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The completion Meeting
Simon and John Hume arrived at Phillips, Tate and Shrive's Cambridge law practice, a modern, glass fronted building on Station Road, at...
Graham Watkins
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Filling a plot hole.
An author's search for material to fill a plot hole in his novel. 'With one bound our hero was free' didn't cut it.
Graham Watkins
2 min read
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A Welsh protest to save the world.
Greenham Common Peace Protest. A protest to save the world that started in Wales.
Graham Watkins
7 min read
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Colin Jobsworth
Colin Jobsworth - A tale of a little man with a grand idea.
Graham Watkins
10 min read
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The Mart
A short story inspired by events at Llandeilo mart Carmarthenshire Wales.
Graham Watkins
6 min read
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Saint Chwyfan’s Cross.
A legend inspired by the ancient cross near Whitford. In 793, a band of heavily armed men landed from boats and destroyed the great abbey...
Graham Watkins
4 min read
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Rhys ap Thomas - Hero of Bosworth Field
According to the poet Guto’r Glyn, Rhys ap Thomas struck the blow that killed Richard III.
Graham Watkins
7 min read
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The Smallest House
Queen Elizabeth I was on the throne when a rather unusual house was built in Conwy. To keep the cost down, the builder wanted a site...
Graham Watkins
2 min read
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Swansea Jack
The incredible story of Swansea Jack
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4 min read
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The Feud
It began on show day when pensioner Arnold Hopkins, a little man with an inflated opinion of himself, won a prize. Arnold who regarded...
Graham Watkins
7 min read
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Gnoll Belvedere - A Story of Welsh Coal, Copper and Corruption.
Sir Humphrey Mackworth was an industrialist, lawyer and fraudster who studied the scriptures in his spare time. He was educated at...
Graham Watkins
4 min read
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The Wreckers of Cefn Sidan
The Wreckers of Cefn Sidan​ 'Gwyr-y-Bwyelli Bach' The people with little hatchets. The Captain of the La Jeune Emma peered through the...
Graham Watkins
4 min read
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The Land of the Dead
Gwyn ap Nudd was King of the Underworld and the mountains of Cadair Berwyn and Moel Sych his throne. His was a cold, barren kingdom...
Graham Watkins
5 min read
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The Mad King's Monument.
King George III, the first Hanoverian king of Britain who spoke English as his main language, had been on the throne for nearly forty...
Graham Watkins
3 min read
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Paxton's Tower, a nabob's revenge.
There is a strange looking gothic tower standing high above the Towy valley between Carmarthen and Llandeilo which was built by a...
Graham Watkins
4 min read
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The Devil's Bridge
The widow, Marged, lived on the south bank of Afon Mynach. For company she kept a little dog and a cow. Each morning, as the sun’s...
Graham Watkins
4 min read
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TÅ· Castell - Castle or Cow Shed.
The Elizabethan country house, Nercwys Hall, was built by John Wynn in the 1638. Wynn, a wealthy gentleman left the estate to his son...
Graham Watkins
2 min read
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Welsh Legends and Myths - King Arthur
In the Welsh legends Arthur’s sword Excalibur was ‘Caledfwlch.’ In the stories the sword was used to kill an Irish king.
Graham Watkins
5 min read
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Tan y Coed - A Smoker's Retreat.
Sir Charles Woodall, a shipping tycoon from Manchester, lived in Tan y Coed Hall, Colwyn Bay during the 19th Century. He was a passionate...
Graham Watkins
1 min read
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Swansea and the Sea
When Captain Dan Nicholas wrote his diaries, describing forty years at sea, he recorded that his father was a boy of ten when the French...
Graham Watkins
8 min read
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