{"title":"Local history","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"9781527273955","title":"Pontrobert - Hanes ar Gof a Chadw \/ A History in Pictures and Memories","description":"\u003ch6\u003e\u003cspan class=\"biblio_isbn\"\u003eDescription\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h6\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"biblio_isbn\"\u003eElfed Thomas, ex-headmaster of Pontrobert school, once wrote that Pontrobert was very much like heaven - you don't see the place until you arrive.  This book is a testimony to all those who have lived and worked in this small community set in the folds of the beautiful Vyrnwy Valley.  Drawing on family photographs, individual recollections and other historical sources, it portrays life in the 19th and early 20th century, a life rich in community activity, family bonds, enterprise and its traditions of language and music, but which was also challenged by the impact of war and the everyday hardships of farming life.  The hills, the sky and the river shaped the lives of everyone then, as they do now, in this little glimpse of heaven.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch6\u003e\u003cspan class=\"biblio_isbn\"\u003eDetails\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h6\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"biblio_isbn\"\u003eISBN: 9781527273955\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"biblio_pub_date\"\u003ePublication Date December 2020\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"biblio_pub_date\"\u003ePublisher: Clwb Hanes Pontrobert History Club\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"biblio_format\"\u003eFormat: Paperback, 297 x 210 mm, 169 pages\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"biblio_language\"\u003eLanguage: Bilingual (Welsh and English)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39352071782471,"sku":"ISBN9781527273955","price":10.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0215\/1318\/products\/Pontrobert1.jpg?v=1620393265"},{"product_id":"9781910839454","title":"Welsh Marcher Lordships, The: 1: Central \u0026 North","description":"\u003ch6\u003eDescription\u003c\/h6\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFor nearly 500 years the Marcher lordships and their lords were at the centre of events that affected the history of England and Wales, and saw scenes of conflict, devastation and conquest. 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A chance find during a house clearance produced a set of magic lantern slides made by a Llanfyllin shopkeeper. The slides had been skilfully hand-tinted to wonderful effect, thus producing the first colour photographs of the town and the surrounding area long before colour film became available. A beautiful book about the shopkeeper which shows his pictures has now been produced.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe shopkeeper’s name was John Ellis Jones. The son of a ‘Bootmaker \u0026amp; Dealer’ in Leg Street in Oswestry, he became a commercial traveller working in London. Somewhere on his travels he met Laura Buckley, a dressmaker from Birmingham, and they married and moved to Llanfyllin. There they sold boots and shoes at Globe House on the High Street in the early years of the last century.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThere are plenty of mysteries in this story. Why did John Ellis Jones take up hand-coloured photography? 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From Pryce Pryce-Jones, the man behind the first commercial catalogues, to John Foeldehaearn and the light-hearted stories of Sam Mawr, here you will find an abundance of interesting stories about unique characters from Maldwyn.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch6\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDetails\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h6\u003e","brand":"Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55887598616960,"sku":"ISBN9780860742647","price":3.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0215\/1318\/files\/9780860742647.png?v=1744980829"},{"product_id":"9781860571725","title":"Place-Names of Montgomeryshire","description":"\u003ch6\u003eDescription\u003c\/h6\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePlace-Names of Montgomeryshire examines 900 place-names in the historic county of Montgomery (1536-1974) together with the southernmost part of Denbighshire that was transferred to Powys from Clwyd in 1996. Place-names tell us a lot about how our ancestors lived, their languages and dialects, and how they thought about the world around them but great care must be taken to gather as much written and spoken evidence as possible before attempting to interpret those names. Richard Morgan's masterful study not only reveals many fascinating explanations of Montgomeryshire's place-names but also resolves numerous false interpretations: Montgomery, which gave its name to a Norman castle, town and the former county, is actually a French name transferred from Normandy. To Welsh-speakers it is Trefaldwyn or 'Baldwin's town' and this in turn has given us the Welsh language county name of Maldwyn. Drenewydd and Newtown both mean 'new town' in reference to its status when the settlement was established at the end of the thirteenth century, not in 1968 when it was declared a new town under the New Towns Act 1965. Guilsfield has no connection with anyone by the name Giles but is likely to refer to the golden flowers of a genus of hemlock which gave us its Welsh name Cegidfa ('place of hemlock'). Meifod is a house or settlement located in the middle of a valley floor (Welsh mei- and bod) not one occupied in May (Welsh Mai). Based on the author's own extensive research in local and national archives and reference libraries, and comprehensively arranged under 855 separate entries according to their standard Welsh form with cross-references from any English forms, the place-names are then linked to a glossary of over 1,000 common elements and personal names. 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