'Like one that on a lonesome road doth walk in fear and dread… because he knows a frightful fiend doth close behind him tread.' The Rhyme...

In the 1930s the political scene was changing across Europe. The Fuhrer, Adolf Hitler, and his Nazi Party had seized power in Germany. Be...

It was early, before the sun’s warming rays touched the land. A group of women waited with their donkeys for the tide to turn. Their feet...

"I am just going outside and may be some time.” Captain Lawrence (Titus) Oates 17th March 1912 In 1909, a young naval lieutenant named Edw...

In the Welsh legends Arthur’s sword Excalibur was ‘Caledfwlch.’ In the stories the sword was used to kill an Irish king.

A short story taken from my anthology 'A Walk in The Woods' It smells funny, not very nice. It's my first visit. I'm six years old in a s...

Speaking with a reader at a recent book fair I was interested to learn he'd been a boy-scout in Kenya and, every Sunday morning after chu...

When William Trench visited a group of islands off the coast of Anglesey known as The Skerries he came up with a money making idea. The n...

On the 26th November 1805 Pontcysyllte Aqueduct, designed by Thomas Telford, opened to great fanfare. It carried the canal, across the Ri...

Ernest Neap shuffled forward in the queue. He didn't feel conspicuous in his raincoat and white roll necked shirt. In fact, he'd dressed ...

In 1760, the Prime Minister, William Pitt, stated. ‘The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the force of the Crown. It may...

"Did you remember to bring it?" asks Sarah. I check again to make sure it's still there. The silver brooch in my pocket feels warm in my ...

Once a grand three storey building, Orielton Banqueting Tower, now stands alone and neglected in the south western corner of Wales. The t...

It was 1975 and my first visit to Soho Foundry, Birmingham, Head Office of W & T Avery Limited weighing machine manufacturers. Soho Found...

These signs have mark’d me extraordinary; And all the courses of my life do show I am not in the roll of common men. King Henry IV - Wi...

"... you the last I write of but the first and greatest in evil, more than many in ability but also in malice, more generous in giving bu...

Beneath a rocky outcrop, topped by Carreg Cennen Castle, there is a cave that reaches deep into the bowels of the earth. Within this cold...

A short story reproduced from my anthology 'A Walk in The Woods' Thomas Jones was a farmer and, like other farmers in the valley, he wore...

A painting of Philip Meakins Hardwick, in Monmouthshire Museum, portrays him as a portly gentleman who clearly enjoyed his food. During t...

Hen ddwyediad lleol – ‘Tri pheth o Fawddwy a ddaw, Dyn cas, nod cas, a glaw’. Old local saying – ‘Three things come from Mawddwy, hateful...