Brynteg Library and Broughton District History Group project

Brynteg Library and Broughton District History Group have joined together to combine their local historical photographs and documents, and establish a new local history archive room at the village library.

This has been made possible with support and guidance for group members from senior library assistant, Lynda Tunnicliffe.

Archiving collaboration with Brynteg Library and Broughton District History Group.

The purpose of this collaboration is to help people who wish to research events in the villages which make up the Broughton community area. They are the villages of Brynteg, Caego, Lodge, Moss, New Broughton, Pentre Broughton and Southsea and these have a large amount of undiscovered and unrecorded history.

Sources of information are varied and include documents, maps, photographs, diaries, birth, marriage and death records and audio, film and video records.

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Previous storage space proved inadequate for a growing range of resources, which are now being indexed and stored on a computer database for easy access. The room also has facilities for photocopying, scanning and internet access.

One of the other group's interests is undertaking oral recordings to capture the memories of residents when the local community had many choirs, carnivals, sports teams and jazz bands.

The group is committed to preserving evidence of Broughton's past for future generations and contact is being made with schools to involve children in conducting local history projects.

Biannual magazine The Broughton Chronicle.

In addition to a biannual magazine, The Broughton Chronicle, some group members have published several other publications on a wide variety of local themes.

Most recently, member Peter Chadwick launched his book They Also Served, which lists and identifies local men and women from Broughton, Brymbo and Gwersyllt, who contributed to service in the Great War. An earlier book, Broughton At War, was researched by Phil Coops, Peter Chadwick Robert Webb and Mike Grose, and provides information about those men named on the Brynteg and Southsea memorials.

They Also Served by Peter Chadwick, a member of Broughton District History Group.

A list of all other titles can be obtained and purchased from the group`s bookseller Rosalyn White on email - bdhgbookseller@aol.com

Broughton District History Group meet at the Brynteg Memorial Hall on the second Monday of every month between 10am and noon. All are welcome.

A guest speaker is engaged at most meetings. Following a coffee break there are often short talks by a group member on their activities that reflect their interest in genealogy, family and also local history. Day trips are also arranged by the group to various places of historical interest and significance to the members.