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Ceredigion archivist Helen Palmer presents Penparcau from the past
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05/02/2024
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was really to encourage the rebuilding of Pen Parkie. We're coming up to this post-war
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period now where they want to clear the slums - I use the word divisively, it's not my word
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- and so they were making bits of Pen Parkie look as bad as they possibly could. I'm sorry,
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it's just how it was. So this is back street Pen Parkie. I don't think these English language
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labels were necessarily there before the photographer came along, I don't know. This house features
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again, just a second. This is the same house, and you may or may not know this image, it's
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a bit of propaganda. This sign, let me use the pointy thing, there we are. The house
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where the baby died and the rats were after its corpse. Now, do you think that could have
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some kind of political overtones? Would it be that somebody thought that it was time
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to build some social housing? It's a bit hysterical, isn't it? But there we are, that's what it
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said. We talked about the toll house right at the beginning and how it lost its significance
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really just at the time that the first big audit survey map was produced. So by the time
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that this picture was taken, troops marching through Pen Parkie - not the spending of course
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- I am assuming, and this may be utterly wrong because I am not a historian, I'm an archivist,
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that they are part of the First World War. They don't have to be because of course there
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was an awful lot of training done in the Aberystwyth area of the territorials in the years before
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the war, but I think those are probably something to do with the First World War. Man up a ladder
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there, doing some painting. Can you see him? Little sign there saying Aberaeron. It's quite
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a poignant picture I think actually and again it's telling us a bit about exactly what the
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toll house looked like. Of course as you all know the toll house is now happily living
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down in St Fagans, which is really nice isn't it because how many buildings have we lost
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that didn't go to St Fagans? It's really really nice when one makes it down there and gets
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treasured and valued. Because a building is a big thing to look after isn't it?
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Is St Fagans a site or what? I've never heard of it.
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I'm very sorry, St Fagans is a museum. It's a museum of the open air and it's down just
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by Cardiff. And it's wonderful. I say it's wonderful, I haven't been for years, but it's
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a museum of old buildings brought from all over Wales and put there for people to go
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around and enjoy. I like archives because they tell us about the past in our area, in
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our county and they're not history books, it's the raw material and there's something
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very wonderful about that. It's not mediated by anybody else. What you're getting is from
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all sorts of different perspectives, versions of the past and in giving a lecture this evening
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what I hope to do is to show how we can bring different sorts of documents, different sorts
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of archives together for local government, personal collections, photographs, maps, all
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these things, newspapers, can be news, we can bring it all together and we can make
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something much greater than the past. Why do I like that? Well why wouldn't anybody like
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that frankly? We can go from what we remember, so our own pasts, and then go back and back
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to things that our parents or grandparents might remember and then back to that side
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that nobody remembers now, but we can still see people in their everyday lives, living
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those lives, getting born, married, dying. And there is a kind of magic, there's a magic
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in archives that it shows us how people were very like we are in some ways and yet living
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in very different circumstances but in the same place that we know and love.
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