Oakdale Workmen's Institute is a public building originally erected at Oakdale, Caerphilly, Wales, in 1917 and now located at St Fagans National Museum of History, Cardiff. The foundation stone of the Institute was laid on 3 July 1916, and it was officially opened on 10 September of the following year.
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The Oakdale Workmen's Institute was built in 1917 to serve as a focus for social, educational and cultural life within the newly established coal mining community there. It was funded by a loan from the Tredegar Iron and Coal Company, which the miners then repaid over the following years.
The building contains a Library, Reading Room, and Committee Room on the ground floor, and two small offices for the Institute's Secretary and Manager. A Concert Hall, originally seating more than 200 people, occupies the whole of the first floor. A separate, but linked, Billiards Room was housed in a flat-roofed building behind the Institute, on top of which (in 1927) was built a larger public hall, which was later adapted for use as a cinema.
The Institute closed in 1987 and two years later the building was dismantled and transported to St Fagans. The cinema was too large for the site and...
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Feels as though it would only need some terraced miners cottages and a pithead gantry in the distance to make it completely authentic.
The library and reading room have the air of past times. The hall above reached by the staircase with the stained glass window is more functional but...
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We had our wedding ceremony here and it was perfect- such a beautiful venue and it was really special being somewhere that has so much history. Hannah and the whole St Fagan’s team made the whole experience a breeze from...
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