Sep
29
2016
With thanks to the friends group and staff at Swansea Museum Collections Centre, it has been a successful year of walks. Each monthly walk has been well attended and well reviewed and half a dozen walks have been offered...
Jul
18
2016
With many thanks to nine volunteers who turned up on Saturday and six a few weeks before, the Hafod Morfa Copperworks site is looking great. Paths have been cleared, edges cut and weeds pulled up. The grassy picnic area overlooking the Vivian...
Jun
03
2016
Swansea Council and Swansea University have been successful in an application to the Heritage Lottery Fund for the next phase of the development at Hafod-Morfa Copperworks .
Plans to renovate the former Hafod Morfa Copperworks site could see Penderyn Distillery expand...
May
04
2016
We are starting to record some of the valuable stories about what it was like to work at Hafod-Morfa Copperworks. Do you have stories to share about what it was like to work at the copperworks? Or would you...
Apr
01
2016
The Friends of the Hafod Morfa Copperworks, and Swansea Museum Collections Centre are re-starting the popular programme of guided walks of the Hafod Morfa Copperworks site. The first will be on Saturday 9th April at 11:00 a.m. There will...
Feb
01
2016
The storms held off in November just long enough for a very enjoyable art event at Hafod-Morfa Copperworks and White Rock.
artist Dan LLewlyn Hall www.danllywelynhall.co.uk led the day as part of Swansea Universitys hub of the Being Human Festival.
40...
Feb
01
2016
Congratulations to Birchgrove Comprehensive for their success in the Young Heritage Apprentice in November, a competition that challenged teams of school pupils to create an on-site visitor attraction for Hafod-Morfa copperworks that celebrates Swansea’s history and heritage.
Thanks also to the six...
Oct
26
2015
A report of the Connected Communities Exchange event, including recommendation for future research and interpretation at and around the site is now available here.
Connected Communities Exchange Event Report; October 2015
Sep
09
2015
A short film documenting the AHRC Connected Communities Festival that took place at the Hafod-Morfa Copperworks on June 25th is now available to view here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9zq9Ub3xq0&feature=youtu.be
The film celebrates the many community research projects that the Connected Communities project supports and...
May
29
2015
The Morfa Bridge over the Swansea Canal has been found, although a little damaged, ending a long period of debate about whether it was intact or not. The community excavation of the Hafod Canal Bridge in 2013 ignited the...