Festival of History in North Wales, 2004
Llanfairfechan, Conwy - 16 August to 4 September
Click on the right for a full diary of events:   [Week 1] [Week 2] [Week 3]

Click here for an up-to-date schedule of events...

All these meetings will be at Llanfairfechan Community Hall .

We hope that anyone interested in any way will attend one of the meetings. The Community Hall is 200 yards north of the traffic lights on Village Rd, on the right, just past the school (Click for map) (we suggest parking on Village Road, Penmaenmawr Road (avoiding yellow lines where these exist), or in the car park on Station Rd, then walk to the traffic lights, where prominent signs wil direct you to the Community Hall).

We need (volunteer) manning of four persons for four hours on average over most societies (hall hiring and insurance conditions require this level of manning). Although the four hour manning periods are from 10:00 am till 2:00 pm and 2:00 pm till 6:00pm, we will have enough local volunteers to allow flexibility for those groups traveling a long way, so less hours and/or different periods can be accommodated. Before deciding on a date for manning please contact Syd or Mike to check current staffing status. We do appreciate that professional, county and geographically remote societies, may wish to be represented in some way, such as a publicity display, but could not actually help with manning, nor even attend: We are currently planning how arrangements could be made for transport of such 'remote control' display.

We expect societies will wish to sell published material and distribute leaflets. Our organisation of staffing will ensure that these, and your display material will always be safely ensconced.

As you will see from the schedule of events, we have secured the services of many speakers, both professional and amateur. Our policy is to offer all afternoon slots to professional societies, on the reasoning that such societies will, in general, have greater distances to travel, and/or have morning commitments (meetings etc). However, by now we have only three afternoons without a programmed talk, and any more offers to lecture on afternoons other than those three will involve timetable juggling (e.g.; 2.00 pm slot or 4.00 pm slot).

Regarding displays - we will supply A1 display stands, mounted on rows of tables, and allocate up to eight of these A1 stands to each society. The stands hinge together and usually stand in concertina formation, at 90 degrees to each other. All individual societies have to do is to supply the Al mounting boards, or cards; we will affix such mounting boards, via Velcro, to our stands. We assume that some societies will own such boards or cards, already arrayed with captioned photographs and other local history information. Otherwise, these A1 size boards, 1mm thick, are available from stationers and some bookshops, £3.20 each. Some societies will have little information to display, thus requiring less than eight stands. As there are many societies taking part, possibly as many as 100, or more, we will desist from pressurising societies to take their full allocation, rather the opposite! Would those organisations who wish to display on their own, large, free standing frames please remind Syd, as space may be a problem.

DALIER SYLW: Ydan croeso.... gosod hysbysiad neu cyhoeddiadau o Cymdeithasau Hanes sydd yn arwain gweithrediadau yng Nghymraeg.

NB. Although unconnected with the exhibition we have been approached by the Milestone Society who are currently concerned about the spate of road widening schemes in North Wales and consequential loss of or damage to milestones. Unlike England, Scotland, and South Wales they have no member groups in North Wales. Thus there is an urgent requirement for watching brief   is any individual or society carrying out such brief or survey?

To Federate or Not to Federate?

On the afternoon of Saturday 28th August at 2:00 pm, the Honorary Officers of the Federation of History Societies in Caernarfonshire (FHSC) will give a talk on the Federation's history and work.

However, more relevant to this exhibition, they will suggest, to the prospective audience of representatives and general public, that all such County Federations should meet/correspond on a regular basis, possibly annually or bi annually. Where Counties/Unitary Authorities do not have a Federation, we would be happy to explain our constitution, and the advantages of a federation.

Thus we would urge all Local History, Civic and related Societies to come to Llanfairfechan that afternoon.