Welsh Journals

FLINTSHIRE HISTORICAL SOCIETY REPORT OF THE COUNCIL FOR THE YEAR 1975 FINANCE: We have during the past year received £ 500 from the Administrators of the Welsh Church Acts Fund, and Council would like to record its grateful thanks to them for this contribution, without which we would have a tight budget. With this assistance we have been able to meet the ever-increasing cost of the Journal. Volume 26 and offprints cost over £ 1,600 plus distribution costs. Thanks are due to all those involved in handing out and personally delivering over half of this latest issue. This has been a great help in keeping the postage costs down. The membership subscription has unfortunately had to be increased recently but this is essential to meet rising costs if we are to maintain our high standard of programmes and publications. Unfortunately over seventy members are in arrears for 1975. These members will have to be taken off our lists if they fail to rectify the situation. It is most unfair that our members who pay punctually and, indeed, in advance, should subsidise those who wish to avail themselves of the benefits of membership without making any contribution. Special thanks are due to those members who have paid in advance. This money helps to earn Bank Interest During the last year the Treasurer made an appeal for an increase in membership. Apart from the usual number of recruits this was a waste of effort. Members must be made aware of the situation which is this. If we are to produce Journals on a regular basis, one every eighteen months, for example, we shall require in the region of £ 6,500 plus, in the next three years. This means we either increase our membership at present subscription rates by 120%, or raise the subscription again, by a similar figure. Both figures are frightening, but if present members cannot recruit new members then the only alternative is to pay more for the same or inferior quality programmes. We must not rely on outside donations and we are too valuable not to survive. Council appeals to each member to recruit at least one new member this coming year. LECTURES: The following lectures were given at meetings of the Society during the year: January 18th: Mr. Aled Eames, M.A. — Ships and Seamen of North Wales'. February 15th: Mr. Robin Livens, B.A., F.S.A. Hadrian's Wall'. March 15th: Mr. C. E. Vaughan Owen, F.S.A. Timber-framed Buildings of the Welsh Border'. October 25th: Mr. J. Kelly The Development of the Pottery Industry in Britain, 1650- 1800'. November 15th: Mr. Peter Smith, B.A., F.S.A. Houses of the Welsh Countryside'. December 6th: Dr. Howell Lloyd Corruption and Sir John Trevor In October the Buckley Clay Industries Research Committee, the Buckley Society, and the Extra-Mural Department, University College of North Wales, Bangor, jointly arranged a week-long exhibition and day-school at the Elfed School. The speakers were: Mr. J. E. Messham, B.A. Historical Background to the Buckley Clay Industries'. Mr. Peter Davey, M.A. Recent Archaeological Fieldwork on the Buckley Pottery Industry Mr. John Kelly "The Development of the Pottery Industry in Britain, 1650-1800'. (Also the Society's October meeting).