Tag: Gregynog

  • Teifi Valley Trail, day 4: Lampeter to Llanybydder

    Teifi Valley Trail, day 4: Lampeter to Llanybydder

    These days Lampeter is a quieter place than it was.  The main reason is the loss of St David’s College.  The closure of a university is a blow for any town, but when that town is small and rural and far from a rail line, and when it has no other economic focus, then the…

  • Swansea automatic

    Swansea automatic

    I first came across the name Rhys Trimble last month while wandering down a narrow lane from the castle to the main street in Denbigh.  At the bottom of Lôn Brombil (Broomhill Lane) a poem by him, ‘Moliant i Ddinbych’, is painted on the wall of a building.  It begins ‘Boreon Dafydd; o ael bryn…