Rugby writer Huw S Thomas reports on the 15 Welsh sportsmen to have had statues erected in their memory Statues are in the news – and for the wrong reason. Sadly there is more discussion on their destruction rather than […]
Stepping off the bus, I watch the couple and their dog go along the Welsh Coastal Path. I can see that the dog has been here before. He whimpered excitedly as the bus rolled down the quiet road, long before […]
“Dr Livingstone, I presume?” These famous words were uttered by Henry Morton Stanley, on finding David Livingstone, on 10th November 1871. As far as posterity was concerned, Stanley became more famous for these four words than anything else in his […]
The last time I wrote for ‘Welsh Country’ I made a self-acknowledged mistake, one of those senior moments that we become accustomed to as we get a tad older in the incisor. The subject of my latest bio, Sarah Siddons, […]
When he passed away on 6th July 1960, there was ‘an outpouring of national mourning’. Over 40 years later, in 2004, he was voted top of the poll in a clarion call of 100 Welsh Heroes, his role in the […]
There’s a road from Aberdyfi, which winds its way through the Dyfi Valley overseen by the Plynlimon and the Tarren Hills somewhat parallel, sometimes not – to the Aberdyfi River. The road jogs its way a little through a quiet […]
In July [20th] 1916 during the Battle of the Somme, poet Robert Graves was struck by a shell and was so badly wounded that the next day he was reported to have died. He did in fact survive and went […]
Like many places on any given road, tucked down a side lane or over the next hill, ancient stories lie almost silent and the world drives by, never knowing. Entering Llyswen is like this, fanning out where the A470 meets […]
It is not generally known that America was originally discovered by the Welsh nearly nine hundred years ago. There are many recorded facts which add support to this revelation, some are fairly sketchy whilst there are several pointers from the […]
The wind blew me from the shore To the bricked road and ancient lore Where the Walk starts – twin gates of stone And high upon Mynydd Tŵr The ferry lights, the Breakwater Scented at my feet – gorse and […]
