RADNORIAN

Llandod exiles might be interested in the Radnor Bird blog and their excellent snaps of the feathered inhabitants of the Spa town's fam...

In the summer of 1844 the English papers highlighted a Radnorshire wedding in the parish of Llanstephan. A blind former blacksmith from Gla...

OK let's be fair, maybe they can't do an ŵ! Oh and did Catrin really have a surname? Anyway enough of statues to victims, how about...

"Ripping up the stereotypes" the Western Mail boasts of its new series on the history of Wales. I wonder if at the end of the exe...

No doubt Radnorshire always proved a bit of a nuisance to the one-size-fits-all delusions of the Boundary Commission. Back in the 1940s they...

The stunted Scots Pines at Cors y Llyn

By 2010 you'd be hard put to purchase a pair of Y-fronts in the Spa town, never mind upmarket, posh stuff. Thank heavens for Tesco'...

Since the American Senate functions with just 100 elected members, Powys County Council can hardly complain about the Boundary Commission...

You can't really blame Powys Highways for some of the rather dubious bilingual signs appearing on Radnorshire roads - after all they...

My great grandparents Charles and Mary Jones and their offspring in a photograph taken around 1897. Mary was born in Llansawel and brought u...

It seems that an A35 van from the Automobile Palace was the machine of choice for many a discerning Radnorshire motorist of the late 50s and...

Back in 2006 I was excited to read a BBC news item announcing that Peter Bartrum 's lifetime's work of bringing order to the old ba...

The current issue of MotorSport has this snap of Ferrari 250GTO chassis number 3505GT on the cover. As I've mentioned before, as well a...

Danzy Jones is a whisky liqueur named after its originator, a Builth stonemason, and seemingly sold until the 1940s in the town's Founta...

It might be an idea for some wealthy patriot to buy up all the copies of this pretty little book and pulp them. After all Gwasg Carreg Gwal...

Anyone notice this map used in last night's second episode of Robert Bartlett's The Normans? Now I know that a few places in Gwent d...

Aficionados of women in motorsport should check out this new blog . As someone who finds modern day rallying and racing about as pointless a...

While trying to keep up with current events, I found this interesting quote in the 1873 Christmas Eve edition of the Western Mail, it's ...

Ever the optimist I'm looking forward to the BBC's new series on the Normans, which starts tonight. Usually my optimism is misplac...

We all know that bilingual signs enrage the Colonel Blimp types but isn't this a bit much? First off it isn't a bilingual sign at a...