St Fagans, The Castle And Village 1893
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In the 16th century St Fagan's Castle was rebuilt as a Tudor mansion. There was an earlier castle on the site, but little is known about it save for traces of what might be a 13th-century curtain wall. Set in 98 acres of parkland, St Fagan's was donated for use as a National Museum by the Earl of Plymouth and now houses the Welsh National Folk Museum.

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My grandparents and great-uncle and aunt lived and worked at Parc-y-Felin farm in the 1930s. My mother and her sister went St Fagans school. Although the farm was demolished in the early 1960s the farm cottage still survives where my great-uncle used to live. It was a milk producing farm, the dairy was at the rear of the farm which I think was powered by a water wheel, the water was supplied by the River Ely by a water channel which my mother called the "race".