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Behind this modest facade you’ll find what could be considered the HQ of the local textile craftspeople – of whom there are many. Twin sisters Catriona and Penelope, who run Jane’s Wool Shop and its lively Facebook page, have a great stock of … Continue reading
Ty Twt: a little museum in Newport
We took the long route from Tegfan (Dinas) to Ty Twt (Newport), going up the mountain behind Dinas, along the ridge to Carningli and then down to Newport. It was a wonderful walk and at the very end, as we … Continue reading
Posted in Crafts, Entertainment, History, Nature, Walking, Wildlife
Tagged Dinas, dolls' house museum, Newport
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The best of all possible worlds
Just because you are in an amazingly beautiful part of the world where population density (human) is low, it doesn’t mean that you have to miss the latest film releases or exciting metropolitan performances of High Culture. Theatr Gwaun, in Fishguard, … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Entertainment, Food
Tagged Abergwaun, Cinema, Dinas, Fishguard, Live entertainment, Theatre
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Part 7: Unknown lives. Guesses, Slivers of Information and Cul-de-sacs
W Adams, died June 30, 1941, 64 yrs Pembroke Dock Leah Hunt, died April 28, 1942, 76 yrs West Bromwich Mary J Albrow, died Nov 2, 1942, 87 yrs Stepney Annie E Smith, died Sept 11, 1943, 73 yrs Paddington … Continue reading
Posted in History, Religion
Tagged Dinas, Dinas Cross, east end, evacuees, Llwyngwair, Nevern, Pembrokeshire, Salvation Army
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Part 6: Friends
JESSIE A PRESS, DIED JULY 5, 1945, 83 YRS, STEPNEY The last name on the gravestone is that of Jessie Amina Press who was born in the East-end ward of St George in the East in 1862 – the same … Continue reading
Posted in History, Religion
Tagged Dinas, Dinas Cross, east end, evacuees, Jessie Press, Llwygwair, Nevern, Pembrokeshire, Salvation Army
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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
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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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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Tegfan, Dinas Cross 