Ah we could all dream but I'd miss my Welsh mist and mountains....
Now I'm off to try and see if I can find a rich old Uncle in my family
history so I can live a life of luxury!!!
Janie Watkins
janie(a)paw-print.demon.co.uk
www.globalsnookercentre.co.uk
www.janiewatkins.co.uk
-----Original Message-----
From: Pauline James [mailto:paulinejames@btinternet.com]
Sent: 27 February 2003 14:25
To: CARMARTHENSHIRE-L(a)rootsweb.com
Subject: Re: [Cmn-L] RE: LAHANE/COLLINS
Hi Janie
yes, we do need the sun!!
It was a second showing for History Hunters, they were all from the
archives.....John, David, Caroline and Ellyn (both Caroline and Ellyn
have left).....Ellyn is a friend of ours.....
Glad you have finally caught up with your mother.....its my plan to
retire to the sun one day!! Can live in hope anyway..
Pauline
----- Original Message -----
From: "Janie Watkins" <janie(a)paw-print.demon.co.uk>
To: <CARMARTHENSHIRE-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 1:46 PM
Subject: RE: [Cmn-L] RE: LAHANE/COLLINS
Yes it's dripping - I got soaked helping a friend gather bits n
pieces
from my garden for her flower arranging class! The light has been bad
all week - dreary and cloudy is no good for flattering Llanelli
photos!! But it's helped me make all sorts of exciting progress on my
Watkins lineage - actually found my grandmothers family in darkest
Suffolk! And one of my femal Watkins marriage led me to a website
where the male family has more than ten generations recorded....
I've even managed to relocate my own mother who went galavanting off
to Lanzarote for the winter, but has now settled down in Majorca at
the ripe of old of 85!!
Did anyone see History Hunters on BBC wales last week? The team were
drawn from Carmarthen CC - most of whom seemed to work in the records
office etc - they were very good and no doubt are a great help to all
Carmarthenshire researchers.
Janie Watkins
janie(a)paw-print.demon.co.uk
www.globalsnookercentre.co.uk
www.janiewatkins.co.uk
-----Original Message-----
From: Pauline James [mailto:paulinejames@btinternet.com]
Sent: 27 February 2003 13:35
To: CARMARTHENSHIRE-L(a)rootsweb.com
Subject: Re: [Cmn-L] RE: LAHANE/COLLINS
Hi Janie
When we 'talk' like this, we can think of some nice places in
Llanelli.....yes I forgot Park Howard (Bryncaerau Mansion)......I
enjoy walking around there.....
Bit too wet to take photographs today.....
Pauline
----- Original Message -----
From: "Janie Watkins" <janie(a)paw-print.demon.co.uk>
To: <CARMARTHENSHIRE-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 12:43 PM
Subject: RE: [Cmn-L] RE: LAHANE/COLLINS
> Hiya
> I'd go along with all that and if time permitted perhaps a trip to
> Pendine Sands To Furnace Pond And a walk round the reservoirs
> And a drive up to Pembrey mountain - just for the stunning views.
>
> If walking round the present day centre of Llanelli, the trick is to
> look UP - a lot of the old buildings are still there but masked
by
> shop front - Stepney Street, with the renovated Lucania Buildings,
> Old
> Llanelly Cinema, YMCA, the Halifax Building, Exchange Buildings, are
> all "old llanelly". Vaughan Street has the Barclays
Bank Building,
> corner of Llanelly House, the library building. Church Street has
> the old church and town hall and the church!
>
> If heading out of Llanelli towards Swansea on the new road, a little
> way along on the left hand side is one of the old stack chimneys
> still
> visible - not sure which works this was, but it's old.
>
> Obviously all over town there are some stunning example of the
> superb architecture of the non-conformist chapels And there are some
> Georgian
> House at the top of Goring Road, by the Thomas Arms built 1832, a
> few yards up Old Road is the Old Vicarage, which is now a listed
> building,
> in front of the Thomas Arms was the site of the old horse fair and
> the
> streets on the right like Prospect Place and Gilbert Place are two
> of the oldest streets in the town. Bottom of Thomas St with Falcon
> Buildings and Buckleys Brewery and the River Lliedi.
>
> There is quite a lot of old Llanelly still, but you have to look
> quite
> hard and shutter out modern Llanelli. A trip to Parc Howard would be
> quite high on my list. There are some good examples of the old
> Llanelly pottery there.
>
> Janie Watkins
> janie(a)paw-print.demon.co.uk
>
www.globalsnookercentre.co.uk
>
www.janiewatkins.co.uk
>
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pauline James [mailto:paulinejames@btinternet.com]
> Sent: 27 February 2003 10:10
> To: CARMARTHENSHIRE-L(a)rootsweb.com
> Subject: Re: [Cmn-L] RE: LAHANE/COLLINS
>
>
> Hi Maureen
>
> If your in-laws are visiting Llanelli to see where their roots are,
> the place has changed quite a bit over the past few years.
>
> If he was the Lighthouse Keeper (as was my William Thomas until
> 1913) they would have to take a photograph of this.....it must have
> been The
> Whitford Lighthouse, the keepers used to spend two weeks on this and
> two weeks on the one at the end of the pier.......This was the
first
> cast iron lighthouse, and is still standing today in the Burry
> Estuary......this can be seen better from Burry Port...(also picture
> on our web site)....
>
> Llanelli beach is a must to visit (better when the tide is in), this
> now has a beautiful cycle path/walk-way as far as Pembrey. The
dock
> has been altered and is now used for canoeing etc......(not that I
> have seen them there).....also Sandy Water Park which is the old
> site of the Steelworks......this is only a stones throw away from
> the Seaside area of Llanelli.
>
> Also as Anne has stated, Pembrey Country Park, plus Burry Port
> Harbour, which has again been renovated and is a pleasure to walk
> along.
>
> Apparently from this week there is going to be a Hopper Train from
> Llanelli beach to Burry Port Harbour.......so if they wish to view
> the
> coastline and scenery it would be ideal to use this new mode of
> transport.....
>
> Hope they enjoy their stay, let us know what they thought of the
> place......
>
> Pauline
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Maureen Thoms" <asm.thoms(a)nf.sympatico.ca>
> To: <CARMARTHENSHIRE-L(a)rootsweb.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2003 2:59 PM
> Subject: [Cmn-L] RE: LAHANE/COLLINS
>
>
> > Dear Listers,
> > Looking for info on James Collins of Union Square, Llanelly,
> > stepfather of Abigail Lahane who passed away there at the age of
> > 15 in
>
> > 1876. Abigail Lahane was the daughter of Michael Lahane
> > (Lighthouse
> > Keeper) deceased.
> >
> > Also on a different note my mother and father-in-law Ford and Mary
> > Thoms are presently visting England and Wales for the next
three
> > weeks. Some of you may remember Ford's stories of Christmas past
> > in Newfoundland. I posted them to the list a while back. I am
> > wondering
> > right now if anyone could suggest any *must see* attractions in
> > the Llanelli and Burry Port area.
> >
> > Thank you
> > Maureen Thoms
> > Boyd's Cove, Newfoundland
> > Researching; THOMAS/LAHANE/EVANS of Carmarthen, Llandarog,
> > Llanelli and Burry Port
> >
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> >
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