Welcome to the Tonyrefail History and Folklore Society
We are a society who has an interest in learning and promoting awareness about Tonyrefail’s rich heritage of History and Folklore. The society itself was founded by local people who carry a true love of both our History and traditions The Society aids in promoting further understanding through research and naturally education. Richard Blackburnsociety chairman
details of our next meeting are coming soon...
MEMBERHSIPWe welcome membership from anyone with an interest in the history and folklore of Tonyrefail. we have several different forms of membership, standard for those in Ton who want to attend meetings, postal for those who cannot attend meetings and internet for those away from Ton who still want to keep in tocuh with our history and folklore. for further information and benefits of membership please come to one of our monthly meetings, or download the memebership documents from the memebrship page
SOCIETY FORUMSThe Society has two forums hosted on the tonyrefail.org forums, one is a general forum for information on the society, its meetings and general history and folklore. the second forum is a private forum exclusive to society memebers to discuss society matters.
A view of Mill Street taken from the Square
SOCIETY NEWS
february meetingwe have now had the booking confirmed for our february meeting and it will go ahead on 17th february with a special video presentation from www.tonyrefail.orgjanuary meeting postponedunfortunately after the double booking problems in november we decided to postpone januarys meeting until we get a confirmed booking from the clubjanuary meetingthis january our meeting will feature a two hour video presentation of old photos of tonyrefail set to a soundtrack of songsfrom classic welsh singers and choirsmy ties with Tonyrefailsociety member Roger Pope has written a lovely article decribing his historical ties with Tonyrefail, click HERE to see his storyonline membership paymentwe are now able to accept payments online for memberships, click HERE for detailsNovember guest speaker confirmedwe have a guest speaker for Novembers meeting, the head of fishing and hunting collection at St Fagans will be giving us a talk on old fishing techniques
