Slaters Market St plays host to Abergele Camera Club’s exhibition on Saturday 16 August 2014. You’ll be able to see work by members, who are listed on the Abergele Camera Club’s website: Frances Del Prete, Alan Foulkes, Dewi W Jones, Donald Postles, Ernest Prendegast, Ern Ringwood, Gary Hughes, George Frost, Jill Bunting, Mal Hughes, Molly Blake, Ray Bicknell and Tudor Williams
Category: events
Coed-y-Gopa woodland fete
Sunday 17 August is the date of this fete at Tan-y-Gopa, Abergele.
Visitors on the day can experience willow artwork, bushcraft, storytelling, face painting, and more.
Organisers Woodland Trust say this will be a chance to see some of the improvements such as waymarked trails, benches, etc., with a £32,000 grant from Biffa Award.
There’ll be a minibus shuttle every 20 minutes or so from Tesco, Water Street bowling green, and opposite the Pensarn beach car park between 11.45 and 4.15.
Gwrych Castle Open Day 28 June 2014
Gwrych Castle’s gates are being flung open for visitors for the first time in ages on Saturday 28 June 2014.
Entry between noon and 4pm will cost £5, which includes a tour of the castle and grounds and a catch up on the latest news from the owners of the Castle and Gwrych Trust. The tours are hourly.
Ice cream will be on sale as well as copies of Mark Baker’s latest book Margaret Sandbach: A Tragedy in Marble and Ink, written with Dewi Gregory.
Mark Baker, who is Chair of the Board of Trustees for Gwrych Trust and author of The Rise and Fall of Gwrych said, “It is very exciting that the castle will be open for the day and that we have an opportunity for people to learn about its history and what is proposed for the future”.
Jake Basford of the Trust, handling promotion, says that proceeds from the tours will go towards the planned Visitor Centre project.
Access will be via the road shared with Manorafon Farm, but access will only be given to foot traffic. No parking will be allowed on site, at Manorafon Farm or Abergele Golf club, unless otherwise stated. If you have a disability and want to discuss access, just email gwrych (at) gmail.com before the day.
Summer Fete – Friends of Abergele Hospital
On Saturday the 21st June 2014, the League of Friends of Abergele Hospital are holding their annual summer fete. Bob Pearson of the Friends has written with details:
“It is to be opened by Darren Millar A.M. at 2pm in the hospital grounds. Many different stalls will be there including tombola, bric-a-brac, plants, books, children’s toys, cakes, popcorn and many others. A police dog handler and armed responce officer will be attending to talk to members of the public about their roles. The lifeboat will be represented, a display of childres dancing, the Cantorion Choir and the Rhyl Junior Silver Band.”
The Mayor of Abergele, Brian Roberts, will be drawing the raffle. There will also be entertainment from Bro Aled School and the Joy Cournock school of dancing. There will be a children’s play bus and the Red Cross will be in attendance. (Source: Iolo Facebook page)
I have fond childhood memories of going to the annual summer garden fete at the hospital in Abergele. Back in the 60s we called it the Chest Hospital Fete or the Sanny Fete. From what I hear from Bob and his hard-working co-workers at the Friends, this year’s revival of an old tradition promises to be a real gem.
Photo of entrance to Hospital by Ross Davies.
Some Abergele events in May/June 2014
I thought I’d share these with you:
Sioe Nadolig Ysgol Glan Morfa
My father just told me that tonight’s performance of Ysgol Glan Morfa’s Christmas Show at Capel Mynydd Seion, Chapel St,. was electrifying. The school played to a packed Chapel and the teachers and school staff even had their own choir. I imagine that not all of the children’s parents speak Welsh and, with last week’s announcement of a fall in number and proportion of Welsh speakers revealed by the 2011 Census, it gives great hope to hear of these young Welsh speakers in Abergele keeping up the tradition of putting on a Christmas show. Da iawn blant!
Abergele Facebook Group Xmas Drinkies
Abergele Facebook Group Xmas Drinkies is a special get-together on Saturday 1 December 2012 in the Gwindy, Abergele, of members of the Abergele Facebook Group: ‘Abergele People Pictures and its History’. If you haven’t already Liked this group, I urge you to do so as it’s packed full of gems.
If you’d like to join the fun of this reunion of Abergeleites from the town and from further afield, all organiser Juliette Roberts asks you to do is to let her know so that enough mince pies can be ordered. The other people named as organisers on Facebook are Michelle Knight-Gregson, Patricia Hayes and Jayne Jones. It’s going to be a fab festive night and AbergelePost correspondent David Hughes will post an update here after the event.
British Red Cross Abergele-based digital storytelling project
Gofal is Welsh for care and it’s also the name of the initiative the British Red Cross gives to its digital storytelling and befriending project for older people in north Wales.
The British Red Cross says “volunteers visit vulnerable older people in their homes for up to 12 weeks, helping them to combat loneliness and isolation and encourage social interaction by linking them up with services and social groups in their local communities.”
The focus for the project is digital storytelling, where people tell a short personal story over their own images. Sue Whalley, Red Cross senior team leader, says that “the idea behind the digital storytelling was to get people out of the house, meeting other people, and doing something different and fulfilling. Many on the course came from not knowing anything about computers to producing a really professional DVD. The hope is they now feel more confident to use computers in the future.”
It’s great to see a project like this coming out of the British Red Cross Abergele offices on the industrial estate on the old Llanddulas road. More info on the British Red Cross site…
Abergele Fireworks 2011
Here are the details of Abergele’s main Bonfire Night / Halloween firework display.
The poster was photographed outside Discos while I was distributing flyers for AbergelePost with added QR codes around the town’s wireless internet points and in some shops too. Look out for those pinned up in town.
What used to go on at Cae Stalwyn, Abergele.
Here’s a short digital story I’ve just made about the old Abergele Show. It was Brian Haynes – my dad’s neighbour – who told me about the ‘swimming’ of horses from boats from Ireland anchored off Pensarn beach.
(If the embedded video won’t play, here’s a link to it on blip.tv)