Talgarth Festival Photos
Last updated: 07 January 2008
The Talgarth Festival of the Black Mountains is held every year over the August Bank Holiday weekend. The Town Square is the focus of the event which includes a craft fair, a food festival, children's activities in a celebration of food, music and the counrtryside. Volunteers are always needed and appreciated so please contact the organisers via their website (listed on the right of this page)
Local people have sent us these photos of the 2004 festival. If you've got any pictures to add, please email us at wales.mid@bbc.co.uk.
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David Jones, St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada
I'm thrilled to see my comments used with the Talgarth Festival Photographs. I'm waiting now to receive the photos from the gentleman in Talgarth of the old and new hospitals. But I can't believe that there are some comments from Elizabeth Keefe (Jones) from Glasbury, who now also lives in Newfoundland the same as my family and me...Please keep up the page.
Fri Feb 1 09:11:01 2008
David Jones, St. John's , Newfoundland, Canada
Back in the early to mid 1920's, my mother worked at the hospital in Talgarth. I can remember the word sanitorium being mentioned, so I wonder whether it would be in Talgarth or in Bronllys. Does anyone have photographs of the hospital, old or recent? We lived in Nantyglo, near Brynmawr, so my mother must have lived at the nurses quarters or in Talgarth. Her maiden name was Emily (Amy) Ellis. What a credit to Talgarth this web-site is.
Mon Nov 26 16:13:46 2007
A Price
Miss Wales 2006 will open the festival along with Lord Livsey of Talgarth at 12 noon on the Square, after a procession led by a bagpipe player.
Tue Aug 22 12:30:39 2006
Nick Carter from Blaina, Gwent
30 years ago we used to take a horsedrawn caravan from Talgarth run by Austin Gwillam. They were the best holidays we have ever had. Does he still run them?
Do you know the answer to Nick's query?
Tue Jul 25 10:14:58 2006
Bob Davis, Cardiff
Awesome weekend out. I'd go again and again. Music was the best of all. Cannot wait until next August.
Tue Jan 24 11:42:59 2006
Tony Pugh - Surrey
My connection with Talgarth is due to my father Ivor Pugh, a 1921 child of Talgarth with connections there to the families of Wheele, Lewis and Vaughan. I holidayed there as a youngster every year to visit my grandmother who lived at No 4 in ?? Terrace off Hay Rd that was known by some as Shanghai. I am so fond of those visits during the fifties and sixties. I so much enjoyed the explorationary times with my cousins Wheele, and especially the countryside life in comparison to life in London. It was rather unique in those days to say to classmates that I was travelling over 100 miles to another country.
Many of my Talgarth relatives have grown up or passed away and the atmosphere for me has changed so much, the place is just not the same.
I'd like to mention that I understand that Geoff Lewis is of local family and might be noted as a son of Talgarth who, as a jockey he won several horse racing trophies including the 1971 Epsom Derby on the horse Mill Reef. The same year, and on the same horse also won the 1,000 Guinees and the Arc de Triumph which is a first in the same racing season! My Grandfather, Charles Pugh was a skilful and notable stonemason who was involved with many building projects including the latter Tower Hotel in Talgarth and the dams in the valleys.
Mon Jan 2 00:20:57 2006
elizabeth keefe ( Jones) originally from glasbury
These pics certainly bring back memories for me. I now live in Newfoundland and I remember going to Talgarth to the Dr's and with my dad to the bank and the sheep market. I also worked at Bronllys Hospital then known as the "SAN". Great memories
Fri Sep 24 03:32:07 2004
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