Huw Williams
@ynysdeullyn.bsky.social
Law, planning & architecture, naval & maritime history, railways.
Italy imported Welsh coal for it railways and had a much stronger incentive to develop electic/diesel traction. Then, seemingly, FS were much less assiduous in their approach to scrapping....
October 15, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Italy imported Welsh coal for it railways and had a much stronger incentive to develop electic/diesel traction. Then, seemingly, FS were much less assiduous in their approach to scrapping....
This is fascinating. UK locomotives built around the same time, are well represented on preserved lines. In the 1930's the GWR was still further developing the locomotive lineage of G J Churchward thanks to the plentiful availability of the best steam coal in the world-Welsh Dry Steam.
October 15, 2025 at 7:55 PM
This is fascinating. UK locomotives built around the same time, are well represented on preserved lines. In the 1930's the GWR was still further developing the locomotive lineage of G J Churchward thanks to the plentiful availability of the best steam coal in the world-Welsh Dry Steam.
Thanks for the reminder that it was Newtown. I think it was nevertheless an area with a large proportion of Irish families, I seem to recall from a post on here or Twitter.
September 13, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Thanks for the reminder that it was Newtown. I think it was nevertheless an area with a large proportion of Irish families, I seem to recall from a post on here or Twitter.
The Vachell"s were a legal family and the name Vachell & Co now belongs to the firm of Geldards and when the present firm was created in 1970 Vachell & Co was one of the names considered. The others are Butetown, Adams[t]own, Grangetown, Temperance Town and the area around Tydall St, Irish Town?
September 13, 2025 at 8:53 PM
The Vachell"s were a legal family and the name Vachell & Co now belongs to the firm of Geldards and when the present firm was created in 1970 Vachell & Co was one of the names considered. The others are Butetown, Adams[t]own, Grangetown, Temperance Town and the area around Tydall St, Irish Town?
Not to mention the equally distinguished Fire Station across the road, now the hideous Westgate St multi-storey car park. Remind me, what was that building's use? Was it the Labour Exchange?
September 6, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Not to mention the equally distinguished Fire Station across the road, now the hideous Westgate St multi-storey car park. Remind me, what was that building's use? Was it the Labour Exchange?
Remembering also the actions of the late "Taff" Whitton of Port Talbot, whose vital action in opening the sea rocks in a flooded passage to stabilise the ship after the hit, only became known years later and too late for his bravery to be recognised.
August 24, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Remembering also the actions of the late "Taff" Whitton of Port Talbot, whose vital action in opening the sea rocks in a flooded passage to stabilise the ship after the hit, only became known years later and too late for his bravery to be recognised.
The actons of the ship's company after Exocet missile strike in the Falklands War is still regarded as a paradigm example of damage control.
August 24, 2025 at 6:27 PM
The actons of the ship's company after Exocet missile strike in the Falklands War is still regarded as a paradigm example of damage control.
A very disappointing offering nowadays, especially on the longer journeys, compared to the early days of the TGV when there was still a Wagons-Lits staffed full restaurant car.
August 20, 2025 at 4:39 PM
A very disappointing offering nowadays, especially on the longer journeys, compared to the early days of the TGV when there was still a Wagons-Lits staffed full restaurant car.
Belle carrozze
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July 26, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Belle carrozze
Wish we still had the Red Bragon supporting the Royal Arms. Great motto too "Always the same".
July 5, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Wish we still had the Red Bragon supporting the Royal Arms. Great motto too "Always the same".
I think that would have been the Ruth Jones episode of "Who do you think you are?" Here is the link to Emma Snow's book on John Tomley www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/The-First-NH...
The First NHS
We all think the NHS was first dreamed up by Nye Bevan when he became minister of health in 1945. Yet experiments with the NHS…
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July 1, 2025 at 7:23 AM
I think that would have been the Ruth Jones episode of "Who do you think you are?" Here is the link to Emma Snow's book on John Tomley www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/The-First-NH...
There is an essay on Charles Evans Hughes and Owen Roberts and Supreme Court's change of position in relation to Rosevelt's New Deal in the proceedings of the Welsh Legal History Society. I'll look out the reference.
June 28, 2025 at 6:27 PM
There is an essay on Charles Evans Hughes and Owen Roberts and Supreme Court's change of position in relation to Rosevelt's New Deal in the proceedings of the Welsh Legal History Society. I'll look out the reference.
Also of Welsh descent and a member of the Hughes Court was Jutsice Owen Roberts, although Wiki does not refer to it here en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owen_Ro...
Owen Roberts - Wikipedia
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June 28, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Also of Welsh descent and a member of the Hughes Court was Jutsice Owen Roberts, although Wiki does not refer to it here en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owen_Ro...
Had Woodrow Wilson nor narrowly won the 1916 election, the US would have been represented by Charles Evans Hughes, the son of Welsh parents & later Sec of State & Chief Justice.
June 28, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Had Woodrow Wilson nor narrowly won the 1916 election, the US would have been represented by Charles Evans Hughes, the son of Welsh parents & later Sec of State & Chief Justice.
But there is a Republic that was created by a coalition of Protestant gentleman farmers and lawyers, with an elected Head of State with quasi monarchical powers and they called it the United States......
June 20, 2025 at 8:19 AM
But there is a Republic that was created by a coalition of Protestant gentleman farmers and lawyers, with an elected Head of State with quasi monarchical powers and they called it the United States......
Is it still used by the Italian postal service? One of the most dispiriting things about our towns are the often magnificent former Crown Post Offices now either shut up or re-purposed for uses that don't do justice to the dignity of the architecture. Much the same can be said about former banks.
June 13, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Is it still used by the Italian postal service? One of the most dispiriting things about our towns are the often magnificent former Crown Post Offices now either shut up or re-purposed for uses that don't do justice to the dignity of the architecture. Much the same can be said about former banks.
Very "Bella figura"!
June 8, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Very "Bella figura"!
He was the son of Sir Rhys Rhys Williams DSO, KC, MP, 1st baronet and the grandson of Gwilym Williams QC of Miskin a notable cultural and legal figure in late C19th Glamorgan, whose statue stands outside the Law Courts in Cathays Park, Cardiff.
May 27, 2025 at 1:01 PM
He was the son of Sir Rhys Rhys Williams DSO, KC, MP, 1st baronet and the grandson of Gwilym Williams QC of Miskin a notable cultural and legal figure in late C19th Glamorgan, whose statue stands outside the Law Courts in Cathays Park, Cardiff.
The Secured Shorthold Tenancy was the brainchild of the late Sir Brandon Rhys-Williams, 2nd baronet of Miskin, Glamorgan and MP for Kensington Chelsea, who introduced several private member's bills on the topic prior to the Housing Act 1988.
May 27, 2025 at 1:01 PM
The Secured Shorthold Tenancy was the brainchild of the late Sir Brandon Rhys-Williams, 2nd baronet of Miskin, Glamorgan and MP for Kensington Chelsea, who introduced several private member's bills on the topic prior to the Housing Act 1988.