30 June (1950) Councillor resigns – ‘no boxing here’

30 1950 (Fri.) Clr Rosina Davies resigns from the Town Council because the Cardigan Boxing Club wished to use the Council’s Meat Market. Revd Rosina Davies was born at St. Dogmaels, and later moved to the Rhondda Valleys. She was baptised on 27 August 1911 and began preaching that evening. She was pastor at Bryn Seion, Cwmtwrch, 1926–8, where she was ordained. She returned to St Dogmaels in 1930 with her widowed mother. She was assistant minister Blaenwaun 1930–40, and similarly at Bethania, 1941–60. In 1933 she married David Evan Davies, who kept a butcher’s shop (opposite Shire Hall) . She was the first woman member of the Town Council, and in 1943 the first female mayor. She died on 3 July 1983, aged 87 years.
30 1921 (Thurs.) Cardigan Liberal Club Company Ltd formed.

28 April (1197) Death of Lord Rhys; (1938) Visit of Amy Johnson

28 1985 (Sul) Celebrating the Centenary of local Baptists’ Cymanfa Ganu
28 1951 (Sad.) Mammoth Boxing Tournament: Market Hall on Barley Saturday. Popular Cardigan boxer Haydn Gwyon, and Owen Edwards, who is due to appear at Albert hall in final of British Railways Championship.
28 1938 (Thurs.) Amy Johnson passes through Cardigan as part of RAC Car Rally.
28 1197 (Mon.) Death of Lord Rhys

21 1953 (Sat.) Amateur Boxing Tournament at Drill Hall. Come and see the Navy Boys knock seven bells out of each other!

21 1951 (Wed.) Prize distribution County Secondary School. Gueast Speaker: Capt. Roderic Bowen MP.

1 1983 (Tues.) Robin Morris-Jones starts his job as Town Clerk.
1 1963 (Fri.) Visitor Dick Richardson, heavyweight boxer guest of Cardigan branch British Legion at Cliff Hotel.
1 1880 (Mon.) Dr. John Thomas, age 49 was the first to be buried in the new cemetery.
1 1879 (Sat.) Masons went on strike. The walls were cracking as soon as they were built. The trouble stemmed from the fact that the bricks and copings were not sufficiently burnt at the Brickworks.