As preparations for Remembrance Sunday and Armistice Day continue, we bring you more stories of heroism from our local community. Our museum and archives services hold an abundance of information on Wrexham’s military history. Today, we pay them another visit […]
With Remembrance Sunday and Armistice Day around the corner, we open our archives to bring you a small selection of stories of local heroes who sacrificed their lives so that we may live in peace. Thanks to our museum and […]
What a contrary year this has been! So much rain during the winter months, continuing into early spring and leaving me unable to access large parts of my, at that time waterlogged garden. Then a short spell of moderate conditions […]
Jigsawed hedges light silhouette the birds. And the ravens redundant slow walk the field. A warm autumn soon downs my coat As a slow wet haze gently passes by. Flowers now few. Flies now weary. Wasps drunk sleepy. Autumn signs […]
Driven by shortening daylight, falling temperatures and dwindling food supplies, tens of thousands of wildfowl and wading birds leave their Arctic and sub-Arctic breeding grounds every autumn to travel hundreds, and sometimes thousands, of miles to reach the food-rich mudflats […]
Bore da to you! That’s good morning in Welsh, and we’re off to meet some dear friends of mine: It’s the short-legged prince of the Cambrian hills, Caradog and his owner, Owain. You might know Wales as the home of […]
I spend a lot of time photographing the Welsh landscape, but quite often it is the roads running through it that catch my attention just as much as the mountains themselves. Wales is not short of scenic roads, with some […]
By former Rugby World Schools Editor Huw S Thomas On Saturday October 17, Llandovery College face Christ College, Brecon for the 129th time in a fixture first played in 1879 at Builth Wells and some two years before the very […]
There’s no shortage of wonderful walking in Snowdonia, but sadly there’s no shortage of mountain weather either. There are many days when cloud totally obscures the summits and the wind and rain conspire to make any ascent an uncomfortable one. […]
Martin Perry, who often contributes to Welsh Country, recently visited Tenby to watch his son take part in the Ironman competition, which is recorded here www.welshcountry.co.uk/sunday-iron/. Typically of Martin though, his pen and notebook came out on his train journey […]
The story of my great-grandfather, Captain Richard Phelps Gough, one of Swansea’s Cape Horners, whose extraordinary life at sea inspired Storms and Whispers: The Captain’s Legacy more than a century later. One evening in 1883, fourteen-year-old Richard Phelps Gough was […]
The Tenby waves and waters parted to iron and steel determination, with plunging arms and thrashing legs, No time for consternation: more than a hundred miles awaited route high and low to drag the wheels, recycled muscles iron-willed – rain […]
