Newspaper extracts for St Bride's Major parish

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• From the South Wales Echo (Special edition) 29th December 1897

ST. BRIDE'S MAJOR ALLOTMENTS.  The Parish Council of St. Bride's Major received an intimation on the 24th inst. from the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (Lord Hereford) that it gave him great pleasure to inform the Council that the rent fixed for the allotments ground on Ogmore Common at 5s per acre should, by his Lordship's direction, be reduced to 2s 6d. This concession was spontaneous on the part of the Chancellor, who, it appears, is in sympathy with the efforts of the Council in providing allotments for the labouring classes. At the next meeting of the Council a resolution will be passed and forwarded to the Chancellor thanking him for his sympathy and gracious concession to the Council as tenants on behalf of the labourers of St. Bride's Major.

• From The South Wales Star 18th December 1891

ST. BRIDE'S MAJOR. THE VILLAGE WELL SCHEME has verified the general prediction at the commencement—an ignominious failure', after the expenditure of about £120 of the ratepayers' money in trying to get the villagers to drink their grandfathers and grandmothers. From the beginning, the scheme, promoted by two too- knowing parishioners, was ludicrous in the extreme. Only fancy digging a well, one hundred feet deep, within sixty yards or so of the parish churchyard, which is on rising ground, and, forming part of the gathering ground. It would naturally strike any person, with only a modicum of common sense, as ridiculous in the extreme.   ....(part extract)......

•  From the South Wales Daily News (Third Edition) 31st August 1898

ST. BRIDE'S* MAJOR. PARISH COUNCIL.-At the last sitting of the Parish Council of St. Bride's Major two important resolutions were passed by the Council, who evidently are alive to the necessity of watching over any schemes that may prove detrimental to the interests of the ratepayers. The first resolution, which received the unanimous assent of the Council, granted permission to the Southerndown Water Company to pass their main through the allotment ground. The second decided to oppose the Bridgend Urban District Council's sea scheme for the disposal of their sewage. Three members of the Council were selected to attend the inquiry at Bridgend on the 1st September.

• From the Evening Express (Sixth Edition) 3rd July 1893

SCARCITY OF WATER AT ST. BRIDE'S MAJOR. Beer for Breakfast. Water is so scarce at the village of St. Bride's Major, near Bridgend, that the inhabitants are compelled to seek for a glass of beer to drink at breakfast, as water cannot be got with which to make tea.

•  From the South Wales Daily News (Third Edition) 5th March 1900

ST. BRIDE'S-MAJOR 'S WATER SUPPLY. The village of St.Bride's Major which is on the main road between Bridgend and Southerndown, has to get all its water carted from Ewenny during summer time. At a meeting of the Penybont Council held on Saturday it was resolved that the Parish Council be asked to formulate a new scheme. It was pointed out that the mains of the Southerdown supply, which belongs to a private company, are only half a mile distant from the village

• From The Cardiff Times 18th June 1904

ST. BRIDE'S BURIAL INCIDENT. Letter from the Bishop. Mr Evan Howe, a native of St. Bride's Major, in March last died at the house of bis married daughter at Bridgend, leaving a request that he should be buried in the churchyard of his native place. Notice under the Burial Laws Amendment Act (1880) was given to the vicar of St. Bride's that deceased would be buried without the performance of the rites of the Church of England, and by a Dissenting minister. The vicar objected, and insisted upon performing the rites of the Established Church, but allowed a Nonconformist minister to speak at the grave- side. The relatives also considered that the fees charged were too much. The whole matter was brought before the West Glamorgan Calvinistic Methodist monthly meeting, and it was resolved that the secretary, the Rev. Ambrose Williams. Pontrhydyfen, should write to the Bishop of Llandaff on the matter.    ....(part extract)......

• From The Cardiff Times 20th August 1881

SOUTHERNDOWN. A VERY SUCCESSFUL AMATEUR CONCERT took place in the Reading-room, on Wednesday evening, in aid of the building fund of the room. The visitors who so kindly took part in it were encored several times. We must mention the names of two gentlemen who took a prominent part in it, viz., Mr G. H. Lloyd, organist of Gloucester Cathedral, and Mr C. L. Williams, organist of Llandaff Cathedral, who played several fine pieces of music.

•  From The Cardiff Times 13th April 1866

SOUTHERNDOWN, NEW HOTEL.—A company has been formed for the purpose of erecting a first class hotel at this place, which is rapidly becoming a fashionable summer bathing resort. Mr. Alderman Alexander, of Cardiff, is the chairman of the company, the shares of which are being rapidly taken up

•  From The Glamorgan Gazette 1st February 1907

SOUTHERNDOWN DRAMATIC ENTERTAINMENT. A most successful concert and dramtic entertainment was held at the Mission-room, Southerndown. on Wednesday. The entertainment commenced with a short concert as Part 1 of the programme. The items were as follows:   ....(part extract)......

• From The Glamorgan Gazette 13th March 1908

SOUTHERNDOWN. Education Bill.—Mr. E. Bryant, preaching in the Mission-room on Sunday evening, referred to the Education Bill. He said:  Never more than at this present juncture in the history of our national Church does the truth that the Church has been lulled into a false security need to be emphasised. The Church is not only denied the right to educate her children in the faith, but is threatened with wholesale confiscation of property. There is here a deliberate attack to weaken the strength of the church's hold on the children. There can be no compromise in an emergency like this, for emergency it is, and the sooner we, as individual Churchmen, realist it the better. "Before there can be peace there must be the sword." Churchmen must make up their minds that the time has come to fight and to fight to the end. not for rights but for our holy faith. We must state definitely that we will not have undenominationalism to reign over us. Can there be peace when under the arrangements of the present Bill Churchmen of a town like Cardiff are fined £7,000 a year for conscience sake? For that is what it amounts to.

•  From The Cambrian 7th June 1845

SOUTHERNDOWN, GLAMORGANSHIRE. (From "Sealey's Western Miscellany." ) ABOUT five miles distant from the little town of Bridgend, in Glamorganshire, and accessible from thence only by lanes, lies the Sea-coast Village of Soutberndown, which has for some rears past been rising into estimation among the inhabitants of that and the neighbouring Counties, as a place of resort for bathing and sea-breezes. It consists of a few scattered cottages and small houses, of the very plainest class, the walls either showing their rubble stonework or wrapped up in frieze coats of rough cast, some tiled, some slated, some thatched, with gardens of a few yards square, containing each a little grass, and two or three borders railed off with pebbles, the floral treasures consisting of a few wall flowers, and four or five marygolds, whilst the culinary department, in happy union with the former, includes perchance some lemon thyme, a little parsley, and a stick or two of mint and sage, to supply a stuffing for the geese that graze, and cackle, and hiss in the road, and on the common     ....(part extract)......