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Part 1: Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me
My next posts will be published one a day during this week so that I can share with you our research into a puzzling list of names on a gravestone in Nevern. I’ll be writing of the lives of the ladies that are listed and the circumstances … Continue reading
Posted in History, Religion
Tagged Bowen, Dinas, evacuees, Llwyngwair, Nevern, Salvation Army, St Brynach's Church, world war 2
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Evacuees remembered
There are plenty of clues that tell of the evacuation of people from the cities to our part of North Pembrokeshire during the early days of the Second World War. We know that our area welcomed young evacuees. They are smiling at … Continue reading
The ridiculous shame of poverty
In at least one respect Martha Ann’s (absent) husband was a good catch. David became a master mariner and was known locally as ‘Capten dwbl’ on account of the additional maritime certificates he was said to have acquired. Even a doubly qualified … Continue reading
Welcome to ‘Blas’
A five-hour walk along the mountain ridge from Dinas brought us into Newport for a very very late lunch. It was wonderful to sit down (warmly, comfortably and well looked after) inside and to be offered a great range of delicious … Continue reading
Keep the babies out of church
The porch of St Brynach’s church, Nevern, welcomes worshippers and visitors into the Church. It also offers warmth, shelter and safety to a family of swallows, one of whom flew out as I walked in, skimming over my head and missing me by … Continue reading
Left or right?
Both are delightful. When you get to the beach at Newport, turn left for the dunes. Turn right for these rock formations in the cliffs.
Posted in Nature, Sea, Walking
Tagged beach, cliffs, Dinas, Dinas Cross, Geology, Newport, sand dunes
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The essential accompaniment to Sunday breakfasts – Welsh diaspora, 1960s
To re-live the experience click here. (The Delysé record company was set up in 1954 by Isabella Wallich who was born in Italy to a musical family in 1916, but migrated to Britain with her family at the age of 5. … Continue reading
Gate of the Bones (or not)
There are very few street names in Dinas but this straggling village divides into smaller hamlets whose names form part of our addresses. Tegfan is situated in Iet-yr-Esgyrn or ‘Gate of the Bones’. Very satisfactory. It’s a dead-end quiet corner not far … Continue reading
Posted in History, Welsh language
Tagged Dinas, Dinas Cross, Iet-yr-Esgyrn, Pembrokeshire
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Finding the North Pole
In places where many unrelated families have the same surname* and people occupy the same land for generations, the name of a house becomes part of a persons’s identity, as gravestones testify. Was this house named as a wry comment on the poverty of the soil as … Continue reading
Posted in Farming, History, Sea
Tagged Dinas, Dinas Cross, Pembrokeshire, Pencaer, Strumble Head
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I’m not afraid of cows
Gate in the Gwaun Valley. Photo credit Ieuan Yusuf George But I’ll own up to being rather nervous of bullocks and heifers, as well as bulls – which often means avoiding fields that (from a distance) appear to have cows in. In … Continue reading
On the rocks
The rocks on Dinas’s beaches provide an anchorage for an interesting collection of molluscs and lichens, many of which are indicators that the air is clean and general pollution levels are low. Our local Cwm yr Eglwys is included on the Marine … Continue reading
Posted in History, Nature, Sea, Wildlife
Tagged Aberbach, beaches, Cwm yr Eglwys, Dinas, Dinas Cross
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Wynmor Owen – sculptor
Wynmore Owen comes from a seafaring family in Llangrannog, just 25 miles or so up the coast from Dinas but he has since moved even closer. His father and grandfather were mariners and Wynmor continues this close connection to the sea … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Crafts, Nature, Wildlife
Tagged chough, Dinas, Dinas Cross, Dinas head, Newport
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Tegfan, Dinas Cross 