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‘FOR THE LOVE OF LIBRARIES’ THE BRITISH LIBRARY, SUNDAY 10 MARCH Faced with the threat of closure, it was the ‘Love of Libraries’ that underpinned the decision by members of our community to create the Wenvoe Community Library. Now, three years later, this group of volunteers are looking forward to the opening of the new library early in 2020 in […]
» Read moreMeet the Author: Ian Pate talks about ‘Motorway Madness’. See page 12 for details. National Limerick Day: May 12th. Win a bottle of Prosecco and help celebrate Edward Lear’s birthday by writing a short, humorous, nonsense poem. Within a Limerick, there are five lines; the first two lines rhyme with the fifth line, and the third and fourth lines […]
» Read moreThose of us who gathered to hear the harrowing accounts of Ron Jones’ experience during World War II, would agree, that it was a privilege. This gentle man and natural story teller had seen and suffered things that no person should ever experience when he was taken Prisoner of War in January 1942 and kept in Auschwitz for two years. […]
» Read moreWENVOE COMMUNITY LIBRARY Tel: 02920 594176 – during opening hours or wenvoelibrary@outlook.com Like and follow us on Facebook at: www.facebook.com/WenvoeCommunityLibrary Meet the Author – Ron Jones This was the Library’s first Meet the Author talk. Ron Jones who will be 102 in April, spoke about his war-time experiences as a POW with us. Full report on page 12 Look out […]
» Read moreThis month Off The Shelf Book Club members decided to bring their own choice of ‘a good read’ to their monthly meeting. The book reviews are as follows and we hope it will encourage you to pick one up at the library. Tombland by C.J.Sansom – This is the 7th novel in a series of Historical novels based in […]
» Read moreMeet the author – Wednesday February 13th at 7:30pm upstairs in The Wenvoe Arms. (Free entry; donations to the library) Ron Jones who lives is Risca is 101 years old and is the oldest Poppy seller in Wales. He was 23 years old when he became a POW in North Africa in 1942, and spent more than 2 years […]
» Read moreWENVOE COMMUNITY LIBRARY Tel: 02920 594176 – during opening hours. or wenvoelibrary@outlook.com Like and follow us on Facebook at: www.facebook.com/WenvoeCommunityLibrary For general enquiries email us at wenvoelibrary@outlook.com Johnny Tudor, Wenvoe entertainer, actor and author, drew the Library Raffle on 15th December. We raised the grand total […]
» Read moreVolunteers and Friends of the Library As the library is growing and developing, we are looking for more volunteers to help with the day-to-day running of our services. We would like to initiate a ‘Friends of the Library’ scheme. It is envisaged that friends would not necessarily want to be hands-on in the library but would be happy to […]
» Read moreLibrary Statistics:- We are delighted to report that our latest figures show a marked increase in library usage over the last six months. In fact we have doubled the footfall during this period. We are further pleased to note that more of our borrowers are taking advantage of the Vale’s on-line services. Home visits have also doubled so please […]
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