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Picturesque tourism and industry: some links

February 9, 2021

These are links to the online texts that I’m using in my lecture to the...

On leaving memories behind

January 7, 2015

I now have my mother’s ashes in a neat little box on my bookshelf, between...

The Story of the Fox Inn, Juniper

July 24, 2022

(photo (c) Snidge, from https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/75/Juniper_Hill_-_geograph.org.uk_-_344120.jpg) Here are two inventories of the contents of a little...

Rees John of Cefn Llwyd

August 2, 2022

Some more of our family history has turned up in the papers of my late...

Sir Henry Sidney and the Three Bears

July 7, 2013

Heritage footpath projects are full of traps for the unwary. Footpaths tend to slice across...

Lost farms, lost settlements

April 23, 2020

To distract us during the lockdown, while we can’t do much in the way of...