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A Little Piece of Llanfyllin in Johannesburg
Welsh house names have been appearing on houses in South Africa - thanks to an amateur woodworker from the Llanfyllin area. Kit Davidson who lives at Cwm Nant-y-Meichiad near Llanfyllin was asked to make the traditonal signs by a family from Johanesberg who came to stay in Easter 2005.
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The Basson Family from Johanesberg
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Kit: "The Basson family came to stay at Cwm Nant-y-Meichiaid in Easter 2005 giving up the Autumn sun of South Africa for the lingering Winter of Wales. Yurgens Basson is a lecturer in Mathematics who runs a business in Discovery, a suburb of Johanesberg, with his wife Dorothy."
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your comments
Jennie Davies, Amsterdam NL
My Mum and Dads house in Llanfyllin was called 'Fronfriallu' in english 'Primrose Bank', the original Fronfriallu was in Cwm Nant-y-Meichiaid, where the bank was covered in primroses, when they moved to 'town' they took the name with them. Both have sadly died now but I see the house in Brook Street is still called Fronfriallu, makes me happy to see when I visit.
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