Welsh Connections

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 […]

By Bevvy Thomas / July 27, 2021 / Did you know that Stuck in Plastic was currently taking part in an exhibition at The Hermitage in Amsterdam when I wrote A Knights Tale. If not, go an read all about it here . Since taking part […]

In 1840, the first building to be roofed in Welsh slate in Adelaide, South Australia, was the Friends’ Meeting House; remembering John Greaves’s family’s association with Quakers, it was a most appropriate beginning! From Porthmadog, slate was exported by sea […]

Forged in a crucible of over 500 million years, slate is a marvelous material. From its beginnings as mud on the seabed, to compressions and heat and volcanic upheaval, at last it rests in seams far above the sea, ready […]

Stephen talks about his trip to Bala and the history of the popular tourist town. My wife and I, heading from Dorset to north Wales for a week, needed somewhere to stop over on a Friday evening. I chose Bala […]

It’s been called ‘truly inspirational’ by HRH Prince of Wales (Now King Charles III), ‘one of the world’s most appealing small museums’ by historian Dr John Davies and won numerous national awards, including ‘Britain’s Best Hidden Gem’. When the BBC […]