It is such a distinctive church, and can be seen for miles, standing tall and pale on the coastal plain. It has an elegant limestone steeple, in keeping with its beautiful interior. St Margaret’s Church in Bodelwyddan, ‘The Marble Church’, […]
He is remembered in the name of a street, a pub and a school in Cardiff. His achievements are recorded on a clock face in Cardiff Bay but his grave lies forgotten and neglected in Cardiff’s Cathays Cemetery. His gravestone […]
You know about Robert Recorde’s invention. Of course you do. Everyone does. You have used it, perhaps even on a daily basis. It is just that no one has told you it was him, but it was. This story begins […]
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 […]
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”. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
