The History Society was formed in 1999 with the aim of staging a Millenium Exhibition of local photographs and artefacts. The present collection of photographs numbers well over 2,000 (and they still keep appearing). The Society meets on the second Wednesday of the month (from September to June) at 7.30 in the Old Library, Market hall, Newcastle Emlyn for talks on local history and places of local interest.
We endeavour to put on photographic exhibitions every school holiday and bank holiday and we do our utmost to be open over the summer months depending on volunteers!
We endeavour to put on photographic exhibitions every school holiday and bank holiday and we do our utmost to be open over the summer months depending on volunteers!
We have an earthenware wine jar dug up by a JCB, intact, for Evan Williams a Chemist, also a wine and spirit merchant in the main street. We also have an advertising poster for him. It adds that he sold tea, and was a seedsman. Diversification was nothing new even then!
We rely heavily on Local Record Offices and reference libraries for a lot of our research and there is no better place to while away a day than Ceredigion Archives in Aberystwyth perusing the Tivyside, or Carmarthen Reference Library for the Carmarthen Journal, the Welshman or the Times which had great accounts of the local Rebecca Riots.
There are numerous day books for businesses in the town together with Trade Directories from 1830 and numerous Census records. (See Llloyd)
There are numerous day books for businesses in the town together with Trade Directories from 1830 and numerous Census records. (See Llloyd)
Information from Ken Jones on 01239710620 or kjones4717@aol.com
Market Hall with Christmas Lights