Women's Institute, Minffordd

The Women's Institute Building, Minffordd

This building beside the station car park was donated to the Women's Institute (WI) in 1917 by Miss Alice Williams daughter of a local landowner and Liberal MP, David Williams. The Women's Institute organisation was founded in Ontario in 1897 and the first WI created in the UK was in Wales in 1915. Alice Williams was a painter, author and welfare worker and prominent in the founding of the WI. The Williams family were closely connected with the Lloyd Georges. This building was the first in Wales to be owned by a WI and it remained in their use for over 100 years - only ceasing to meet during the Covid 19 epidemic.

The building was purchased in July 2025 by the FR. A likely use of it is as a place to work on and store some of the FR archives. Plans for use and refurbishment have yet to be completed.