Tag Archives: Pembrokeshire

Part 7: Unknown lives. Guesses, Slivers of Information and Cul-de-sacs

Posted on September 19, 2015 by bookvolunteer

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 | 3 Comments

Part 6: Friends

Posted on September 18, 2015 by bookvolunteer

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 | Leave a comment

Part 5: German Immigrant Families Bombed by the Luftwaffe

Posted on September 17, 2015 by bookvolunteer

AMELIA E BERNING, DIED AUG 29, 1944, 83 YRS, STEPNEY The ninth name on the gravestone is Amelia Caroline Berning. She was born in Yorkshire in 1862 to parents (Ludwig and Caroline Herman) who were recent immigrants from Hannover in … Continue reading →

Posted in History, Religion | Tagged evacuees, Llwyngwair, Pembrokeshire, Salvation Army, Second World War | 1 Comment

Gate of the Bones (or not)

Posted on August 21, 2015 by bookvolunteer

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 | Leave a comment

Finding the North Pole

Posted on August 18, 2015 by bookvolunteer

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 | Leave a comment

Pwnc (to rhyme with Nunc)

Posted on May 22, 2015 by bookvolunteer

Being the child of a mixed marriage – mother from a Catholic background and father from a Protestant, non-conformist, family – I had thought that those two versions of Christianity were at opposite ends of a very broad spectrum. But Whitsun … Continue reading →

Posted in History, Religion, Welsh language | Tagged Baptist chapel, Dinas, Dinas Cross, Pembrokeshire | Leave a comment

The foolishness of tax avoidance

Posted on April 28, 2015 by bookvolunteer

The sea wall at Cwm yr Eglwys was built to protect the graveyard after the great storm of 1859 had destroyed the Church and the sea threatened to encroach further and further inland with gruesome and distressing consequences. The Rev. Jones (writing … Continue reading →

Posted in History, Sea | Tagged Cwm yr Eglwys, Dinas, Dinas Cross, Pembrokeshire, Sea wall | Leave a comment

Garnwen’s Gourmet Goats

Posted on April 24, 2015 by bookvolunteer

The photo above was taken from Garnwen, a rocky outcrop at the Fishguard end of Dinas. This was one of my favourite places, as a child on holiday in Dinas. I loved running over the rocks to the top where … Continue reading →

Posted in Nature | Tagged Dinas, Dinas Cross, Garnwen, Pembrokeshire, Viola Lactea | 2 Comments

John Knapp-Fisher

Posted on April 14, 2015 by bookvolunteer

Although I see North Pembrokeshire in bright colours, John Knapp-Fisher’s muted earthy tones seem to faithfully portray the light and the shapes of this part of the world. He lived and worked at his studio gallery in Croesgoch on the St … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, books | Tagged Dinas, Dinas Cross, Pembrokeshire, Pwllgwaelod | Leave a comment

Pembrokeshire birds illustrated

Posted on April 3, 2015 by bookvolunteer

Posted in Art, Nature, Wildlife | Tagged Arctic Skua, Dinas, Dinas Cross, Gannet, Great black-backed gull, Guillemot, Manx Shearwater, Oyster catcher, Pembrokeshire, Puffin, R B Talbot Kelly, Robert Gillmor, Storm Petrel, Tunnicliffe | 2 Comments

One eisteddfod (eye-steth(e)-vod) Two eisteddfodau (eye-steth(e)-vod-eye)

Posted on March 13, 2015 by bookvolunteer

Every big national event spawns a plate – probably several – and the coming of the National Eisteddfod to Fishguard, our local market town, in 1986 was a big event to be celebrated and remembered for more than just the … Continue reading →

Posted in History, Welsh language | Tagged 1936, 1986, Abergwaun, Dinas, Dinas Cross, eisteddfod, Fishguard, Pembrokeshire | Leave a comment

On your marks, get set, don’t leap into the void!

Posted on March 10, 2015 by bookvolunteer

This first photo shows the side view of Tabor: a lovely chapel, cherished by a dwindling congregation that manages to maintain the building, with its precious links to Dinas’ history and emotional ties to past generations. The chapel, with its wall and railings, is one … Continue reading →

Posted in History, Religion | Tagged Baptist chapel, Cape of Good Hope, Dinas, Dinas Cross, Elizabeth Mendus, Glanavon, Mary Harries, Pembrokeshire, Tabor, Tymeini, William Harries | Leave a comment