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BATTLE OF STALLING DOWN FOUGHT ABOUT MID JULY 1403: EXCELLENT LOCATION FOR PATRIOTS RALLY OR PICNIC WHY NOT COMING SUNDAY IF SUNNY - Take Plenty of Banners and Flags:
... 'Dydd y Senedd' 21 Mehefin 1400 Prif Gŵyl Tywysog Owain Glyndŵr up and running annually ... CASTLE SEIGE 1407 – 2007 COMMEMORATIONS: In particular, ...Carmarthen with a major Hâf Glyndŵr Summer Weekend outing in Ystrad Tywi during July... Pobl Glyndŵr gathering during a 'Haf Glyndŵr 1403 - 2003 Commemoration. ...
9 Mar 2007 – Promoting an interest in the history of Owain Glyndwr, the Welsh Son of ....July 1403 'Haf Glyndwr', the major Western 'Ystrad Tywi' Glyndwr annual ... *An annual Commemorative Gwyl Glyndwr has been held at Coity since ...
23 Jan 2007 – Owain Glyndwr Communicates. Promoting an interest in the history ofOwain Glyndwr, ... the Castle of Carmarthen surrenders, without a fight,
The Battle of Stalling Down is a battle reputed to have taken place in the late ... The general site is known locally as Bryn Owain, meaning Owain's Hill. ..
31 Aug 2008 – BRWYDR BRYN OWAIN ( The Battle of Stalling DOWN) Bontfaen Gorffennaf 1403. . On Saturday 30 Awst 2008, an Embassy Glyndŵr Staff Field Trip .
The Battle of Stalling Down. 1405. Stalling Down, Cowbridge, Glamorgan (the site was also known as 'Bryn Owen' (Owens Hill). Welsh and French under Owain ...
19 May 2011 – The Battle of Stalling Down and the Battle of St Fagans are among ...The general site is known locally as Bryn Owain, meaning Owain's Hill ...
1 Sep 2008 – Promoting an interest in the history of Owain Glyndwr, ... site of the 'Battle of Bryn Owain' fought mid to late July or, could have been August 1403. ... Glyndŵr and the fact that he recognized Bryn Owain/Stalling Down ...
4 Jan 2011 – Printer Icon Printer friendly version of the Site of the Battle of Stalling Down1405 map ... Bryn-y-Ddafad Country Guest House. Guest House ...
5 Apr 2011 – The Battle of Stalling Down is a battle reputed to have taken ... The general site is known locally as Bryn Owain, meaning Owain's Hill. ..
6 Jul 2007 – Promoting an interest in the history of Owain Glyndwr, the Welsh Son of Prophecy, .... the keys of Carmarthen Castle were handed to Owain Glyndŵr. ... were indeed 'Haf Glyndŵr' and it was these events in the summer of 1403, ... Pact'' will disintegrate and any likely coalition will fall apart. ...
The Sacking of Carmarthen Workhouse Return to Menu Carmarthenshire FHS, 2000. Monday proved to be a glorious June day. In the early hours small groups were ... www.carmarthenshirefhs.info/scmnwhs.htm - Cached
The Gate house is a historic building being the former main access to the Carmarthen Workhouse/Infermary. During the Rebecca Riots, the Gatehouse was ...
Llanfyllin Workhouse is a historic building of major importance, set in glorious Welsh countryside. It is home to a unique project: a community enterprise ... www.llanfyllinworkhouse.com/ - Cached
The Workhouse Project is all about creating new possibilities of work, ... International Group of Students from the Welsh School of Architecture ... www.llanfyllinworkhouse.com/ - Cached
The Workhouse has a really bad image in history, so how is it that a basically useful, if not good social initiative gets such a bad historical press. Sadly my Mam is in care, cannot walk and her eyesight and earing is none too good. she has Dementia and if she remembers anythng at all it's of her days as a young girl in Merthyr and then as a young women about to be married. of late she does not do a lot of talking and if she does it's to ask me if I have seen her Mam and Dad, his dogs. She asks me about her Merthyr Pond Side neighbours and School and other Freinds, even enquires about her Bridesmaid. Amazing what she does think about and ask me of, the Salvation Army, Band of Hope and if the Rag and Bone man as well Milk Man and Ice Cream Man calls around.
Pic: Mam is sitting centre row in middle, five from left and four from right.
Obviously Merthyr and Childhood made a big impression on her and this is despite fact she grew up in the depression years, she once told me that her Mam took in young miners as lodgers and would make them sandwiches to take to Work but they would as often as not leave them behind for Mam, then a young child and thin and those young men considering she needed the food more than they. Mam and many Merthyr girls were so in need of building up and having an holiday that the Young Womens Christian Association took them on a weeks holiday to Barry to get some sea air and feed them up. I have a postcard from Mam to her Mam from this holiday and written on the back is a mention that she was weighed and the weight was given, diffrent days from now of young girls being over weight as the problem. I asked Mam what was her favourite Christmas Present, she said a Tamborine just like the girls who went to the Band of Hope. What did she like best after School, tieing a skipping rope to a lamp post and with her pals skip away, I guess with out a care in the world.
Mam as very young girl.
Doreen Mary Elizabeth Hughes
b: Merthyr Tudful 1922
Yes! different days, when visiting Mam in her care homeI look around at other people in care, one dear lady cannot understand why she cannot go home with her visiting daughter? An old fella sits in an Arm Chair talkng to his Wife but she's not there. I guess one has to smile a bit on hearing the tale of how a resident in a dressing gown got out, to be found standing by the bar in a local pub waiting for someone to buy her a drink, instead a Policeman came to take her back along with the doll she constantly nursed. I mention the above and many will recognise what I am saying and have seen it all for themselves, the good and bad of it all - The Vale of Tears. Many of us will enter into sooner as later, time goes by so fast. Advice to those who as of yet have not entered that vale, if there is anything you want to say to, or ask your parents do so now. I was left with the family postcard and photograph album started by my Grand mother, often looked at them as a kid but later why on Earth did I not ask Mam more about the photos going back to Edwardian days, upon the back of which is wriiten so little or not at all. Mow she cannot see them properly, let alone remember much about them. Ironic, I know more about Welsh History than I do about Family History, lesson to you youngsters put the family history first before it's too late.
Pic below: Mam's Mam, as a young women she had been a barmaid in Merthyr and just before WWI a barmaid in Port Talbot, out of which comes an interesting story as how she came to start collecting postcards in the first place. Am still researching this one as it is an interesting story of 'Love and War', a good period piece too of a Wales long gone by.
So what's all this got to do with Work Houses, not much really though I would not be too suprised to have found an ancestor had been a guest in a Workhouse. What the above has got to do with Work Houses, is that looking at residents in care I have wondered what happened to the aged, not least those infirm and with dementia etc in history back to earliest times. What is the history of the Workhouse and what then? after visiting Carmarthen Workhouse it prompted me to look into this more after seeing some info there stating the NHS had taken it over. Further, a Blind School had been established there.
by SR Ottaway - 2006 This superbly illustrated collection of essays covers the history of old age in ... accurate depictions of older people from the nineteenth century onwards. ... ehr.oxfordjournals.org/content/CXXI/493/1198.full - Similar
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Historian Simon Fowler has argued that workhouses were "largely designed for a ... of theBritish population may have been accommodated in workhouses at any ... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workhouse - Cached - Similar
A parliamentary report of 1777 recorded parish workhouses then in operation in England andWales. Of almost 2000 entries, only 19 were in Wales, ... www.workhouses.org.uk/Wales/ - Cached
WE ARE DELIGHTED TO MAKE AVAILABLE THE FOLLOWING PUBLICATION CD ROM ENTITLED ADULT PAUPERS IN WELSH WORKHOUSES FOR A CONSECUTIVE PERIOD OF FIVE YEARS. www.skeletonsinthecloset.co.uk/adult-paupers-in-welsh-workhouses-1861-cd-rom-1231-p.asp- Cached
Jump to Workhouses under the Old Poor Law: 1723 Knatchbull's Act allowed English andWelsh parishes to build workhouses without first taking out ... www2.rgu.ac.uk/publicpolicy/introduction/historyf.htm - Cached - Similar
Its impact on the provision of poor relief was dramatic: by the 1770s the number of parishworkhouses in England and Wales had soared to around 2000. ... www.historyextra.com/workhouse - Cached
During the late middle ages (1000-1500) because of crowding and poor ... were dependent upon the economic support of the people requiring care. ... The views of the well to do upon the nursing care of the sick, mentally ill, elderly, ...
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Photos above Carmarthen Work House, shame for it to be pulled down, better a community centre or even proper homes for the aged and poor. Not least radicals should hold an annual march on the work house and rally on 19 June.
22 Jun 2011 – The attack on Carmarthen Workhouse took place in what was to be a very ...PITCHFORK and PIKE: SUNDAY OUTING FOLLOWING REBECCA TO THE . ...
