Carmarthenshire Archives and Libraries: Difference between revisions

{{Block indent|Holdings, which include parish registers, diaries, letters, court records, photographs, records of local government, education records,  estate records and school records, take up nearly 4km of shelving. Records are discoverable by use of the catalogues and indexes held in the public search room. If you are visiting the service for the first time, staff are available to demonstrate how to use finding aids. Only preliminary work is in place to create an online catelog.<ref>"Our Collection", Carmarthenshire Archives, https://www.carmarthenshire.gov.wales/home/council-services/libraries-archives/carmarthenshire-archives/our-collection/, accessed 21 March 2023.</ref>|2}}

{{Block indent|Carmarthenshire Museum tells the county story at the old palace of the Bishops of St Davids. The museum collections span 50,000 years of human history.  |2}}

{{Block indent|Carmarthen museum and gallery is part of the Carmarthen Library and on display you will find pottery imported in Roman and medieval times, a collection of official weights and measures, as well as a Columbia printing press which dates back to when Carmarthen was the printing capital of Wales. Carmarthen town’s rich cultural and social life features strongly in the displays as well as archaeology, architecture, industry, law and order, maritime, social history, trade and commerce.|2}}

{{Block indent|This Museum houses the oldest surviving tinplate works in Europe. This unique museum is dedicated to the interpretation of the tinplate industry in general and specifically the packmill process. The locally around the Kidwelly and Llanelli area was once the home to nearly half the world’s tinplate production.|2}}

{{Block indent|Parc Howard Museum tells the remarkable story of Llanelli’s past through its fascinating collections. Llanelli expanded rapidly through mining, industrialisation and immigration, becoming the tinplate manufacturing centre of the world and acquiring the nickname ‘Tinopolis’. |2}}