From Coppice to Copper

Heritage Skills in the Lower Swansea Valley a series of events funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund (NLHF). This series of events was designed to encourage people to learn heritage craft skills on the site of the world-famous Copperworks of...

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Interviewing Ivor

Student volunteers Abbi and Charles recently carried out two oral history interviews with Ivor Williams, who along with his wife Mor was employed by Yorkshire Imperial Metals at Landore in the 1960s and 1970s. Group of workers Ivor donated numerous...

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Looking through the Lens

We have lots of regular visitors to the Hafod-Morfa Copperworks site. Recently a group of people from the Crisis Art Group joined Ray and Geoff for a tour of the site in preparation for a photography project they will...

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HLF Funding Success

Plans to revitalise the Hafod-Morfa Copperworks have received funding from the HLF worth £3.56million. The funding will be used to refurbish the Powerhouse to create a distillery and visitor centre. The project is managed by Swansea council in association...

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Restoration starts on Musgrave Engine House and Crane

Restoration Work has started at the Musgrave Engine House. In addition to the consolidation of the building (funded by Swansea Council (£180,000) and Cadw (£100,000) to repair the roof and secure the building, The Friends of the Hafod-Morfa Copperworks,...

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Man Engine Cymru finale at Hafod-Morfa Copperworks

The Man Engine visited the Copperworks site for a hugely spectacular finale to the 5-day tour of South Wales. Over 6000 people attended the finale and over 40,000 for the entire tour. The Hafod-Morfa Copperworks spectacular celebrated 300 (and...

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Man Engine Cymru – Forging a Nation

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Copperworks Discovery Project

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Guided Walks 2017

Guided Walks of the Hafod-Morfa Copperworks site are back! The next walks are Wednesday 26th July, Wednesday 30th August, Wednesday 27th September, Wednesday 25th October. The walk starts at 2:00 p.m. from the Swansea Museum Collection Centre situated in the...

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New Page of Bite-sized Oral History stories

We have extracted some key highlights from oral histories relating to working life at Hafod-Morfa Copperworks and put them on-line on a new page here Some of the stories are taken by the Friends of Hafod-Morfa Copperworks over the last...

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