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There is a new feature on the website. I have put a large number of my magazine articles in the Blog section that you can access from the menu at the top of this page.
These illustrated articles largely (though not always) explore the stories that are represented by graves across Wales – some famous, some unexpected. I am still occasionally adding to this collection – at the moment there are over 20 articles there which you can read, with no obligation, absolutely for free.
The page Featured Graves indicates stories which first appeared in Welsh Country Magazine and are now featured in the Blog – but there are also quite a few pieces which did not and which I have now made available.
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Bloody Welsh History – Swansea
Welsh History Strange But True
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There is a News section and The Blog is where I post complete illustrated articles that reflect the work we have done in revealing the stories that are represented by gravestone across Wales.
There is a section called Shorter Tales, where there are complete stories which are generally too short for publication, based usually on interesting gravestones. Here you can find the stories of Hedd Wyn and Robert Everett, which have always proved to be popular pages.
If you want some entertaining information about graves and The Resurrectionists then click here. You will be taken to a page where you can also read a fine short story by the American writer Ambrose Bierce. The page will open in a new window.
There is also a page about my work on Dyspraxia.
You can contact me at any time . I am always pleased to hear from you.
If I have got anything wrong or you have additional information concerning any of the stories I have written about then please get in touch. It is important that we preserve these parts of our past before it is too late.
Click here to find a list of the graves I have written about in Welsh Country Magazine.
Hello Geoff
Your book has interested us greatly regarding Henry Tremble and the murder of Judge John Johnes. I believe Henry left a suicide note – is this available for public viewing? If not do you know the wording of the note?
Many thanks
I bean reeding some of the story’s and like them
Thank you Mark. I am glad that you have found them interesting. I hope all is well
Best wishes
Geoff
Hi Geoff. Have recently become aware of you and will seek out your books with interest. You first came to light via a Wales on Line article.
Could you please explain the accompanying picture of a couple in period dress on a pony and trap “alongside Swansea High St Station’
Thank you for your message Robert. I will have a look. I will contact you directly in a moment
Geoff
Jenny bought me a copy of your book and i think it is brilliant!!
I cant put it down
Well done you!!
Looking forward to the next one
Dear Geoff,
Do you know much about Morfydd Owen & Ernest Jones – it looks suspicious to me!
Best wishes,
Richard
Thank you for your message Richard. I have not researched poor Morfydd’s death, though I know that she is buried in Oystermouth Cemetery. I think any investigation of her death would require someone with much more medical knowledge than I possess!
Best wishes
Geoff
I don’t know if you can help but I’m looking for the name of the owner of the flannel mill at Llewitha,Garngoch. 1800 to 1900. My mother said he was my great grandfather. I keep hitting brick walls. After reading your book Bloody Welsh History. Swansea, you mentioned Llewitha in the book about the well. I was brought up in Fforestfach and spent a lot of time down Garngoch as one of my aunties lived there . I lived just up the road and the family were known as The Garngochs.First I’ve heard of the well to. Any help,would be appreciated. Im 75 now and diasabled,all the family are gone. My grandparents were Hannah and David John Williams. They had eleven children eight boys and three girls . My mother was the youngest. Thank you. Ann.
In google type in Mr David Simons Llewitha 1900 and click on the obituary it’s the information you need
Thank you for this. I have previously sent this reference to Ann Obrien. The Welsh newspaper archive is such a fascinating thing – and we are so lucky that it is freely available!
Best wishes
Geoff
Hello Ann
My mothers family owned the flannel mill in Llewitha my mother was Margaret Simons, she used to live in Carmarthen Road near The Star pub. Her father was Trevor Simons married to Myrtle. Her family had that mill and the son think he was about 3 drowned in the mill. Then they shut it down it was near to where that big bungalow is.
I went to the archives in the county hall a few years ago and researched it, I found his death certificate was going to do a family tree.
I did write a few names down but it got quite confusing as there’s a lot of David Simons they must have carried that name all the way through.
There are two grave stones at the entrance to the church yard by crush the wedding shop near Tesco it mentions there about llewitha factory on the grave.
Hope this is of some help.
Wendy
Your aunty in llewitha wasn’t Sue by any chance and I think she had a sister Alma?
Hello Ann
Did you get my message my mothers family owned the mill.
Geoff,
I very much enjoyed your book Swansea in the 1950s. It was my decade, I was born in1951 although I didn’t really get to know the town until the ‘60s.
Can I correct your statement (pp 32 and 34) that David Evans was built on the site of Ben Evans. It was built on the site of David Evans! I have a copy of the company’s commemorative booklet published to celebrate the opening of the new store.
I understand from the excellent gowerhiddenhistory.blogspot. that Ben Evans had been on what is now Castle Gardens. I remember as being spread across two or three premises in Walter Road, interesting that David Evans rebuilt whilst Ben Evans, at one time ‘The Harrods of West Wales’ just petered out.
I thought it was a great shame when David Evans was demolishes, it was one of post-war Swansea’s more distinguished buildings.