BRECHFA VILLAGE
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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
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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. 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) 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. Joseph Bazalgette The brains behind London's Sewerage network during the ‘great stink’). His great grandson lives in Brechfa. 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. The Rev Lynn Chambers Trained as a primary school teacher and, after spending time as a full-time mother, returned to teaching to specialize in working with children with special educational needs. Beyond her role as a professional teacher, she has over 25 years experience of working with children in holiday clubs and Sunday schools and is joint author of Play and Pray through Lent and Play and Pray through Advent, both published by Barnabas.. Lynn was Diocesan Childrenís Officer for St Davidís Diocese from 2001 to 2006. She was ordained in 2005, served her curacy in Carmarthen and is now Priest-in-Charge of the parishes of Brechfa with Abergorlech and Llanfihangel Rhos-y-corn in West Wales. Annette Davies IT Tutor and an Ace Squash Player Dilwyn Davies A son of Brechfa - Visit to Patagonia Ethel Davies Childhood in Brechfa - By WW Two Volunteer. 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. Brian Denman Sculptor - Go to website and click on images to enlarge. A Peace monument has been unveiled on Llanllwni mountain. Huw Denman Forest Manager - Joint winner of ‘Woods for Wales Award 2003’ and active member of The Mid Wales Red Squirrel Project. Go to Video Clips section for video associated with Huw's work. 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. Mair Dyer Senior house officer - A and E department of Morriston Hospital. Rugby-mad Mair Dyer gained three international caps for Wales. Dennis Egerton Egerton's last stand - The NEC Birmingham - One of the largest and most complex at Ipex 2002, covering 5,700 sq m. Adieu ! Retirement article. Heidelberg Post, Spring 2002 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. Sian Evans (Kosheen) 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. Kosheen in Russia - Sian Evans chats happily about her work over a hot drink. Kieron Hillyer Horse Whisperer - What is Horse Whispering? Communicating with the horse, essentially using the horses own body language. 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. Marillion (Rock group) In 1984 Fish and the boys rented a small cottage near Brechfa where they wrote the bulk of their album 'Fugazi'.....! 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. Dan Mitchell discusses epilepsy on Wales Today. From My Space. "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. 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 Roger Nock was awarded an MBE for services to the Brechfa community in 2003 New Year Honours. 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. 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.
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