Graham Watkins
Birth of a Salesman - And it's not a play by Arthur Miller.
It was 1975 and my first visit to Soho Foundry, Birmingham, Head Office of W & T Avery Limited weighing machine manufacturers. Soho...
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Graham Watkins
Sep 8, 20194 min
Owain Glyndwr
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 -...
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Graham Watkins
Aug 25, 20195 min
Maelgwn Gwynedd and the Yellow Eye
"... 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...
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Graham Watkins
Aug 15, 20193 min
The Sleeping Prince of Carreg Cennen
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...
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Graham Watkins
Aug 5, 20195 min
Tom Wellies takes a Bath
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...
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Graham Watkins
Jul 28, 20194 min
The Kymin - A folly of voluptuary and gluttony
A painting of Philip Meakins Hardwick, in Monmouthshire Museum, portrays him as a portly gentleman who clearly enjoyed his food. During...
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Graham Watkins
Jul 26, 20196 min
The Completion Meeting
Phillips, Tate and Shrive's Cambridge law practice was a modern, glass fronted building on Station Road. Simon and John Hume were taken...
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Graham Watkins
Jul 14, 20193 min
The Red Bandits of Mawddwy
Hen ddwyediad lleol – ‘Tri pheth o Fawddwy a ddaw, Dyn cas, nod cas, a glaw’. Old local saying – ‘Three things come from Mawddwy, hateful...
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Graham Watkins
Jun 27, 20195 min
Swansea - Incendiaries and High Explosives
The rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party in Germany was viewed with concern by the British Government. A lone voice had been warning...
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Graham Watkins
Jun 18, 20196 min
Thomas Picton - Welsh Hero or Monster
Thomas Picton - Welsh Hero or Monster; you decide.
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Graham Watkins
Jun 2, 20194 min
Nantyglo Roundhouses - Riots, masters and men.
In the 19th Century, the South Wales valleys underwent dramatic industrial change. People arrived in their thousands, looking for work...
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Graham Watkins
May 5, 20192 min
The Enemy Within - A Dystopian Crime Thriller
Yesterday I was asked where the ideas for my new dystopian crime novel The Enemy Within came from. It's an interesting question which...
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Graham Watkins
May 5, 20193 min
The Hallelujah Obelisk - 'Praise the Lord' but it also means, 'Fools.'
In 1736, landowner Nehemiah Griffiths, who lived near Mold built an obelisk in one of his fields. The stone monument he erected included...
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Graham Watkins
Apr 21, 20193 min
Prospect Tower - Bats and a copper bottomed story.
Robert Morris moved from Shropshire to Swansea, in 1724, to work as the manager of Llangyfelach Copper Works. When the proprietor of the...
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Graham Watkins
Apr 7, 20194 min
The Rape of Wales
After conquering the Silure, the last resisting Welsh tribe, in AD 76, Governor Frontinus began the next phase of Roman occupation;...
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Graham Watkins
Mar 24, 20193 min
Jersey Marine Tower. Rocky Marciano's Wartime home?
In 1886, the brewer Captain Evan Evans was looking to diversify his business. Brewing beer was profitable but he wanted to expand and...
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Graham Watkins
Mar 10, 20194 min
The Spirit of Llandegla.
It was Sunday morning and Llandegla Parish Church was full. The congregation waited, patiently at first and then with increasing...
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Graham Watkins
Feb 24, 20196 min
The Reckoning
'Due to me this day £4. 7s and...' Ink falls from the nib onto the page. It runs, like a tiny black stream, across the words. I return...
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Graham Watkins
Feb 10, 20195 min
The Mermaid of Cemaes Head
Peregrine was a fisherman, like his father and his grandfather before him, a hard workingman used to the harsh life of working the nets...
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Graham Watkins
Jan 28, 20195 min
Rowland Lee - The Hanging Judge who boasted he executed 5000 Welshmen
Rowland Lee was born in 1487, two years after the Battle of Bosworth. Originally from Northumberland, he was educated at Cambridge,...
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