Ref NoHPR/152/36
Acc No5399
TitleAberporth Parish Records: Book of various correspondence and accounts from Aberporth Rectory
DescriptionVarious correspondence and details of Church accounts:

Includes copy report ot the Superintendant Valuer of Wales in connection with taking over the Churchard under the Welsh Church Acts 1914 and 1919 including 1/2500 plan, 1926

Some minutes of School manager and Church Council meetings including lists of some payments and receipts c.1920s-30s

Some wartime correspondence and guidance including information for incumbents regarding the use of Church Towers for Obersvation Posts for the Local Defence Volunteers / Home Guard in event of landings by paratroopers, the need to provide keys to military authorities to access the Church Bells to be rung in event of invasion, the removal of iron railings for the war effort and the removal of valuable objects to a place of safety etc. - July 1940. Also includes consideration to make graveyards less conspicuous from the air by covering white marble tombstones with foliage.

Some Sidesmen's rotas

Lenten forfeits and offerings

Newspaper article of HMS Cardigan Ships Ensigns / Flags being displayed around the Alter of the Church including photograph.

Various Churchwarden statement of account details c. 1945

Copies of the parish magazine Number 156 from June 1951 and 166 from August 1954

etc.
Date1910-1954
Physical DescriptionCloth covered book with loose and pasted pages.
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