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Programme/Rhaglen

(details of some of our past lectures can be seen HERE)

£3 entrance, to include refreshments

2024/25 Public Lectures - everyone welcome

7:30 pm, Thursday 26 September 2024
Rowen Memorial Hall

Dr Steven Lockwood, last Director of the

Fisheries Experimental Station, Conwy
Mussels, sewage and science

7:30 pm, Monday 21 October 2024
Llanbedr-y-Cennin and Tal-y-bont Memorial Hall

Dr Leona Huey, Bangor University
Frongoch Prisoner of War Camp: internment, identity and impact

7:30 pm, Thursday 21 November 2024

Rowen Memorial Hall

Dr Elizabeth Woodcock, Bangor University
Wild Pathways: working in partnership

for health, community development and nature'

2:30 pm, Thursday 12 December 2024

Church House, Glan Conwy

Adam Voelker, conservation architect and author
Sidney Colwyn Foulkes and the Conwy Valley

2:30 pm, Friday 17 January 2025
Rowen Memorial Hall

Dr Liam Whitmore, North Wales Rivers Trust
Protecting North Wales rivers: battling pollution,

water quality decline, and threats to migratory fish

7:30 pm, Monday 17 February 2025
Llanbedr-y-Cennin and Tal-y-bont Memorial Hall

Guto Bebb, Group Managing Director, Farmers’ Union of Wales

‘A brief history of the Farmers’ Union of Wales (FUW) and our work on

farming policy and supporting farming communities in the 21st Century’

7:30 pm, Thursday 13 March 2025
Rowen Memorial Hall

Aneurin Phillips, landscape and wildlife photographer
'Islands: landscapes and wildlife from the Arctic to the Antarctic

7:30 pm, Monday 14 April 2025
Llanbedr-y-Cennin and Tal-y-bont Memorial Hall

Emily Payne, Welsh Water - River Quality Liaison Manager – North
The effect of the wastewater industry on river quality in the

Afon Conwy catchment: how Dwr Cymru is reducing

its environmental impact

7:30 pm, Thursday 22 May 2025
Rowen Memorial Hall

Dr Kate Waddington, Bangor University
Iron Age communities on the Llyn peninsula: recent work at Meillionydd

 

7:30 pm, Thursday 19 June 2025

Rowen Memorial Hall

Mike Young

‘Interlude in Oman, an emergent civic society’

6:00 for 6:30 pm, Thursday 10 July 2025
Rowen Memorial Hall

Summer reception and AGM

(For meetings in Rowen, if possible, please park on the roadside opposite the flagpole,

to avoid congestion in the car park - many thanks).

Any last minute changes to the published programme will appear on this page.  In the event of extreme weather, a meeting may be cancelled – please check the website

or ask a member of the committee, preferably by phone.

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