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Looking at the Newsletters for early 1977 we find Dennis Harper writing on behalf of the Playing Fields Committee, Sid Hooper for the Sunshine Club, Edith Evans for the Evergreen Club, Beryl Ayres for Caerwent Womens Institute and Gill Hicks for the Playgroup.
An advertisement for the St Valentines Supper Dance featured "The Laurie Thompson Trio" which featured "our" Bryan Morgan. Bryan was the guitarist but nowadays he is reduced to orchestrating this Community web site! (And I've still got that old Fender! - Bryan) The Revd. Leslie Gruffydd Jones was still Vicar and one of his historical articles featured the family of William Blethyn, born in Shirenewton. In 1580 William bought the manor of Dinham and later became Bishop of Llandaff, but his descendants included a protester against the enclosure of Wentwood and a registered non-conformist. In 1760 the hereditary line faltered and the Dinham estate was sold off. We are hoping to publish a complete edition of Gryffudd Jones articles later this year. A prominent series of articles by Gwyneth Lewis of Llanfair gave an account of her daughter's long trip to Australia and the Far East, part holiday, part work. Considering that Gwyneth had been hit hard by the loss other son Ronald and her husband Ted in the early 1960s, it was good to find her writing enthusiastically about her family. You may enjoy this extract from the item by Pastor Eddie Jones, in rather more lighthearted vein than usual: Over one of the shops in a Lancashire Town hung a clock, and every morning a man on his way to the cotton mill stopped outside, set his watch, and then went on. John Nettleship Caerwent Historic Trust March 2002 |