Welsh Business Archives

Another Welsh initiative is the Wales Powering the World blog which is a project looking at Welsh Industry through Archives.

This Archives and Record Council Wales collobarative project was funded by the Pilgrim Trust under the National Cataloguing Grants Scheme. Ten of the most valuable un-catalogued business collections from north and south Wales were catalogued and are now available through their holding repositories. The collections were:

• Cardiff Incorporated Chamber of Commerce, Glamorgan Archives
• Coppack Bros. & Co., Connah’s Quay, Flintshire Record Office
• Davies Bros., Slate Merchants, Porthmadog, Gwynedd Archives
• Emlyn Colliery and Brickworks, Carmarthenshire Archive Service
• Inigo Jones Ltd., Slate Merchants of Nantlle, Gwynedd Archives
• Powell Duffryn Limited, Glamorgan Archives
• South Wales Transport Collection, Richard Burton Archives, Swansea University
• Vivian and Sons Limited, West Glamorgan Archive Service
• Waddle Engineering and Fan Company, Carmarthenshire Archive Service
• Wrexham Lager Company Papers, Wrexham Archives and Local Studies

They are holding a workshop on Friday 27th January in Swansea at the University Archives on the subject of business archives and their use for researchers.