Archifdy Ceredigion Archives
Friends of Hafod Collection

Accession 1706

Ref: FOH.A/04

TITLE: FOH.A/04
DATE: 1996-1997
SIZE: 9 items
MEDIUM: paper
LEVEL & ARRANGEMENT: file
NATURE AND CONTENT: Pontrhydygroes Post Office and Stores: Material relating to its history.
NB. In case of photocopies of archival material, only the date of the original document is given.

TITLE: FOH.A/04/01
DATE: 1996
SIZE: 10 ff.
MEDIUM: paper
LEVEL & ARRANGEMENT: item
NATURE AND CONTENT: ‘Pontrhydygroes Post Office and Stores 1904-1945: Some personal recollections recorded by Mrs. Megan Owen (Cardigan, Dec. ’96)’. One manuscript, two photocopies with annotations, one photocopy of typescript final version with illustration. Also letter from Roger Hallett to Mrs. Owen. See also FOH.A/04/02.

TITLE: FOH.A/04/02
DATE: See below
SIZE: 1 item
MEDIUM: photograph
LEVEL & ARRANGEMENT: item
NATURE AND CONTENT: Print, made in 1996, of a pre-1911 photograph of the Pontrhydygroes Post Office. The photograph was used to illustrate FOH.A/04/01.

TITLE: FOH.A/04/03
DATE: 1997
SIZE: 2 ff.
MEDIUM: paper
LEVEL & ARRANGEMENT: item
NATURE AND CONTENT: Article from Cambrian News, 7 November 1997, about the retirement of Mrs. Corris Davies, the Pontrhydygroes postmistress. Also enlarged photocopy of same.

TITLE: FOH.A/04/04
DATE: 1996
SIZE: 6 ff.
MEDIUM: paper
LEVEL & ARRANGEMENT: item
NATURE AND CONTENT: Questionnaire about the viability of keeping the Post Office and Stores open after the postmistress’ retirement. See also FOH.A/04/05.

TITLE: FOH.A/04/05
DATE: 1996
SIZE: 3 ff.
MEDIUM: paper
LEVEL & ARRANGEMENT: item
NATURE AND CONTENT: Agenda and minutes of a meeting held on 19 November 1996 to set up a feasibility study into the running of a shop/post office in Pontrhydygroes. Also analysis of responses to the questionnaire (item FOH.A/04/04).

TITLE: FOH.A/04/06
DATE: 1996?
SIZE: 5 ff.
MEDIUM: paper
LEVEL & ARRANGEMENT: item
NATURE AND CONTENT: Rough notes from a meeting on the future of the Pontrhydygroes shop, mostly about potential sources of funding.

TITLE: FOH.A/04/07
DATE: 1996
SIZE: 7 ff.
MEDIUM: paper
LEVEL & ARRANGEMENT: item
NATURE AND CONTENT: Fax message from Daniel Thomas of Ceredigion County Council to M. Potter, enclosing a Wales Co-operative Centre factsheet on setting up and funding a community cooperative.

TITLE: FOH.A/04/08
DATE: 1997
SIZE: 4 ff. and 1 envelope
MEDIUM: paper
LEVEL & ARRANGEMENT: item
NATURE AND CONTENT: Correspondence between Roger Hallett and Megan Owen, about the efforts to save the post office and shop and about an auction sale of a ‘Hafod plate’; the plate was bought by a Cwmystwyth resident.

TITLE: FOH.A/04/09
DATE: 1997
SIZE: 1 f.
MEDIUM: paper
LEVEL & ARRANGEMENT: item
NATURE AND CONTENT: Letter from Roger Hallett to Betty ? about typing [of Mrs. Owen’s reminiscences?] and the winter, and Betty’s response (on the same sheet).

TITLE: FOH.A/04/10
DATE: Not known
SIZE: 1 print; 1 f.
MEDIUM: photo; paper
LEVEL & ARRANGEMENT: item
NATURE AND CONTENT: Early b/w photograph (torn) with photocopy of same showing Pontrhydygroes Post Office and boy in a toy car.