What is Japanware? Japanware is modelled on the look of varnished and lacquered decorative arts from the Far East. In the beginning of the 17th century the first attempts were made to imitate imported Oriental decorative objects. The look became extremely popular in the 18th century following the ‘Age of Discovery’ and the opening up […]
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Blaenavon Overview Blaenavon – Blaenafon is a small town at the top of the Afan Llwyd Valley in Torfaen, Wales. The town is set in a raw industrial landscape that inspired the writer Alexander Cordell and antiquarian Sir Richard Colt Hoare. Parts of the town and surrounding countryside form the ‘Blaenavon Industrial Landscape’. Blaenavon Industrial Lanscape
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Overview Pontypool – Pont-y-pŵl is a town in southeast Wales within the county borough of Torfaen. The Welsh name for the town, Pont-y-pŵl, stems from the word bridge ‘pont’ and pool ‘pwll’. It gets the word pool from a pool in the Afon Lwyd River which flows through the town. Pontypool is one of the
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History of Dinas Powys Dinas Powys – Dinas Powis is a small town between Cardiff and Barry in the Vale of Glamorgan. The core of the town was designated a conservation area in 1971. It is a town I visited often in my teenage years to meet with friends, unknowingly exploring its history on long
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Marcross – Marcroes is a very small village in the Vale of Glamorgan, south Wales. It consists of a public house – The Horseshoe Inn – and a few scattered houses, farms, and a small Medieval church in the centre of the village. Marcross lies close to the Glamorgan Heritage Coastline and Nash Point Lighthouse
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Caerwent Caerwent – Venta Silurum (Market of the Siluries) dates to AD 75–80, it was a settlement linked to the Silures. The Silures were the native Iron Age tribe in South Wales when the Romans came to Britain. The building of Caerwent was part of the wider Romanisation of Britain. It would have been a
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Where is St Brides Major? St Brides Major – Sant-y-Brid is a village, near to Southerndown along the Glamorgan Heritage Coast. The area is known for its limestone quarrying. Over time these quarries have produced prehistoric fossilised remains from thousands of years ago. There are various findspots of prehistoric material and within the local landscape
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History of Nantgarw China Works Nantgarw China Works is one of the most important industrial heritage sites in Wales. Between 1813-1814 and again between 1817-1820 the finest porcelain in the world was produced here by William Billingsey and Samuel Walker. Due to a very low firing success rate and expensive production costs success was short
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History of Llanmaes Llan-maes – Llanfaes is a small village near Llantwit Major. Llanmaes has a long history of settlement. In 2003 a hoard of metal objects found locally pointed to settlement dating from the Bronze Age through to the Roman period. The site consisted of a complex of prehistoric timber roundhouses some dating from
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