Ystradyfodwg Llanwonno Contents

Ferndale in the Parishes of Ystradyfodwg & Llanwonno

Archives and Libraries

• Ferndale Library
  High Street
  Ferndale
  CF43 4RH
  

Church Records

Ferndale contains two modern parishes:

• St. Dunstan
• St. Thomas

GRO - Glamorgan Record Office, Cardiff
NLW - National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth

Description and Travel

Ferndale Community site

Historic Landscape Characterisation: The Rhondda - on the CADW site.  
Fully explore the site - there are separate detailed sections for places in the area

Occupations

The South Wales Coal Annual for 1908; Edited by Joseph Davies . The section re  Ferndale Collieries has been extracted

Ferndale Colliery on the Miners' Advice site

Ferndale No 1 Pit  on the Welsh Coal Mines site

Details of extant records on Archives Network Wales for the following;

• Ferndale and Blaenllechau Workmen's Band      "Minutes 1923-1927; agreement 1927; note of payments to band members, undated (c1927)."
• National Union of Mineworkers (South Wales Area). Ferndale Lodge         "Minute books 1919-1959; Financial records 1924-1957; Correspondence and related papers 1919-1957; Accident and compensation records 1928-1959; Material relating to the 1926 Ferndale disturbances, 1926"
• John Evans (Ferndale)              "Minutes of a meeting of the Rhondda District of the South Wales Miners' Federation) together with related congress report 1907; Mardy Colliery agreement 1917; Ferndale Collieries price-list (photocopy) 1895; material relating to the Ebbw Vale dispute 1922"

Schools

Details of extant records on Archives Network Wales for the following;

• Ferndale Senior Girls/Secondary Girls school records          " .............. comprising of logbook, 1937-1973; loose papers, c1848-1970"
  "........ a secondary school was established in Ferndale in 1892. It was then enlarged in 1897-1898 and established as an Organised Science School, later it was reopened as a secondary school with accomodation for 330 pupils."

Ferndale in the Parishes of Ystradyfodwg & Llanwonno

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