It seems that the Radnorshire village of Howey has awakened from its slumbers to seek fame and fortune in the BBC and Big Lottery Fund Village SOS competition. Good luck to them.Looking at the before and after pictures in the bilingual directory, it's something of a shock to realise that your blogger is more familiar with the village in its late 19th Century guise rather than the present day. Certainly nothing much changed until the 1970s, when the Pentis - the old wooden smithy (middle distance) and the bakehouse (foreground) were knocked down. The less said about the Bridgend Inn being renamed the Laughing Dog the better.
Incidentally, I wonder if the regenerators of Ashfield are aware that the site was originally called Shimne Wen?
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I was really pleased to see that this had been done bilingually. Something is nagging at me that this was a political decision to present a wider image for potential funders. But I'd really like to think they just said "Sod it. We're in Wales; we've got two languages. Let's use them both!"
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