Staff

Long-serving member of staff Don Rodgers reached retirement age at the end of March, vacating his post of Archives Assistant, although he will continue in his other post of Office Manager working one day a week.

We were delighted after a gap of several years to be able to recruit a newArchive Trainee, and Bethany Amos from Abergavenny started with us in March. She has written a local history article further on in this report.

It is with great sadness that I have to report the sudden and unexpected death of one of our former members of staff, Rosemary Davies, in January. As an archivist with a specialism in family history, Rosemary was a familiar face behind the counter for many of our researchers, particularly those who visited our archive access points in Neath and Port Talbot.

Retired member of archive staff Elizabeth Belcham at the neighbouring stall at the Swansea Local History Fair in October. Help for the WGAS stall came from another of our retirees, Liza Osborne.

Acknowledgements

The chair and members of theWest Glamorgan Archives Committee have continued to showtheir interest and supportfor the work of the Service during the year, for which I am grateful. I would also like to record my thanks to the Neath Antiquarian Societyfor assisting in the reopening of the Neath Mechanics Institute.

Kim Collis West Glamorgan County Archivist

May 2023