Carmarthenshire Antiq 40

Article on the record of an English gentleman's visit to Wales in 1524, including his itinerary and expenditure, activities, places visited, and encounters.

Article on major alterations to Golden Grove House, Carmarthenshire, planned by John Vaughan at the end of the eighteenth century and involving the architect John Johnson, but never carried out.

Article arising from a Society field day in June 2004, focusing on the changing landscape of Llanelli and the Wern area. The author discusses early descriptions of Llanelli; the development of the coalfield in the Wern area; nineteenth-century iron foundries and works; religious belief and its associated buildings; education and schools; public houses in the Wern; it geography; disease; and the end of the Wern as an industrial centre.

extract from the Carmarthen Journal, August 11, 1843, describing the destruction of Porthyrhyd gate and toll-house

Article outlining features of medical practice and provision for the sick in Carmarthenshire around the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries.

Notes on recent acquisitions by the Carmarthenshire Museums Service, including material from excavations at Dryslwyn Castle and two medieval, miniature, silver annular brooches, one from near Whitland Abbey and the other from Kidwelly.