THE latest community news from Tywyn

History society

THE society has mounted a preview exhibition at Tywyn Library of its Lottery-funded Town Trail featuring templates of the display boards, leaflets and original commissioned artwork.

This provided an opportunity for residents and visitors to add comments and suggestions prior to manufacture. The society thanks all who attended (including a party of teachers and students from Ysgol Uwchradd Tywyn) for their support and the library staff for their hospitality. The society now looks forward to the completion of the project and the planned opening ceremony on 13 July.

At their meeting on 20 May the speaker, David Mitchell, president of the Talyllyn Railway, gave a comprehensive account of the railway’s history from its industrial roots to its present position as a celebrated national attraction – a wonderful example of living history and a major asset for Tywyn.

After the break, Warwick Hawkins, director of Faith in Society, who had travelled up from London to attend the meeting, told members about their plans for an oral history project to profile the work of the many volunteers who helped in the reception and temporary resettlement of the Ugandan Asian refugees at Tonfanau (and four camps in southern England) in 1972/73. His proposal describing how the history society might assist in the project was well received and it was agreed that this was something with which the society would like to be involved.

Summer trips to Penrhyn, Holywell and Harlech were discussed as well as a visit to view the Town Trail by members of Harlech Historical Society to take place on 30 July.

The next meeting will be on Monday, 17 June at 7pm in the Baptist Church, when the society will welcome Dylan Foster Evans, a native of Tywyn, now head of Welsh Studies at Cardiff University. His subject will be ‘Poets and their Patrons in and around Tywyn’.

Hearing aid clinic

THE next ‘Walk-in’ session of the Betsi Cadwaladr Health Board Volunteer Hearing Aid Clinic, will be held at Tywyn Baptist Church, on Thursday, 6 June, from 10am until noon.

If you consider that your hearing aid could work better if it was serviced, have a new battery or new dome fitted, then come along.

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