40th anniversary presentation ver 6

Cymdeithas Ddinesig Bro Porthaethwy

Menai Bridge and District Civic Society

40th Anniversary Celebrations and Archive

CROESO WELCOME







Established in February 1973

First Committee

President Lady Anglesey

Chairman Iwan ap Thomas

Secretary Trevor Morgan

Vice Chairman Cyril Beck Jones

Treasurer David Senogles

Press Officer Mrs. Gillian Coates

Visit to Archives, Llangefni, 29th Oct. 2013 to view WM-1747-1, notes

made by Jane Cherrett.

February 1973 The Constitution of the Menai Bridge

and District Civic Society. A4 document

1975-76 Menai Bridge Civic Society and the Bridge Celebration

Committee working hard on the 150th Anniversary of the opening of the

Suspension Bridge

1976 Jan 24th-31st week long celebrations for the 150th Anniversary. Civic Soc idea

to floodlight the bridge. Finance to do it came from the Welsh Office. Councillor

Thomas O Jones Chairman of Gwynedd Highways Committee switched on the flood

lights on the bridge. at 6pm on Friday 23rd Jan. and the Telford Exhibition at the

Tegfryn Gallery was opened on Jan 24th by Prof. Sir Norman Rowntree, President of

the Institution of Civil Engineers. entry 10p adults, seniors & children 5p. Mr. Robert

Brown, (Museum of Childhood) selling a Souvenir Programme. Grand dinner

organised, fancy dress ball, play performance in Theatr Gwynedd, commemorative

plates ordered.




After the 150th Anniversary a Thomas Telford Trust was

set up. This to be a charitable trust to perpetuate the memory of Thomas Telford, engineer

and architect and creator of the Menai suspension bridge across the strait. Objectives

a) the advancement of education in civil engineering and architecture b) to promote

knowledge of the public in ecology of the area. Trustees, 2 persons from MB& District

Civic Society, 2 from Town Council, 2 from Isle of Ang. County Council, 2 from

governing body of David Hughes School. from Civic Soc,were I ap Thomas and David

Senogles and Trevor Morgan. from Town Council John Meirion Davies, Ann Roberts and

H.Glyn Jones.

Town Council later agreed to set up a Telford Room, but Cllr. Alwyn Owens 'could not

see much value in such a project'.




Dec. 1976 Start of Telford Prize, to David Hughes School. awarded annually to the most promising GCE A Level pupil who is intending to pursue a higher level course in Engineering, Physics or Maths at Univ. or Polytechnic. 1976 A Miss Wendy J.M. Puller of 84, Cleveland Rd. Ealing, wrote to say her gt.grandfather was involved in building the bridge and she wishes to bequeath an oil painting of him. His name........ Cooper, it is 4'x4' in a gold frame. His grandson was killed in WWI, her brother killed in WW2, she has no descendents to leave it to. March 1977 Thomas Telford Trust looking at Princes Pier, wanted to get the tenancy on the Pier Master's House in order to establish a permanent exhibition.




Now Trustees of Thomas Telford Trust were David

Senogles Chair, Trevor Morgan Sec. Mr.Idris Davies former clerk to Angl

C.C., Mr.N. Squire Johnson former architect and chief planning officer Ang.C.C.,

Dr.Jim Davies Principal, Bangor Normal College., H.Glyn Jones MBTown Council,

Mrs. Ann Roberts deputy Mayor MBTC, John Meirion Davies MBTC, and Mr. I. ap

Thomas Architect and Chairman MBCivic Soc.




1981 An executive committee called to the home of sec.

Trevor Morgan to consider a request for TT Trust

monies to help set up a Marine and History Museum at

the old John Edwards warehouse. Mike Gash prepares an A4 document with detailed drawings of how the building would

be used, with aquarium, lecture theatre,exhibits etc. Letter from Dr.Tom Pritchard of

NCC saying the Telford Trust has just over £300 in cash, and therefore unable to

establish a Telford Museum with this sort of opening capital.




BRIDGE CELEBRATIONS 1976.

BRIDGE CELEBRATION POSTER January 1976

a) Archbishop of Wales preaches.

b) Celebration at Theatr Gwynedd.

c) Fancy dress ball . Y.D.H.

d) Re-enactment of Last Ferry & First Bridge Crossing.

e) Cavalcade ‘Transport through the Ages.’

M.B. Civic Society were instrumental in arranging for the bridge to be floodlit. (Letter March 1975)







How we were, how we wish to be remembered?

CROESO WELCOME



40th Anniversary Celebrations

Awards







Informing




Informing Programme

25 Sept Mike Bowyer – Historic Shipwrecks off the Welsh coast

30 Oct David Price – The George Hotel – Bangor Ferry

27 Nov Mike Blackburn – The Afon Glaslyn from source to sea

2010

22Jan Wing Commander Sophy Gardner – RAF Valley & the

station’s role in communicating with the public

12 Feb ANNUAL DINNER at the Anglesey Arms, guest speaker

Medwyn Williams ‘From Paradise to Chelsea’

26 Feb Professor Ernest Naylor – Marine Science in Menai Bridge

26 March Meirion Evans - The Hafod Eryri Project

23 April Kathryn Pritchard Gibson – The History of the house of the

Llywelyns

21 May AGM speaker from The Joint Service Mountain Training

Centre Indefatigable

Summer outings to be announced in the April newsletter



40th Anniversary Celebrations and

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Series of talks

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Annual Dinner and

Special Guest Speaker, Prof. David Crystal, OBE, FLSW, FBA

11thth February 2011







Visit to Peny y Bryn, Abergwyngregyn







Archive

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Safeguarding




Memories




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Planning

Porth y

Wrach

Tyddyn

Mostyn

George V

Recreation

Playing Fields




DEVELOPMENT IN MENAI BRIDGE

PROGRESS OR OVER - DEVELOPMENT?

COME AND HAVE YOUR SAY

A Public Meeting will be held a t

Menai Bridge War Memorial Community Centre

Water Street, Menai Bridge

on

15th October, 2010

at

7.30pm Is anyone monitoring the overall effect of these developments on Menai

Bridge, eg on traffic, infrastructure, green spaces?

If you have ever thought - Why did they allow that? Come to the meeting and have your say.




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instrumental in

arranging for

the bridge to

be floodlit.




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