local history

A workman in a high-visibility yellow jacket is seen from behind as he carefully fixes the blue Ray Milland plaque onto the wall of a terraced house.

NEATH LEGEND: Hollywood’s first Welsh Oscar winner honoured with blue plaque at childhood home

The childhood home of Neath’s own Hollywood icon Ray Milland has been…

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An aerial photograph showing a large, sprawling complex of historic stone buildings with grey slate roofs, surrounded by green lawns, trees, and roads with car parks.

CARMARTHEN: Former Victorian asylum transformed into major health and wellbeing campus

A historic Carmarthen estate, once the site of a Victorian psychiatric hospital,…

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The finished mosaic memorial, a long rectangular artwork mounted on a brick wall outdoors. The top half is a colourful landscape with a bright sun, while the bottom half is a black and white scene depicting the mining disaster.

GOWERTON: Community unites to unveil stunning mosaic memorial for 1905 Elba mining disaster

A new mosaic memorial to the 1905 Elba Mining Disaster has been…

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