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Humble home of Nelson's Emma
May 4, 2019Emma Hamilton mixed with the nobility and became famous as Lord Nelson's mistress and mother of his child, but her childhood home in Hawarden, Flintshire, was a simple thatched cottage. Her beauty turned heads and she modelled ...
[More]Canal boats in the moat
Apr 28, 2019The Norman castle at Pencelli, east of Brecon, has virtually disappeared yet part of its moat remains in water - and often used by canal boats. When the Monmouthshire & Brecon Canal was built in the 18th century, the ditch provided a ready-made ...
[More]Penny post's earliest advocate
Apr 20, 2019When Samuel Roberts of Llanbrynmair (near Machynlleth) had retired to live with his brothers in Conwy, the Government gave him £50 in recognition of his social and postal reforms. As a young man in the 1820s, he had advocated a system of penny post ...
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