Remembering
1918 - Peace
at Last
Pontyclun Community Council is working with our community
in offering a series of events throughout November to remember 1918
Y Pant
School
At 5.15 there will be Music and Drama from the young people
of YGGG Llantrisant and Y Pant.
At 6.30 I will give a short talk on 1918, with film exerts.
I aim to provoke a discussion by arguing that the war and the peace treaty were
avoidable disasters that shaped so many of the catastrophes of the following
100 years – Hitler, Iraq, Syria, Palestine, the Balkans, the Irish Border,
Brexit. It also heralded so many of our achievements including votes for women
and working men. Come along and give your point of view. The event is free.
Tickets are available at the Library but you are welcome without tickets.
Sunday
11 November
Remembrance
Services
11.00 am at the War Memorials in Pontyclun and Miskin with
a service at St Paul’s Church at 9.30 am. Our thanks to Denise Ellis and all
others who work each year to organise these important services.
Monday
12 November
Walking
to Remember 1918
At 10 am at St Paul’s Church you are all welcome to join
the U3A walking group when Edgeley Thomas leads us on a walk through Pontyclun,
Brynsadler and Talygarn. We will point out all the reminders of Pontyclun in
1918 (the streets, schools, churches, chapels and factories) as well as noting
the homes of some of those who died in the war.
Monday
12 November
Afternoon
Tea
At 2.30 pm in Café 50 there will be an afternoon tea. A few
tickets are still available from Tara at the Community Centre Office.
Monday
19 November
U3A
At 1 pm in the Community Centre Talygarn Resident, Peter
Cox will give a talk on ‘My Life as a Spy’. He will trace the British
Intelligence Service back to the First World War. Peter’s Talk will be preceded
by a lunch of dishes prepared with recipes of 1918.
The October U3A meeting was addressed by Dr Ritchie Wood
who gave a brilliantly illustrated talk on the role of women in the First World
War as they worked on the battlefield, in the police service, in the factories
and on the farms. We learned how in 1918 women were told by the Government, the
newspapers, the trade unions and even by aristocratic leadership of the suffragettes
to get back into their homes and kitchens.
Giles
Gallery and Pontyclun Library
From the end of October Giles Gallery is hosting an
exhibition of lithographs commissioned by the British Government in 1917 to
improve morale among the war weary. In Pontyclun Library there will lithographs
showing the work of women and men at home and at war.
Saturday
4 November
Songs,
Poems and Pints
At 7.30 pm at the Athletic Club there will be an evening
when all of Pontyclun finest musicians, singers, choristers and poets are
coming together to enjoy an evening of remembering 1918. Anyone who misses this
evening will regret it! It will be great fun as well as poignant. Tickets, £5,
are available from me and form the Community Council Offices.
Saturday
1 December
Pontyclun
Christmas Festival
On 1 December, starting at 12 noon, at the Athletic Club
there is will be a Christmas Market inside the Club when local traders and
crafters will be able to sell you every Christmas gift you can imagine. In the
car park of the Athletic Club there will be fairground rides and a variety
of food stalls.
There will be a music stage. There will be festive music
from the choirs of Pontyclun Primary School and YGGG Llantrisant, Callenig folk
band, the RCT woodwind band, the Ukeladies band, Cantorian Pontyclun and the
pantomime cast of St Paul’s Players.
Pontyclun’s Christmas lights will be turned on at 5.30,
after which the music stage will rock!
Trains
Train users will have noticed that Transport for Wales, backed
by Welsh Government and Keolis Amey, are now providing our trains. We wish them
well and look forward to the promised newer and bigger trains arriving over the
next few years as well as a more frequent Sunday service.
I spoke at the Conference in Cardiff which launched the new
service. I argued hard that it was not good enough to continue with just one
train an hour at the Pontyclun, Llanharran and Pencoed stations – when almost
all other stations in South Wales would have two or four trains an hour.
Llanharran and Pontyclun Labour members have met to
consider a joint way forward. We will be meeting with Assembly Members, MP’s
and Ministers. We will be asking for your support as we campaign for more
trains.
Walking Football / Rugby
We are looking to see how many people in the area would be
interested in taking part in Walking Football or Walking Rugby.
These fast growing sports are ideal ways to improve your health
and make friends. All ages and abilities can take part.
If you are interested please contact The Community Council who are
co-ordinating this on 01443 238500 or by e-mail at clerk@pontyclun-cc.gov.wales
Councillor Paul Griffiths
Chair
Pontyclun Community Council
Councillor Paul Griffiths
Chair
Pontyclun Community Council
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