The Little Orme

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Chapel's debt to the Rev James

May 13, 2015

James Buckley's face is familiar to Welsh beer drinkers from labels on bottles of "The Rev James" ale. Another of his legacies is a Powys chapel built in 1798 on ...

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Sad tale of Lusitania stewardess

May 6, 2015

Cunard Line stewardess Mary Elizabeth Jones, of Llanfairfechan, was temporarily transferred from her usual ship to RMS Lusitania, shortly before the liner ...

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Miller's son who heard Titanic SOS

May 5, 2015

The first person in Britain to learn that the Titanic was sinking was Artie Jones, a miller's son from Pontllanfraith, near Caerphilly. Locals brought batteries ...

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