Discovering Welsh Graves (Pocket Guides) - Softcover

Alun Roberts

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0708317928 ISBN 13: 9780708317921

Publisher: University of Wales Press, 2002

Synopsis

This new and unusual Pocket Guide refers to more than 300 Welsh graves of the famous and not so famous. They are grouped in convenient geographical areas using the current local government boundaries and there is guidance on how to find the graves themselves. The book is not so much about the graves themselves (although where they are particularly notable there are photographs and descriptions) but about the people buried in them. It thus provides potted biographies of the individuals involved and offers some intriguing juxtapositions. So we find the fairly respectable Cynan and Sir John Edward Lloyd buried close to the seriously eccentric John Evans (Bardd Cocos) at Menai Bridge, Joe Erskine close to Arwel Hughes at Thornhill, while Trealaw would be worth visiting to see the graves of Viscount Tonypandy, Tommy Farr, Lewis Jones and Kitchener Davies as well as that of Williams Evans, owner of the Corona pop factory.

About this title

About the Author

Alun Roberts is the Director of the NHS liaison unit at the University of Wales College of Medicine and has a PhD in Modern History from the University of Leeds.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Wales Press
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0708317928
• ISBN 13: 9780708317921
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 160