People’s Collection Wales

For anyone who watched Roy Noble’s First Click on BBC TV (BBC2) at 7.00pm this evening (Wednesday 10 November 2010), in which Roy ventured out of his Radio Wales studio to find out how people around Wales are using their computers to indulge in their interests and passions, mention of the website People’s Collection Wales particularly caught both my eyes and ears.

Having just saved you having to search through the 985 or so images relating to Swansea (and area)  –  searchable over 330 pages!  –  I have discovered that of the images relating to Pennard and Area, most are for Pennard Castle and for Gower Heritage Centre at Parkmill , although other images of features in and around the area are to be found on the site.

Images I have noted (up to 10 November 2010) are as follows;-

PENNARD CASTLE

• Penarth castle, Oxwich bay, Glamorganshire (A view of two figures walking along road to Pennard Castle)
• Pen arth castle (A view of the ruins of Pennard Castle with cattle grazing in the foreground)
• The north east view of Pennarth castle, in the county of Glamorgan (A view of the ruins of Pennard Castle with Oxwich bay in the background and numerous ships in the sea)
• RCAHMW colour transparency of a general view of Pennard Castle
• RCAHMW colour transparency showing view of Pennard Castle, taken by Iain Wright, c.1991

GOWER HERITAGE CENTRE, PARKMILL

• Park Mill, Ilston, Gower; photo survey comprising seventeen black and white photographs taken by Rex Wailes, 1966, 5 images of which can be viewed here, here, here, here and here

OTHER IMAGES

• Extract from the Manorial Court Rolls of Oystermouth & Pennard, 1662-76
• RCAHMW digital photographic survey of Vennaway Limekiln, taken by David Leighton, 17/12/2006
• Slide of RCAHMW colour oblique aerial photograph of Parc Le Breos Burial Chamber; Parc Cwm Long Cairn, taken by C.R. Musson, 29/3/1994
• RCAHMW digital photographic survey of Cathole Cave, Parkmill, taken by David Leighton, 19/09/2006

As and when more images are added to the People’s Collection Wales website I hope to include them on the Pennard & Area Local History’s own site(s).  If in the meantime you have any images relating to Pennard & Area which may be of interest, then perhaps you might consider adding them to both this website as well as to the People’s Collection Wales site.

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