THE LADIES OF LLANGOLLEN To celebrate PRIDE month, each week we will be giving you a short biographical history of LGBTQIA+ icons in and around Wales. This week we will be kicking it off with ‘The Ladies of Llangollen’. Eleanor Butler (1739-1829) and Sarah Ponsonby (1755-1831) were originally from Ireland but moved to Plas Newydd,… Read more »
Pride Month
Meet the Team – Alexandra Gillgrass
Name Alexandra Gillgrass Position Occasional site assistant The main duties of your role at Storiel – Open and close the building – Maintain reception and shop – Ensuring the maintenance of the building, supporting staff members How long have you worked at Storiel? 3rd June 2019 What’s the best thing about your role at Storiel?… Read more »
Meet the Team – Lynwen Hamer
Name: Lynwen Hamer Position: Storiel Site Assistant The main duties of your role at Storiel Welcome visitors / reception work; Shop duties; Cleaning; deal with any issues that arise. How long have you worked at Storiel? June 2018. I was away on maternity leave for 9 months in 2019, returning in the middle of the… Read more »
Meet the Team – Corrie Zarach
Name: Corrie Zarach Job: Museum assistant Main duties of your role at Storiel Supporting the museum team, including , manning reception, sourcing shop stock, marketing, cleaning and general admin How long have you worked at Storiel? 4 years, I started just before Christmas 2017 Whats the best thing about your role in Storiel – (or)… Read more »
Meet the Team – Helen Gwerfyl
Name : Helen Gwerfyl Position – Storiel and Bangor University Museums Collection Officer The main duties of your role at Storiel : I look after the Storiel collections and the University collections. I am the main contact for anything to do with collections – from receiving new items, answering queries to dealing with loans. I… Read more »
Meet the Team – Gruff Edwards
Name : Gruff EdwardsPosition : Occasional Site Assistant / Senior Lloyd George Museum site assistantThe main duties of your role at Storiel : Usually I would help out with the day to day running of the museum, preparing meeting rooms, banking, cleaning and things like thatHow long have you worked at Storiel? I’ve been here… Read more »
Meet the Team – Megan Cynan Corcoran
Name : Megan Cynan Corcoran Position : Museums and Volunteer Co-ordinator The main duties of your role at Storiel : Running the Lloyd George Museum and Museum on a daily basis focusing on Health and Safety, Communications and Marketing as well as the business elements. How long have you worked at Storiel? I started at… Read more »
Meet the Team – Ceri Dalton
Name : Ceri Dalton Position at Storiel : Site Assistant The main duties of your role at Storiel : In short …. To make sure Storiel runs smoothly! Mixed duties on reception, in the shop, checking the building, putting things on social media. Also currently doing a new exciting role, looking into setting up the… Read more »
Meet the Team – Nêst Thomas
Name Nêst Thomas Position : Museums and Arts Manager Main duties of your role at Storiel : Leading the Museums and the Arts Service including Storiel, Lloyd George Museum, Community Arts and Visual Arts to achieve what’s important to the people of Gwynedd How long have you worked at Storiel? I have worked for Gwynedd… Read more »