Welsh Journals

Pool Quay. Much still awaits recording of the old stage coaches, and of the personalities and inns connected with them. The growth and decay of the various industries is still to be told. I know of no comprehensive history of the agricultural and pastoral industries. Work, I believe, is being done on the history of the flannel industry will not someone write an account of the timber and mining industries, of the tanning trade, of milling, hat making, clogging, malting, basket making ? Connected with all these is the story of the coloni- sation of Montgomeryshire, the gradual spread from the hills into the valleys, the fight against marsh and untamed woodland, the establishment of hamlets and villages, the spread and subsequent enclosure of their fields, and the growth of the towns. The foregoing does not claim to be anything like a complete review of the possibilities in the way of useful work that lie before the Club. Much has already been done, and published in the Montgomeryshire Collections Some of this remains of great value, some needs revision in the light of our increasing knowledge, It is to be hoped, that students in all parts of the county will put into print some of the knowledge of local customs and local antiquities, with which, I know, many are abun- dantly provided. The Powysland Club is singularly fortunate in having to deal with an area, which, from the point of view of archaeology, is probably one of the richest in Britian. It is an area, in which several peoples have, at various times, met and clashed and blended, with the result that our countryside has a wealth of folk lore, tradition and history, which, together with its unexcelled natural beauty, make it one of extraordinary fascination, RU.Sr