GWENT LOCAL HISTORY
JOURNAL OF THE GWENT COUNTY HISTORY ASSOCIATION
CONTENTS
ISSUES 102 onwards (2007-present)
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Issue 139 2026 (1)
The Canal and Railway Network in the Monmouthshire and Brecknock Canal (Part Two) Robert Baker
The National Farm Survey: Llanelli Parish in 1941 Robert Gant
Abergavenny Races George Beale
Dr David James, Rector of Panteg 1856 – 1871 Christina Evans
From Infant Schools to Grammar School in the 1940s and 1950s: Aberbeeg, Cwm and Nantyglo Howard Robinson
‘Sunday with the Shops Open’: the 1926 General Strike in Wales Peter Strong
Issue 138 2025 (2)
Searching for Rood Screens in Gwent Chris Barber
Investigating the Development and Original Purpose(s) of the Roundhouse Farm Complex, Nantyglo Tony Evans
Some History of St. Michael’s, Llanfihangel Pontymoel Christina Evans
Remembering the South African War in Gwent Robert Eales
The Jones/Herbert Family and Llanarth Court Pete Nash
Eddie Madge, Abergavenny Photographer George Beale
Issue 137 2025 (1)
A Land of Apples and Pears: Orchards on the Gwent Levels Anne Dunton
The Canal and Railway Network in the Monmouthshire and Brecknock Canal (Part One) Robert Baker
The Church Spires of Gwent Chris Barber
Discovering the Old Parish of Lanedarne Marion SweeneyThe Man They Hanged Twice George Beale
Issue 136 2024 (2)
In Search of Gwent Dovecotes Chris Barber
Early Industrial Unrest at Clydach Ironworks Gavin Eynon
Aaron Brain: an Evasive Debtor, an Inefficient. or Possibly Complicit Sheriff’s Officer, and a Coal Merchant – Part Time Smuggler David Mills
Welsh Place Names and Personal Names on the Gwent Levels Bethan Casseldine
Cae Kenfy, Abergavenny: Its History and Occupiers Over 100 Years George Beale
Monmouthshire and the Welsh Church Act of 1914 Peter Meurig Jones
Book Review: Solidarity across the Severn: Newport, Bristol and Reform in 1831 Peter Strong
Issue 135 2024 (1)
Obituary: Eifion Lloyd Jones Arwel Davies
The Legend of Charles Williams of Caerleon (1633 – 1720) Roland Ward
Apprenticeships in Eighteenth Century Abergavenny Gill Wakley
A History of Burnt House Farm, Nash Martyn Swain
Rails Across the Levels Glyn Parkhouse
The Suffragettes and the Abergavenny National Eisteddfod of 1913 Ryland Wallace
Gwent County Council 1974 – 1996 George Beale
Issue 134 2023 (2)
Remarkable Books in the Wye Valley Chris Barber
Gwent Levels Landscapes Through Contemporary Eyes Sian King
The Trial of John Frost Gavin Eynon
Self-Sufficient Beaufort: Evidence of Traders Bill-heads Howard Robinson
Rumney and the Welsh Sunday Closing Act 1881 Marjorie Neal
A Suffragette Window Smasher in Abergavenny Ryland Wallace
Book Review: Gwent Industrial Heritage Tony Hopkins
Issue 133 2023 (1)
St Mary Dedications in Gwent and Monumental Inscriptions at St Mary’s Church, Panteg Christina Evans
James Stephens of Chepstow and the Eight Hour Day Guy Hamilton
The 1846 Mail Coach Accident At Pengam Catherine Davis
The Youngest Sergeant in the British Army: John Beet of Abergavenny (1850- 1934) George Beale
The Story Behind the Brewer-Williams Collection at Newport Museum and Art Gallery David Mills
An Overlooked Heritage: The Life and Work of Abergavenny-born Writer Ethel Line White Alex Csurko
Book Review: The Commonplace Book of John Gwin of Llangwm Gill Wakely
Issue 132 2022 (2)
Gwent Follies Chris Barber
Did Where You Lived in Abergavenny In the Mid-Nineteenth Century Affect Whether You Lived or Died From Infectious Diseases? Marilyn Diosi
Chepstow in 1881 Martyn Swain
The Discovery of the Skeletons in Abergavenny George Beale
Cotswolds Interlude Howard Robinson
Magor-Undy in 1979: A Stage in Growth of the Commuter Village Robert Gant
Issue 131 2022 (1)
What’s A Corvisor? Seventeenth Century Occupations In The Records of St Mary’s Priory, Abergavenny Gill Wakley
A History of Cleddon Using Map Regression Analysis Chris Hodges
Henry Hunt Frost Sylvia Mason
Charles Kemble Reads In Newport 1846 Wendy Taylor
What the Demography of the Parish of Llanarth and Clytha, Between 1841 and 1911 Can Tell Us About People’s Lives Peter Nash
May Prosser, ‘Munitionette’ Ryland Wallace
How Abergavenny Was Hoaxed: April 1916. George Beale
Issue 130 2021 (2)
Obituary: David Joseph Rimmer (1946-2021) Tony Hopkins
Musket Balls, Misconceptions and Myth: The Westgate Inn, Newport And its Connections With Chartism Raymond J. Stroud
The Importance of Oral Research Chris Barber
Speed the Plough? Agriculture on the Gwent Levels in Two World Wars Peter Strong
The Land That Fred Forgot: In Praise of Fred Hando – A Trip To Trefil Stuart Stanton
A Monument on the River Usk at Abergavenny George Beale
Book Review: Newport Operatic Society, The First One Hundred Years Christabel Hutchins
Issue 129 2021 (1)
Having and Holding: Some Lengthy Incumbencies in the Diocese of Monmouthshire J. Daryll Evans
The Blaenau before Iron: A ‘Black Hole’ in Welsh History Colin Morgan
The Parrott Inn Theatre, Newport: 1838 Season Wendy Taylor
Alfred Swash (1860 – 1939) Vera Brown
People and Place: Monmouth in 1901 Robert Gant
Visit Abergavenny: The History of Tourism To Abergavenny: The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Gill Wakley
From Cwm to Broak Oak, Herefordshire Howard Robinson
Issue 128 (2020 2)
Two Reverend Gentlemen from Bedwellty: Lewis James and Charles Winter David Mills
The Great Storm of 1703: Its Effects on the Gwent Levels Sian King
The Wonderful Wyndcliffe Chris Barber
Rachel Herbert: The Extraordinary Story of a Benefactor, Deceitful Solicitor and the Chartists George Bale
‘Worthy of More Attention than is Generally Paid’: Two Extraordinary Monmouth Women Peter Strong
Chepstow in 1901: People, Place and Environment Robert Gant
Book Review: Steam on the Sirhowy Tramroad and its Neighbours David Hale
Book Review: The Fair Hollow: St Mary’s Panteg Tony Hopkins
Gwent Local History Journal contents 129 (2021) onwards
Issue 127 (2020 1)
A Tribute to Fred Hando Chris Barber
Crime and Social Disorder in Victorian Newport Chris Williams
Who Were the Miners in Nineteenth-Century Monmouthshire? Colin Thomas
Visit Abergavenny, Gateway to Wales: Researches into Tourism to Abergavenny and District -The Early Years Gill Wakley and the Abergavenny LHS Research Group
The Layman’s Great Drought of 1976 (with special reference to British Steel, Ebbw Vale) Howard Robinson
Book Review: Memoirs of an Ironmaster: Sir Frederick Mills Bt, D.L, J.P. Tony Hopkins
Issue 126 2019 (2)
Sixty Year of Rape of the Fair Country Peter Strong
Risca’s Coptic Church Tony Jukes
Poverty in West Monmouthshire in the Inter-war Years Siobhan Hayes
Lion Chapel Gilwern Gordon Maslen
Boxing Day at the Bailey’s Arms 1962; Pubs and Clubs at Cwm, Ebbw Vale, Remembered Howard Robinson
Book Review: The Merthyr, Tredegar and Abergavenny Railway Tony Hopkins
Book Review: Hill’s Tramroad: Blaenavon World Heritage Site Tony Hopkins
Issue 125 2019 (1)
Obituary: Graham Osborne Teresa Fisher
The Strongest Man in Newport Peter Strong
Fields Park Estate Newport Vera Brown
The Foster Family and Fosterville Abergavenny Margaret Giles
The Buried Bible of Llanishen Stuart Stanton
The End of World War One as Seen by Wiliam Price of Usk Jeremy Price
Book Review: Twigs from our Branches of History: including Chepstow, Devauden, Howick, Itton, Kilgwrrg, Penterry and St Arvans (and bits of the rest of the world) Tony Hopkins
DVD Review: Abergavenny Old Cemetery, Database of Burials and Headstones 1855 – 1938 Byron Grubb
Issue 124 2018(2)
The Municipal Provision of Baths and Washhouses in Newport 1890-1918 Ray Stroud
Eliza’s Escape Steve Nias
The Alexandra Theatre Royal: Newport 1865 Wendy Taylor
The Wartime Letters of Private William O’Brien 1915-1917 Tony Hopkins
How Peace Came to Gwent Peter Strong
Issue 123 2018(1) (ARMISTICE SPECIAL)
The Great War: What Was it like in Abergavenny Gill Wakley and the Abergavenny Research Group
Sources for World War One at Gwent Archives and how to Find Them Kai Michael
Belgian Refugees in Monmouthshire During the Great War: Sources at Gwent Archives Frances Younson
Not just a Name: Daughters of Newport in the Great War Sylvia Mason
Military Tribunals in Monmouthshire Kerry Evans
Message in a Bottle: The Penallt Roll of Honour Rhiannon Griffiths
From Battlefield to Bedside: The Care of Wounded World War One Soldiers in Monmouthshire Clare Jeremy
The Newport Athletic Club Pals in Salonika Victoria Jackson
A Letter from the front in the Primrose Hockey Collection at Gwent Archives Gareth Thomas
The Abertillery War Memorial: A Symbol of Conflict Stuart Stanton
Issue 122 2017(2)
Obituary: Sir Richard Hanbury-Tenison Tony Hopkins
Obituary: Tony Jukes Gordon Maslen and John Evans
A ‘Pope Burning’ Procession at Abergavenny in 1679 Tony Corten
Charles Dickens: His ‘Farewell Tour’ Engagement in Newport Wendy Taylor
Abergavenny Asylum 1901: An Insight from the Census Robert Gant
Cwm Govilon and its Surrounds Howard Robinson
Issue 121 2017(1)
Poor Relief in the Abergavenny Vestry Book 1702 to 1804 Gill Wakley and Sue Smith
Abertysswg: A Planned Industrial Community in the Valleys John B Hilling
Farming Families on the Monmouthshire Coalfield 1841-91 Colin Thomas
Domestheus Returns: Henry Vincent in Monmouthshire in 1849 Peter Strong
From Cwm to Costa Dorada: Honeymooning in 1966 Howard Robinson
Book Review: Young Man to Arms! The First World War in the Crickhowell District Peter Strong
Book Review: Pwy oedd Arglwydes Llanofer, ‘Gwenynen Gwent’? WhoWas Lady Llanover, the ‘Bee of Gwent’ Ray Howell
Book Review: Archaeology Ucheldir Gwent / The Archaeology of Upland Gwent Ray Howell
Issue 120 2016(2)
Nicholas II Arnold’s 1633 Marriage Settlement and Richard Crofts’s Appointment as Steward of the Manor of Cwmyoy John L Evans
Churchwardens and Church Affairs in the Abergavenny Vestry Minutes 1702 to 1804 Gill Wakley and Sue Smith
West Country Migrants to the Ebbw, Sirhowy and Rhymney Valleys 1841-91 Colin Thomas
Interval Entertainment at the Theatre Royal Newport Wendy Taylor
‘Music Hath Charms’: A Letter to the Editor of the Pontypool Free Press 21 August 1891 Howard Humphries
Mountain Gambling Howard Robinson
Issue 119 2016(1)
Richard Croft of Llanthony John L Evans
Civic Activities in the Abergavenny Vestry Book in the Eighteenth Century Gill Wakley and Sue Smith
A New Account of George Shell and the Newport Rising Malcolm Chase
‘I Don’t Get a Dog’s Chance’: The Life of Tonypandy Annie: Drunkenness and Disorder on the Streets of Newport Victoria Jackson
Eisteddfod News from the Abergavenny Chronicle Gill Wakley
Heritage Redressed: Ebeneezer Primitive Methodist Church, Beaufort, in the Early Twentieth Century Howard Robinson
Issue 118 2015(2)
An Irish View of Georgian Monmouthshire John Andrews
French Prisoners of War in Abergavenny 1812-1814 John Evans
Programme of Main and Afterpiece Entertainments at
the Theatre Royal, Newport 1854-1857 Wendy Taylor
People and Place: Portskewett in 1911 Robert Gant
Taking the Archives to the People: Gwent Archives and a Strategy for Local Heritage Outreach Victoria Jackson
Issue 117 2015(1)
‘I Leave the Poor of the Parish…’: Poverty in Monmouthshire 1580-1615 Anne Dunton
Monmouthshire Recusants in 1719 With Particular Reference to Cwmyoy John L Evans
The Workhouses of Rural Monmouthshire: Census Profiles of Inmates in 1851 and 1901 Robert Gant
Entertainments at Abergavenny Castle 1880 to 1914 Gill Wakley
Glimpses of the Past: ‘Black Pats’ (Cockroaches), the Chimney Sweep and the Domestic Fire of My Childhood Howard Robinson
Issue 116 2014(2) (Chartist Special)
The Confessions of Zephaniah Williams and the 1839 Rising Les James
George Shell’s Letter Revisited: Some reflections on its Use at the Monmouthshire Chartist Trials Colin Gibson
A Juror’s Tale: The Travails of Edmund Jones at the Monmouth Chartist Trials Christabel Hutchings
Policing the Rising: The Career of John Roberts, Police Superintendent of Pontypool, 1830-1860 Tony Hopkins
Finding Chartism in the Family: William Davies of Blackwood Sarah Richards
Newport and the Chartist Land Plan David Osmond
William Shellard c.1797-1874: An Old Chartist Fades Away John Evans
Issue 115 2014(1)
‘Oh, My dear Child They Have Killed Me’: Hunting a Witch in the Parish of Llanfoist in 1827 John Evans
The Britannia Foundry, Pontymister and its Iron Founders Tony Jukes
Edward Jon Lowe –the Gentleman Scientist of Shirenewton Hall David P Thomas
Newbridge and District Jewish Community Harold Pollins
Glimpses of Valleys Past: The Old Inn (The Victoria Inn, Beaufort) Howard Robinson
The Skenfrith War Memorial Diana Stainforth
Issue 114 2013(2)
St Woolos Cathedral, Newport –The Tudor Connection Tony Corten
A Child Comments on the Newport Rising of 1839 Christabel Hutchings
The Construction of Chepstow Railway Bridge: A Profile of the Workforce in 1851 Robert Gant
Risca, Rhisca: A Note Hywel Wyn Owen
The Place Name Risca Graham O Osborne
1940: Letters to a Soldier from Ebbw Vale Howard Robinson
Book Review: Gwent County History Vol 5 David Rimmer
Book Review: War Underground: Memoirs of a Bevin Boy in the South Wales Coalfield Tony Hopkins
Book Review: Far Off Things Tony Hopkins
Issue 113 2013(1)
The History of Llantilio Mill Continued Judith M Clement
St David’s Diocese Papists Return of 1706 With Particular Reference to Cwmyoy John L Evans
Who Was ‘Iron-Bottom’ Rogers? Samuel Baldwyn Rogers (1778-1863) Malcolm Johnson
Market Town and Railway Centre: Abergavenny in 1901 Robert Gant
The Place Where the Devil Broke His Apronstrings Graham O Osborne
A Glimpse of the Valleys Past: Festival Shopping, Slag Tips and
Cooling Beds Howard Robinson
Bryan Woodfield: A Chepstow Cartographer of the Late Twentieth Century John Andrews
Book Review: Travels in the Valleys David Mann
Book Review: The Charcoal Industry of Fforest Coalpit and the Grwyne Fawr Valley Tony Hopkins
Issue 112 2012(2)
The Eliza Stewart of Brockweir: The Story of a Victorian Sailing Barque Naylor Firth
Domestic Service in the Market Town: A Census Perspective on Abergavenny Robert Gant
Landscape and Society: Sixteenth and early Seventeenth Century Maps of North-East Monmouthshire Ann Dunton
A Short History of Effluent Control at Ebbw Vale Works Mel Warrender
The Lonely Memorial on Machen Mountain Graham O Osborne
A Newport Anecdote (A drunken father brings home a snake!) Ruth Sear
Book Review: Discovering Abergavenny Tony Hopkins
Book Review: Abergavenny – Historic Market Town Tony Hopkins
Book Review: Guidebook to Arthurian Caerleon: History and Legend in the True Land of King Arthur Tony Hopkins
Book Review: The Clydach Gorge: Industrial Archaeological Trails Tony Hopkins
Book Review: William Downing Evans: Poetry and Poverty in Nineteenth-Century Newport Ray Stroud
Issue 111 2012(1)
Obituary: Ron Jenkins Pat Davies
Portskewett: A Manorial History Bruce Coppleston-Crowe
Some Interesting Places on the Western Slopes of Mynydd Medart Graham O Osborne
‘Mary the Cripple’: The Yarwood Family’s Life of Crime And Vice in Victorian South Wales Tony Jukes
The ‘Ranks’, Abercarn: An Example of Early Industrial Housing Malcolm Johnson
Remembering in Gwent (First World War Memorials) Ray Westlake
Book Review: The Iron Tsar: the Life and Times of John Hughes Susan Edwards
Issue 110 2011(2)
Notes on the Identification of three Places Mentioned in the Llandaf Charters: Ecclesia Castell Conscuit, Llanfihangel Llechryd and Yscuit Cyst Graham O Osborne
Tredegar Ironworks: Rhys Davies and the American Connection Peter Morgan Jones
The Shadow of the Valley: Widowhood in a South Wales Industrial Community 1841-91 Colin Thomas
The Construction of Wentwood reservoir: A Profile of the ‘Navvy Gang’ 1901 Robert Gant
Book Review: Gwent County History Vol 4 J Graham Jones
Book Review: Reginal McKenna: Financiers among Statesmen J Graham Jones
Issue 109 2011 (1)
Monmouthshire Electoral Registers at the National Library of Wales J Graham Jones
Grosmont: A Question of Patronage Roger L Brown
Victoria, Ebbw Vale: Transformation From a Rural and Industrial Past to a 21st Century Hospital Site Mel Warrender
Glimpses of the past: A Cwm Schoolboy’s Diary 1958 Howard Robinson
The Place-Name Risca Graham O Osborne
St Illtyd, Mamhilad-A Bus, Canal, An Open Church: the Perfect Day Ray Westlake
Book Review: D Kennedy, Magor: Fragments of History Tony Hopkins
Book Review: The Henry Hughes Story Jeff Darkins
Book Review: Byr Hanes Henry Hughes Meryl Darkins
Book Review: Powell’s History of Tredegar Jeff Darkins
Issue 108 2010 (2)
The View Across the Valley: 17th Century Relict ‘Infield’ Enclosures at Hafod Owen and Craig Pant-Glas, Mynydd Maen Robert Weeks
Crumlin and its Early Development David Hale
St Bartholomew’s Llanover: Mice with a ‘Taste’ for Music, Harpists Everywhere and Someone to Set your Clocks By Ray Westlake
Charles Stewart Rolls 1877-1910 John Evans
Early 20th Century Amateur Dramatics and music in a Gwent Village: The Huxley Orchestra and the Pantegean Players at New Inn Harry Lewis
Bombs Over Risca Graham O Osborne
Monmouthshire Political Archives at the National Library of Wales J Graham Jones
Review: Newport Medieval Ship: A Guide TH
Issue 107 2010 (1)
Obituary: Gwenllian Jones Jeremy Knight
A History of Ebbw Vale Works and Collieries (1790 – 2002) Mel Warrender
The Colliers’ Struggle for Naked Lights and the Cwmtillery Eisteddfod of 1884 John Evans
The Story of Iron in Abertillery Gordon Rowlands
The Last Clubrun of the Abertillery Road Cycling Club, 3 September 1939 Clifford Page
The Jubilee of the Workingmen’s Club and Institute At Cwm, Ebbw vale, 1960 Howard Robinson
Remembering the Six Bells Mining Disaster, 1960 Gordon Rowlands
A Note on the Life and Career of William Davies (Tredegar) Tony Hopkins
Issue 106 2009 (1)
Wonastow and the Uncia Mystery Peter Morgan Jones
The History of Llantilio Mill Judith M Clement
The Two Murenger Houses of Newport Bob Trett
Panteg Parish and the Eighteenth Century Welsh Circulating Schools Harry Lewis
The Last Time ‘Justice’ Was Seen to Be Done: The Fate of Matthew Francis of Newport Idris Davies
A Street of Distinction: Badminton Grove, Ebbw Vale Keith Thomas
Book Review: Men At Arms: Musters in Monmouthshire 1539 and 1601-2 M A Faraday
Book Review: The Abergavenny Story: from Stone Age to Our Age Kai Michael
Book Review: Every Picture Tells a Story: a Brief Pictorial History of Abersychan (parts 1 and 2) Tony Hopkins
Issue 105 2008 (2)
Obituary: Kenneth A. Bendle Hazel Jenkins
Two Granges of Llantarnam Abbey Mentioned in the Taxatio of 1291: Kynemot and Crip Graham O Osborne
Putting Sir William on the Map: Lanpill and john Speed’s Map of Monmouthshire John Andrews
Charles Vaughan of Pontypool: An Assessment of the Man and his Clocks Bill Linnard
The Western Valley Railway and Ebbw Vale Parkway, Victoria Keith Thomas
Fie Little Lambs of Holcombe Malcolm Johnson
Issue 104 2008 (1)
Obituary: Andrew Geoffrey Mein Bob Trett
Obituary: Minnie Louisa Gibbins Frances Griffiths
Trostrey Excavations: A Picture Essay in Memory of Geoff Mein Ron Takel
A Navigation of the River Wye to Chepstow in 1807 Peter Morgan Jones
Friendly Societies in Ebbw Vale Keith Thomas
Opening Night at the Theatre Royal, Newport Wendy Taylor
Heroes of the Great War at St Michael and All Angels Church, Llantarnam Ray Westlake
Letter: Monmouthshire and the 1972 Local Government Act W Elwyn Jones
Letter: Further Notes on the Place Name Risca Graham O Osborne
Book Review: Imagining Roman Britain Ray Howell
Issue 103 2007 (2)
Notes on the farm ‘Bovil’ (Machen) and the place name ‘Bovil’ Graham O Osborne
The Theatre Royal, Newport 1854-1857 Wendy Taylor
Barnard Town, Newport: Some Recollections David Perry
School Records as a Source for Community Studies: Sudbrook 1881-1895 Robert Gant
A Day to Remember: Crumlin Viaduct and the Making of Arabesque Howard Robinson
Feedback on Issue 102 (re: Henry Thomas Payne and the Roman Road Between Caerphilly and Brecon) John Owen
Issue 102 2007 (1)
Goldcroft Common and the May Fair (Part One) Bob Trett
Dynion Dod -The Strangers Who Came (Migration into the Sirhowy Valley) John Hilling
Henry Thomas Payne and the Roman Road Between Caerphilly and Brecon Peter Morgan Jones
Sergeant J H Spencer of Cwmgelli, Blackwood (World War One) Ray Westlake
Notes on the place name Risca Graham O Osborne
Book Review: Thomas Street, Courts and Character Minnie Gibbens