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Welsh Country Magazine

by gbadmin Published January 5, 2021January 6, 2021 Leave a comment

Welsh Country Magazine has ceased publication. It is very sad, but the magazine relied upon advertising and most of their regular advertisers were in hospitality and tourism. Of course they have slashed their budgets over the past year merely to keep themselves afloat. And so, inevitably, Welsh Country Magazine is one of the casualties. It…

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Elihu Yale 1649 – 1721

by gbadmin Published November 2, 2020April 20, 2021 Leave a comment

Welsh Country Magazine is not appearing in printed form this month but you can enjoy it for free online! There is a link at the bottom of this post which will take you there.My piece is about Elihu Yale (1649 – 1721)  who is buried in the graveyard of the parish church of St Giles…

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Lake Vyrnwy

by gbadmin Published September 6, 2020September 6, 2020 Leave a comment

This month Welsh Country Magazine has returned in printed form and you can buy it in supermarkets and newsagents across Wales, as well as on-line for just £2.95!My piece in the September edition examines the memorial at Lake Vrynwy in Powys which remembers the 44 men who died during the construction of this beautiful reservoir…

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Welsh Country Magazine – May 2020 edition

by gbadmin Published May 9, 2020 Leave a comment

Due to the Covid-19 drama, the magazine has been unable to produce a printed version of the magazine this month.However, the whole edition is now available on-line – for free!Click on this link here and you will be taken straight to the page featuring my own piece. In this edition as you can see, I…

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The Bleeding Stone of Adulam, Bonymaen, Swansea

by gbadmin Published February 11, 2020April 20, 2021 Leave a comment

There has been a lot of interest recently in the tragic story of the Phillips sisters who drowned whilst collecting mussels. The piece was published in Welsh Country Magazine in January 2018 but has not appeared anywhere else. In order to allow more people to read it I have placed it below – The Bleeding…

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Dolgarrog Disaster 1925

by gbadmin Published November 1, 2019 Leave a comment

The terrible Dolgarrog Reservoir disaster of November 1925 in the Conwy Valley is the subject of my latest article in Welsh Country Magazine ( November 2019).Two dams, built to provide hydro-electric power for industrial purposes failed due to inadequate construction techniques. On a cold November evening 70 billion gallons of water poured down the hillside,…

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St Julitta’s Church, Capel Curig

by gbadmin Published October 2, 2019October 2, 2019 Leave a comment

We had a very good visit to Capel Curig in Snowdonia. We managed to avoid the worst of the showers at St Julitta’s Church as we researched a future article about Alice Douglas Pennant who is buried in the beautiful graveyard. We can certainly recommend a visit to this grade 2 listed building on the…

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The Story of Daniel James

by gbadmin Published September 9, 2019September 9, 2019 Leave a comment

My piece on page 7 of the September edition of Welsh Country Magazine is about the life of Daniel James, the man who wrote the words to the song Calon Lan, regarded by many as the alternative Welsh National Anthem. He was born in Treboeth in Swansea and had a tough life labouring in the…

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Llywelyn Fawr

by gbadmin Published July 4, 2019July 4, 2019 Leave a comment

My piece in the July 2019 edition of Welsh Country Magazine is about one of the great treasures of Wales, the sarcophagus of Llywelyn Fawr , who for a short time in the twelfth century was the ruler of most of Wales.You can find it in the Gwydir Chapel of St Grwst’s Church in Llanrwst in…

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Arise Evans (1607 – 1660)

by gbadmin Published June 20, 2019 Leave a comment

I have been busy recently writing some articles for Welsh Country Magazine. I have enjoyed researching the lives of three interesting women and clarifying the locations of their graves. Amelia Earhart is remembered in Pwll and in Burry Port, the late Victorian novelist Allen Raine ( her real name was Ada Puddicombe) from Tresaith is buried…

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