Back in the 1950s Highland Moors on the outskirts of Llandrindod - you can just about make it out in this snap - was a residential school for pupils suffering with TB. The B&R reports that at a recent reunion a former pupil, Welsh rugby legend Clive Griffiths, made a speech. I think they meant Clive Rowlands.
If the B&R hasn't been the same since they took the advertisements off the front page then what about the Mid-Wales Journal? They report that author Catrin Daffyd recently spoke to pupils at Builth High School. Catrin Daffyd? Ignorance or a joke? Either way they should stop pretending to be a Welsh paper and go back to being called the Wellington Journal.
Meanwhile the Evening Standard manages a sly dig at Wales and the Eisteddfod in its review of the Indonesian martial arts epic The Raid*. Now I'm no great fan of the Gorsedd but what about the Hay Festival. The sight of the London glitterati being pursued by a bunch of Javanese kickboxers would be entertaining and socially useful.
* The film concerns a police team trapped in a tower block inhabited by homicidal criminals. Director Gareth Huw Evans is originally from Hirwaun. Hirwaun, tower block? That figures.
Meanwhile the Evening Standard manages a sly dig at Wales and the Eisteddfod in its review of the Indonesian martial arts epic The Raid*. Now I'm no great fan of the Gorsedd but what about the Hay Festival. The sight of the London glitterati being pursued by a bunch of Javanese kickboxers would be entertaining and socially useful.
* The film concerns a police team trapped in a tower block inhabited by homicidal criminals. Director Gareth Huw Evans is originally from Hirwaun. Hirwaun, tower block? That figures.
It was a TB sanatorium earlier than the 50s. My old man was there during WW2. The diaries are with County Archives.
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