RADNORIAN

It seemed an open and shut case, Samuel Williams of Norton had stolen Richard Stephens' coat. There was surprise when the jury asked if...

In 1910 it seems that a husband was legally responsible for the slanderous words uttered by his wife, which is why Mr J found himself as a d...

I bought this book - it's a general history of Britain up to the present day - a few years ago and I'd happily pass it on to Oxfam e...

If the Welsh dialect of St Harmon and Cwmteuddwr was similar to that of neighbouring Montgomeryshire and the lost dialects of places like Gl...

Just imagine what the BBC and its media pals would have made of this if it had been said by someone whose politics they didn't like, Con...

It's always interesting to check out the keywords used to find the blog. Some provide ideas for a post, while others just leave you puz...

Maybe it's old age but even today's stars seem less interesting than the spannermen of the 1950s. I doubt for example if Button or ...

Above is the somewhat Gothic war memorial in the Radnorshire village of Norton, it was designed to serve as a horse trough and drinking foun...

In the early 1630s a strapped-for-cash King Charles sold the crown estate of Maelienydd to some rogues or other, much to the consternation o...

An Englishman, an Irishman and a Scotsman walked into a bar ............ the Welshman was still in New Zealand.

On the face of it Enoch Powell isn't a Forgotten Radnorian at all. His Radnorshire connections are mentioned in biographies written by ...

So the new £50 note, featuring former Radnorshire resident James Watt, comes into circulation on 2nd November. By the time the current gener...

Since 120 years is hardly any time at all in Radnorshire terms, you will forgive your blogger for being somewhat reticent in naming names an...

I knew that Winifred the mother of the poet Kit Smart was a Radnorian, indeed he boasted of the fact - who wouldn't - in Jubilate Agno:...

Your blogger has been looking at the 1901 Census for the town of Merthyr Tydfil, specifically at Radnorian migrants. At not much more than ...

Radnorian was glancing through an old book, well one published in 2006, which stated that there had been no inter-breeding between Neander...

Did Radnorian miss something? While he was hiding out at Lloches Lewsyn (see new header pic) did some subliminal message broadcast by the BB...

Well actually it's Athens although Melbourne may well be third. Look back at the census returns for the beginning of the twentieth cent...

Pictured is a Radnorian hero, Thomas Weale (1791-1863) a leader of the opposition to the Watt family's enclosure of the manor of Iscoed ...

A minor celeb - I think a pit lane reporter for Radio Five still counts as minor - got engaged last week to someone called Walbyoff - a Russ...