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Meetings are held on the 3rd Monday of the Month at
7 Wessex Drive, Rudheath
At 7.30pm
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Birds of a feather flock together! That's why so many Welsh Societies have been established in all corners of the world.
The Northwich Society was founded in 1930. Meetings were then conducted entirely in Welsh. Today, almost half the members are bilingual and meetings are a mixture of English and Welsh offering admirable opportunity for the Welsh learners from the Mid Cheshire College to practice what they have learnt.
In the 60s and 70s, the Society held an occasional 'mock' eisteddfod. It was fun. Summer evening walks and visits across Offa's Dyke were made to churches of historical interest followed with a basket meal at "inns of distinction". Radio recordings were made for the BBC in Wales; in Welsh with Alun Williams, and in English with Wyn Calvin.
Current membership is the best for many years.
In 2001 we were nearly fifty including friends to celebrate St David's Day with a Sunday lunch in the Hayhurst Room at the town's Memorial Hall.
CROESO.
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Northwich Welsh Society
WHAT OTHERS SAID ABOUT US
There were very few castles in North Wales before its conquest by the English.Thomas Pennant 1781.
The Rhondda is the wildest region of Glamorganshire, where the English language is scarcely ever heard.
J.G. Wood 1813
You hear the Welsh spoken much about you, and if you can pick it up without interfering with more important labours, it will be worthwhile.
Sir Walter Scott to his son 1820
It is remarkable how fluently little boys and girls can speak Welsh.
Alfred Lord Tennyson 1830
Welsh should be taught in Wales as well as English.
Queen Victoria in a letter to Lord Lansdowne 1849
Gentility will be the ruin of the Welsh, as it has been of many things.
George Borrow in Wild Wales 1862
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DID YOU KNOW THAT 600 YEARS AGO...
It was illegal for any Englishman to be prosecuted in Wales by a Welshman. An Englishman had to be found to conduct the hearing.
Welshmen were forbidden to hold any meetings without having a representative of the crown present.
No Welshman unless he was a bishop or a temporal lord, could possess a castle or defend his house.
No Welshman was allowed to hold a responsible post.
No Englishman, if he were married to a Welsh woman, was allowed to hold a responsible post in Wales or the Marches.
No food or armour was to be sent into Wales and an English official was appointed to stop supplies.
All garrisons and walled towns were to be manned by Englishmen.
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