Stories tagged "Fishguard": 45
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Fishguard and Goodwick Through Time | Abergwaun ac Wdig dros y Blynyddoedd
With images and articles ranging from shipping, built heritage and everyday life to suffragettes and twentieth-century film history, the Fishguard and Goodwick Local History website has it all.
Here, we provide a snapshot of the much deeper dive…
This is the Sea, Part I | Dyma'r Môr, Rhan I
There is a song by the folk rock band The Waterboys called ‘This is the Sea’. It concerns the changes in life, using the sea as a metaphor: Once you were tethered, Now you are free, That was the river, This is the sea. For some reason I had those…
Carn Wnda Prehistoric Chambered Tomb | Beddrod Siambrog Cynhanesyddol Carn Wnda
Set high up in the Pencaer peninsula to the east of Strumble Head, Carn Wnda is one of six surviving prehistoric chambered tombs located along this headland. To the east of Carn Wnda are the megalithic sites of Parc y Cromlech (Penrhiw), and the…
The works of Richard Fenton, Part I | Gweithiau Richard Fenton, Rhan I
During the 1790s Richard Fenton was busy touring his native Pembrokeshire and gathering material for his Historical Tour of Pembrokeshire, published in 1811 to highly positive reviews. This enormous work, beginning and ending in Fishguard, contains…
The works of Richard Fenton, Part II | Gweithiau Richard Fenton, Rhan II
Richard Fenton (1747-1821), travel writer, poet, lawyer and antiquarian, was a significant Welsh cultural figure who lived in Fishguard from 1793. One of his most influential publications was an edition of the writings of the Tudor historian George…
The Science of Clouds | Gwyddor Cymylau
Dr Moffett's work has been published widely in scientific journals, and he regularly holds tours and sessions in Fishguard with visitors of all ages. Here he outlines his work and the groundbreaking findings from research carried out on Fishguard's…
Sailors Lost and Found | Morwyr Ar Goll ac eraill a ddaeth i'r Fei
In the tiny churchyard of Granston, set back from the bay of Abermawr and its smaller neighbour Aberbach, two gravestones bear witness to anonymous victims of the waves. One marks the deaths of Captain Charles Bowlby and his crew of 28 on board the…
Coastal Fishguard and Goodwick | Ardal arfordirol Abergwaun ac Wdig
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Richard Fenton
The first member of the Fenton family to arrive in Fishguard - in the late 18th century - was Lieutenant Samuel Fenton, a naval officer who transformed the fortunes of a fishing village so dependent on the local catch that its inhabitants were known…
Working on the Ferries and in the Tourist Office
Agnes Ferguson sat down with Ports, Past and Present to share her family history of her grandfather and father working in the port, meeting her husband on a ferry to Fishguard and her own work for the tourist office.