Bronze Age Palstave (axe) found on the mountainside at
Cwmtillery by Cll Bill
Deasy 30th July 1956
The Abertillery & District
Museum Society has been in existence since 1964. It collects, catalogues and
interprets archaeological and social history material relating to the
communities of the Ebbw Fach valley, namely Abertillery, Cwmtillery, Blaenau
Gwent, Six Bells, Aberbeeg, Brynithel, Llanhilleth and Swffryd.
The museum
is an independent museum run entirely by volunteers, and has provisional
registration with the Council of Museums in Wales.
The collection is
displayed in the old Market Hall of the Metropole Building, Market St
Abertillery |
Farming tools a
reminder of the pre-industrial age
The Society's collection ranges from
prehistoric and Roman material to artefacts made and collected during the
miner's strike of 1984/5, and include objects, photographs, drawings, models,
paintings, geological specimens and items of costume. More recent material
covers the impact of the World Wars on civilian life and the role played by
local people in the services and war time industries, the Six Bells mining
disasterof 1960, the miner's strike of 1984 and the final demise of the coal
industry. |
A room set aside as a
miner's kitchen filled with gadgets of a bygone age. Other exhibits contain a
laundry area, school, railway and Webbs Brewery at Aberbeeg |
Blaenau
Gwent Women's Support Group Banner
made during the 1984/5 Miners
Strike |
Church,
Nonconformist, Friendly Societies and other organisations are represented in
the displays |
A Spinning
demonstration by ladies in National Dress during a St David's Day Coffee
Morning at the museum |
Home Guard, Women's
Voluntary Service, Fire Service
and Civil Defence (A R P) display. |
Coffee morning at the museum. |
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