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EBBW VALE & NORTH GWENT BRANCH

CONTENTS

	WHERE WE MEET
	OUR CURRENT PROGRAMME
	THE PARISHES WE COVER

WHERE WE MEET

Meetings of our Ebbw Vale & North Gwent Branch are held at the Bethel Methodist Church, Wesley Place, Beaufort, Ebbw Vale, NP23 5JS. In the following map, Wesley Place is shown at the lower end of Upper Nelson Street (Stryd Nelson in Welsh). Zoom out, using the button, to see the network of roads over a wider area, including access from the A465 Heads of the Valley Road:

Note that Beaufort Post Office is not on the south side of Beaufort Rise as shown, but on the north side at its junction with Stryd Nelson. The Post Office can be seen on the left of the 'street view' below and Bethel Methodist Church is the brown- and yellow-bricked building on the left of Wesley Place. Car parking space is usually available in Upper Nelson Street:

Click here to examine this 'Street View' in more detail in Google Maps

OUR CURRENT PROGRAMME

Meetings are open to members and visitors alike and are held on the fourth Thursday of each month. Members' Research evenings are held on the second Thursday of each month, to enable members to use the extensive branch research resources. In both cases, the meetings start at 7.00 p.m.

Please note the topics and/or speakers may have to be altered without prior notice. You can contact our Ebbw Vale and North Gwent Branch Secretary by emailing: secretary.ebb@gwentfhs.info

Our programme is currently as follows:

2012
Jan 12	Research
Jan 26	Social Evening plus "Faberge Family & Eggs" - Mrs. Pam Powell JP
Feb 9	Research
Feb 23	"The Trefil Railroad" - John Evans
Mar 8	Research
Mar 22	"The Charge of the Light Brigade" - Ritchie Rudd
Apr 12	Research
Apr 26	"Understanding the Heads of the Valleys – Part 2: An Illustrated History in the Making" - Huw Williams
May 10	Research
May 24	"(Rolf) Harris & Sons" - Mrs. Rosemary Scadden
Jun 7	Research
Jun 21	"Shipping in the Bristol Channel – Part 2: Newport/Saundersfoot" - Robin Williams
Jul 17	Research
Jul 26
Jul 28	Field Trip
Sep 13	Research
Sep 27	"The Story of the First Americans" - Alan Walker (how and why the tribes established very different cultures and ways of life across a sub-continent)
Oct 11	AGM followed by Research
Oct 25
Nov 8	Research
Nov 22	Professor Bill Jones – subject to be confirmed
Dec 13	Annual Dinner

THE PARISHES WE COVER

The Registration Districts and Sub-Districts shown in the following table are those originally allocated to the parishes as shown in the 1851 census.

Some parishes had changed by the 1911 census, and some new parishes had been created. For those details, and details of the towns, villages and hamlets within parishes, see the list of 'Place Names In Wales: Monmouthshire' in the 1911 Census section of the Association of Family History Societies of Wales website.