Tag: Sir Watkin Williams Wynn
Build, build, build
It began with an act of destruction, the demolishing of an existing house. Then came the tractors, carting trailer-loads of earth away. Hundreds of loads, over many weeks, if not months. The result: a very large hole in the ground. Next, the concrete. Huge trucks, loaded with long pipes, started arriving. Workers assembled the pipes […]
‘A Gentleman had just arrived, with – a black servant!’
The gentry of eighteenth-century Wales, like most rich people in any country at any time, longed to be fashionable. One of the rarer badges of fashion for them was to be seen as enjoying the services of a black servant. As Chris Evans, the historian of Wales and slavery, puts it, ‘their presence spoke of […]
