I've been enjoying my time browsing through an amazing collection of photos taken by Paul White -- who has made it a life's work to document derelict buildings in Wales -- and in Ceredigion in particular. You can look at his galleries here:
http://www.welshruins.co.uk/gallery.html
They are all in there -- chapels and churches, farmhouses, woollen mills, slate mines, grand country houses, schools, cottages, and even garages and sheds. This is clearly where the inspiration for the BBC crime drama "Hinterland" came from......
Curious to see my great grandfather's grave as one of the "Welsh Ruins". I wonder what he might have thought.
ReplyDeleteWhere was he buried, Chris?
ReplyDeleteIn the chapel at Blaenycoed.
ReplyDeleteHe was buried next to his brother Howell Elvet Lewis. Elfed is in the "beddau'r beard" section of the linked photos - poets. In Welsh wales he is still a well known name, Elfed that is, but not outside Wales.
ReplyDeleteActually Elfed was not buried in Blaenycoed but his ashes were scattered there because this is where he grew up, and then they put up a monument - I know you appreciate factual accuracy :)).
All a bit off topic so sorry for that.