Llandrindod Wells
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I am tracing my family tree back to to a Mr Thomas Jarman, born 1823, who lived at Llanfihangel, Bryn Pabuan, Brecknock. He married Eliza in 1847. He was a farmer and had 3 sons and 3 daughters.
Does anybody remember or can add or are related to Mr Jarman.
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Paul
A memory of contributed by paul ibbotson
Tiddler Fishing
My grandparents lived in Park Road, and as children myself and my sister used to go tiddler fishing under the suspension bridge. My sister's cat, Danny, used to follow us and join us in our endeavours. And my cat, Honey, got stuck up a tree. I remember being terrified crossing the suspension bridge as it swayed from side to side - better than any ride at Alton Towers!
A memory of Builth Wells contributed by verena lewis
Four Children
First Nine years of my life in this little village. Four Children in all lived here, my Brother and I .the Ministers Son, and the small girl in the shop.
The Village has not changed much over the 50 years since I left.
Most of the old people have died now . Gosen Chapel Where I went to Sunday School still stands, And my Parents are interned there.
Happy days at home in LLyngwesion long hot summer days and dark winters
(no street lights) fond memories
A memory of contributed by rob price
My early days around Llanwrtyd Wells.
I arrived in Llanwrtyd Wells around 1947. I was 9 years old. My father Douglas Gimson had come on before us in 1946 to work in the Cambrian Factory as he was a disabled ex Prisoner of War. I arrived with my mother Eileen and young brother Ronald. We had travelled up from the Rhondda Valley in the back of a vehicle with bits of furniture and belongings. The difference then between the Valleys and Llanwrtyd Wells was out of this world, the area around Llanwrtyd being so beautiful and clean I just thought I was on another planet. Dad had found and prepared a derelect terraced house for us about a mile or so outside Llanwrtyd in a place called ...read more here
A memory of Llanwrtyd Wells contributed by ifor gimson
Extracts From Llandrindod Wells & Powys books
There is no such thing as an ordinary street in this town. True, the shops may have similar uses, but the Victorians made the most of the spa town by building wide, airy thoroughfares. The bounty of hotels and cafes, like the two shown here, contrasts sharply with the lack of pubs – pubs were considered too boorish for the town’s image.
An extract from from"Mid-Wales - Ceredigion and Powys Photographic Memories".
The Metropole Hotel, beloved as a modern day conferencing venue and purveyor of Victoriana, looks a little sleepy in this post-war photograph. Llandrindod Wells developed in the 19th century as a spa town for the Victorian traveller, and hotels like the Metropole flourished. The influx of visitors was curtailed by the First World War. Tourism was also hampered by the depression of the 1920s, and there was to be growing competition from the other seaside resorts after the Second World War which would diminish visitor numbers further. At the time this picture was taken the town was in something of a decline, therefore, but was determined to recover – or regenerate, as we say now – and in 1990 a plaque was unveiled that proclaimed the ‘Revictorianisation of Llandrindod Wells Station’! The town has followed suit.
An extract from from"Wales Living Memories".
The prominence of brick buildings here demonstrates a late flourish in the development of this town: the railway brought both bricks and visitors to the town. The varied roofscape reveals a forward-looking spirit as the 19th century gave way to the 20th.
An extract from from"Wales Living Memories".
Victoriana and mock-Tudor set the scene around the unmade road of the Crescent. The large shop in the foreground specialises as a clothing and outfitting emporium. They would sell top quality textiles, as this was an opulent spa town at the turn of the century.
An extract from from"Mid-Wales - Ceredigion and Powys Photographic Memories".