Lockheed P38 Lightning found on a beach in Wales
A charity has announced plans to retrieve the wreckage of a rare World War II fighter plane buried under sand and waves on a UK beach. The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR) are looking for support. “One of the most important WWII finds in recent history”, its location has been kept a secret to keep the find safe.
Blue Plaque Honours Pioneer Of Cremation
Born in Rudry, Caerphilly in 1800, Dr William Price was one of the most flamboyant, romantic and eccentric characters in Welsh history. A famed healer, druid and crusader of reform as one of the leaders of the Chartist movement, he was a man who blazed progress and controversy by outraging the conventional Victorian Society.
Poverty-stricken in his youth, his father was an insane priest, although Dr Price remarkably passed through the Royal College of Surgeons in London at the age of just 21. He created an embryonic national health service in the Brown Lenox Chainworks in Pontypridd, masterminded the first Museum of Welsh Life and launched Britain’s first Co-Operative Society.
In 1884 he famously cremated the remains of his dead baby son, Iesu Grist. The process outraged the Victorian society and he stood trial for his actions. On being acquitted the trial stood as a landmark case which was instrumental in the passing of the Cremation Act in 1902.
He fathered illegitimate children with a housekeeper 60 years his junior and died at his home in Llantrisant sipping a glass of champagne at the age of 93.
Mumbles, Wales, 1890-1900ish (via The Library of Congress)
Wales on the Bus 1989 (via Noddy Guevara)
Those were the days. Thatchers Britain, we were downwardly mobile though. Some believed the party line and became dull yuppies. Others went to party in old buses ! This is at some communal place in mid Wales for a party.
Dog with a pipe in its mouth (via LlGC ~ NLW)
