Dolgarrog memories

Jane Owens of Caenant (from www.penmon.org)

Jane lived at Caenant One day, Jane was poorly and having a nap, when her daughter Sally heard an awful rumbling. The Eigiau dam wall had burst, and water was crashing down the valley. Sally ran upstairs to wake her mother and they both went outside.
They ran down the hill to where a woman was shouting out of the window for them to catch her child. They were desperately trying to help her when a boulder threatened to land on them. A man shoved Sally and Jane out of the way and saved them. Some of Sally's extended family were saved only because they had gone to the cinema that evening and their home was empty. Caenant is on the hill very near the path where the water burst through.

Poet Thomas Williams

Poems of Thomas Williams, Gorsedd Grucyn.

Yr ydym mewn dyled i'r ddiweddar Philip Williams, Melin y Coed, am gadw pedwar o benillion Thomas Williams, Gorsedd Grucyn, ac am ei roi i Ken Davies.

Mr Thomas Williams of Gorsedd Grucyn wrote a great deal of verse in his life. We are greatly privileged to be able to share some of his work with you here thanks to his descendant, Mr Ken Davies, who has transcribed them for us. He received them from another descendant, the late Philip Williams of Melin Y Coed, who was a very keen family historian with an enormous interest in the Melin Y Coed area.

The first poem was written upon the death of his sister, Mrs Jane Edwards, and the second is about Mr Robert Parry, Ty Newydd, Yr Oerfa. The third is about Lance Corporal Moses Llewelyn Jones, and the fourth about Evan Bleddyn Lloyd Williams, who died before his fourth birthday.

Poet Pernant

The work and life of poet Pernant, Bob Owen, of Carmel.

Robert (Bob) Owen was born at Pen-y-Fron, Carmel, on 29 October 1902.

 

He died in Landudno Hospital on July 7th 1983.

During his life he wrote many poems and overcame many difficulties to achieve what he did.

He wrote "Melin y Coed", which was recorded by local group "Y Mellt" in the nineteen seventies.