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PWLL OF YESTERYEAR If you have any old photographs of Pwll that you would like to share with other readers of this magazine please send them to Peter Kent, 53 Pwll Road, Pwll, Llanelli, SA15 4BG. Your photo will be scanned and returned. Alternatively you can e-mail them to [email protected] DIARY DATES To contact The Bônau Cabbage Patch or The 23 rd Sept First Day of autumn Pwll Action Committee please call 755665 or 25 th Sept Jewish New Year hat can we say to the th W 755260 or 777420 or drop your articles or The local police rely on 4 Oct Yom Kippur st readers of this magazine except a very big reports through our letterboxes at 43 or 53 or us, the public to come forward and provide 21 Oct Trafalgar Day th thank you!! You have all been digging deep into 81 Pwll Road or you can send us e-mail at: them with information so they can provide a 24 Oct United Nations Day th your pockets and purses once again to support better service. It also keeps them in the loop of 26 Oct Summer Time Ends our summer raffle so generously. You really are [email protected] st what is really going on in our community. You 31 Oct Halloween st a very kind hearted group of people. The raffle Any photographs we use are first scanned and can contact them in several ways, all are 1 Nov All Saints Day th nd took place on 19 June and a list of the prize then the originals are returned to their rightful confidential, and each will be investigated. You 2 Nov All Souls Day th winning tickets is printed on page 18 of this owners so don’t be shy or fearful in sending us can notify them either by telephone, email, 4 Nov Mischief Night th magazine. your photographs. It would be handy though if Bobby Box etc. as follows: - PCSO 8017 Dan 5 Nov Guy Fawkes Night th This edition of the magazine has all the usual you wrote your name and address on the back Brown telephone number 101 or e-mail 9 Nov Remembrance Sunday th features that you seem to enjoy. If there is any of the photo (in pencil) or you attached one of [email protected] or at 30 Nov St Andrews Day feature that you would like to see in the those ‘post-it-notes’. our local Bobby Box which is situated at Pwll magazine that isn’t already there let us know Post Office. You can also follow Dyfed Powys and we’ll see what we can do. Police on Twitter at www.twitter.com/dafyddP or be their friend on Facebook at Once again we also have to thank our advertisers without whose generosity the PWLL RESIDENTS & BÔNAU magazine would not be possible. TENANTS www.facebook.com/dafyddP DEADLINES ASSOCIATION We hope you enjoy the read as much as we The deadline for the have enjoyed producing it for you. 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Our meeting (HELP - meetings in Pwll Pavilion so that the public can Hengoed, Elli, Lleidi wards) is held in Llanelli WE’RE ON THE WEB WINTER IS meet them and discuss their problems and Town Hall on the second Wednesday every two concerns. COMING - months as follows: Don’t forget that you can Meetings (open to all) are held every CLOCKS GO view all previous editions Wednesday between 11am - noon BACK of the magazine on the web. We also October 8 th @ 6:30 th Your local neighbourhood watch co-ordinator is have over 400 old and new photographs Don’t forget to turn December 10 @ 6:30 John Edwards. You can contact John on your clocks BACK one of interest to Pwll residents there. Take 775534. You can contact your local Police hour before going to Community Support Officer Dan Brown by a look by pointing your browser to: th Everyone is welcome to attend the meetings bed on Saturday 26 October. British Summer and contribute towards the setting of police phoning 101 or by e-mail at:: th Time officially ends at 2:00am on Sunday 26 priority actions for the area. www.pwllmag.co.uk October. [email protected] DAI AND THE establishing the National Health Service. On 5 GUINNESS WEIGHTS AND BEAR July 1948, the government took over MEASURES responsibility for all medical services and there Guinness is a popular Irish Dai and his friend were was free diagnosis and treatment for all. dry stout that originated in The following exhibits walking through the In 1951, Bevan was moved to become minister the brewery of Arthur the weights and woods when they of labour. Shortly afterwards he resigned from Guinness (1725–1803) at measures, which every spotted a vicious looking bear. Dai immediately the government in protest at the introduction of St. James's Gate, Dublin. Physician should employ, opened his bag, pulled out a pair of trainers and prescription charges for dental care and Guinness is one of the most so that he may know certainly what proportions started putting them on. Dai's friend looked at spectacles. Bevan led the left wing of the successful beer brands to use when necessary. Dai and said, "You're crazy! You'll never be Labour Party, known as the 'Bevanites', for the worldwide. It is brewed in able to outrun that bear!" next five years. In 1955, he stood as one of the almost 60 countries and is Weights and Measures of proportions: available in over 100. 20 grains of wheat make a scruple "I don't have to," Dai replied. "I only have to candidates for party leader but was defeated by Annual sales total 850 million litres (1.5 billion 3 scruples make a drachm outrun you." Hugh Gaitskell. He agreed to serve as shadow pints). 8 drachms make an ounce foreign secretary under Gaitskell. In 1959, Aneurin Bevan was elected deputy A feature of the product is the burnt flavour that is derived from roasted unmalted barley, Fluid measures are arranged thus: leader of the Labour Party, although he was Four podfuls make one spoonful already suffering from terminal cancer. He died although this is a relatively modern MADE IN WALES - development, not becoming part of the grist Four spoonfulls make one eggshellful ANEURIN BEVAN on 6 July 1960. His wife, Jennie Lee, died in Four eggshellfuls make one cupful 1988 from natural causes at the age of 84. until the mid-20th century. For many years a 1897 - 1960 portion of aged brew was blended with freshly Four cupfuls make one quart Four quarts make one gallon brewed beer to give a sharp lactic flavour. Although the Guinness palate still features a Four gallons make one pailful Aneurin Bevan was born characteristic "tang", the company has refused Four pailfuls make one grenn (a large earthen- on 15 November 1897 in A hangover is the wrath of to confirm whether this type of blending still ware vessel) Four grenns make one mydd Tredegar, Wales. His upbringing in a poor grapes. occurs. The draught beer's thick, creamy head working class family gave him first-hand comes from mixing the beer with nitrogen when Four mydds make one myddi (a hogshead) experience of the problems of poverty and poured. It is popular with Irish people both in Also used are the following: disease. His father, David Bevan, was a coal Ireland and abroad, and, in spite of a decline in miner and his mother, Phoebe, was a consumption since 2001, is still the best-selling Two eggshells make a half pan seamstress. Aneurin was one of ten children NEWS OF THE WEIRD alcoholic drink in Ireland where Guinness & Co. two halfpans make a pan and did very poorly at school. His academic makes almost €2 billion annually. Two pans make a phioled performance was so bad his headmaster made A minister in India's most populous and Two phioleds, a cupful The company has had its headquarters in him repeat a year of his education. politically crucial state, Uttar Pradesh, has said Two cupfuls, a quart bureaucrats can steal a little as long as they London from 1932 onwards.