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September 2023

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4 Sound of Freedom

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6 The Girl Loves her Nanna

by Wyn Evans 10 And Another Thing

by Vince Nolan

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Sound of Freedom

Sound of Freedom will be hitting cinemas this September and it’s one film you won’t want to miss.

The movie is directed and co-written by Alejandro Monteverde and inspired by the true story of Tim Ballard.

Jim Caviezel plays Tim Ballard, a former government agent working with police to arrest people who possess and share child pornography.

A father is approached by a former beauty queen Giselle. She offered to sign his two children up to a modelling contract. The father agrees and takes them to a photo shoot in Honduras. On his return the building is empty with no trace of Giselle or his children.

As the content of the story is of a delicate nature, the scenes were carefully put together without the need for viewers to see upsetting content.

Although the story is of a dark nature, progress has been made. The agent Tim Ballard and his team managed to rescue 54 minors and 123 individuals at two additional locations.

Released by Angel Studios. It has become one of the most successful independent films in its history.

The film is not overly acted which makes it authentic in its purest form. Much care has been taken to put the message across without the need for shock factors.

Both children Miguel and his sister Rocio had been lured to the shoot under false pretences and sold to child sex traffickers.

Meanwhile the special agent and his team were continuing to make arrests but not a single child had been saved from exploitation. Mainly due to the fact that children were moved outside of the US. A plan was formed to bring down a trafficker which subsequently led him to the father’s son, Miguel. Miguel pleaded for him to find his sister Rocio. Funding wasn’t available to carry out further investigations so he resigned from his position and embarked on a rescue mission to save her.

Released in UK Cinemas from the 1st September 2023.

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The Girl loves her Nanna and Grand-dad.?!” byWyn Evans

It’s odd isn’t it, what we call our parents’ parents? their grandmother.

A recent magazine article(1) pointed out that English has a wide variety of different terms for My family can attest to the use of unique names. grandparents. In Britain, it’s influenced by region, We had a ‘Nanna’, so far so traditional, but my social class and family tradition, and changes grandfather was known as Dicko. Never being the over time. The same article reported that, after sharpest pencil in the case I thought everybody surveying 2,000 British adults a Telecom company had a “Nanna and Dicko”. To this day I remember found that for British grandmothers the top five garnering a few odd looks when I once asked names in order of popularity nationally are Nan some classmates whether they used to have (33%), Grandma (32%), Nana (24%), Nanny fun playing with their Dickos. Of course, in some (22%) and Granny (14%). Only one-in-ten use the degree of mitigation, my parents had never term Gran. The name Nan is the most popular for explained to me that Dicko was short for Richard a grandmother in Liverpool (65%) and Brighton and that it was a unique name for Grandad rather (51%), and half of Welsh grandmothers are also than a generic term.

Of course, here referred to as Nan. Only 8% of grandmothers in in Wales we tend also use Mamgu or Nain for Glasgow and 6% in Edinburgh are identified as grandmother, and Tadcu or Taid for grandad. such. In Northern Ireland only 4% are identified as In Swansea, we have friends who use Pops or Nan, with Granny (43%) and Nanny (39%) taking Bamps. Where families are lucky enough still the honours. to have all four grand-parents alive and well, the kids might differentiate by use of surnames: For grandfathers the most popular name nationally ‘Nanna Evans’ or ‘Grandad Griffiths’. is Grandad, with 68% using this. It is especially favoured in the north (e.g, in Sheffield where 96% The Girl, my seventeen year old daughter, who are known as Grandad). In contrast, only one has Down Syndrome, spent this last weekend in in five Brits opts to use Grandpa (22%). Unique Drax (near Selby, North Yorkshire), with her mum names for this generation are twice as likely to be (The Boss) visiting her Nanna and Grandad. used for grandfathers as grandmothers. Some of Nanna has recently had a spell of ill-health the names cited for grandmothers include Boo, necessitating some time as a hospital in-patient.

Mimi and Nanan. For grandfathers such terms of Though she’s been much better of late Nanna endearment include Pa, Papa and Captain. People has been seriously poorly. It was The Girl’s first living in Cardiff and Plymouth are more likely to visit since Nanna had been hospitalised. The use a unique name for their grandfather and those Boss says our daughter held her emotions in in Nottingham, London and Leicester likewise for check very well until the Saturday night. They 6 CARDIFF TIMES

were due to return on Sunday and were packing some of their gear away in readiness. Suddenly, the Girl held on to her mam and started crying: “I’ll never see Nanna again”. She was disconsolate. It was a lovely demonstration of the depth of her feelings towards her grandparents.

It was also further proof of how quickly kids can be reassured; The Boss held her at arm’s length, looked her straight in the eyes, and assured her that “Nanna has been very poorly, but she’s doing much better now and is not about to die.

Of course you’ll see her again”. Cue The Girl immediately cheering-up (“Oh, Ohh!” smiling “that’s all right then!” and continuing with her packing without a care in the world).

It’s amazing what a bit of reassurance can do for a person if it comes from the right source at the right time. Nearly eighteen years ago The Boss had been admitted to the University Hospital of Wales as a precautionary measure. She was due to have an elective caesarean in a few weeks time but was admitted early for observation and went into labour within two days. The Girl was born five weeks and two days early by means of an emergency caesarean. When The Boss started going into labour the Midwife rang me at home (as had been agreed) and told me to come along immediately. We had our prep bag all packed and all I had to do was pick it up and drive to the hospital. Instead, I had a funk, an attack of the vapours, a panic attack, call it what you will. I remember standing in our nicelyappointed kitchen holding the land line to my ear, immobile, at a complete loss as to what to do next.

Midwife: Mr Evans, are you there Mr Evans?

Me: Um, I don’t know.

Midwife: Mr Evans, you don’t know whether you are there?!

Me: Yes. I mean no! I am here. I don’t know what to do next.

Midwife: You have your prep bag ready? Pick it up and bring it to the hospital.

wear.

Midwife: well what are you wearing Mr Evans?

Me: Um, jeans and a T-shirt.

Midwife: that will do nicely. Will you be OK to come in now?

Me: Um, jeans and a T-shirt.

Midwife: that will do nicely. Will you be OK to come in now?

And there it was, suitably reassured by the midwife, everything clicked back into place and my brain fog cleared. I don’t know where my last minute concern about what to wear had come from but had it not been for that Midwife I might still be standing in that kitchen holding the land line and fretting whether jeans were an acceptable form of dress for the birth of a new baby.

And now my baby girl is a young woman.

Whenever she and The Boss travel back to Wales from England by car she’s developed a habit of doing a little dance in her seat and singing a little ditty: “going home to Wales going home to Wales, computer, snack, and dancing”; these being the things she has missed most in the course of her time away. (Playing on her computer; making a cup of Cadbury’s hot chocolate to go with a packet of Walker’s cheese and onion crisps and a banana; and turning the stereo up loud then singing and dancing to it.)

Last time this happened The Boss mock-chided her for not mentioning ‘seeing daddy again’ and for not having her snack before playing on the computer.

So fair dos to the kid; when they drove back from Drax yesterday, her ditty went: ‘“going home to Wales going home to Wales, seeing my lovely dad again, have my snack, play on the computer, and do lots of dancing”. ‘There mum, I even got the order right!”’.

Footnotes1. https://www.whodoyouthinkyouaremagazine.com/news/ what-do-the-british-call-their-grandparents/

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‘And Another Thing...’

Smorgasbord or Panoply?

byVince Nolan

Be fair, an interesting title, I think you will agree which somehow sums up the rubbish what I do write. As you will know, Panoply is an extensive collection and Smorgasbord, a wide range of something. So here goes with my Moving on, something else that has been extensive wide range of something. bothering me of late is the increasingly popular I was recently disturbed by a loud noise at the use of goats in TV adverts. The Chinese Year front of Nolan Towers having just returned from of the Goat is 2027 but nobody has told Lynx taking the Current Mrs Nolan to her unarmed anti-perspirant or Virgin Media. I fail to see combat class (she teaches it). I witnessed any relevance to goats in either advert. I even our neighbour in his front garden starting an read that somebody asked Virgin if the goat in electric lawn mower. Nothing wrong with that I their advert was real. A polite spokesperson hear you say. However, he has artificial grass. confirmed that it was a CGI image. I would He then proceeded to “mow” his hedge. It have said to them: “ We thought we would train quickly became clear to me that a mower is Billy from a kid to jump off things hanging from not designed for vertical cutting and his hedge a small kite. Upon achieving his pilot’s licence was very woody and fought back at every and adulthood we strapped him to a hangopportunity. Holding the mower at a jaunty glider and chucked him off a mountain top. angle was also inviting electrocution but he Thought it would be good telly mate.” Staying managed to avoid that. The hedge has now with Capra Hircus (see what I did there), a so many gaps, differing levels and colours that mate of mine bought a farm with its own well. I it resembles somebody who has studiously threw a stone down it to see how deep it was. avoided the dentist for many years. On I couldn’t hear the splash so decided to try reflection, he should have employed cuttingsomething a little bigger. I noticed a large log hedge technology. Alternatively, he could have lying on the floor so I threw that down too. Out contacted my mate Dave who trims maze of the corner of my eye, I saw a goat charging hedges for a living but a man like that is hard towards me. I just about managed to get out to find. For you clever ones out there, what do the way before the goat jumped down the well. you call a bleak future society in which people My mate came over to me and asked if I had are forced by the state to trim hedges into seen a goat. I didn’t want to tell him that it was decorative shapes? A dystopiary! down the well so said no. Never mind he said it can’t have gone that far as it was tied to a large log. Hence the saying whatever floats your goat.

I bought a gilet the other day from a well-known high street store, I know, living the dream. The label said: “ Machine washable. Tumble dry with dryer balls.” No comment.

She Who Must Be Obeyed, I and the Sainted Mother-in-Law went to a wedding in Evesham recently. A great event. However, in the old inn on which it was centred I needed to use

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In The Words Of by Carl Marsh series, but come on, having a show with those multiple storylines all connected is genius. You can’t fail to want to blast through all four series, and you will!

INTERVIEWS Three informative [probably?] interviews to take your fancy this month.

Sian Eleri - I don’t listen to BBC Radio One these days, a sign of getting old perhaps, yet I do know that Sian is doing a grand job away from her native Wales, and I am writing this from a hotel room in Holland, rightly so. Like many of us, Sian is not fully signed up Michigan, a few hours west of Detroit, USA. for all this ghost-hunting malarkey. However, she did Therefore, I have no complaints and seeing as I devote many months on this side project away from was in Ibiza last weekend, August has been good the radio to do some supernatural investigation work for me. You will hear all about my travels from this latest press trip I am on in due course. In a nutshell, back in Wales for Paranormal: The Girl, The Ghost Michigan was not what I expected, and that’s a good and The Gravestone. This new investigative series thing. This place has so much to offer. Like I said, all is on BBC Three and BBC One Wales, to stream right now on catch-up too. She is investigating what in due course… became renowned as the most haunted home in Great Britain; who wouldn’t want to do that? Errr…, anyone, Ibiza - I stayed in a villa to which my friend had ANYONE? treated a few of us. We only needed to cover the flight and incidentals. Ibiza is not cheap, but what Charlie Bentley-Astor - Freedom of speech is a crucial locations are these days? Located in the middle of subject matter to talk about. Nobody should ever be nowhere, yet only a few miles from San Antonio, it silenced, as history is full of influential figures who used ticks all the boxes for a few days away. You don’t it to change our world. Charlie Bentley-Astor can be need to be 20 years old to have a great time there, seen on many a news programme discussing topics but I questioned how people should afford the that most people will shy away from. I won’t do that. exorbitant food, drink and club prices. It mattered not She is a person that most won’t fully agree with about where you went, supermarkets, taxis, cafes off the items she mentions, but debate is essential. Surely? beaten track… but still, Ibiza.

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TV REVIEW Jack Ryan - Amazon Prime I’m a little late to the party on this one [as usual], having left off finishing season two a fair amount of time ago. It wasn’t until I saw that the final season had not long dropped on Amazon Prime that I hurriedly went on to complete season two, then also season three in preparation for what would be the last, season four. I have found that the whole series grew in confidence after each season. Lead actor John Krasinski plays the role of the stoic hero with such class that any comparisons to his starring role in the US version of The Office would be fruitless. It might have an old-fashioned storyline across all four 14 CARDIFF TIMES

Professor Turi King - is appearing in Monmouth at the Blake Theatre on Saturday 14th, October. If you didn’t know, DNA is the second most searched-for topic on any search engine, so yes, it’s a popular subject.

I asked Turi about Richard III of England, which, in essence, started with her being the most qualified person in the vicinity of Leicester, albeit one who could lead a team on how to excavate any human bones under clean conditions without having to worry about DNA contamination, and then to conduct the genetic analysis if they found anything!

Enjoy September, until next month, Carl Marsh

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Interview with Sian Eleri

Words by Carl Marsh

SIAN ELERI: I’m still yet to see a ‘ghost’ with my own eyes Being one of Wales’ best and most recent exports to a tiny English place called London, Sian Eleri has been making [radio] waves at BBC Radio 1. My chat with her wasn’t about said radio station but about her being asked to do some supernatural investigation work back in Wales for Paranormal: The Girl, The Ghost and The Gravestone.

It’s a new investigative series on BBC Three and BBC One Wales, where she investigates what should have been a seemingly ordinary farmhouse in north Wales which, in the late 1990s, became known as the most haunted house in Britain.

Carl Marsh Did you think the BBC was winding you up when they came along with this project idea?

Sian Eleri Ha! I was definitely apprehensive going into it, as I’ve always avoided horror films and jump scares. My friends and family would be the first to tell you how much of a wimp I am - I was once roped into going to see a horror film in the cinema, with the condition that I could take in a cushion to hide behind and block out the noise with my iPod! The story of Penyffordd Farm was a chance for me to push myself beyond my comfort zone. I’ve always been intrigued by the psychology of the supernatural, so getting to experience it first-hand was an intriguing - albeit terrifying - opportunity.

Carl Marsh How sceptical were you before and during the filming of this four-parter? Was there any time you thought this was all nonsense, or did the intrigue keep you transfixed to see if it was true right from the get-go?

Sian Eleri I describe myself as an open-minded sceptic. I feel like it’s not my place to write off someone’s experience because of my beliefs, and hearing people’s stories in this documentary has made me question my understanding of how the world works.

I’ve had moments of paranoia lingering long after the camera stopped rolling; being scared of the dark as a 28-year-old; not wanting to be home alone; not even trusting my instincts. The list goes on! I do hope there’s a logical, scientific explanation

for why we experience paranormal things. It’s tricky to know what’s scarier - whether there’s another plain of existence that spirits exist in or we can’t trust our minds. The Gowers’ story was a particularly interesting one. When we had ‘a-ha!’ breakthroughs, other pieces of evidence would come to the surface, squashing them.

Carl Marsh I’ve seen all the episodes, and it’s fair for me to see without giving anything away - that the jury is still out on this strange story. Are you convinced from your findings that there is some/more truth than you initially had about this case?

Sian Eleri It consumed six months of my life, so naturally, I kept tossing and turning on where I stood. It’s hard to see beyond when you’re so deep in something. I’d love to hear what other people think after watching it.

Carl Marsh What did you take away from this experience? Has it made you more open to things that may seem unbelievable? Are you not as sceptical as you once were about the paranormal?

Sian Eleri On a personal note, I’m almost proud of challenging myself so much in a world I wouldn’t usually go near out of fear.

I’m braver than I first thought! I’m still yet to see a ‘ghost’ with my own eyes, but honestly, I don’t want to. I’ll happily and respectfully co-exist alongside them, going about their business out of sight. Don’t mind me, lads.

Carl Marsh Will you do more of this stuff outside your Radio One job?

Sian Eleri I’d love to! I’ve caught the bug for documentary-making now.

Paranormal: The Girl, The Ghost and The Gravestone can be watched right now on BBC Three and BBC One Wales.

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Interview with Charlie Bentley-Astor

Words by Carl Marsh

CHARLIE BENTLEY-ASTOR “You were just experiencing life. And that’s all gone out the window now.”

I’m a big believer in free speech, yet most people, it seems, don’t like those that go against whatever crusade or way of thinking that they may possess in their heads. Charlie Bentley-Astor better explains freedom of expression in her articles in The Critic and The Telegraph, so I thought it wise to hear her words.

I like to be vocal on social media. One of my good old friends, a professor at the university I graduated from in Cambridge, without telling me - unfriended me on Twitter as he can’t be seen to be following me in case somebody picks him up because he was doing so! I’ve known him for nearly 30 years.

wanted [Laughs], are awake to all the nonsense and the cancel culture stuff. They’re the ones that find it easier to go with the reconstructed worldview route than have to occupy within their heads many, many circles that aren’t squaring. It’s almost a bit of a too-much-information overload sense of holding all these contradictions within yourself. And some people seem to find that route easier, and some people don’t; the people that don’t are the ones that are chronically reassessing and going, “Oh, well, maybe this is wrong, maybe that’s wrong, etc., etc.”.

It’s all about having that association with someone.

Any given person that people may know is the subject of being ‘cancelled’ by the woke mob, then they may not even know why they are, and may not even know the person being hounded by those vying for blood to cancel them. It might be a performer who’s That’s not reliable anymore, even with people that are a comedian, and they quite possibly don’t share the family. I was big anti-COVID lockdowns, and I was like: same views as said comedian, but because they’ve “No, I’m not having the jab, and you’re not forcing other got a ticket, for example, to the show, they can’t - in people to have it”. I was not having any of it! And this their eyes - risk being seen at the performance? was the evidence as it doesn’t matter how far back or how close you’ve been with someone because they That never used to be a thing. And more often than not, see you as utterly, morally reprehensible. They can’t if you had someone the general community thought was fit this new piece of information they’ve learned about outrageous, say Mary Whitehouse, for example. You’d you within their world picture because they think you’re actually all go and listen to her speak to be like, “Wow, get a good person, but you believe in this thing they can’t a load of this!” [Laughter]. And that was always the way. possibly tolerate. They may think, “Am I wrong? Or Then at a more sort of lower resolution, if it was just like a is the person that I’ve always known not the person I band, you didn’t know whether you liked it or not. You’d go thought they were?” It seems that for most people, it’s along to see. And it didn’t mean anything. You were just easier to do the latter, to reconstruct their worldview. experiencing life. And that’s all gone out the window now.

It’s, like you said, it’s guilt by association. [Previously] The last three years or so have brought out the worst I said it’s like a kind of contagion where if one person in all those people I used to see as good, caring folk. touches you, you can then transfer it. That’s the thing. It’s It became so bad it was a war on the ‘vaccinated v a kind of contamination. the unvaccinated’.

Charlie Bentley-Astor’s work can be found in The I think the people who got through the pandemic with Telegraph, The Critic, Unhead, whilst she often however many jabs, or not however many jabs they appears on GB News and Talk TV.

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Interview with Turi King

Words by Carl Marsh

PROFESSOR TURI KING: “Sir Alec Jeffries is there… he was one of my PhD supervisors.”

DNA expert Turi King is a Canadian-British Public Engagement and Genetics professor at the University of Leicester. She led the DNA verification team during the exhumation and reburial of Richard III of England.

She is also known for featuring with Stacey Dooley on the BBC Two genealogy series DNA Family Secrets.

She will now be known for chatting with me and appearing at Monmouth’s Blake Theatre on Saturday 14th October. [Laughs] Carl Marsh Was there a catalyst that got you into this exciting career you have?

Professor Turi King So, it was the Romanov’s case that got me into this. I’d done archaeology at home in Canada, came over here, and was working on various excavations. And I thought, well, the degrees are four years in Canada, and you get to do many different modules. So, I’d done a couple of years [Jesus College, Cambridge], and it’s pretty often that you can take a year out, go back, and all that kind of stuff. So I’d come here and thought, “Well, if I go home, it’s going to take me another two years to finish my degree. If I stay here, it’s three years”. And all of these textbooks that I’ve been reading at home in Canada, they were teaching in Cambridge. I applied to Cambridge (for my MSC) on a bit of a whim, thinking if I get in, I’ll stay. And if I don’t, then go home. I got in. And then, I was in a lecture talking about the Romanov case, Sir Alec Jeffreys, DNA fingerprinting, and how DNA had been used alongside archaeology and historical sources to identify the remains of the Romanovs.

I thought, “That’s what I want to do”. So I asked around all my tutors, and they said, “Well, don’t stay at Cambridge.

Leicester is the best place to do genetics. Sir Alec Jeffries is there, the guy who invented DNA fingerprinting”. So, I ended up doing my PhD there, and he was one of my PhD

supervisors.

Carl Marsh How did you become involved in the Richard III case? I expect it wasn’t a case of just applying for a job advert.

[Laughter] Professor Turi King Sir Alec Jeffreys was retiring, and the Richard III case was in 2011. Richard Buckley, the head of the University of Leicester Archaeological Services, popped his head into his office and asked the Secretary - who had used to work in genetics - for some contacts. She said, “Oh, Turi King’s working on that kind of stuff now, so you might want to contact her”. I get this email: “I understand that you have this unusual background, and would you be interested in participating in this case. It is looking for the remains of somebody who’s quite famous and buried in downtown Leicester. And I can’t tell you who it is”. So I wrote back asking, “Is this Richard III?” When I first got here. [to the UK], my aunt took me to the Bosworth battlefield. She’d lent me all these books. I knew about Richard; he was supposed to be buried in Leicester. You can’t live here without knowing that kind of stuff. So he goes, “Yeah, it is.

But don’t tell anybody, and we’re never going to find him”.

I was the first person brought onto the case after Richard Buckley, who led on the archaeology. He needed someone to lead on excavating under clean conditions because you have to worry about DNA contamination and then lead the genetic analysis if we found anything. Still, he was like, “Yeah, it would be half a day of your time. Don’t worry, you won’t have to do anything for this; just talk a little bit about it and come down to the site if you like!” Yeah, and of course, then it wasn’t like that at all. [Laughs]

Professor Turi King will be at the Blake Theatre in Monmouth on Saturday 14th October.

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Cardiff Then and Now

by Sara John

I recently came across an interesting guidebook published in 1901 on South Wales and the Wye district of Monmouthshire. I think Cardiff Times readers may find some of the descriptions of Cardiff THEN of interest as these observations can be compared to our own knowledge of the city NOW. Here then are some of the more interesting aspects of Cardiff then.

RAILWAY STATIONS G.W.R. at the foot of St. Mary’s Street, not far from the docks. Taff Vale and Rhymney in Queen Street nearly ¼ mile from G.W.R.: N.B. – The G.W.R. and the Taff Vale Stations are connected by railway. Queen Street is the street at the top of High Street, the continuation of St. Mary’s Street.: 20 CARDIFF TIMES

HOTELS PARK in Park Place, halfway between G.W.R. and Queen Street Stations.

ROYAL at 65 St Mary’s Street, centrally situated near Post Office close to G.W.R. station and about 1/2 mile from the Queen Street Station.: ANGEL (the rebuilt Cardiff Arms) in Castle Street, close to the Castle and the bridge over the Taff.

GREAT WESTERN close to the GWR station: GRAND in Westgate Street: ALEXANDRA in Queen Street close to Taff Vale station next to the Town hall QUEEN (commercial) 84-85 St. Mary Street.

TEMPERANCE HOTELS Rapers in Westgate street behind the Royal Washington, close to the G.W.R. station: Coffee Tavern (beds) next door.

N.B. The Park, The Royal and The Angel are first class.

interest are the Castle, the Docks, and, St John’s Church. The church has a fine perpend tower built in 1443 by Hart the architect of Wrexham tower. The Sophia Gardens on the west bank of the Taff are prettily laid out and afford a good view of the castle. They are named after the late Marchioness at whose instance her son, the present Marquess of Bute gave them to the town in 1858.

POST OFFICE In St Mary’s Street next to the Town Hall

In the Cardiff Arms Park there are good racquet-court and lawn tennis grounds. Of the two religious houses that Cardiff once had, only a fragment of the Grey Friars remains, a short distance N. E. from the castle. After the Dissolution it became the seat of the Herberts (Earls of Pembroke) to whom the Cardiff estates had been given by Henry V11 and from whom in the female line, they have descended to the present owner.

POPULATION (in 1891) 128,849

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OMNIBUSES Hotel buses; also from St. Mary’s street to the Docks (1d) and Penarth (4d). Also from High Street Llandaff (3d).

As approached from the High Street appears to be wholly modern. On the left of the entrance is Duke Robert’s Tower, the traditional place of his confinement (1106 – 35). It is obviously of a far more recent date.

The main body of the present structure is interesting rather as a modern mansion than as an historical stronghold. The KEEP now just a shell stands on artificial ground on the north side of the triangle and is not earlier than 1400. A brief outline of the history will be found below. Of the residential part of the castle the most prominent feature is the lofty clock tower at the S.W. angle designed by the late Mr Burgess, the architect of the “restorations”. It contains an elaborate Winter Smoking Room with a bedroom above, and the Summer Smoking Room on the uppermost floor. The side of the main block of the mansion next to the quadrangle retains some portions of 13th century work. Within the GRAND STAIRCASE is very rich and it leads to the BANQUET HALL which is decorated with scenes from the life of Robert, Duke of Gloucester. The CHAPEL is also exceedingly elaborate.

Rapers is a good house of its kind.

CABS (For two persons: more than two, sixpence extra each) By time 2s an hour with sixpence for each additional 1/4 hour. G.W.R. to Taff Vale 1s. to Llandaff 2s 6d. Between midnight and 5am double fares.

DISTANCES Llandaff 2 1/2miles, Caerphilly 7m, Castell Coch 6m, Penarth 4m Barry Dock 10m.

CITY The commercial capital of Wales had, in 1841 only 10,000 inhabitants. Its rapid growth has been due to the Docks which made it the entrepot whence the products of the rich Glamorgan coalfields were distributed the world over. The Barry Docks now competes for this business.

It is on the whole a clean and well-built town with a spacious main street, St. Mary’s Street, which, with its continuation High Street continues for about one third of a mile from near the G.W. station to the Castle.

For the pleasure tourist the chief objects of

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before the Norman Conquest. In 1091 Robert Firzhamon conquered the land of Morgan, and Cardiff and his manors fell to his share.

He died of wounds received at the Battle of Falaise 1105, having during his tenure rebuilt the castle. His only child and heiress married Robert, Duke of Gloucester, to whose custody Henry 1 committed Robert of Normandy after the defeat of the latter at Tenchebray in 1106. The imprisonment of the unfortunate Prince lasted 28 years and only ended at his death in 1135, but it is satisfactory to know that the horrible stories of his sufferings not only rests on insufficient foundations but is directly at variance with the contemporary account of William of Malmesbury. In the reign of Henry 1V the Welsh insurrection under Owen Glyndwr occurred, and among other successes of that adventurer in S. Wales was the capture of Cardiff castle, which he partly destroyed. During the Civil War it was held for the KING, but was eventually taken by the forces of the Parliament.

I will now dare to add a few comments of my own.

THE DOCKS

Maybe the two Authors were under pressure to get on and reach the “Wye District of Monmouthshire” as it says on the title page.

Maybe the nights were drawing in?

(Cross the bridge over the Glamorganshire Canal at the foot of St. Mary’s Street), The creation of the late Marquis of Bute are three : the West Bute, opened in 1839, the East Bute in 1859, the Roath Basin and Roath Dock a few years ago (this was written and published in the 1990’s.!) Together they afford nearly five miles of quayage and one of the wonders of modern trade is the rapidity with which huge steam colliers of 2000 tons and upwards take in their freights.

FREE LIBRARY The Library and Newsroom in Working Street (open on weekdays) are on the ground floor.

On the first floor is the School of Art: on the second floor the Museum (10 to 9, Wed and Sat, other weekdays 10 to 5) with Natural History, art, and archaeological rooms. The Theatre Royal and Philharmonic Hall are in St Mary’s Street and the Grand Theatre in Westgate Street. In Guildford Street, Crockherbtown are the Public Baths (including Turkish).

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Having read all the rest of “the Thorough Guides to Wales” I am yet to be convinced that the two authors C.S.Ward M.A. and M.J.B. Baddeley B.A. had spent much time actually IN Wales. I felt their comments lacked enthusiasm and interesting details. It all sounded somewhat third hand. How can you not OOHH! And AAHH! When you go into the Castle. Apart from the Butes’ family home on the Isle of Bute surely the shear conception of Cardiff Castle, gifted to the people of Cardiff and standing there in the middle of town, close to coffee shops, Boots, B&S, buses, pubs and so on makes it unique. You travel nowhere to arrive there. You are there.

I felt that the text had been written and planned by what are called in Cardiff (and most of Wales) people from AWAY. A mysterious place most people having perhaps been there once avoid in future.

Under Ward’s name there was mention of his authorship of “North Devon and North Cornwall” and under Baddeley’s name was “The English Lakes” and “Scotland.”

Does that make you think this was their first and only visit?

The people living in the areas they visit have no mention, one wonders did they ever spend a night in the places they wrote about?

These days going into town on a nice sunny day, you lose count of the number of other languages you hear, of the number of people who easily speak to you and comment about their sightseeing, their pleasure of being in Cardiff. No one is looking to the past. Cardiff is NOW.

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The Health Service Over the Years This is a response to Sara John’s article with the above title in the August issue.

Dear Editor, In the summer of 1946, an epidemic of typhoid broke out in Aberystwyth and many people were hospitalised in the local Isolation Hospital and in those in the surrounding area, but several patients died.

My Mother contracted the disease later than most and was taken in an old Army Ambulance, rattling along the roads to SouthWales where she arrived at the Tyntyla Isolation Hospital with a temperature of 106°F, which meant that she was critically ill.

Weeks of care and attention in the hospital, with frequent injections, brought her back from the brink.

When she was returned to us weak but cured, she lived many more years, dying at 98. To her dying day, she spoke with gratitude and affection for the staff and people of Tyntyla who worked relentlessly under difficult conditions in their overcrowded hospital following the SecondWorld War. Sadly, the ambulance which took my mother away was on my little brother’s first birthday when I was nine years old.

My father had sent, in desperation, a cry for help to my grandmother in Rochdale, who dispatched at speed one of her unmarried daughters to Aberystwyth. Auntie Jenny travelled by train from Manchester to Crewe and then to Shrewsbury, to be told that the line to Aberystwyth was closed to all, apart from official travellers, as the town had been placed under curfew due to the epidemic. I understand that a long conversation took place when my aunt explained that my father was unable cope with a one-year-old baby and me and that she was essential to our well-being. It was explained to her that she was going into an area from which she might not return alive, but she insisted and was allowed through.

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grandma and two aunts. Auntie Jenny was to look after my baby brother, and I was looked after by auntie Dorothy.

As it was the end of August I was taken to the local school, which my mother had attended years before, for the start of term and was reluctantly accepted in a school that was already full.

I had a splendid time at Rochdale, enjoying the many fascinating things like traffic lights and pea-soup fogs, when the buses were preceded by the conductor, showing the curb-stone to the driver with a flash-light.

My father meanwhile continued working in Aberystwyth.

A friend of his, one of the few in Aberystwyth to have a car which he had for official purposes with the required petrol, whose wife was also in Tyntyla, took dad now and again on a Sunday to see my mother. As soon as the visit was over the local people would take the visitors into their homes for Sunday dinner. Bear in mind, this was in 1946, when food was rationed and difficult to spare.

Whenever the subject of the epidemic came up in Aberystwyth in the following years, dad would always remark on the kindness of the people in Tyntyla Hospital and the local people who opened their homes and offered such kind hospitality to the visitors from Aberystwyth.

Sincerely,

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KEN BUCHANAN (Part 2)

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of Percy Hayles on the 10 July 1971 at the National Arena, Kingston, Ja-maica when challenging for the Commonwealth lightweight crown. Ford lost a 15 round point’s decision.

A win over a world champion like Buchanan would really put Ford on the map big time. However, the Scot proved too good for the Canadian clearly outpointing him over 10 rounds.

Next up was a trip to South Africa where at the Rand Stadium, Johannesburg, he faced home fight-er Andries Steyn in another non-title bout scheduled for 10 rounds.

Steyn was a good fighter who had participated 27 bouts winning 25 and losing 2. Once again Buchanan emerged victorious when Steyn retired in the third stanza. The Scot from the sound of the first bell to start the contest looked the superior boxer so the quick end came as no surprise.

Next on the agenda for Ken Buchanan was a meeting with the opponent whom he took the championship from Ismael Laguna a fighter who was more than determined to take his title back. Prior to this meeting Buchanan had been stripped of the WBC version of the championship.

This action was taken by the WBC due to the fact that the Scot had signed to meet Laguna rather than their number one challenger Pedro Carrasco of Spain.

Buchanan who still held the WBA title knew that this was going to be a hard battle against a proud fighter who was going to give his everything in this meeting.

The fight took place at Madison Square Garden on the 13 September 1971. True to expectations Laguna gave Buchanan a very tough fight. The two men gave the spectators a thrilling night, one which they would talk about for a long time. At the end of the 15 round battle Buchanan’s hand was raised in victory, he was still the world champion, and his reputation was enhanced even further after this win.

After the Laguna fight Buchanan returned to the ring on the 28 March 1972 at the Empire Pool, Wembley, London and engaged in a non-title bout against Canadian Al Ford. The man facing Bu-chanan came armed with a record of 42 fights with just one loss. Ford was no push over, his only defeat came at the hands

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Everything was looking good for Buchanan, his skills were admired by many pundits but there were storm clouds gathering, a threat was emerging, a threat by the name of Roberto Duran who had ac-cumulated a record of 28 bouts without defeat. Duran born in Panama looked a little special a fight-er destined to become a champion one day. However, had his chance come too soon when confront-ing the Scot, since Buchanan was a quality boxer who had met and defeated better fighters than Duran. The two fighters squared off against each other at Madison Square, Garden in New York. Both champion and challenger were confident that they would win. The contest was an explosive affair, one which saw Duran gain revenge for his fellow country Ismael Laguna and stop Buchanan in round 13 of 15. The ending was controversial since Duran was deemed to have landed a low blow. However, the decision stood, and Duran was now the new title holder. It was felt that a return bout between the two would eventually take place but it failed to happen.

After the loss Buchanan was back in action on the 20 September 1972 at Madison Square Garden where upon he met Carlos Ortiz who was born in Puerto Rico. A fine boxer who had over the years comprised a slate of 68 bouts winning 61 losing 6 and drawing one. During his time in the profes-sional ring Ortiz had twice held the world lightweight title and was also the former holder of the world super-lightweight crown. So, it was clear that Ortiz knew the boxing game and while still more than a match for many fighters, it was clear that he was passed his prime, he had slowed down and his best days were clearly behind him. This being said he was still a tough match for Buchanan who was coming off the defeat to Duran. It had to be wondered if the loss had affected the Scot in anyway, hence opening the door for an Ortiz victory. Once the fight started Ortiz showed his class,

but Buchanan was well in control and found his way back into the win column when Ortiz retired in the sixth stanza of a scheduled ten. The Scot took to the ring once again on the 4 December 1972 the venue once again being Madison Square Garden in New York. The opponent this time being Chang Kil Lee of South Korea who was undefeated in 19 fights. The Korean had a lot to gain in this fight a victory would see him become a major player in the division. The bout was scheduled for 10 but Buchanan had an early night when he won by a stoppage in the second session. This was a good win, one which sent out the message that the British fighter was still a very serious contender and should not be written off, he still had a great deal to offer.

During his time as world champion Buchanan had relinquished his British crown, a title which was now in the very capable hands of fellow Scot Jim Watt a very talented southpaw. On the 29 January 1973 at the Albany Hotel in Glasgow, Buchanan entered the ring to challenge for his old crown.

Watt at that time had only taken part in 17 fights winning 15 of them. By comparison Buchanan had a resume of 47 bouts winning 45 against the very best the division had to offer. However, anyone thinking that Buchanan might be in for an easy night, were badly wrong. Watt gave the former world champion a very hard night and in so doing revealed just how good he was. The fight was exciting giving the spectators a good night of boxing. Buchanan won the contest and hence re-gained the British Championship by way of a 15 round points decision. Both participants knew that they had been in a fight when the final bell sounded. (Watt would eventually go on to win the WBC world lightweight crown).

After the Watt contest Buchanan had a further 7 fights all of which resulted in a victory. This put him in the position to challenge for the European title which was now held

by Italian Antonio Pud-du who had previously made four successful defences of the crown. Buchanan had to venture to Cagliari, Sardegna, Italy in his attempt to take the championship. This was the Scot’s second at-tempt to win the title. His first attempt ended in failure when he travelled to Spain on the on the 29 January 1970 to contest the then vacant European lightweight crown against home fighter Miguel Velazquez which resulted in a 15 round point’s defeat. Once again Buchanan had to do it the hard way and go into his opponent’s backyard.

Puddu entered the roped arena with a resume of 55 bouts winning 52 losing 2 with 1 drawn. He had every hope of retaining the title in front of his home fans who gave him every support. A win over Buchanan would give Puddu a fantastic career boost. However, the Scot took the crown in fine style stopping the title holder in round 6 of 15 in a contest which took place on the 1 May 1974.

Buchanan was now hopeful that he would be given the opportunity to regain his world title sooner rather than later. Before a tilt at the world was forthcoming the Scot added a further two victories to his resume one of which included a defence of his European crown.

The chance for Buchanan to once again hold a version of the world title came when on the 27 February 1975 when he stepped into the ring at the Metropolitan Gym, in Japan to challenge Guts Ishimatsu for the WBC version of the title. The champion had a record of 45 bouts winning 28, los-ing 11 with 6 drawn. This was not going to be easy for the Scot, Ishimatsu had proven to be a wor-thy champion and the defence against Buchanan would be his third. The Japanese fighter had won the title on the 11 April 1979 knocking out the then holder Rodolfo Gonzalez in round 8 of 15. Bu-chanan boxed well against Ishimatsu but at the end of the 15 round encounter the decision went to the home fighter.

The next contest for Buchanan was a defence of his European crown against Giancarlo Usai on the 25 July 1975. Once again, the Scot had to travel away from home where upon he met his challenger at the Caliari Football Ground, Cagliari, Sardegna in Italy. The Italian came with a good resume of 29 fights winning 27 and losing 2. Usai was confident and had his fans cheering his every move, but he was no match for Buchanan who brought the fight to a conclusion when he stopped Usai in round 12 of 15. This was a good victory and from his performance the Scot was capable of being involved in more meaningful fights in the future. Fans looked forward to seeing him back in the ring again displaying his magnificent boxing skills. However, he later announced his retirement from the sport. This looked like this was the end of the Ken Buchanan story, then to the surprise of many on the 28 June 1979 he returned to the ring.

Buchanan faced opponent Benny Benitez the venue being the Randers Hallen in Denmark where upon he won on an 8 round points decision. After adding a second victory to his resume, in his comeback he entered the fray at the Brondby Hallen in Denmark where he challenged Ireland’s Charlie Nash for the European lightweight crown. Nash was a talented southpaw who had taken part in 21 fights with just 1 defeat. The contest went the full 12 rounds (European title fights had now been reduced from 15 to 12 rounds) and at the end Nash’s hand was raised in victory, he had retained his title. After this defeat Buchanan engaged in a further 6 fights of which he won 2 and lost 4. His last bout took place at the National Sporting Club, Piccadilly in London on the 25 January 1982 against George Feeney which saw him lose on an 8 round points decision. This was the end of the line for Buchanan. He then retired once more from the sport he served so well with both honour and dignity.

Buchanan was awarded the MBE in 1972 and was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of fame in 2000. In 2022 a further honour was bestowed on the Scot when a bronze statute was erect-ed of him in Leith Walk, Edinburgh.

During his professional career Ken Buchanan participated in 69 fights winning 61 and losing 8.

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Fashion done your own way

by Molly Dutton

For those of you who have been following these articles for the last few years, you will know that autumn is when myself and so many others come alive. Whilst I am a huge fan of summer dresses and oversized sunglasses, there is something so wonderful about dressing for autumn.

As a result of my excitement for the upcoming season, I have been actively rummaging through my Pinterest feed to create a few different looks that can be achieved easily and sustainably (two of my priorities when it comes to shopping hauls). The key for finding outfits for any occasion is to have created a capsule wardrobe; a concept that has helped me save so much money and has also allowed me to reduce the amount of clothes I buy for occasions. A capsule wardrobe is one that consists of a variety of staple items that can be worn in different outfits so that you are able to re-wear consistently.

Daywear is the ideal place to start when analysing your wardrobe selection.

Everyone will have different preferences when it comes to what they wear to work or what they like to run errands in, so this step is very much up to interpretation.

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The first item I can highly recommend having in your collection is a blazer. Blazers are the perfect, versatile item that can transition your outfit from ‘day in the office’ to ‘night out on the town’ and so many outfits can be developed from this one choice. I, myself, have a few different blazers in neutral tones like chocolate brown, black and beige so that they can be matched with things you will already have in your wardrobe; jeans, leather trousers and miniskirts are just a few suggestions.

You also don’t have to push the boat out when it comes to budget. Primark, New Look and Zara are frontrunners in the blazer game, with a selection of fitted and oversized blazers in a variety of colourways. Many charity shops that you will come across on your morning coffee run will also give you the opportunity to explore this item; one of my favourite purchases was a light pink, gold-buttoned Zara blazer that I stumbled across in the British Heart Foundation charity shop on my local Highstreet! A black blazer is, of course, the safest option for business attire and classy evening wear looks. My personal favourite way of styling a black blazer, has to be with a pair of black leggings, a white t shirt and some white trainers for that athleisure aesthetic. The options are completely endless!

Another strong contender in the capsule wardrobe is a good old pair of blue jeans.

I spent years of my life being a very passionate ‘jean hater’, always opting for skirts or leggings at any given opportunity. However, as I’ve got older and gone to university, I understand why blue jeans are held in such high regard.

As the capsule wardrobe is centred around clothes that can be adapted to fit different situations, blue jeans tick all the desired boxes. Paired with a pair of pointed heels and a going out top, they are ideal for taking on the town, whilst also complimenting a hoodie and trainer combo for everyday wear.

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you haven’t just got neutrals, you must select a statement piece to be paired with those basic items. For example, on my 20th birthday, I did a quick Primark run to find something exciting to wear for my weekend of celebrations. I came across a silver sequined mini skirt that I could immediately envision alongside a few other items in my wardrobe such as the black blazer. Whilst it is a very bold item which might make you question its wearability, I have worn it on so many occasions with heels, boots, a white vest, a long black sleeve t-shirt etc. You don’t have to follow in my exact footsteps as that may not be to everyone’s taste, but it is so important to pop in a few clothes that make a grand entrance so that we don’t fall into a pattern of conformity too much. Once you have all your basics, like your t-shirts, leggings, and jumpers, you may find it’s a lot easier to search for statement pieces as you will begin to view things with outfits in mind! Once the artist knows which paints to use, the canvas becomes filled a whole lot quicker.

My final piece of advice on this topic would be to invest in some everyday jewellery that will accelerate your looks.

My gold hoops have become a staple in every outfit I choose whether it be a cosy hoodie and leggings or a mini skirt and heels. This helps create a sense of identity in your wardrobe as people will start to associate that item with you.

Have fun exploring your collection and trialling some new outfits, it’s like playing Barbie as an adult!

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This is why you need to update your Will when you get married Marriage is a significant event for everyone involved.

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This means that if you don’t either make a Will in contemplation of your marriage or make a new Will after you get married, the law decides who inherits from you after you die.

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You cannot just expect to be married in the future or to marry in general, it must be that you expect to marry a certain person and often refer to the date or year of marriage intended. The other option is to make a new Will after the marriage has taken place, although this could leave you without a valid Will for a period of time.

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so that it’s still a true reflection of your wishes.

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If you have been married before, have divorced, and are now planning to remarry, the effect that the remarriage will have on your Will is the same as if you were marrying for the first time. That is, the Will becomes void as soon as the marriage has taken place.

Overall, once you have details of the marriage that you will be entering into it’s a good idea to make a new Will.

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