Our next talk, ‘Posh Privies’, will be given by Dr Marian Gwyn. Marian is a heritage consultant who specialises in the history of the country house. In this talk she explores the development of water technology in elite homes through that most used and least discussed household item - the toilet.

The talk starts at 7.30pm on 19th February, 2020 at Eglwys y Berth in Penmaenmawr. Everyone is welcome - members get in for free and non-members for £3.

Come and hear our next lecture ‘Welsh Place Names’. It will be given by Dr James January-McCann, the Place Names Officer for The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales.

The lecture will take place at 7.30pm on January 15th, 2020 at Eglwys y Berth (the school room at the back of the former Jerusalem Chapel opposite the Llys Clwyd bus stop in Penmaenmawr).

Everyone is welcome, members get in for free and non-members for £3.

Marriage to ironmaster John Guest brought Lady Charlotte Bertie to Merthyr Tydfil in the 1830s. Intelligent and energetic, she developed sufficient understanding of the iron trade to equip her to take an active role in Guest’s Dowlais Iron Company while at the same time devoting herself to the study of Welsh history and culture. Having brought out her Mabinogion, on John’s death she succeeded him as head of the works, where she introduced a programme of renovation, embarked on some far-reaching reforms, and weathered a strike among her workforce. This talk explores her dual career as translator and industrialist.

The talk will be given by Victoria Owens and is on at 7.30pm, November 20th, 2019 at Eglwys y Berth (the school room at the back of the former Jerusalem Chapel opposite the Llys Clwyd bus stop in Penmaenmawr). Everyone is welcome, members get in for free and non-members for £3.

Our first evening talk of the season is 'Henry Tudor and Wales' and will be given by Nathen Amin. TV historian Nathen is a best-selling author and founder of the Henry Tudor Society.

The talk is on Wednesday, October 16th 2019 at 7.30 pm. PLEASE NOTE: all our talks this year will be at Eglwys y Berth, Penmaenmawr which is the building next to the library on the main road.

Entry is free for Penmaenmawr Historical Society & Museum members or £3 for non-members.

Please visit Nathen's website here https://nathenamin.com

The image is Henry Tudor painted in 1505 by an unknown artist and is in the National Portrait Gallery.

Join us for a guided walk of about a mile highlighting the history of Penmaenmawr Promenade. Everyone is welcome to come along and it's free to join. Meet at Penmaenmawr Museum at 11am on Saturday, 5th October 2019.

Please share with anyone who you think might be interested in coming along!

Join us for a fun afternoon of 'medieval meddling at the museum'. Great fun for children (and big kids too) with hands-on activities and some 'horrible histories'. Mike Roberts is fantastic working with children - he brings along artefacts for them to try and really brings medieval life..to life!

It’s on Saturday, September 14th at Penmaenmawr Museum from 12 noon until 4pm.

Free to enter, everyone welcome!

Join us for a guided walk around the grounds of the beautiful Pensychnant Conservation Centre at the top of the Sychnant Pass on Saturday 7th September 2019. We will meet at the Pensychnant Centre at 11am though if you would like a lift there will be some cars going from the Museum at 10:30am.

It is free to join (though donations are very much appreciated) and everyone is welcome so please come along!

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Join us for one of our fascinating guided coach trips to Penmaenmawr Quarry where you’ll explore the history of quarrying on the uplands from prehistoric times to modern day.

The trip is on Thursday, August 22nd, 2019 and is open to everyone. Meet at the Museum at 6pm prompt. There will be refreshments at Penmaenmawr Community Centre afterwards.

Tickets are £12 each.

Please purchase tickets in advance by visiting:
www.penmaenmawrmuseum.co.uk/shop
or if you would like to purchase tickets directly from the museum, please email:
queries@penmaenmawrmuseum.co.uk

Join us for a gentle, guided walk around Penmaenmawr town highlighting Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone’s connection with Pen. We are meeting at 11am at Penmaenmawr Museum on Saturday 10th August, it is free and everyone is welcome to come along.

Join us for a pleasant circular walk with sea views exploring Tyddyn Du and Trwyn y Wylfa farms. Learn about the creation of the farms, the farming methods used in the past, the development of tourism and camping and caravan sites and the possible effects of the new roundabouts on the A55.

It is free to join and everyone is welcome. We will meet at Penmaenmawr Museum at 12 noon on Saturday, July 6th 2019. We will be walking back along Conway Old Road so please drop in at Noddfa's Garden Fete which is on the same day.

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Join us for one of our fascinating guided coach trips to Penmaenmawr Quarry where you’ll explore the history of quarrying on the uplands from prehistoric times to modern day.

The trip is on Thursday, June 20th, 2019 and is open to everyone. Meet at the museum at 6pm prompt. There will be refreshments at Penmaenmawr Community Centre afterwards.

Tickets are £12 each.

Please purchase tickets in advance by visiting:
www.penmaenmawrmuseum.co.uk/shop
or if you would like to purchase tickets directly from the museum, please email:
queries@penmaenmawrmuseum.co.uk

Join us for a guided walk exploring the life of Sir Albert Evans Jones CBE, known by his bardic name ‘Cynan’, and his time in Penmaenmawr as a Minister. Cynan was an influential literary figure. He was the only person to have been elected as Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod twice and the first Archdruid to accept that the Gorsedd was the invention of Iolo Morganwg and that it had no links to antiquity or ‘ancient druids’.

Meet at Penmaenmawr Museum at 12 noon on Saturday June 1st, 2019. It will be a gentle guided stroll. It is free to join and everyone is welcome!

It’s time to get those boots on and join us for the first history walk of the season!

We’re starting with a short walk from Penmaenmawr Museum to Noddfa. We’ll explore the grounds and you’ll hear stories about the people who lived there, from its well-to-do owners to those who were escaping persecution during WWI.

If you'd like to join us for this walk, please meet at Penmaenmawr Museum: 12.30pm on Saturday May 4th.

Vicky MacDonald of the Deganwy History Group is giving her brilliant talk ‘Crossing the Conwy’ at Penmaenmawr Community Centre on Wednesday, April 17th at 7.30pm. Before the talk there will be a short AGM for the Penmaenmawr Historical Society & Museum.

Entry is free for Penmaenmawr Historical Society and Museum members and is £2 for non-members. If you want to join then click on the ‘BECOME A MEMBER’ button at the bottom of the page.

As usual there will be tea, coffee, biscuits and a raffle on the night. Everyone is welcome!

Image is Conway Bridge. Floating of second tube, September, 1848 by Hawkins, George, the younger 1819-1852 lithographer and was digitised by The National Library of Wales.

Dinah Evans is an Honorary Research Associate of Bangor University. She is also a member of the committee of Women's Archive Wales. Her particular field of interest is the impact of the two world wars on Wales and Welsh society. Come and hear her talk ‘Welsh Women's Responses to the First World War’ at Penmaenmawr Community Centre on Wednesday, March 20th at 7.30pm.

Entry is free for Penmaenmawr Historical Society and Museum members and is £2 for non-members. If you want to join then click on the ‘BECOME A MEMBER’ button at the bottom of the page.

As usual there will be tea, coffee, biscuits and a raffle on the night. Everyone is welcome!

A number of families had a major effect on industry in North Wales, amongst them The Pennants, the Oakeleys and of course the Darbishires at Penmaenmawr. Come along to Penmaenmawr Community Centre on Wednesday, February 20th at 7.30pm and hear Mike Blackburn’s fascinating talk ‘Industrial Families of North Wales’.

Entry is free for Penmaenmawr Historical Society and Museum members and is £2 for non-members. If you want to join then click on the ‘BECOME A MEMBER’ button at the bottom of the page.

As usual there will be tea, coffee, biscuits and a raffle on the night and everyone is welcome!

Local author and historian Adrian Hughes has undertaken years of research to produce the 40 page illustrated booklet called ‘The First World War in the Borough of Conwy’. Come and hear his talk on the subject ‘Sappers, Bantams and Pals - Conwy, Deganwy & Llandudno Junction in WWI‘ at Penmaenmawr Community Centre on Wednesday, January 16th, 2019 at 7.30pm.

Entry is free for Penmaenmawr Historical Society and Museum members and is £2 for non-members. If you want to join then click on the ‘BECOME A MEMBER’ button at the bottom of the page.

As usual there will be tea, coffee, biscuits and a raffle on the night and everyone is welcome!

Penmaenmawr Historical Society's evening talk for November is entitled 'The Royal Charter Disaster - Moelfre 1859' and will be given by Peter Day.

It is at Penmaenmawr Community Centre on Wednesday, 21st November starting at 7.30pm and everyone is invited to come along. Entry is free for PHS&M members (membership is £10) and £2 for non-members. There will tea, coffee, biscuits and a raffle.

Banner image held by and is used with permission of the Brisbane John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland.

The first Penmaenmawr Historical Society talk of the 2018/19 Autumn/Winter season is entitled 'The Pennants of Penrhyn in Jamaica - Wales & Slavery' and will be given by Dr Marian Gwyn, a heritage specialist who worked for the National Trust for nearly 20 years.

It will be a fascinating evening and everyone is welcome to come along. The talk starts 7.30 pm on Wednesday, October 17th upstairs at Penmaenmawr Community Centre. Entry is free to Penmaenmawr Historical Society Members (membership is £10 per year) and £2 for non-members. 

Image is 'Penrhyn Castle between 1890 and 1900'
By Photochrom Print Collection - Library of Congress Catalog: http://lccn.loc.gov/2001703418,
Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=33180664

The Carneddau is a special and varied landscape. A partnership of organisations is developing a project to help people discover, record, care for and celebrate the Carneddau with the help of funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund. The project area includes the high mountains as well as the settlement fringes and valleysides around them.

Penmaenmawr Museum is hosting a consultation drop-in for Snowdonia National Park's Carneddau Project. It is at the Museum and is open Saturday, October 6th from 12 noon until 7pm - please call by and share your ideas. 

As promised we have re-scheduled the Pendyffryn Hall talk and walk. PLEASE NOTE that the talk will be at 11am on Saturday, 1st September and will be at the nearby St Gwynin's Parish Church.

Come along and hear about the fascinating history of Pendyffryn Hall including its time as a TB sanatorium. Weather permitting we hope to show the location of the hall and if possible to pop into the hall itself. As always everyone is welcome to join us and it is free to enter (donations to the museum much appreciated).

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Penmaenmawr Museum have organised a guided coach trip to the top of Penmaenmawr Quarry. Learn about the history of quarrying in Penmaenmawr and enjoy great views of the quarry, over the sea and towards the Carneddau Mountains.

The trip is on Thursday, August 23rd and is open to everyone. The coach will leave the museum at 6.30pm and there will be refreshments back at the museum afterwards.

Tickets are £10 and can be bought from the museum and through our website.

********** We are really sorry but we have had to postpone this Pendyffryn Walk. We hope to re-arrange it for a date in September. **********

Come along and hear about the fascinating history of Pendyffryn Hall in Penmaenmawr. Who stayed at the Hall? Why did the owners have a private halt on the main railway? Where was the grand lodge?

Weather permitting there will be a short, guided short walk around the Hall and Park.

Meet in the Coffee Lounge at Pendyffryn Hall at 10:30 am on Sunday, August 5th. We should be finished by about noon. It's open to everyone and it's free to enter (donations to the museum much appreciated).

Our next guided walk will be on Saturday, 4th August and will be a gentle walk along Penmaenmawr Promenade and will feature a history of the prom and also take in Plas Mawr.

We will meet at 12 noon at the museum at the Old Post Office, Pant yr Afon (opposite the old Mountain View Hotel). The walk is free to enter, is open to everyone and there will be tea, coffee & biscuits back at the museum afterwards.

On Saturday, July 14th at 12 noon, Penmaenmawr Museum are hosting a guided walk highlighting places shown on the Dwygyfylchi Tithe Map of 1847 and the Cynefin Project.

It will be a short, guided, circular walk of about an hour and a half beginning and ending at St. Gwynin's Church in Dwygyfylchi. All are welcome and it is free to enter (donations to the museum greatly appreciated). A map/leaflet of the route will be provided. Dogs are welcome if under control.

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Penmaenmawr Museum have organised a guided coach trip to the top of Penmaenmawr Quarry. Learn about the history of quarrying in Penmaenmawr and enjoy great views of the quarry, over the sea and towards the Carneddau Mountains.

The trip is on Thursday, June 21st and is open to everyone. The coach will leave the museum at 6.30pm and there will be refreshments back at the museum afterwards.

Tickets are £10 and can be bought from the museum.

Penmaenmawr Museum is hosting a guided walk entitled The Road to Non-Conformity which will be take in some of Penmaenmawr's many chapels and churches and highlight some of the reasons for the rise of non-conformity. It will be a gentle walk of about 2 miles on the flat, heading west from the museum towards Penmaenan. There will be tea, coffee and biscuits at the museum afterwards.

It's on Saturday 9th June, starting from the museum at 12 noon. It is open to everyone and is free to join so come along!!

Join us for a pleasant, guided walk and learn about some of Penmaenmawr's many churches and chapels and some champions of politics and industry with Penmaenmawr connections. We will walk up along Conway Old Road and end up at St Gwynin's Church in Dwygyfylchi.

The walk is free to join, will start from Penmaenmawr Museum in Pantyrafon at 12 noon on Saturday, May 5th and it will be about 3 miles in length and last a couple of hours. We will come back to the Museum afterwards and there will be tea, coffee and biscuits.

You are invited to our monthly gatherings every first Tuesday of the month for a time of reminiscing and exploring a different theme each time with light refreshments and a raffle. There is a wealth of archive film and photo materials at the Museum but feel free to bring along your own photos and memorabilia.

The next Hiraeth is on Tuesday, May 1st from 2pm to 4pm. Entry is free and there is transport available, please get in touch for details.