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Graham Watkins
Jul 10, 20208 min read
Swansea and the Sea
When Captain Dan Nicholas wrote his diaries, describing forty years at sea, he recorded that his father was a boy of ten when the French...
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Graham Watkins
Apr 5, 20204 min read
The Cockle Women of Penclawdd
It was early, before the sun’s warming rays touched the land. A group of women waited with their donkeys for the tide to turn. Their feet...
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Graham Watkins
Oct 8, 20187 min read
The Press Gangs of Swansea
In 1803 a Royal Naval Officer named William Harries visited the tiny hamlet of Llangynnwr in Carmarthenshire. With him were several burly...
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Graham Watkins
Mar 4, 20172 min read
The Murder of Elizabeth Jones
The sad case of Elisabeth Jones of Gwynfe, her baby and her lover.
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