-23
2. Stocks and Stores Book 1931-50
3. Stocks and Stores Book 1951-70
4. Weekly Return of school meals, 1974-75
CDC/ED/44: Misc. records relating to Pontsian School.
CDC/ED/45: Llandysul Teachers' Centre / Canolfan Athrawon Cylch Llandysul, minutes book 1971-79.
Llandysul School (British, then Council) logbooks
LDY/C/1: 1867-1911
LDY/C/2: 1911-1975
Acc.No: 3479 Date of material: Extent: Access: Restricted (100 years) Not yet in the catalogue
Newspaper cuttings' book concerned with the Wheatley family of Evesham, Cheltenham and Aberystwyth (Ref: DB/105)
Cuttings relating to the businesses and careers of members of the Wheatley family of Aberystwyth, Cheltenham and Evesham. The family's main premises were at London House Evesham; W.K. Wheatley and sons also had premises in Terrace Road Aberystwyth selling pianos & other instruments. The business was regularly promoted by performances including Wheatley's String Band. W.R. Wheatley was a pianist & organist, giving recitals in Aberystwyth . W.K. Wheatley was attached as organist to the Congregational Church in Portland Street.. Miss Wheatley sang in concerts.
Acc.No: 3478 Date of material: 1880 - 1911 Extent: 1item Access: open Not yet in the catalogue
Penfoel Bird and Animal Hospital (Ref: DSO/158)
Records of the Penfoel Bird and Animal Hospital.
Acc.No: 3477 Date of material: 1970s onward Extent: Access: Some DP restrictions Not yet in the catalogue
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