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  • How to make an icon

    How to make an icon

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    Andrew Green
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    The three of us were talking, as we strolled along the front at Porthcawl the other day, about modern icons.  J. had just been for a return visit to Newcastle-upon-Tyne, so the Angel of the North in Gateshead soon came up in the conversation.  Antony Gormley’s great weathered steel figure is over twenty-five years old,…

  • Greening Swansea: a forgotten pioneer

    Greening Swansea: a forgotten pioneer

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    Andrew Green
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    Greening cities and towns, we might imagine, is a contemporary concern – a response to the realisation that we’re rapidly destroying the earth’s environment and depleting its non-human lifeforms.  Swansea has its share of green activists and agitators working to raise awareness and press for action. It would be fair to say, though, that those…

  • Wales Coast Path, day 6: Penarth from Barry

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    Andrew Green
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    At Bridgend we change to the miniature Platform 1A, gateway to all true adventures on the Vale of Glamorgan line.  It’s cold and the fog is thick.  The train creeps across the Porthkerry viaduct, unseeing and unseen. We leave at Barry – Barry Central to be precise, since like all respectable towns Barry has several…