Yr Hen Ysgol - a former school building facing the green at Marian-Glas
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Yr Hen Ysgol - a former school building facing the green at Marian-Glas by Eric Jones as part of the Geograph project.
The Geograph project started in 2005 with the aim of publishing, organising and preserving representative images for every square kilometre of Great Britain, Ireland and the Isle of Man.
There are currently over 7.5m images from over 14,400 individuals and you can help contribute to the project by visiting https://www.geograph.org.uk
Yr Hen Ysgol - a former school building facing the green at Marian-Glas
Image: © Eric Jones Taken: 13 Aug 2008
This building started life in 1845 as a British School. Later, it was used as a Sunday schoolroom and, today, as a community centre. It is the meeting place for the local branches of the Young Farmers'Club and the WI and also the venue for the Marian Glas Chair Eisteddfod (a chair eisteddfod is one step above an ordinary eisteddfod in that it includes the ceremony of chairing the winning bard) A plaque on the front of the building commemorates Hugh Griffith, the rumbustious Hollywood character actor and a Marian-Glas lad. www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/497454/index.html
Images are licensed for reuse under creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0
Image Location
Latitude
53.335568
Longitude
-4.248032