RADNORIAN

Gwenda Glubb's motoring exploits are well known - she raced variously as Janson, Stewart and perhaps most famously as Gwenda Hawkes in ...

No 147 A Request for Cattle to Annes Aubrey and Isbel vz Rhys Two women more kindly bred Than any two alive, as God is a surety. Annes Aubre...

Welsh constructor Cyril Kieft's Formula One car could have been a world championship challenger in the 1950s. The project came to a hal...

I guess everyone knows that Max Mosley, president of FIA, is the son of Sir Oswald Mosley, leader of the pre-war British Union of Fascists ...

The County Times failed to recognize a former Grand Prix driver and Radnorshire resident in this story from the back end of 2004.

A Letter to the Times dated 16th January 1878

This a praise poem by Lewis Glyn Cothi addressed to Bedo Chwith of Bryn Pennardd, Cregrina. You can see the site of Bryn Pennardd in the pho...

Considering that he was the first statesider to compete in a World Championship Grand Prix (Belgium 1952) precious little seems to be known ...

Brynfan Tyddyn, great 1950s road racing circuit, lot of big names raced there. Like who? Carroll Shelby, Phil Hill So it was an old airfield...

DNA, archaeogenetics - all exciting stuff for those of us with an interest in Welsh history - a chance to discover lost origins and populati...

At the back end of 1968 the Royal Welsh Agricultural Society submitted plans to the local authority for the provision of a road racing circu...

How many people realise that the young lady with the necktie in Brassai's famous picture "Lesbian Couple at Le Monocle" is the...

A reader enquires who was Major Rupert Robinson who helped Innes Ireland purchase his first Lotus XI at the tail end of the 1956 season? Inn...

This Wedding Ode was composed for the marriage of Robert Whitney of the tiny Marcher lordship of Whitney, now just across the English border...

After a couple of lessons with the Cooper Racing Drivers' School, 21 year-old Jack bought the ex-Ivor Bueb Formula 3, Cooper-Norton for ...

The small balcony where Sir Francis Edwards spoke can just be seen by the pole holding the Victoria Hall sign. Here's a taste of life in...

After a race long struggle with Rodriguez in the works Ferrari Jack Lewis, at the wheel of his Ecurie Gallois BRM, settles for third place ...

1959 Lavant Cup, Cooper T45-Climax (F2), 11th British Empire Trophy, Cooper T45-Climax (F2), 14th Aintree 200, Cooper T45-Climax (F2), 7th P...

Parry Thomas, a sketch by Algernon Rowe