You see, when I see an exciting headline like this in the Weekly Mail for 16 June 1906 – WRATHFUL POACHER. ACCOSTED BY KEEPERS, HE NEARLY KILLS HIS FERRET – I can’t resist it. I mean, which one of you […]
There were lots of problems in the nineteenth century with horses. Perhaps you are not surprised, but I was. I have always recognised them as big things, naturally, but otherwise not especially interesting. I know some people like them, and […]
Dambusters Raid’s 80th anniversary highlights role of Mid Wales beauty spot. Few people are aware of the significant role played by a Mid Wales beauty spot in the RAF’s famous Dambusters Raid on Germany during the Second World War – […]
You can tell that something was going on when you see this advertisement in the Cardiff press in March 1896 Upright Iron Grand – Gentleman leaving for Klondike Goldfields must Sell most superb Drawing-room Piano in lovely walnut especially suited […]
Getting away with murder on the Central Wales Line Our story this month comes from The Brecon Reporter of March 1865. The great infrastructure projects of the Victorian Age depended entirely upon an itinerant workforce who moved from one to […]
As far as the North Wales Gazette was concerned, the last week in February 1823 was not an occasion to celebrate Good News. It certainly doesn’t seem to have wasted time in looking for any. We are told immediately that […]
This is a remarkable story, more so perhaps because it is largely a forgotten one. At the time though, it was, briefly, a consuming and altogether delicious scandal. As far as we are concerned, the story of Violet Charlesworth begins […]
At the end of the Pembroke River is Pembroke, one of the oldest towns in Wales. After overcoming local resistance in 1093, Arnulf de Montgomery built a wooden fortification on the rocky promontory overlooking the town, where the medieval stone […]
A longer story for you, this month. Because on 29 November 1894, Thomas Richards was executed in Carmarthen Gaol for the murder of his sister-in-law Mary Davies in Borth, near Aberystwyth. It is a reminder, should you need it, that […]
This month we are looking at The Amman Valley Chronicle and East Carmarthen News in 1915, although to be honest, it hadn’t been the newspaper’s greatest year. You see, publication had been suspended between 28 January and 2 September 1915 […]
It was a weekly English language newspaper that served West Wales, particularly Haverfordwest, Fishguard, Tenby and Milford Haven, published and edited by Joseph Potter. It proudly proclaims a guaranteed circulation of 2000 copies. If only my books would sell as […]
If I told you that there is an extended piece in the Wrexham and Denbighshire Advertiser about a man who fell off a ladder whilst painting a gate, you might think that the news was a little slow in August […]
