David Waller, Northop Heritage Group
Topic: “The Route of the Mailcoach through North East Wales”
Contact: davidwaller613@btinternet.com
Paul Davies, The Buckley Society
The Past Industries of Buckley
The Buckley to Connah’s Quay Railway
Old Postcards of Flintshire
The Buckley Pottery Industries of yesteryear
Contact: bucksoc@uwclub.net
Karen Lowery, Clwydian Range Archaeology Group
Topic: “Excavation On Moel Arthur”
Contact: Clwydian Range Archaeology Group
Alan Tiltman, Cefn Mawr Museum
Topic: “John Parry The Blind Harpist”
Contact: a.tiltman@hotmail.com
Ron Williams,
Topics: “Rights of Way”, “Drovers’ Roads”, “Thomas Telford – Colossus of Roads”
Contact: Tel: 01352 715723 e mail: ron.rambler2@gmail.com
Vic Tyler-Jones, Llai Historical Society, Llay Miners’ Heritage Centre
Topics: “The Model Village of Llay”, “The Miners of Llay Main”, “The Rescue Attempt at Gresford Colliery on 22nd September 1934”
Contact: Tel: 01244677658 or 07788 590636 e mail: tylerjones@btinternet.com
Margaret Dunn, Discovering Old Welsh Houses Group
Topic: “Discovering Old Welsh Houses – an update”
Contact: Tel: 01766 890550 e mail: secretary@discoveringoldwelshhouses.co.uk
Brian Gresty, Brymbo Heritage Trust
Topics: “IRON MAD JACK (John Wilkinson)”
Contact: Tel: 01978 855663 e mail: brinjean@brinjean.plus.com
David Parry, Transport History Researcher
Topics: “Henry Robertson: Borders Railway Pioneer”, “The Dee Navigation and the Coming of the Railways”, “Brymbo and the North Wales Mineral Railway”, “Henry Robertson and the Dee Valley”, “Wrexham’s Second Railway”
Contact: davidparry95@outlook.com
Keith Walker, Broughton District History Group and The Western Front Association
Topics: “Four Nurses and One Vicar in World War One”, “Sister Janet a Nurse in the Zulu War 1879”, “The Unknown Soldier and a Rose”, “Shot at Dawn Truth and Myths”
Contact: Tel – 01978 351746 E Mail – k.walker174@btinternet.com
Eddie Lambert, The New Glyn Valley Tramway and Industrial Heritage Trust
Topic: “Glyn Valley Tramway”
Contact: Tel – 01691 712842
Colin Barber, Rhydymwyn Valley History Society
Topics: “The History of the Valley Works at Rhydymwyn”, “A History of the Rhydymwyn Tunnels”, “Projects Wellbright, Mallard, Folium and Python: Rhydymwyn’s Role in the Cold War”, ” ‘Now I Am Become Death, Destroyer of Worlds’: The Rhydymwyn Contribution to the Manhattan Project”, “The History of the British Bomb”, “Scandal, Spies and the Theatre: A Fairy Story”
Contact: Tel – 01352 781129 Rhydymwyn Valley History Society
John Michael Corfe, Dyserth Tuesday Morning Community Group
Topics: Napoleon Bonaparte, The Duke of Reichstadt, Emma; Lady Hamilton, Hilda Gamlin, Descendants of Emma & Nelson, Visiting the Victory, Henry Morton Stanley, FE’ Smith (Lord Birkenhead), Creation of a Garden, A Walk in Rome and Walking Florence (the city not a lady!!), China Farm Story and George Romney’s Life and Times
Contact: Tel – 01745 585110 j.corfe@btinternet.com
Graham Edwards, Ceiriog Memorial Institute
Topics:
- The life of Richard Jones Berwyn, who left the Ceiriog Valley in 1865 on the ship “Mimosa”, with the first Welsh settlers in Patagonia. He became a very influential man and, amongst a large number of posts, was registrar of births, deaths and marriages amongst the Welsh community.
- Why did many Welsh people leave for Patagonia in 1865 and how did they manage to overcome the incredible hardships in South America?
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The unique relationship between the Welsh and the native people in Patagonia.
The talk is available in both English and Welsh
Contact: Tel – 01691 718443 / 07870 600335 graham.edwards.cymru@gmail.com
Chris Grier, Rhuddlan Local History Society
Topics: ‘The life & times of Bodelwyddan Castle’, ‘Maritime Rhuddlan’, ‘Rhuddlan in six acts’, ‘Social unrest in North East Wales’ and ‘The curious case of the 3.20 to Widnes – A North Walian mystery’.
Contact: Tel – 07443 569 447 Email: chris.grier@btinternet.com