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unusual facts about Llandough, Penarth



1927 in Wales

5 September - Kathleen Thomas becomes the first person to swim the Bristol Channel, swimming from her home town of Penarth to Weston-super-Mare in a time of 7 hours 20 minutes.

Andrew Phillip Smith

He grew up in Penarth, south Wales and attended the University College of Wales, Swansea.

Cardiff Harlequins RFC

In 1892 the team moved from Penarth Road, and a replacement pitch was made available for the team by Lord Tredegar at Roath Park.

Cosmeston Medieval Village

Cosmeston Medieval Village is a "living history" medieval village near Lavernock in the Vale of Glamorgan not far from Penarth and Cardiff in south Wales.

Howell Elvet Lewis

He retired to Penarth, where he became a member of Ebeneser Chapel, Cardiff.

Llandough, Penarth

The current church, which was built in the middle of the 19th century by the Llandaff diocesan architects, Prichard and Seddon, replaced one built a few years earlier, which was apparently sold to the next village of Leckwith, and moved piece-by-piece to be erected there.

Martyn Joseph

Martyn Joseph (born July 15, 1960, in Penarth, Wales) is a Welsh singer-songwriter whose music exhibits primarily a brand of Celtic and folk, while his songwriting is often focused on social lament or protest.

Penarth railway station

Parts of the disused trackbed through Lower Penarth and towards Sully have been blocked and built on.

Penarth RFC

Annually between 1910 and 1913 Penarth RFC toured France playing matches against teams from Tarbes, Bayonne pau Brive, Bordeaux and Le Havre.

Also that year former Wales rugby Captain Hemi Taylor, a playing member of Penarth RFC senior team, presented the club's highly successful youth section with a cheque for £1,500 on behalf of the ‘Bears Golf Society'.

This fixture marked the start of the "Baa-Baas" annual South Wales tour from their "spiritual home" of Penarth, which also encompassed playing Cardiff RFC on the Saturday, Swansea RFC on Easter Monday and Newport RFC on the Tuesday.

Penzance RFC

It is considered a great honour to be invited to play for the Barbarians and in 1908 Barrie Bennetts was invited to join the annual tour to South Wales playing against Penarth and Cardiff.

Samuel Pearse

Samuel George Pearse was born on 16 July 1897 at Penarth, Glamorganshire, Wales to George Stapleton Pearse and his wife Sarah Ann.

The Autism Directory

The Autism Directory was launched in November 2010 at an Autistic School in Penarth South Wales, Ashgrove Primary, by Assembly Member Janet Ryder.


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