Category Archives: Our favourite documents

The Hallworths part 2: Oh, what a lovely war!

Posted on 2 March 2018 by

We present part two of the Hallworth family mini series! This fascinating photograph shows Thomas Hallworth at war, on the beach near Alexandria. In Civvy Street, Thomas, who had started off as a coachman at Hyde in Cheshire, was a … Continue reading →

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The Hallworth Family of Hyde and Aberystwyth

Posted on 1 December 2017 by

We present the first in a series of mini-blogs exploring the Hallworth family photograph album which was generously donated to Ceredigion Archives last summer. Thomas and Edith Hallworth were from Hyde in Cheshire, where he had been a coachman and she a seamstress. … Continue reading →

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The Gogerddan Christmas Pudding

Posted on 21 December 2016 by

It was with some excitement that we recently received the recipe for the Christmas Puddings served by the Pryse family at the great Cardiganshire estate house Gogerddan (now part of the Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences at the … Continue reading →

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Explore Your Archive 2016: The Workhouse Diet

Posted on 17 November 2016 by

We have a series of recipes used in the Aberystwyth Workhouse (which was on the site of the current Bronglais Hospital) in 1884. Workhouses were built as a result of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act. They were large buildings … Continue reading →

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How the other half ate: Tea biscuits from the Webley-Parry collection

Posted on 16 November 2016 by

This is not the first, or indeed the last, time that the Webley-Parry cookbook makes an appearance on our blog. For Explore Your Archives Week 2016, this archivist tried the Tea Biscuits recipe. Here is the transcript, with original spelling … Continue reading →

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Explore Your Archive 2016: Taste the Past at Ceredigion Archives

Posted on 16 November 2016 by

There are loads of recipes at Ceredigion Archives. They lurk in several different collections, and span three centuries. Some are in printed books, often promoting a particular brand or product, others are carefully copied in long-hand, shared between friends of … Continue reading →

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