Author: gbadmin

For us, this story started with a gravestone in the cemetery of St Tudno’s Church on the Great Orme in Llandudno. It was a little faded in places but still bright in the sunshine, the details of a lost story set against a blue sky. Inevitably, for us it was a beginning of a search,…

I can only show you some memorials – I can’t afford to visit where she rests, even if we could be sure where it was. There isn’t a grave, but then, there isn’t a body, for it might have been eaten by coconut crabs. Let us hope fervently that she died before they got to…

Landshipping is an unassuming little hamlet with an unusual name, between Haverfordwest and Tenby, where a quiet narrow road eventually decides to wander alongside the peaceful estuary. Here in a layby at the old quayside, with beautiful views across the water, you will find a modest but poignant memorial to forty  dead miners.  If mining…

 Cathays Cemetery – Cardiff  1886 – 1926 He is remembered in the name of a street a pub and a school in Cardiff. His achievements are recorded on a clock face in Cardiff Bay but his grave lies forgotten and neglected in Cardiff’s Cathays Cemetery. His gravestone tells us Captain E. T. Willows Only beloved…

The Unquiet Graves of Laugharne. It all started when they decided to exhume the pig, but we shall come to that in a moment.     This story time takes us back to Brixton Farm near Laugharne in Carmarthenshire in 1850. The farm is still there, a grade 2 listed building, and in 1850 the tenants were…

     The graves are immediately inside the gate across the road from the old Ramah Chapel in Bryn Henllan at Dinas Cross in Pembrokeshire. The graveyard is unkempt and overgrown, but you will find the three graves of the James family in a neat row right in front of you. They are fading and weathered…

The girl on the flying trapeze Fire took her from earth to air to water and then finally back to earth once more. Now Louisa Maud Evans rests in Cathays cemetery in Cardiff, beneath a white marble headstone. Brave woman, yet in years a childDark death closed here thy heavenward flight.God grant thee, pure and…

You will find the Chapel opposite the old post office on the corner as you drive into the village of Cribyn from Lampeter.  The compact graveyard at the rear is neat and well maintained. The gravestone you seek is still intact and easy to find and it will appear unexceptional to those who do not…