The shepherd spent his days on the mountains of Llangattock. It was a solitary life, wet and cold in winter, hot and dry in summer. Each...

'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...

Many years ago in the village of Llanddeusant in the county of Carmarthenshire a young man lived with his mother. Their home was...

Pensioner Percy Thomas was sitting on a bar stool, in the Drover's Arms, enjoying his usual lunch-time pint. "A low melting alloy - six...

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

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...

The Magician, Dick Spot was going to Llanrwst and had been walking all day. It was getting late and he was tired, thirsty and hungry when...

Ask the residents of Swansea who Swansea Jack is and you are likely to hear several different answers. One person will tell you that any...

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

A time when 9,000 cattle swam across the Menai Strait.

I shall call the moving engine a locomotive,’ said Trevithick.

"A merry life and a short one shall be my motto," John Roberts, alias - Black Bart

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...

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...

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...

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

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...