Summer Trips:-

Anyone interested in joining us should contact Elizabeth Morgan.

R.L.H.S. Programme & Events Organiser.

roathhistory@gmail.com

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YouTube Channel:-

We’ve just launched the Roath Local History Society YouTube channel. We had good fun making our first video. Hope you like it!

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Newsletter:

Our May newsletter is now available. It contains the follwoing article:-

‘The Care of the Wounded Soldier – an anatomy of a painting’ By Gareth Brown

Visit our Newsletter page to access previous copies of our Monthly Newsletter.

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Latest addition to our Roath Virtual War Memorial:

HERBERT CLIFFORD YOUNG

Rifleman, 8^th Battalion, King’s Royal Rifle Corps (Service Number: R/2623)

Herbert ‘Bertie’ Clifford Young was born on 22 Feb 1895 in Cardiff to Edwin John Young, a timber labourer, originally from Barnstable, Devon and Minnie Young nèe Adams, originally from Bristol.  He was baptised on 30 Mar 1895 at St Margaret’s church, Roath, when the family were living at 41 Mackintosh Place.  At the time of the 1901 census the family were living at 51 Arabella Street.  Bertie attended Albany Road School for boys and remained there until 1909 when he started work.  On the 1911 census, the family was living at 31 Porthkerry Road, Barry, with Minnie’s widowed mother and Bertie working was a railway engine cleaner.  He later worked at the Crown Patent Fuel Works in Roath Dock.  Bertie enlisted in Barry and arrived in France with his regiment on 21 Jul 1915.  He served as a Rifleman in the 8^th Battalion, King’s Royal Rifle Corps.  He was wounded in 1916 having served 14 months of active service and evacuated to Shepton Mallet Hospital, Somerset.   He was later moved to the Bristol War Hospital where he died on 22 May 1918, aged 23.  He is buried in Cathays Cemetery (grave J.105). He is remembered in Barry War Memorial Hall.  Commonwealth War Graves Commission record.

Facebook

You may like to consider joining our new Roath Local History Society Facebook group.  It is another way of sharing some of the fascinating history of the area and of advertising our society.

Just follow this link:   https://www.facebook.com/groups/roathlocalhistorysociety

You will be asked to answer one simple question on joining: ‘What city is Roath in?’  This may seem strange but it is to try and prevent robots joining the group.

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Society Background:

Roath is a suburb of Cardiff, the capital city of Wales. Our area of interest is not just Roath as we know it today but all areas that were in the ancient parish of Roath.  That includes the suburbs of Adamsdown, Splott, Tremorfa, Pengam, Plasnewydd, Penylan, parts of Cathays and Cyncoed as well as Roath itself.

Our lively and interesting meetings are held at 7.30pm on the second Wednesday of the month from September through to May.  See Programme for details.

We meet at  St Edward’s church, Westville Road, Pen-y-lan, Cardiff. CF23 5DE.

Annual membership is just £13 (membership form)  and visitors are welcome to attend any meeting for £3.

In June and July we undertake a series of trips to places of historic interest in both Cardiff and the wider South Wales area.

We are now over 40 years old. More information on our activities can be found on the  Society page. A Short History of Roath Local History Society has also recently been added and can be found on the Society page. 

We have published a number of books about Roath history.  These together with links to other books of interest can be found on the Publications page.

On our Links page we have listed websites that ma be of interest to people studying local history in the Cardiff and surrounding areas.

In our Local History section we have started to assemble articles on a whole range of topics connected to the old parish of Roath.

Finally, we draw your attention to our Blog.  We hope you enjoy the posts and having a wander around the website.

Thanks for visiting.