This extract from the school diary reads:
"No school. - the annual Festival of the Independents of this county being held at Llanbrynmair..."

Cemais school closed for a similar meeting of the Montgomeryshire Methodists. The chapels at this time were very important not just as places of worship. They organised gatherings, entertainments and lectures - often in the Welsh language - and were seen to be right at the heart of these small communities.

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