Archifdy Ceredigion Archives
MUSEUM COLLECTION

Acc. 2980

Ref: MUS/295

Reference: [GB 0212] MUS/295
Date(s): 1946
Level: Fonds
Extent: 1 item
Scope and content: NFYFC [National Federation of Young Farmers Clubs] National Competition, 1946, Village Survey, Folio No. 1, Blaenporth Y.F.C. and County

Ring-binder folder with colourful homemade paper cover and contents. Surviving pages numbered 11-131 with some lacunae. Text in a number of different hands, sometimes more than one per section. Some illustrations including postcards and original drawings. There are rough copies for some sections and Welsh language texts for some others.

Contents

A Village History (pp. 1-2)
Where Blaenporth Is (3-5)
The Place-name Blaenporth (6-10)
Blaenporth Pre-History: Y Gaer (11-19)
The Church and the Early Saints (20-31)
The Norman Period (32-3)
Gaer and Rhos: local placenames (34-5)
Records of Blaenporth Parish Vestry (37-40)
The Story of Farming in Blaenporth as Related by an Old Inhabitant (41-46)
Communications (47-55)
Nonconformity in Blaenporth (56)
The Religious Activities of Blaenporth (57-58)
Blaenannerch Calvinistic Methodist Chapel (59-66)
Brynmair (66a-b)
Bethesda Independent Chapel Ponthirwen (67-73)
Blaenwenen Chapel (74)
Education. The School Adult Education Log Book (75-81)
Education in the parish of Blaenporth (82-6, 88-91)
The Inhabitants of the Parish of Blaenporth (92-95)
The Population and Occupation of Blaenporth (99-105, 107-110)
Condition of the Houses of Blaenporth (111-115)
The Old Houses of the District, Old Craftsmen Also (116-122)
Local Government (123-127)
The G.P.O. (128-131)

Loose pages: 46, 98.

Unpaginated sections:
The Age of the Early Saints (3 sheets)
Local Government (4 sheets)
Maps (5 sheets)
Odd Characters (4 sheets)
Education - Evacuees (4 sheets)
Y Gaer (6 sheets)
Local History. My Grandfather's Story (3 sheets)
Condition of the Houses of Blaenporth (2 sheets)

Welsh language unpaginated sections:

Ysgol Blaenporth (4 sheets)
Blaenwnen (2 sheets)
Bethesda (3 sheets)
Y Preimin (4 sheets)
Local History (10 sheets)

Also two loose pages, numbered 8 and 9, on a religious topic.