Down The Social with Owen Money In this 4-part series, Owen is joined by Ebbw Vale performer Mandy Starr to visit a number of different social clubs. The first episode is at the Merthyr Ex Servicemen’s Club on Monday 16th of September at 7.30 pm The second episode features Resolven Miners Welfare (Monday 23rd […]
Mother and daughter, Carwen Thomas and Ceri Holmes, faced each other in the Two Wood Final on Saturday. After a wonderful display of bowling skills from both players , Ceri won by one shot after an extra end needed to be played to decide the winner. Carwen, who has enjoyed a very […]
The squally showers and incessant rain associated with the death throes of Hurricane Dorian, which had last week devastated the Bahamas, had a similar effect on the attendance at this year’s AGM on Monday 9th September. The meeting was poorly attended owing to a combination of illness and late summer holidays. Fortunately a quorum was […]
Every year, we host an Historic Open Air Event, in the centre of Neath. It attracts crowds from far afield and is recognised as the fourth largest Chartered Street Trading Fair in the UK. This annual event has been going on in the busy centre of Neath for many hundreds of years […]
CLYNE FREE MISSION EVANGELICAL CHURCH Neath Road Clyne SA11 4BW 2019 HARVEST CELEBRATION ‘Give thanks to the Lord for He is good’ ———— Join us for our ———— HARVEST SERVICES Sunday SEPTEMBER 29th 11.00am & 6.00pm Speaker: Pastor Peter Mitchell (Clyne) AND Monday SEPTEMBER 30th at 7.00 pm Guest Speaker: Rev. Adrian Brake (Carmarthen […]
HARVEST THANKSGIVING Sardis Baptist Church will be holding Harvest Thanksgiving on Sunday 22nd 0f September. In the morning at 10 30 am there will be a Family Service and at 6 pm Sunday Worship. Afterwards, the produce from the Harvest will be shared between Neath Food Bank and Teen Challenge Drug Rehabilitation Centre in Gorslas. We […]
The recent August bank holiday was cause for great celebration in Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford. Thirty six people from the Resolven area travelled over to celebrate the baptism of Eira Monica Warren Day. Eira is daughter of Carl and Jen ,sister to Aoife and granddaughter of Hugh and Janice Day, Rugby Road . A beautiful service […]
This is something I wrote about My Old Pal William Willis… Memories of Childhood with “Willy Stamp” “Oye you two, be quiet! . I’m trying to do the balancing” It was Victor, William’s Dad and The Balancing wasn’t some sort of Circus act, but balancing the books, which he did every Friday […]
Play based on USW research explores ancient tale of Welsh saint A comedy drama based on research by a University of South Wales professor seeks to unravel the history of St Cadoc, the founder of Christianity in Wales. Cadoc and the Drowned Boys is a play written by award-winning playwright and director Vic Mills, inspired by […]
The Duck Race After much deliberation as to where to hold this year’s Duck Race it was decided we would try Clydach Brook that runs through the village of Resolven. To get down to the stream was not as easy as previous duck race venues having to climb over the railings, shimmy across the ledge […]
Ruth Jones, the indefatigable organiser of the annual Duck Race on Clydach Brook in Resolven and her super- efficient assistant Tracey Edwards, took a good look at the list of contestants. There were 400 of them quacking on the starting line and Ruth’s husband Hugh Jones had the mammoth task of launching them from the blue […]
The new Vale of Neath Medical Centre held an Open Day on the 14th of August, and our RDN photographer Mike Davies was there to take some pictures Mike joined members of the public who were given a tour of the building by a team from Swansea Bay University Health Board.. The entrance and waiting […]
A few images of the sunflowers at Rhossili— Aug 2nd 2019 Mike Davies RDN photographer