A VISIT to the People’s Collection Wales is a must for history lovers.

The website has been created for anyone to upload photographs, recordings and documents that hold stories about Wales.

Support and training can also be offered for those interested in digitising large collections and community projects linked to the culture and heritage of Wales.

Funded by the Welsh Government, this innovative project and website is run in a partnership by the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales, the National Library of Wales and National Museum Wales.

There are many interesting images to be found on the site, such as this one.

According to the website, the photograph shows the unveiling of a plaque in the wall at Ffynnon Llewelyn farm, Rhydowen.

The plaque pays tribute to one of the leaders who organised to go to America on the 29 October 1876 after the ‘Troad Allan’.

It was loaned for copying by Alf Thomas (Fronwen). Alf’s grandfather is on far right (with beard).

Jenkin (Siencyn) Lloyd Jones was turned out from Llwynrhydowen chapel and his family had to emigrate to America.

In the photo are members of Hen Gapel, the minister of the new chapel (Jenkins) and five other ministers.

Fronwen was a smallholding where the people were also ‘evacuated’.

The plaque reads: “Yn y ty hwn Tachwedd 14 eg 1843 y Ganwyd Jenkin Lloyd-Jones Pregethwr y Fydd Rydd yn Chicago cosodwyd y Daflen hon Gan Gyfeillion [iddo fe] fel Teyrnged 1922.”

This translates as: “In this house on the 14th November 1843 Jenkin Lloyd-Jones was born. Preacher of the free faith in Chicago. This plaque was put up by his friends as a tribute to him in 1922.”

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