HistoryPoints News

Apr 14, 2023

Tenby's Grand National winners


Tenby residents and visitors can now use their smartphones to discover the connection between former hotel stables and the Rees brothers - who won the Grand National in consecutive years. Our new QR codes at Brychan Yard ...

connect to a web page which explains that the stables were owned by local vet Brychan Rees, father of Fred and Lewis who won the race in 1921 and 1922. The page also includes a photo of a mural from when a room above the stables was a Catholic chapel, before the town's purpose-built Catholic church opened in 1893. Click here to view the web page.