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On Friday 12th April, a group of six dancers and three musicians travelled to the Mercure Holland House Hotel and Spa in Cardiff. This was to provide entertainment at the gala dinner for international delegates attending the Biofeedback Federation CIC conference. The conference is held in a different country every two years, and the organisers try to include examples of local culture. We put on a couple of displays in between courses, and when the meal had been cleared away, taught a few simple ceilidh dances on the small dance floor to those delegates who stayed up (it was quite a late night). Our next big event was Saturday 11th May at the 30th anniversary Tredegar House Folk Festival. We danced three spots, one in each of the dance marquees plus one outside in the Cotyledon food and craft market. The weather was fine and sunny thank goodness, and the market (only there on the Saturday) was a nice addition to the festival. It is hoped that next year it will be onsite both music and colour and there were Saturday and Sunday. Czech workshops, impromptu and dance side Matenik from Prague organised music sessions, a was the international dance team, children’s entertainer, craft stalls, they are always energetic with food vans, and of course real ale renamed colourful costumes, and with and lager/soft drink bars. as the BoA Green Hevva from Cornwall and many The following weekend we Man Festival, it was other local and English dance appeared at another festival, this reinstated this year. Participating teams, (26 in all) they took part in time in Bradford-on-Avon. We teams are mainly drawn from the the free dance displays over two danced two years ago at the three types of Morris dancing with days. The concerts were bigger inaugural BoA Day of Dance and a few other dance styles thrown and better than ever, with Welsh were looking forward to a return in for contrast. Bradford-on-Avon folk award winners Alaw and in 2018, when the organisers is a very pretty town and there Calan headlining on Saturday and realised the date clashed with the were plenty of people sitting in Sunday respectively. There was royal wedding of Harry and the park and outside cafes also a free concert and two open Meghan, they reluctantly decided watching the dancing. It is hoped mic sessions for music lovers. to cancel the event knowing few the festival will grow in size year The daily processions added people would be there. Happily, on year.
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Newport U3A has several entertainment of all our musical groups. members. A Ukulele Group was instigated Greg is also an accomplished only a few years ago and has artist with a wicked sense of grown so much in ability and humour, as you can see from size that there are now three his illustration for an advertising groups - Beginners, Improvers poster here. and a Technical Class. Who would have thought that Ukulele Daze is a band formed our U3A had so many 'Cool by members and it is available For each session he chooses a Cats'? to perform at social and public themed programme of Anyone interested can have a events. It has had many recordings to explore Jazz from two week taster before engagements and raised a lot of its roots in New Orleans to committing to join. funds for Saint David's Hospice Swing, Latin and through to the Date for your Diary - Care. more Modern. Come along to our Annual Playing the ukulele doesn't He also organises a regular live Open Day at Shaftesbury need prior musical knowledge lunchtime session as he is able Street Methodist Chur to get started. It is increasingly to call upon his musical ch on Thursday 15th August fr popular in schools so it could associates to form some great om 10.00am until noon. be just the thing for keeping up little bands for the with the grandchildren! All That Jazz Group's Convenor, For more information about the other musical groups and so Greg, has had over 60 years much more visit www.newportu3a.org.uk or phone experience of playing live Jazz. Angela Robins on 07980 970967. Reservoirs in Wales The Garreg Ddu Dam Although looking like a viaduct, it is actually a submerged dam. Its role is to maintain a sufficient level in the Garreg-ddu reservoir so water can enter the Foel Tower and the gravity-driven aqueduct to the Frankley Reservoir in Birmingham. The dam is only required to operate during times of extreme drought. The water flows to the Severn Trent water treatment works, where it is cleaned by rapid gravity filter sand beds. Chlorine, fluoride and lime are which allows the water to flow clearly visible on our trip in added. The Foel Tower stands by gravity alone. September 2010 but when we 52m above the Frankley It also supports masonry pillars visited the dam in February of Reservoir in Birmingham. The carrying the access roadway to 2014 it was full. Well worth and gradient of the aqueduct which the neighbouring valley of the trip and only 1 ½ hours from links them averages 1 in 2,300, River Claerwen which were Newport.
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By Mike Joenn, Founding Director of AJ Garage Services, Ponthir
When I finished my it’s expensive. Our business, for today, they have the option to apprenticeship as a HGV example, has invested over have their vehicle diagnosed mechanic, we were living in a £45,000 in just the last two and serviced by an accredited different century and from years tooling up with new garage of their choice - without where we stand now it has computer systems and the invalidating the warranty. So never seemed so far away. software to analyse customers’ long as you choose an Back in the 1960s, cars came in vehicles to identify problems accredited garage, you can rest one flavour – petrol. Only HGVs and fulfil other specialist assured that the work will be & buses ran on diesel and the functions. And just like your carried out to the only thing on the road that was home computer, the software manufacturer’s standards using powered by batteries was the needs constant updating, genuine parts. And here’s the dairy’s milk float. In 2019, we upgrading and replacement. thing, it can be a highly cost- can look back in awe. We’ve Troubleshooting a vehicle fault effective choice – particularly seen the rise AND THE FALL of these days often starts with a on premium brand motor the diesel car and more technological diagnosis before vehicles. we can get down and dirty with recently, the dawn of the age of So, look out for the the nuts and bolts. the electric car (and Hybrid). accreditations that offer But it’s going to take time for us And have you noticed, we’re no assurances that you are dealing to go all electric. There’s a LOT longer ‘mechanics'. We are with a professional garage of conventional vehicles out ‘Vehicle Technicians’ reflecting which has invested in the there to be maintained and the fact that it’s simply not technology, equipment, the serviced, so we certainly don’t good enough to be able to use tools and the training to offer see the need for our skills a spanner. We’ve got to be you the service that you need. ‘systems analysts’ and we have declining in the foreseeable And here’s the plug… Our to understand technology as future. business – AJ Garage Services well as know how to use a That said, life in vehicle is affiliated to the Retail Motor socket set. Training is both servicing and repair isn’t what it Industry Federation, The essential and on-going. used to be. The car today is United Garage Services tantamount to a fancy computer The introduction of Technology Group, the Trust My Garage with four wheels and whilst the to the workshop has also been Network and we are members fundamentals remain the instrumental in opening up the of the Guild of Master same… pistons, gearboxes, market for vehicle servicing. Craftsmen. When you are wheels, brakes, they have Vehicle manufacturers can no looking for your next motor become ‘computer peripherals’. longer ‘tie you in’ to their vehicle service and start to The modern vehicle is service regimes with proprietary compare pricing, give me a call. governed, controlled and diagnostics and threat of enabled by computers. invalidated warranty. Software Consequently, the modern and system diagnostic tools are Mike Joenn, AJ Garage service centre must employ available to non-franchise Services, Star Trading Estate. new technology to service and garages. 01633 431305 maintain them and believe me, Few motorists realise that Find us on Facebook
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Some readers may recall passenger trains passing through Risca, Rogerstone and Bassaleg pulled by locomotives bearing the initials L.M.S. (London, Midland and Scottish Railway). They carried passengers between the Sirhowy Valley and Newport until the late 1940s. From Nine Mile Point (near Wattsville) the trains ran over track of the Great Western Railway to gain access to Newport. Nick- named ‘The Cockney’ it ran on Monmouthshire lines and it Tredegar, one with a hatchet and non-stop from Risca to may be said, its first appearance a saw; the other with a ladder and Newport. on any part of what is now the a gauge. They had instructions ‘to The right for the L.M.S. to ‘invade’ Great Western Railway. This cut all branches of’ (along the G.W.R, territory goes back to the engine was introduced by Samuel track from Tredegar to Newport). start of the 19th century when the The men got as far as Bassaleg Tredegar Iron Company, having (just two miles from destination) built a tramway down the Sirhowy and ‘went on the spree’ at a local Valley, made an agreement with pub. When Stephenson’s Flyer The Monmouthshire Canal and came, the drivers thought the Railway Company for through men had cleared the way through running to gain access to the to Newport but a low branch in wharves on the River Usk at Tredegar Park, Bassaleg, was hit Newport. The two tramways were which knocked the chimney off joined ‘end to end’ at Nine Mile the locomotive.’ Point, near Wattsville. Thomas Ellis is part of the story of Tramroads preceded railways and Tredegar Ironworks, a name were local enterprises. These Homfray of Tredegar Iron Works. borne by father, son and tramroads had cast iron ‘L’ He was the son of a father of the grandson. The oldest Thomas shaped rails and the wagon same name to whose wager with Ellis was instrumental with wheels did not have flanges. Richard Crawshay of Cyfarthfa Samuel Homfray in bringing three Wagons and later carriages were Iron Works; the world is indebted of Stephenson’s locomotives to drawn by horses but steam for the contest that brought the ironworks and tramroads. locomotives were beginning to Trevithick’s locomotive to notice. Later his son supervised the appear in other parts of the Mr. Homfray purchased an engine construction of a further nine Britain. The Tredegar Iron from Mr R. Stephenson and Co. locomotives for the ironworks and Company began hauling wagons (Newcastle – upon – Tyne) which the tramroad. of iron to Newport in 1805 but started running from Tredegar Iron The middle of the 19th century over 20 years later and having Works in 1829 but it was not until brought the conversion of the been aware of the success of the December that it travelled the tramroads into railways. Then steam haulage in other parts of Sirhowy and Monmouthshire followed purchase of the Sirhowy the country, the Company Tramroads into Newport, a line by the L.N.W.R. (later forming decided on a change. distance of 28 miles.’ part of the L.M.S.) and the line The following appeared in the The inaugural run was not without through Risca, Rogerstone and Monmouthshire Evening Post of incident as a letter to the Evening Bassaleg by the G.W.R. 2nd February 1912. Post later told. ‘It was not until 1829 that records ‘The day previously, my father By ‘Uplander’ show that a locomotive was used sent two men down from
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Caldey Island is a small island closed on a Sunday. Boats just off the coast near Tenby in depart every half hour from the Pembrokeshire. It is one of the harbour at high tide, while at holy islands of Britain, a number low tide they depart from Castle of traditions inherited from Beach. Celtic times are observed by Tourist attractions on Caldey the Cistercian monks of Caldey Island include the 13th-century Abbey, the owners of the island. church of St Illtyd, a Norman It is separated from the chapel, Caldey Abbey and mainland by Caldey Sound. A Caldey Lighthouse, which was ferry service from Tenby goes to built in 1828 and automated in Caldey Island in the spring and 1929. The light stands 210 ft summer months when the above high-water mark. weather allows, although it is
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Devils Bridge Falls is a world famous tourist attraction in the heart of the Cambrian Mountains. It is 12 miles from Aberystwyth and 85 miles from Newport along the A470. Today, the Falls Nature Trail provides a unique opportunity to see this great natural feature in the Rheidol Gorge. The set of stone steps, still open to tourists, leads down to the lowest bridge at the waterfall, they are known as Jacob's Ladder. If you are passing or want a full day trip, the Bridge and the Falls Nature Trails are well worth it. The Waterfall Wanderer
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After the three reluctant members left the party and returned to the ship, Albanov and the remaining men continued on through the ever-shifting ice. Albanov already had strong doubts about the general health and stamina of the party. They still showed signs of the scurvy that had afflicted the whole crew during the past year, due to the lack of antiscorbutics in their diet. One man was 56 years old and staggering; another man had a hernia; another man had been complaining about chest pains for some time; another man had open sores on his legs; all of them complained of sore feet and had asthma symptoms. Albanov had calculated that Franz Albanov kept a diary in which he cumbersome and heavy sledges Joseph Land most likely lay to the recorded details of their 90 day carrying their kayaks and supplies. east of his little party, fortunately he journey, which was to cover the 235 The kayaks were often required to was eventually proved to be correct. miles travelled from the trapped enable them to transit the frequent His means of navigation were Saint Anna to Cape Flora. His terse stretches of open water. The party minimal and included no way to narrative described how the party managed to shoot some of the polar calculate longitude. The only map faced dangers from constantly bears and walrus, which then that he carried was a sketch made shifting ice, disintegrating ice floes, provided them with additional food of a page from Fridtjof Nansen’s blizzards, snow-blindness, attacks supplies. book Farthest North, published 20 by polar bears and walrus. Albanov On June 5th they caught a glimpse years earlier. This showed Franz had to persuade his men to of distant land some way ahead, but Joseph Land indicated by continue the members of the party were hypothetical dotted lines. hauling of becoming apathetic, dragging their the feet and not attempting to stride
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purposely forward. One night two fortunate pair slipped and slid fortunately left ample supplies of of the men chose to sneak away, down from the top of the glacier to still edible food. The food supplies purloining part of the parties’ land, undamaged, in the water. contained intact sealed cans of equipment and supplies. Albanov They quickly gathered together pemmican, beef, mutton, dried was disgusted by the betrayal and their remaining belongings, vegetables, cakes of chocolate, would have dealt harshly and dismantled the sledge and loaded powdered eggs etc. There was also swiftly with the mutineers, but everything into the kayak. Then chests of ship’s biscuits and supplies realised that it would be pointless to paddling, with desperation for six of tea and coffee. Many other useful attempt to chase after them to hours, eventually reached Bell things were to be found even retrieve the stolen goods. Island. As soon as they landed on a including a rifle and ammunition. On June the 9th, a short distance solid shore they ran about furiously The food supplies were sufficient to from land, an ice storm suddenly to restore the circulation in their sustain them for several months. erupted and blew the ice floes apart, stiffly frozen legs. The pair discovered documents in scattering the remaining members The next morning, after managing one of the huts that indicated that a of the party. Albanov described to shoot a few ducks for food, the Russian explorer named Georgy how after being stuck on small pair set off for Cape Flora on Yakovlevich Sedov had, when on a battered pieces of ice they had to Northbrook Island. Finally, after polar expedition, called at the clamber into the unstable kayaks much paddling they landed on this Jackson Camp. The pair initially and try to avoid damaging them on Cape, where totally exhausted they thought that a ship would come the sharp edges of the shattered lay down on the ground to rest and from Archangel to contact Sedov drifting ice. Miraculously all the recover their strength. They and provide them with a means of men were re-united and managed eventually rose to their feet and rescue. However, one day a ship to scramble up on to a glacier with began to explore and came upon suddenly came into sight which their sledges and kayaks and then the remains of a wooden hutted they recognised as the Svyatoy continued to stumble onwards. The camp built several years earlier by Muchenik Foka (Saint Martyr storm raged around the glacier, an explorer named Frederick Foka), which they had previously which rose twelve feet above water George Jackson, leader of the seen at Archangel being fitted out level, the waves making it Jackson-Harmsworth expedition in for Sedov. He had died of scurvy at impossible to continue the crossing. 1896. This camp had also been sea and the ship was now returning Finally the storm abated, but three used, in 1902-1905, by an American to Archangel after calling at Cape of the remaining members of the William Ziegler who stopped here Flora to search for fuel. party had been swept away, leaving when making unsuccessful attempts The surviving pair were finally just Albanov and Konrad still to reach the North Pole. rescued !!! surviving on the battered glacier. Albanov and Konrad were (To be continued) The Kayak belonging to this delighted to find that Ziegler had
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