Centenary Commemorations

April 2025 marks the centenary of the opening of the Memorial Hall. This building on South Road is so important to the town. It provides a poignant reminder of those who lost their lives in the two world wars and is a much-loved community resource for those of us living here today. 

The Memorial Hall Committee is marking the centenary with a range of events throughout the year. We at Cymdeithas want to commemorate this landmark in the town’s history too. There are, of course, pictures of the Hall in our picture gallery. Here is one showing the programme for the opening ceremony held on April 1st 1925 and you can see the attendees at the event itself at the bottom of this article.

In October, our own President, Elinor, will be giving a joint talk on the history of the hall with Robert Thomas, the Hall president. She will be posting an article on this shortly after her talk.

Last year, she gave a talk about the memorials in the town to those who lost their lives fighting for their country. There is an earlier blog about this. She has an article on this on the heritage page of this site: 

• Memorial Hall Roll of Honour giving details of the lives of the 41  servicemen from Aberaeron who were killed in the 2 world wars; a stark reminder that this year is a commemoration, rather than a celebration. 

We also have a blog  ‘D-Day Memories: By Gwilym Morgan, Almor, Bellevue Gardens’. Gwilym was a telegraphist  on the HMS Kingsmill and this is a moving account of his recollections of his experience of those events. This was uploaded to coincide with last year’s anniversary.