Former upland railways, near Dolgarrog

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No man shall marry his granny

Aug 6, 2015

A large stone tablet at St Edmund's Church, Crickhowell, was inscribed in the 18th century with lists of people whom men and women couldn't marry, including their ...

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The bardic black chair of 1876

Jul 23, 2015

The posthumous bardic chair for Hedd Wyn, killed in the First World War, was famously covered with a black cloth, but that was not the first time the National Eisteddfod ...

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A palmist and a lovelorn governess

Jul 18, 2015

Madame Marriott, palmist at Cardiff's Royal Arcade, was embroiled in a sensational court case in 1904 after a Swiss governess threatened to kill the priest she had fallen in love ...

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