Raglan
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- 16 photos on Raglan appear in 2 Frith books - View photos of Raglan
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Raglan memories
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Raglan - Castle Street
My childhood memories of Raglan are indelible in my mind. I lived with my Aunt and Uncle (Bessie and Ernie Morgan) at No 3 Castle Street during the war years. I well remember my first day at school, sitting on the obelisk at the junction of Chepstow Road, being chased by the geese down the Chepstow Road, 'helping' my uncle pump the organ, the harvest festivals, Roy Silverthorne's voice resounding around the church, sergeant Needs and his alsation, the brook, the castle, the wonderful smell of Mrs Hook's and the Powells bakery, Rhwylas farm, which is totally responsible for my love of dairy farming (although I was born 17 miles out of London). So it was through Rhwylas farm ...read more here
Contributed by Alan Moore
Round House
My Father Henry (Jim) Griffiths lived with his eight brothers and sisters in the Round house, which I think was up the ally next to the Postoffice. His mother was Alice Griffiths, she brought up all these children on her own. I wonder if anyone has a photo of the round house?
Contributed by Sidney Griffiths
Gwent memories
Raglan - Castle Street
My childhood memories of Raglan are indelible in my mind. I lived with my Aunt and Uncle (Bessie and Ernie Morgan) at No 3 Castle Street during the war years. I well remember my first day at school, sitting on the obelisk at the junction of Chepstow Road, being chased by the geese down the Chepstow Road, 'helping' my uncle pump the organ, the harvest festivals, Roy Silverthorne's voice resounding around the church, sergeant Needs and his alsation, the brook, the castle, the wonderful smell of Mrs Hook's and the Powells bakery, Rhwylas farm, which is totally responsible for my love of dairy farming (although I was born 17 miles out of London). So it was through Rhwylas farm ...read more here
A memory of Raglan contributed by Alan Moore
Round House
My Father Henry (Jim) Griffiths lived with his eight brothers and sisters in the Round house, which I think was up the ally next to the Postoffice. His mother was Alice Griffiths, she brought up all these children on her own. I wonder if anyone has a photo of the round house?
A memory of Raglan contributed by Sidney Griffiths
Extracts From Raglan & Gwent books
The machicolated heights of William Herbert’s gatehouse and closet towers look down on
the moat which surrounds the famous Yellow Tower, the work of his father William ap
Thomas. King Henry VII spent some of his childhood at Raglan, where the two Williams
had transformed a fortified rural manor into a castle fit for a future king.
An extract from from"Around Alton Photographic Memories".
The castle was divided into two courts: the Stone Court and the Fountain Court.
An extract from from"Monmouthshire Photographic Memories".
Charles II
rewarded the
Pembroke family
by raising it from
an earldom to a
marquessate. In
the 17th century,
the second
marquess wrote a
treatise on the use
of steam and
water-power in
which he
anticipated the
invention of the steam engine.
An extract from from"Monmouthshire Photographic Memories".
The Pitched Stone Court at
Raglan took its name from
the pitching or cobbling of
its surface. The ivy-clad walls
retain a richness of style, not
least in the transomed and
mullioned oriel window of
the hall on the right. A library
in the battlemented rear
gatehouse range once held a
priceless collection of Welsh
manuscripts and books,
wantonly destroyed by Oliver
Cromwell’s troops.
An extract from from"Around Alton Photographic Memories".
Raglan Castle is probably one of the most
majestic castles in Wales. Set upon a ridge
amidst a wondrous landscape, it has cast an
impressive shadow over the area for centuries.
Like most Norman structures, the castle was the
successor of a motte and bailey fortification.
Raglan was granted to Walter Bloet by Earl
Richard de Clair of Chepstow around 1174, and
in return Bloet had to provide the earl with
military assistance. Raglan remained in the
Bloet family until the mid 15th century. Then it
passed into the hands of William ap Thomas, a
member of the minor Welsh gentry, who began
to build the castle as we see it today.
Following the death of William ap Thomas in
1445, the castle passed into the hands of his
eldest son, another William, who took the
surname Herbert. It was this William Herbert
and his family who were entrusted to bring up
the young Henry Tudor (later Henry VII) at
Raglan. Herbert was to rise to the position of earl
of Pembroke, thus becoming one of the first
members of the Welsh gentry to rise in the
English peerage.
An extract from from"Monmouthshire Photographic Memories".