‘Here the Gospel will be sweetly sounded’: A history of Bethesda Chapel in Llangattock by Eliane Wigzell with Margaret Williams, Minister of Bethesda Bethesda Chapel in Llangattock stands as the last remaining active house of worship amongst the nineteenth century chapels of Crickhowell and Llangattock. It was also the earliest of those chapels and its…

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The Crickhowell District Archive Centre is proud to launch its newly designed website.  Our visually rich and informative site is a window into the collections and work of the archive centre.  GALLERY and COLLECTIONS A selection of photographs will give you just a taste of the collection of images that the Archive holds. And those…

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If you’re a Friend of the Crickhowell District Archive Centre, you need to send us your £10 annual subscription by 1st May 2020.  Your subscription will help support our archive centre in its work. You’ll receive two newsletters a year with fascinating articles about Crickhowell and District history as well as news about the work…

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Our latest newsletter is available now. Featuring articles on Rita Landi: A Soprano from Llangenny by Elizabeth Siberry Clarence Hall Reminiscences 1832–1947 by Peter Games The Gardener, His Wife and Her Lover: Martial strife and rough justice in Crickhowell in 1846 by Eliane Wigzell Canon D Parry Jones writing on Llanelly parish An appreciation of…

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A letter to the Hereford Times, 24 March 1860 TO THE EDITOR OF THE HEREFORD TIMES SIR,—I was passing a few days ago through Crickhowell when my attention was arrested to the skinning of a horse by a police-constable. Now, sir, what I want to know (as a ratepayer) is, whether the Chief Constable is…

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