Stories in Stone – Lake Vyrnwy
In the tangled woods behind the Vyrnwy Hotel, at the top of a steep and sometimes muddy slope, there is a neglected memorial. It is a stone obelisk on a double plinth and engraved on three sides are the forty-four […]
Stories In Stone
Llanelli Riot
The graves that symbolise a moment of shame stand clean and bright. They are a mute but significant reminder of one of the darkest moments in Britain’s social history. Leonard Worsell’s grave stone announces – “Workers of the World Unite”. […]
William James: From the West to the West
The graves are immediately inside the gate across the road from the old Ramah Chapel in Bryn Henllan at Dinas Cross in Pembrokeshire. The graveyard is unkempt and overgrown, but you will find the three graves of the James family […]
Dic Aberdaron
Geoff Brookes shares with us the story of Richard Robert Jones, a man regarded as eccentric, enigmatic and downright odd. He was known as Dic Aberdaron and the North Wales Express said of him “Among the singular characters which nature […]
Robert Owen
The stone over his grave in the old churchyard was a very plain structure and the spot presented a very desolate and deserted appearance. Now all is changed, and henceforth Wales will have something worthy of the man to remind […]
Bertram Clough Williams-Ellis, Not a Number – A Free Man
Geoff Brookes tells the tale of Portmerion and it’s creator, Bertram Clough Williams-Ellis. There is no gravestone for Clough Williams-Ellis. His ashes were launched into the night sky on a marine rocket as part of a New Year’s Eve firework […]
The Wizards of Cwrt y Cadno
This is a grave that either contains mysteries – or contains nothing at all. It is simple and unassuming, close to the wall of the parish church in Caio in Carmarthenshire. It is the grave of John Harries (interred with […]
James Williams – Aberystwyth
The grave seems overlooked now, an event once important enough to be mentioned in Parliament, but now long forgotten. The stone is one of many that line the pay & display car park at the end of King Street in […]
Sir Pryce Pryce-Jones
They are such wonderful buildings and they dominate Newtown in Powys. Two tall, distinctive, sturdy red brick temples to Commerce. The Royal Welsh Warehouse. The story behind the buildings is one that has touched all our lives. It is a […]
The Lost Boys of Anglesey
You can find Eglwys St Tegfan in Llandegfan in Anglesey. It is a pretty place which looks down on the Menai Straight and across to the mainland. It is peaceful and well tended, reflecting the history of a hard-working rural […]
Robert Thompson Crawshay 1817–1879
As you drive the short distance out of Merthyr to Vaynor, the scenery changes in an instant. Suddenly, you are on twisting country lanes that lead into the rugged hills of the Brecon Beacons. It is so different from what […]
Thomas Phaer M.D. of Cilgerran 1510 – 1560
There is a sense of ancient history about St. Llawddog’s church in Cilgerran in West Wales…a sense of forgotten stories…of secrets. To find Cilgerran you should leave Cardigan on the A478 towards Narberth and turn left into the town. It […]