Welcome to Brechfa

BRECHFA VILLAGE


Brechfa Blog

Aerial view of Brechfa Village

Brechfa Forest Visitor Information

Brechfa Village Home Page

Brechfa and Other Villages Information

Community Shop Brechfa

Photo Albums and Video Clips

Links

Website Information











































Specileptic







Joseph Bazalegette
 

PEOPLE OF BRECHFA AND SURROUNDING AREA

People for whom Brechfa has been/is the birthplace of, home to, or a place to stay a while.

Please note. All listings in blue are links to external websites and the content is outside of our control. Should you wish to have a reference removed please contact us. To have the information removed from the  internet please contact the website publishing the information. Reproduction of Copyright material - Where known authorised or pending.

Select items in blue to link to associated information

ROOTS  Brechfa Back in Time - Information on people who had connections with Brechfa and the surrounding area and links to Websites with references to those people. Intended to be of benefit to anyone interested in old Friends or Family Genealogy.

Sir Clough Williams Ellis of Portmeirion fame. Designer of Brechfa House and Lodge, origionaly the coach house and stable block of a former hunting lodge, for Cyril Joynson in 1909 and built in 1910 on the edge of Brechfa Village, close to Brechfa Forest.

Dilwyn Davies  A son of Brechfa - Visit to Patagonia

Dan Mitchell (
Specileptic) Brechfa-born funnyman. In November 2007 he was asked to be the warm-up act for Jo Brand at a fund-raising gig in London. Comedian in new BBC series. Hoping to rule the airwaves Funnymen to sketch out radio careers. Dan Mitchell discusses epilepsy on Wales Today.

Annette Davies  IT Tutor and an Ace Squash Player  

Tim Lewis  A Welsh Pilgrim - Every Sunday for almost seventeen years the late Mr Tim Lewis would drive me up from Brechfa to the mountainside church of Llanfihangel Rhos-y-corn.

Kieron Hillyer  Horse Whisperer - What is Horse Whispering? Communicating with the horse, essentially using the horses own body language.

Huw Denman  Forest Manager - Joint winner of ‘Woods for Wales Award 2003 and active member of The Mid Wales Red Squirrel Project. Go to Photo Albums and Video Clips section for video associated with Huw's work.

Brian Denman  Sculptor - Go to website and click on images to enlarge. A Peace monument has been unveiled on Llanllwni mountain.

Village People  Telegraph Magazine - 31st March 2007. Interviews with some of the people who are helping shape Brechfa's future as a modern, functioning community. (Authorised link © Copyright of Telegraph Media Group Limited 2007)

The Wilson Family  European Adventures - The highlight of the trip was visiting the birthplace of my great, great grandfather, William Nugent Williams, in Brechfa, Wales.

Kate Baillie  A life lived to the hilt - Writer and travel-guide author, democratic-left activist and much-loved friend of all who knew her. Writer's ashes fired from rocket - Her ashes were launched from a Welsh mountain top by rocket.

Lynne Denman  Ffynnon - Folk music deeply rooted in the rhythms, language, folk traditions and landscapes of Wales and the Celtic countries. Ffynnon is Music to the Ears of U.S Fans - The first traditional Welsh band to secure a recording contract with the foremost North American folk and roots label Green Linnet. Creu-ad - A company of artists who work with rural communities and countryside managers.

Richard Boothby  The Peerage.com. One of the leading viola da gamba players of his generation - After studying with Nikolaus Harnoncourt in Salzburg, he founded the Purcell Quartet in 1984 and was a founding member of Fretwork in 1985.  Fretwork - A consort of viols - Debut in London 1986. Fretwork (Music Group) A consort of viols based in England, United Kingdom. Considered to be one of the finest groups performing music for viol consort.

Mair Dyer  Senior house officer - A and E department of Morriston Hospital. Rugby-mad Mair Dyer gained three international caps for Wales.

Ethel Davies  Childhood in Brechfa - By WW Two Volunteer.

Dennis Egerton  Egerton's last stand - The NEC Birmingham - One of the largest and most complex at Ipex 2002, covering 5,700 sq m.

Rachel Entwistle-Davies  Prize-winning photographer - Started photographing traditional landscapes and has developed to a more abstract colourful identifiable style with the use of macro studies.

Roger Newman  Rocking Lambs - Toy Design and craftsmanship. Rocking Lambs were invented in 1967. Roger and his wife Judy have been making them at their cottage in the neighbouring village of Gwernogle since 1982. Rocking sheep and rolling hills

Bertie Stephens
 Ballad Singer born in Abergorlech - Wandering balladeers were an important source of entertainment in Wales before the rise of the music hall and cinema.


My Space. Specileptic.(Dan Mitchell) "I've appeared on TV a great many times in my life".

My first appearance was when I was 6. It was an advert for British Telecom and starred Joanna Lumley. She came to our village of Brechfa to open a telephone exchange. So they roped in everybody in the village to wave flags and cheer. They even hired a black man (which most of the kids in the village had never seen) to make us appear less backward. He had never had as much attention and had a great time with everyone pointing at him. We didnt get paid but there was a large bin full of ice and cans of pop, which we could help ourselves to, a decision they came to regret.

None of the kids had ever seen this much Lilt (the totally tropical taste) in one place before and continued to drink as much as we could for as long as we could. This meant that when it came to filming, more often than not all the children were ******* against the back of the telephone exchange or running amok due to being off their **** on sugar and pineapple.
Happy days.
------------------

MySpace. Colin on Emrys. "Joseph Bazalgette's great grandson lives in Brechfa and I went to college with his great, great grandson". (Joseph Bazalgette, the brains behind London's Sewerage network during the ‘great stink’)
------------------

In 2003 New Year Honours Roger Nock was awarded an MBE for services to the Brechfa community. ------------------
Rock group Marillion. In 1984 Fish and the boys rented a small cottage near Brechfa where they wrote the bulk of their album 'Fugazi'.....!   
------------------

Kosheen. Sian Evans. In 1996, Sian moved into a tepee on a traveller's site in the Brechfa forest for nine months. "I just thought it looked like a lovely way to live," she says, At night Sian passed the time by writing songs. Despite being brought up writing poetry and listening to Welsh folk music and Joni Mitchell, it was the first time Sian had felt moved to create music        
------------------

I Love Mountains - BBC Wales. Nominated by Caroline Evans from Gwernogle, Brechfa Forest. "The top of Mynydd Llanllwni - open panoramic vista, undisturbed, quiet, magic - the day to day world is far away. A place for contemplation and cleansing of the soul". Thu Sep 1 00:03:38 2005.
 

Disclaimer : brechfa.info does not endorse the content of links listed on this website.
The links are provided for your information only
 
Legal / Terms and Conditions
 
Copyright brechfa.info © 2007 - 2008 - All rights reserved

Valid HTML 4.01 Transitional