Describe your job or how you spend your days:
I am a pensioner and I spend almost all of my time working on various aspects of local history. I edit a quarterly local history magazine, "The Newtonian".
How do you spend your spare time:
Playing bass trombone in Newtown Silver Band and considering the greater mysteries of life, the universe and everything at the bar of the Waggon and Horses, Newtown.
Briefly describe Newtown:
Although Newtown is the largest town in Powys, it is by any other standards a small country town, but because of its history it has a character of its own, much of which is relatively unrelated to the surrounding area.
Describe your family life:
I live with my long suffering wife Anna in one of the oldest remaining parts of Newtown. We enjoy spending time in our garden, and also travelling.
Which groups, associations and/or organisations do you or your family belong too:
Newtown Silver Band
Newtown Local History Group
The Powysland Club
Newtown Civic Society
Montgomeryshire Community Recreation Association
The Robert Owen Museum council of management
Theatr Hafren Management Committee
Welshpool and Newtown branch of the Labour Party
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your comments
Paul Martin, The Forest, Kerry
I have recently moved to Kerry and have bought a property called "The Forest". It was majorly altered in 1822, 1881 and later by John Bancroft Willans who extensively refurbished it in 1912. Unfortunately the house has been left to deteriorate of over the last 20 years and is now in need to some TLC which I have embarked upon. I have started to research the house's background and have found archive information dating back to 1709. What I would like to do is trying to piece together the history of the house and the people who lived here. Mr Willans only briefly mentions the house in his book 'the byways of Montgomeryshire" which has been fascinating. What I don't know is what he looked like or what he did to the house internally. A couple of recent articles by Marrie Hussey and Carrie White have been fascinating, but I wonder if you might be interested in helping me with my research. It was a shame that I missed your talk on his pictures in September but we only moved here in July so we have yet to settle in. I wonder if perhaps there were pictures in your keeping which I might be able to see.If you can help me in any way then I would be delighted to hear from you.
Mon Nov 19 08:29:29 2007
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