Tywyn and District History Society Forum

Our next meeting is coming up on Monday July 18th, the last before the summer break. Many of you were looking forward to the talk planned for April on the successful bid for Snowdonia's slate landscape to be granted UNESCO World Heritage status. Unfortunately, with Covid cases rising sharply in the ...

On Monday 16th May 2022, the society welcomed the evening's speaker, Professor Richard Mayou, author of The Dyfi Estuary - an Illustrated History. As the title of the presentation - 'From hill-forts to castles to houses' - indicates, Richard covered a huge span of Welsh history; an exciting and abso...

On Monday 16th May 2022, the society welcomed the evening's speaker, Professor Richard Mayou, author of The Dyfi Estuary - an Illustrated History. As the title of the presentation - 'From hill-forts to castles to houses' - indicates, Richard covered a huge span of Welsh history; an exciting and abso...

On the 21st February 2022 the society held their first face-to-face meeting since the start of the pandemic. Covid safety measures were observed and the meeting was well attended. It was good to see so many who had been unable to access the society’s Zoom meetings. The evening’s programme was the me...

February 2022 meeting With tensions mounting in the Ukraine..an apposite topic! The evening’s programme was the members and local residents follow-up to last month’s talk by Dr Deakin on the history of Tonfanau with an emphasis on the Cold War period. Members Gill Ray and Richard Stoner presented ex...

At the February 2022 meeting: ...a members and local residents follow-up to last month’s talkon the history of Tonfanau... with an emphasis on the Cold War period. Members Gill Ray and Richard Stoner presented accounts of their experiences in the forces at different times in the Cold War. During the...

At their Zoom meeting on Monday 17th January the local theme of the history of Tonfanau proved popular, attracting interested visitors as well as members. The speaker, Dr Quentin Deakin, covered its history from pre-historic evidence of Bronze and Iron Age trading and settlement to the end of any mi...

At their Zoom meeting on Monday 17th January the local theme of the history of Tonfanau proved popular, attracting interested visitors as well as members. The speaker, Dr Quentin Deakin, covered its history from pre-historic evidence of Bronze and Iron Age trading and settlement to the end of any mi...

Quentin and Liz Deakin continued the theme of visitors to Snowdonia, the subject of Michael Freeman’s November lecture. Quentin gave a brief talk on the subject of George Borrow’s tour of Wales and with Liz performed two light-hearted scenes of his own composition, one of Borrow’s ascent of Snowdon ...

December 2021 Christmas meal and meeting After careful consideration the society decided to go ahead with its annual Christmas meal on Monday December 20th at the Talyllyn’s King’s Cafe in Tywyn, booked before the arrival of Omicron in Britain. Every possible safety measure was followed, each househ...