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Monday to Friday 12.00 – 15.00
Saturday and Sunday 11.00 – 16.00
There is no admission charge but donations are always welcome.
The Museum will re-open on Saturday 16th April (Easter Saturday) with a great new Exhibition on Slate and the Making of Glyndyfrdwy Village. We will be telling the story of the families who earned their living from slate and how the village grew from a scattering of farms and smallholdings. As part of the display our volunteers are building a replica slate mine with sound and light to give a fully immersive experience.
Opening times will be:-
Monday to Friday 12.00 – 15.00
Saturday and Sunday 11.00 – 16.00
There is no admission charge but donations are always welcome.
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They were made from six corrugated iron sheets bolted together at the top, with steel plates at either end, and measured 6ft 6in by 4ft 6in. They were very effective at saving lives and preventing major injuries during air raids, but they were really cold during the winter months. Designed for six people, they were free to those with an annual income of less than £250, (The average salary at that time was £200.) For those who didn’t fall into this category, the price was £7.
Come and see our reconstructed Anderson Shelter at Corwen Museum. Set in the old red brick chapel on the A5 in Corwen, our opening times are 11.00 am to 4.00 pm Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Do come and see the small space, hear the war time radio news broadcasts and popular music. Then stay a while to see the model railway and the other treasures we have!
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Our trip on 17th July was to the home of the Welsh Poet, Hedd Wyn, at Yr Ysgwrn, Trawsfynydd. This place is really special and we were very moved to see the “Cadair Ddu”, the Birkenhead National Eisteddfod Chair that Hedd Wyn won posthumously in 1917 only a few weeks after his death at Passchendaele. We were also moved by the photographs of the other young men from Trawsfynydd who died during the First World War. We have done a similar project around the young men of Edeyrnion who are remembered on our War Memorials, some of whom would have known and maybe have served with Hedd Wyn in the Royal Welch Fusiliers.
21st June 2018
A group of our volunteers visited the Ironworks at Bersham, Wrexham, followed by a tour of the North East Wales 100 Objects Exhibition at Wrexham Museum and the Wrexham Archives. The day was a great success and we came back with a better understanding of the process of iron manufacture and the natural elements found in that locality that made Bersham so successful. The Archivist at Wrexham Museum gave us a lot of useful information about how we should be protecting the records and photographs in our collection and we will be putting this into practice. Everyone enjoyed the 100 Objects Exhibition which included a Corwen Eisteddfod Chair and Llangollen Railway headboard from our collection.
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Our thanks go to the Heritage Lottery Fund which has helped us to finance the exhibitions and to all the volunteers who have worked to set it up and continue to
work as stewards.
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The first exhibition will be held to coincide with the first passenger trains coming into Corwen since the Beeching cuts. There will be displays to tell the story of the restoration of the line from Llangollen, as well as an exhibition of the history of the train in the Corwen area.
The second exhibition will coincide with the Walking Festival in August and will be describing in pictures the walking heritage of Edeyrnion and the Dee Valley.
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