walkingnewspaper (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
These past days, I had been bombarded with lotsa study because of the coming holidays, as I call it, but it'd be intramurals in the university (that I am in now) and a fest here in Dumaguete City. The fest will start this Tuesday, Nov. 24 and that falls my birthday . While our intramurals will be from Thursday until Nov. 30. And now, with these days I wanna go to somewhere that I could spend my birthday!...
Brew Wales (Free subscription) | 15/10/2009
The Star Inn, Talybont-on-Usk will be holding their first beer festival this weekend, the 17th & 18th October. The pub will also be celebrating their Pub of the Year 2009 award from Brecknock CAMRA. Real ales from local breweries such as Breconshire, Kingstone, Celt Experiance an Wye Valley will be available along with live music and food. Although the Star is a small, roadside inn, not too far...
GENEALOGE (Free subscription) | 02/10/2009
Raglan Village Monmouthshire, Wales, UK Raglan Village (1254) exists in the shadow of Raglan Castle. The link between the Castle and Village was broken after the castle was destroyed in 1646. Subsequently, the Duke of Beaufort, owner of the ruins of Raglan Castle and the lands surrounding Raglan continued to be an important influence in Village life until 1920 when his lands were sold. During the Napoleonic...
upside down in cloud (Free subscription) | 09/09/2009
Of c ourse, and never mind what RS Thomas says , you can't live in the past: but every now and then you can take a day trip there , if only to worry the carcase of an old song. Saturday afternoon found me heading for the Valleys in , let's say, 1974 or so . So of course I couldn't use the Second Severn Crossing to get there, which suited me just fine. The old Severn Bridge feels much more bridge-like,...
Mary in Monmouth (Free subscription) | 29/08/2009
St David Lewis, SJ Priest M (RM) He was born at Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, Wales, in 1616; He died at Usk, August 27, 1679; beatified in 1929; He was canonized in 1970 by Pope Paul VI as one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales. David was the son of a Protestant school master and a Catholic mother. Amazingly enough, he was the only one of the nine siblings to have been raised as a Protestant--but...
Tog Blog (Free subscription) | 24/08/2009
I spent the last weekend at a fantastic boutique festival in Wales called Croissant Neuf. Taking place just outside Usk, Monmouthshire, it has been going for around 30 years and has a distinct hippie vibe to it, reminiscent of the Woodstock-era. The entire event was solar powered (from the lighting and amps to the showers), had [...]
The Green Connoisseur Blog (Free subscription) | 19/07/2009
Looking for great entertainment and headed to England during the summer? Want to do some festivals, but not really into the whole Renaissance Faire thing? Here’s a few possibilities. First, there’s the circus: the Green Roadshow makes its home in Somerset but travels throughout the country doing entertaining and educational events related to sustainability. It’s the only solar powered...
My Home Town Schools Reunions Blog (Free subscription) | 05/07/2009
If you are thinking of holding a school reunion for past students of Davington School in Usk Monmouthshire then the school message boards are now open, if you like you can also post any old pictures direct to the school photo gallery too. We would like to thank Marion Thomas for sending us the contact [...]
icWales (Free subscription) | 08/05/2009
Talent show judges are treated to a high-pitched version of Nessun Dorma by 24-year-old hotel waiter Greg Pritchard from Usk, Monmouthshire.
GENEALOGE (Free subscription) | 29/09/2008
RootsWeb's WorldConnect Project: WATKINS LAPHAM updated 2007 : "# Name: Alfred Henry (David) Watkins # Sex: M # ALIA: /David/ # Birth: 17 AUG 1907 in Usk Monmouthshire 1 # Death: 24 SEP 1942 in HMS Somali" HMS Somali was torpedoed on the 20th of September, 1942 while escorting Convoy QP14 homeward bound from Archangel to the U.K. She was towed 420 miles by HMS Ashanti but broke in two on...
Archaeology in Europe (Free subscription) | 20/09/2008
Usk Castle Friends will be hosting an unusual conference on October 11 in a joint venture with Monmouthshire Antiquarians Association. “We are delighted to be able to join with this prestigious local organisation,” said chairman Virginia Hoselitz. “This year's conference will be on the mediaeval towns of Monmouthshire. In a departure for us, it will be an all-day conference, and we...
GENEALOGE (Free subscription) | 16/06/2008
Gwatkin One-Name Study : "The earliest use of Gwatkin and its variants that I have found is in 1428, when Thomas ap Gwatkyn is described as living at or owning land known as Tyre Nest in the area of Woluesnewton, Usk, Monmouthshire (Badminton Deeds, National Library of Wales). Surnames, in the sense in which we use them now, came into use gradually in Wales and the Welsh border counties over the...
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