Peter Alexander

The Chiddicks Observer Edition 32 Welcome to another inspiring edition of The Chiddicks Observer!

Absolutely. @hellohistoria.bsky.social is briliant.

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Search continues for Bronze Age artefacts stolen from St Fagans - BBC News Two men have been charged with burglary, but "invaluable" items are still missing from St Fagans collection.

Every museum object is important but these are the cultural soul of Amgueddfa Cymru / National Museum of Wales. A representation of the beating heart of a nation.

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in short:

if you're looking for love, get your nuts out by the fire.

'Remember, remember the 5th of November!' 🔥

These are thought to be the earliest photographs of a bonfire.

These photographs were taken in 1853 by John Dillwyn Llewelyn at Penllergare in Swansea 📷

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#Wales #BonfireNight #History

Aberystwyth named Wales' first Unesco City of Literature The town and Ceredigion county was chosen due to its

This should make for an interesting year.

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I know this is getting shared a lot, but it did need saying.

Swt is indeed doing his best!

Sometimes the effort is worth it, sometimes not. It's a struggle not to overheat.

Why would they need to publicise this event?

All I can say is that I totally empathise. Been there.

Graveyard visiting down the ConwyValley. St Peter's Church, Llanbedr-y-Cennin

Hard not to see the first episode of #taskmaster series 20 as Reece Shearsmith's audition to be the next Doctor Who.

I have two new classes starting next week freethrough Adult Learning Wales to people who live in Wales.

Monday September 8th in Llangefni.
Creative Writing 10am-12pm
and
Write Your First Novel 1pm to 3pm.

www.adultlearning.wales/course/56712...

www.adultlearning.wales/course/56715...

It's so you that you created something that would grow and be brilliant. Grief is the price we pay for love.

Rachel, who is this open to attend?

Their stories are more important than their faces. When I was last at Anglesey Archives I found the story of a man arrested for drunk and disorderly in 1882 in Menai Bridge. His name was umgoyzo and he was a Zulu.

Melting!

We're so excited to welcome artist Luned Rhys Parri to our summer programme this year!

FREE activity for children and families
Make your own painted teapots

Wednesday 13th August 2025
at Eden Hall Garden, Penmaenmawr

Drop in anytime between
11am and 4pm

It's an omen!

advert for Bad Squiddo Games showing Annie (me!), an artwork of a Pulp explorer by maritn whitmore, a shieldmaiden, soviet spotter, vampire queen and jeanne de clisson on a horse.

Could you help us out? It's been one of the quietest months in a decade, and partly I believe it's because people don't know we exist! Hi! I'm Annie! I run Bad Squiddo Games! We hand sculpt & hand cast 28mm scale models of women, critters, scenics & occasionally a man!

www.badsquiddogames.com

Ah, a perfect opportunity to share my 2 new paintings! (Just a fun, silly little personal project) 🐸 #frog #sciart

Sunset. #longestday #litha #wales

Community Asset Transfer case study: Galeri Caernarfon | GOV.WALES Galeri Caernarfon Cyf is a not for private profit community enterprise operating as a development trust in the historic town of Caernarfon in Gwynedd.

It misses mention of fact that not-for-profit Galeri was one of the main drivers of that town's regeneration in the 90s & 2000s. Agree we need more 'regeneration companies', and this one (a @archhfund.org.uk #heritagedevelopmentrust) is well worth learning lessons from www.gov.wales/community-as....

Vintage postcard depicting a street scene with the Menai Café visible, a horse-drawn carriage, and several pedestrians, set in a quaint town with lush trees and a distant church spire.

If you'd visited Menai Bridge in the early 1900s, you might have popped into the Menai Café for a panad. We wonder if the passenger in the horse and cart did the same? 🍵

For more photographs and postcards like this, visit Anglesey Archives gallery. 👇
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Another amazing museum item. 19th Century silver jewellery box in the form of a fish by K.P. Thakur & Bros, H. Kharagpur, Monghyr, India. Every scale and fin articulates. #wales #museum #colonialism #arwap

Most museums have a WW2 gas mask... but colonial links? Yes. Made from Malayan rubber, Egyptian/Indian cotton, Australian/Canadian asbestos in the filters. No Empire, no gas masks. #wales #museums #colonialism

Yes. As I reported on these collections, and as the reports were for the museums only, there's going to be "no names no packdrill" on these posts.

For the last few years I've been delving into Welsh museums fora project on collections linked to Empire, Slavery and Colonisation. Loads of interesting stuff.

This manila was made from Welsh copper. It was used as ballast in ships then as money to buy enslaved Africans.
#museums #wales #slavery

They always do. Beautiful foxgloves... lovely deadly Digitalis...