Blaenavon Coat of Arms

Blaenafon Community Heritage
& Cordell Museum

Registered Charity No. 1079437

Blaenafon Community Heritage
Genealogy
Blaenafon
Alexander Cordell
Photos of Blaenafon

 

Archives

At Blaenafon Community Heritage and Cordell Museum you can take a look at our archive section. It consists of a large number of books on Local History, Industrial Archeaolgy, Genealogy and General History not only of Blaenafon, Torfaen but of the old county of Monmouthshire and/or Gwent. These books are for reference only.

Some of the books in the Archives are :-

An original set of volumes of

  • A History of Monmouthshire by Sir Joseph Bradney, 9 Volumes.

Two original copies of :-

  • A Brief History of Blaenavon Monmouthshire (1906) by Lewis Browning.

We also hold copies of :-

  • Gwent Local History Journals. For years 1962-2005.

  • The Blaenavon Story by E. J. Davies (1974).

  • Blaenavon Through the Years. Vol's. 1,2 & 3 by Malcolm Thomas & John Lewis.

  • Blaenavon in old picture postcards, by Roger Bowen

  • The Blaenafon Community Archive a Digitial Photoraphical history of Blaenfon

Also in the Archives are various militaria books and many other books to numerous to mention. Church and Chapel histories and records are also in the collection.

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archives, library and research room

Archives, Library & Research Room

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