Bridgend County Borough Council

Bridgend Library and Information Service is pleased to offer for sale a selection of books of local interest. Those currently available are listed below:

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Cymraeg/Welsh

Local and Family History

Ordering Information

History of the Llynfi Valley
By Brinley Richards
£22.50 (Hardback)
£13.50 (Paperback)

Around Bridgend
(The archive photographs series)
Compiled by Simon Eckley
£8.99

Central Bridgend
around Elder Street
(The archive photographs series)
Compiled by Natalie Murphy
£9.99

Around Porthcawl,
Newton & Nottage
(The archive photographs series)
Compiled by Keith E. Morgan
£9.99

Porthcawl and it's coastline
By John David
£5.95

Smyrna Baptist Chapel, Penyfai
Celebrating 300 years of worship
£5.00

Fishlock's Wild Tracks: Twelve walks in Wales
By Trevor Fishlock
£9.95

The Mari Lwyd
Wales's Strangest Folk Custom
by Colin Jones & William Brown
£1.50

Tales from the Wild Chair: Deep dark
tales in the Welsh Subconsciousness
by Colin Jones & William Brown
£4.50

'St. Mary's Nolton':
A History of a Town Centre Church
By John Price
£3.50

A thousand names & faces: people of Cefn Cribwr, Kenfig Hill & Pyle
By Neville Granville
£9.95

All change at Cefn Junction
By Neville Granville
£3.00

Pennies of the poor: Benedictine monks at Maesteg, Glamorgan, 1858-1956; secular parish priests, 1956-1997
By Gerald McCormack
£3.75

Coal, Carpets & Choirs
Written & compiled by Bill Richards
£12.00

Cambrian Colliery and connections
By Bill Richards
£15.95

The Ogmore Valley Local History and Heritage Society: Journal 2000
£5.00

The Ogmore Valley Local History and Heritage Society: Journal 2002
£5.00

Morgannwg: Volume XLIV 2000
The Journal of Glamorgan history
The Glamorgan History Society
£8.00

They made light out
of their darkness
By Vernon Chilcott
£3.00

The Foxglove Sun: Moments from childhood recalled
By Clive Menadue
£3.00

Memories immune to time: recollections of a childhood in the Vale of Glamorgan
By Alfred Mills
£3.00

Little Boy Lost:
A Search for Identity
By Arthur Wakefield
£3.00

An Ordinary Life
By Julie Rowlands
£3.00

The Bridgend Biffy
By David Lazell
£3.00

Valley Waterboy Downunder
By Ivor Davies
£6.99

Chasing the dragon
Edited by Phil Cope [et al]
£3.00

Creating Meaning
Edited by Jerry Rothwell
£3.00

Not so bloody quiet on the Western Front
By D. S. Hooper
£6.95

Accident book of Coegnant Colliery,
Nantyfyllon: 1891 - 1896
Llynfi Valley Historical Society
£2.75

The Bridge & the Song:
some chapters on the history of Pontypridd.
Edited by P. F. Tobin & J. I. Davies
£9.95

Debt of Honour
By Phillip Tapper
£3.50 (All proceeds go to Brynteg School)

All clear: wartime memories of Bridgend & district
Bridgend Writers' Circle
£2.00

Voices from Wales:
an anthology
Bridgend Writers' Circle
£3.50

The story of Tondu Wesley Church
By Jeffrey Jones
£5.00

Land: a book of photographs by children from the Garw Valley
Valley & Vale
£3.00

The House at Sker Point
By Barrie Griffiths
£2.00

Welcome to Kenfig
By Barrie Griffiths
£2.00

Digging up Kenfig
By Terry Robbins
£2.00

What the papers said
Vol 7 - Jan-Dec 1881
By Dennis Jones
£2.00