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December 2002
Dear Friends,
The Annual General Meeting.
This was quite well attended. The trustees were reappointed.
We decided to raise the annual subscription to £5 per household, £3 per individual member, and to
make our reference Library available to everybody in the Caerwent area.
Publications available to order, see below.
In preparation are the Memoirs of Tonny
Thomas which cover Llanfair and Caerwent from the beginning of the last century.
Later
in the new year we shall be able to offer Mr C. W. Alexander's detailed history of the Factory
(now Caerwent Training Area). The print quality will be more durable as we now have a
laser printer, thanks to a grant from the County Council and the support of the Community
Council.
MIDWINTER SUNRISE ON GRAY HILL
Have you seen the sun rise in line with the standing stones that were set up 4000years ago?
The alignment will be still exact on Sunday 22nd December this year, so meet us at the
triangle, above Llanfair Discoed at 7.50am and we will guide you to the spot, weather
permitting.
To tell the truth the winter solstice is at 1:OOam next morning, so we'll go both
days, Sunday and Monday!
ontacts: John Nettleship (01291 420745) or Derrick Williams (01291 430071)
Best wishes
John Nettleship
Secretary, Telephone 01291-420745
e-mail john@rose-cottage.freeserve.co.uk
PUBLICATIONS RELEVANT TO CAERWENT
The following are available to order - phone 01291 420745 or contact any trustee of the Caerwent
Historic Trust. They are A4 sized photocopies and computer printouts, presented in slide binders and reprinted
with the consent of the author where appropriate.
Several more titles are in preparation.
- History of the RNPF Caerwent
Medwyn Parry's short account, 1997 with additional
notes and illustrations. £3
- Caerwent Scrapbook
The original comprehensive study of this area compiled in 1955 by
our predecessor, the Caerwent Local History Group. £10
- The Archaeology of Gray Hill
Graham Makepeace's Assessment, 1999 with additional notes
and illustrations. £3
- Caerwent's Book of Remembrance
This is the 4th edition updated in 2002, and is only available as a 'Word' document on CD-ROM to browse or print your own. £5
- Memoirs of Bill Marsh
'Old Llanfair' and 'The Horrors of War' (based on Community Newsletters of around 1990). £3
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