LLETYSYNOD, Ceredigion 2010
Notes on LLETYSYNOD, Ceredigion 2010
For the twenty odd years I have been driving past this house I have always expected to see piles of building material ready for the consolidation, the repair, the decoration and the modernisation to commence. It has never happened. Instead I have seen the slates from the roof removed, a gable end and chimney collapse, all the inner panelling removed and the floors rot and fall in. It breaks your heart.
One of my favourite abstract photographs was taken upstairs on the landing in this house in 2003 and all subsequent visits I have sought out this wall even if I know that the wall has gone. It’s an odd thing being sentimental over an inner wooden wall but sentimental is what I feel!
Anyone who drives from Abermagwr to Pontrhydygroes knows this house, as it stands over looking the road with a long line of outbuildings – commonly enough in a far better state of repair than the house itself. I know not whom occupied the house last and if it played a part in the Trisant mines or has been solely an agricultural property but either way it will be a great loss if it crumbles, perhaps inevitability, back into the ground.
For the twenty odd years I have been driving past this house I have always expected to see piles of building material ready for the consolidation, the repair, the decoration and the modernisation to commence. It has never happened. Instead I have seen the slates from the roof removed, a gable end and chimney collapse, all the inner panelling removed and the floors rot and fall in. It breaks your heart.
One of my favourite abstract photographs was taken upstairs on the landing in this house in 2003 and all subsequent visits I have sought out this wall even if I know that the wall has gone. It’s an odd thing being sentimental over an inner wooden wall but sentimental is what I feel!
Anyone who drives from Abermagwr to Pontrhydygroes knows this house, as it stands over looking the road with a long line of outbuildings – commonly enough in a far better state of repair than the house itself. I know not whom occupied the house last and if it played a part in the Trisant mines or has been solely an agricultural property but either way it will be a great loss if it crumbles, perhaps inevitability, back into the ground.
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By Deborah Bradley: My gtx3 grandmother Jane Valentine (later Bonner) was born here in 1798. Her father Richard was a groundsman on the Lisburne Estate. When I sought directions to it on a visit last year, a local farmer proudly announced that he had just stripped and sold the slates from the roof! Unbelievable.... By W Williams: My x 4 great grandfather was Richard Valentine senior (born 1765)lived there. His son Richard Valentine my x3 great grandfather was born there in 1799 and his daughter Ann Valentine my x2 great grandmother gave birth to my great grandfather 'out of wedlock'(he went on to publish x2 books of welsh poetry) and his father's identity is unknown.... waiting for DNA testing to afford some clues (via his descendents).
We think my great grandfather's father may have had a surname of Williams or perhaps his first name was William. Likely Anne Valentine lived in Llanafan/Llanfinhangel-y-Cruedden and her lover was local too and had the baby there in 1846...
Who was Ann Valentine's lover?
The mystery continues. By gwn williams: Yes we always wonder how or why my great grandfather James Valentine changed his name from Valentine to Williams any help please