Martyrs & the Arts

Martyrs to the Cause is proud to advise that the first children's arts day to celebrate some of the great players to have come from Merthyr Tydfil will take place at Brecon Road Infants School on 18th May.

The children will be helped by the award winning team from Pippins Designs to produce five panels celebrating the football heritage of our town, the players to be honoured on canvas by the young artists will be Chris Holvey, Dai Astley, Gordon Davies, Mark Pembridge, Bryn Jones, John Charles and Moses Russell. The children have also decided to include current Wales star Aaron Ramsey in the panel to be retained by the school for display.

The Trust is very grateful for the financial support of the Merthyr Branch of the GMB Union for its aid to our community arts project, without their valuable support this event would not be possible.

Mobile Museum project update & appeal

The Supporters Trust has met with the design team charged with producing the display boards for the portable information boards that will tell the story of football in Merthyr Tydfil from 1908 to the present day, we have already received many photographs, programmes, cigarette cards etc for the display boards but we could do with more stories and items to add something different to the tale, for example did you travel to Swindon in 1965 on the special train for the Cup match? We already have the match programme but maybe you kept the rail ticket. Do you know someone with a Football League programme from our membership in the 1920s? Season ticket from the 1960s?

All items will be returned, they will be digitally recorded for future generations. The next stage of the museum project is to set up a Merthyr Football Museum Website which will display all items from the 1927 Welsh League Handbook right up to the current day.

Please contact us via wolvesy@yahoo.co.uk if you have any items or ideas for the Mobile Museum.

Thanks as ever for your support.

Trust with the FAW

Following today's meeting of the FAW Domestic Committee, the status of Merthyr Tydfil FC will be discussed at the FAW Council meeting in Pulford on Monday 12th April.