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All events will be at the Swansea Museum,
and will commence at 7.30p.m.
(except far the St David’s Day Coffee Morning and the
A G.M.).
THURSDAY 21st SEPTEMBER:
SWANSEA IN THE 18905: A TOWN and its PEOPLE.
By Mr Gerald Gabb, Swansea Museum Education Officer,
author of two fascinating books on Victorian Swansea.
THURSDAY 12th OCTOBER:
NEW MILLENNIUM - NEW
MUSEUM!
By Mr Mike Lewis, Curator of Swansea’s Maritime and
Industrial Museum, who will describe the new all-Wales
venture and the opportunities it presents for Swansea.
THURSDAY 16th NOVEMBER:
OWAIN GLYN DWR and the SIEGE OF COETY CASTLE.
By Professor Ralph A. Griffiths of the Department of
History University of Wales Swansea, describing a
significant event in this 600th anniversary year
THURSDAY 7th DECEMBER:
BOTANICAL DECORATION on BRITISH PORCELAIN.
By the Rev. John 0. Wilstead, nationally-recognised
authority on this subject and member of the RI’s.
Council
THURSDAY 11th JANUARY 2001:
‘MRS MAHONEY: BELOW STAIRS at the MUSEUM.’
Mrs Moira Bates present her recreation of the life of the
wife of the Museum’s first caretaker -
an enthralling piece of Victorian social history.
THURSDAY 25th JANUARY
The ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the R.I.S.W
will be held at the Swansea Museum at 7.00 p.m. (note the
time), followed by a talk by Mrs Bernice Cardy on the Museum’s recent
acquisitions.
THURSDAY 15th FEBRUARY:
SOME DECORATIVE MARBLES and the SWANSEA CONNECTION.
By Dr Ronald Austin, geologist and R.I. member, whose
detailed study of the Mumbles marble industry appeared in our journal Minerva
in 1999.
THURSDAY 1st MARCH:
ST DAVID’S DAY LECTURE: OWAIN GLYN DWR
-600 YEARS ON.
Professor Sir Glanmor Williams will speak on this famous
Welshman, as seen now and through the centuries.
FRIDAY 2nd MARCH:
ST DAVID’S COFFEE MORNING and BRING AND BUY.
10.30 to noon. Tickets available from Social Committee
Members and at the Museum from early February.
THURSDAY 15th MARCH:
THE LOWER SWANSEA VALLEY PROJECT IS FORTY!
By Dr S. J. Lavender, the Valley Conservator, 1976-82. A
retrospect, looking at ideals and achievements in what was once an
infamous area of industrial dereliction.
THURSDAY 12th APRIL:
PENLLERGARE: A PARADISE RECLAIMED -?
Mr Michael Norman, Director of the Hafod Trust (Aberystwyth
and convenor of the Friends of Penllergare, will speak of past parkland
glories, and hopes -
and
fears - for the
future.
FRIDAY 22nd JUNE:
THE SUMMER PARTY.
Tickets and further details from Social Committee Members
and at the Museum during June.
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