Welcome to the website of the town and community of Ammanford in the county of Carmarthenshire, South Wales.
This website is a non-commercial project whose purpose is to provide a history of Ammanford and its surrounding district. The content is taken from numerous sources and consists of photographs as well as written material. This is a personal site and not the property of any official body.
This material found here is not intended to replace written histories of Ammanford; there are numerous books available for that purpose, and books are much easier to read than computer monitors anyway. The personal computer and particularly the Internet are very recent arrivals on the information highway and, despite their phenomenal rise in the past decade or so, are not necessarily the only vehicle, or even the best, for travelling that route. No other medium will ever replace the book as the most enjoyable way of reading, surely.
However, it has to be said that the Internet does allow material to be published which would never find public expression otherwise. Whether much of the material available on the World Wide Web deserves to see the light of day is another matter, but local history does seem to be an activity ideally suited to this technology.
The Amman Valley has always been, and to a large extent still is, a Welsh speaking community. As a result much of the history of the valley has been written in Welsh, some of which has been translated into English for this web site.
Finally, I hope this site will be read in the spirit it was written, which was to satisfy curiosity and occupy idle moments.
