Author: gbadmin

Now available as a Flip Book Yes I have a new toy – a Flip Book programme If you would like to see how it works, then please click on the link below. This one is about Martha Nash, who was murdered in 1885 by her father. It is taken from my book, Swansea Murders,…

I am exploring the magic of Flip Books! In preparation for the release of my next book, Grave Tales From Wales Volume 2, I am releasing some examples of my work in flip book form. This is a clever little e-reader that operates like a book and is especially good on smart phones but it…

I found this story hidden away in The Cambrian newspaper of 6 January 1821. I love it – though it does have the air of an urban myth and, as you know, you can never be completely confident when a story begins in such an imprecise way. We are told that this happened in Reading…

The stories about children are always the most moving; they are always the hardest to write about. This one is no exception. A young boy of 11, John Ace, was sent down to Swansea beach at St Helens to collect sand for his father. He was digging at the very top of the beach, near…

We have our own familiar history of the First World War. Ypres, The Somme, trenches – and bewildered distressed young men with “shell shock” shot at dawn for desertion. Other countries have different stories from the war, their own horrors, their own shame. If you travel north east of Paris towards Soissons, you will find…

There was a great need for such provision across Swansea at the end of the nineteenth century to try and alleviate serious poverty especially in winter. Places like St Marks and Trinity Church were always appealing for funds.W. Watkins Edwards of St Marks Vicarage established a soup kitchen in Waun Wen in 1894. ‘For some…