The Monmouthshire Merlin
The Monmouthshire Merlin
compiled by Malcolm Johnson
Real-life stories of Infamy, Industry, Blasphemy, Poetry, Obituary, and Miscellany…..
all taken from the dusty pages of the Monmouthshire Merlin as it reported life in the County (and the World) from 1829 to 1850. Malcolm Johnson has gathered this incredible range of snippets and reports from nearly 200 years ago, reading them will make you wonder just how much has life changed over those years.
Price: £3.00
54 pages published by Oxford House Industrial History Society
The Cwmcarn Dam Disaster
The Cwmcarn Dam Disaster
by Tony Jukes
This excellent account of the infamous Cwmcarn Dam Disaster of 1875 was written by Tony Jukes. This 72 page is illustrated throughout with drawings, photographs, and maps. It tells the story of the background to the dam, the fateful day itself, the tragic conclusion, and the investigations that followed.
Price: £6.95
Published by Danygraig Books, 26 Danygraig, Machen, Caerphilly, CF83 8RF
A Miner’s Memories
A Miner’s Memories – Crumlin and the Navigation Colliery
by Albert V Clarke
Unforgettable stories of life, both below and above ground in Crumlin and the Navigation Colliery. Albert Clarke was one of the founder members of the Society and Tony Jukes has drawn the stories together in this book, illustrated with many photographs.
Price: £7.95
published by Danygraig Books, 26 Danygraig, Machen, Caerphilly, CF83 8RF
Abercarn Furnace
Abercarn Furnace – drawn by Michael Blackmore
From a careful study of the historical records, the society commissioned artist Michael Blackmore to draw the furnace and ironworks as it would have appeared in the 1770s. A copy of a limited edition of 50 of this print, size: 42 x 53 cm, is available direct from the society.
Price: £10.00 + p&p Abercarn Furnace drawn by Michael Blackmore
The Risca Merlin
The Risca Merlin is the Society’s periodical journal with up to 26 pages in A5 format, containing short articles produced by OHIHS members.
Britannia Foundry, Risca
Extracts from the Monmouthshire Merlin
Risca’s Coptic Church
Watkin George – Untutored Engineer
The Park Forge to Lower Trosnant Aqueduct
Coxe, An Early Traveller
Risca in 1843?
The Good Old Days
A Very Local Chartist Story
A Frightful and Fateful Accident
It’s All Old News
Back numbers are also available, see below.
Price: £1.50 + p&p
Contents of issue No 5, published in Autumn 2015
Look Back at Old Bedwas and Trethomas Vol.1 & Vol.2
Look Back at Old Bedwas and Trethomas Vol.1 & Vol.2
Derrick Jones, Gordon Maslen, and Tony Jukes (OHIHS archivist), of the Bedwas and Trethomas Local History Group, have jointly authored two volumes of ‘Look Back at Old Bedwas and Trethomas’, the first photographic history of that area, published in hardback by Old Bakehouse Publications of Abertillery.
Price: £15.50 each
Vol.1: 217 illustrations, ISBN 978-1-905967-05-6
Vol.2: 235 illustrations, ISBN 978-1-905967-23-0
Halls Tramroad
Halls Tramroad
Written by our late member Foster Frowen, the history of Benjamin Hall’s tramroad has been published in five parts in ‘Archive, The Quarterly Journal for British Industrial and Transport History’
(Issues 55, 56, 59, 60 & 66).
Price: £7.50 each
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For a copy of any of our publications, please send a cheque made payable to
‘OHIHS Treasurer’
to the following address
OHIHS Treasurer,
c/o Oxford House Education Centre,
Grove Road,
Risca
NP11 6GN
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