Throughout the years of visiting Bryntail Camp, Staff and Students kept logs of all of the activities at Camp, and often added details of events that had a significance to Bryntail, such as the Construction of the Clywedog Dam, or memorials to people associated in some way who had sadly passed away.

There are also some “Works of Art” by students and staff, such as the cartoon of Teacher Jim “Pip” May, drawn by Pupil Colin Whittock at Camp in 1956. 

The Timeline on the right is linked to digital copies of all of the Log Books from 1933 to 1974, when Central Grammar School amalgamated with Byng Kenrick Girls School to form Byng Kenrick Central School. Simply click on “View Log Book” and it will open in a new browser page.

Please Note – All of the log books are bound “hard-backs” which makes scanning very tricky at times, in addition to the fact that some of the pages are quite faint, and fragile. Consequently there are a few pages where scans are not perfect – please accept my apologies (NPW) 

The Final Log Book Entries in 1974 are shown below:

There are many articles in The Hammer Magazine relating to Bryntail, and these will be added in due course. However in 1937 and 1938 a Bryntail Camp Magazine was produced. You can see these by clicking the links below

• Bryntail Camp Magazine 1937
• Bryntail Camp Magazine 1938

Here is a Personal letter from the Editor, Jimmy Dunn:

There were many articles in written for The Hammer Magazine relating to Bryntail, from the very first camp in 1915, to the final “Central Grammar School” camp in the 1970’s. Click the link below to read all the articles from 1915 to 1972. 

• The Hammer Extracts 1915 – 1972

Please note that these articles were scanned from “copies of copies” that were made in the days when copiers only worked in Black and White rather than Grayscale, so some of the text and images are not as great as we would like them to be!