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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...
Graham Watkins
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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...
Graham Watkins
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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...
Graham Watkins
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The Murder of Elizabeth Jones
The sad case of Elisabeth Jones of Gwynfe, her baby and her lover.
Graham Watkins
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