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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Surrey Students Visit

A group of A-level students from George Abbot School in Surrey visited the site to learn about post-industrial landscapes and the important role of heritage in creating identity and building a better future. As far as we know George...

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Swansea International Festival comes to the Museum Collection Centre

Sinfonia Cymru, Wales' innovative youth chamber goup will be playing in Swansea Museum Collections Centre on Wednesday 12th October, 7:30pm as part of the Swansea International Festival Last year Sinfonia Cymru delighted everyone with their Quartet evening in Volcano. This...

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Last Guided Walks of the year

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...

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Volunteers tidy up picnic area

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...

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Heritage Funding Success!!

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...

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Oral histories of working life in the Copperworks

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...

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