“It would hardly be too much to say that in April of 1895 one was considered eccentric for riding a bicycle, whilst by the end of June eccentricity rested with those who did not ride.” Constance Everett-Green, 1898. The boom […]
Long before short haul flights abroad were even thought of, we Brits liked to roll up our sleeves, turn up our trousers legs and even don our bathing suits as we holidayed at home. Numerous ‘hot spots’ around our coastline […]
November 17, 2024, was the centenary of the birth of Islwyn Ffowc Elis, one of the most popular Welsh prose writers of the twentieth century. In 1947 he won the crown for poetry in Lewis’s Eisteddfod in Liverpool, and then […]
Angle lies in a shallow valley, on the tip of the Pembroke peninsula, and is practically surrounded by the sea, the Milford Haven waterway to the north and the Atlantic to the south. You can’t go on: the next stop […]
He was as Welsh as they come yet born in Manchester. That’s just the first oddity in the life of David Lloyd George, the only Welsh Prime Minister of the UK and our only PM to speak Welsh as a […]
Carved from a former coal tip, Parc Penallta is well known as the “place with the horse”. As one of the largest figurative earth sculptures in the country, “Sultan the Pit Pony” attracts visitors from far afield who come to […]
Three miles north of Beaumaris and part of the community of Llangoed is the tiny village of Penmon. Clinging to the south-east tip of Anglesey, it boasts an unspoilt beach where the Anglesey Coastal Path follows its shores. Well into […]
Leeks and love spoons, dragons and daffodils, these are just some of the traditional images the world associates with Wales, helping to give us our unique identity. Perhaps most well-known is our national costume. Today, the outfit is only worn […]
A businessman who has written about the war poet Robert Graves believes Remembrance Sunday is a time to reflect on the end of hostilities of the Great War. The Armistice, an agreement to end the fighting of the First World […]
Nantgarw is a few miles drive north of Cardiff and is a small site packed with history. From the moment you walk through the front door of Nantgarw house, you see cabinets full of beautiful porcelain plates, cups, jugs and […]
Newtown is an interesting town in Mid Wales, due in part to the interesting buildings ranging from Edwardian to art deco, but also because of the history. For a small town it boasts quite a few significant people who went […]
As the Shropshire Union Canal Society busily restore the Montgomery canal and close the Shropshire Gap, they are not only bringing the waterway back to life, but also uncovering long forgotten local stories, for as a digger shaped the canal […]
