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
-----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
----- 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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