Welsh Journals

RECENT ACCESSIONS AT CARDIFF CENTRAL LIBRARY IN last year's notes mention was made of the valuable work carried out by C. V. Appleton, a local genealogist, in copying all the older monumental inscriptions in Cardiff (Cathays) Cemetery. He had presented to the Library 2 volumes contain- ing the inscriptions on 2,994 tombs (4,872 persons), and he has recently followed up this gift by presenting 4 typescript booklets which contain all the older inscriptions in the churches and churchyards at Rumney, St. Mellons, St. Lythans and Sully. Each of the booklets is furnished with a comprehensive index of persons and place-names. Among original deeds and documents deposited during the past year is a small collection, dated 1837-41, of deeds relating to a house and court "situated near the Town Hall" in High Street, Cardiff, and to a house and shop in St. Mary Street. A few microfilm copies of Glamorgan documents in other reposi- tories-The Bishop's Transcripts of the Penllin parish registers (1722-1856) and some 16th- and 17th-century Surveys of the Manor of Miskin and its Sub-Manor of Pentyrch and Clun- have been donated. The Bishop's Transcripts of the Penllin registers are of especial value inasmuch as the earliest registers preserved at Penllin date no farther back than 18 14. A particularly notable addition to the Library's stock of prints and photographs is a series of photographs of works carried out by Logan and Hemingway, the Macclesfield railway contractors, in the decade 1880-90. This firm undertook many large contracts in the Cardiff-Newport area. Among the photo- graphs are 9 views of Clarence Bridge, Cardiff, and 5 of Hill's Dry Dock-both in various stages of construction-l of the old structure which Clarence Bridge superseded and 5 of various cuttings and bridges on the Cadoxton and Barry Branch of the Taff Vale Railway. T.J.H.