This issue includes items about the following: Notice that the publication of ‘Old Aberdare’ Volume X is due very soon; A Notice of the Funding Allocation for a Blue Plaque Scheme in Rhondda Cynon Taf; An Account of Childhood in Blaengwawr written by Mrs Denise Jones; Aberdare’s late nineteenth century Coffee Taverns and Supper bars; The Opening of Aberdare Park in 1869 performed by Henry Richard and Richard Fothergill.