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BBC Homepage Home Memories of the Nelson more from this section Last updated: 26 October 2008 Hay on Wye Philip Williams lived with his grandparents in Hay-on-Wye A Photographer's View of Hay during the late 1950s and early sixties. He's sent us four old A Year in The Life of a Parish Priest Bevington Organ photos of the Nelson public house taken when his grandfather Black History Month Fest Tom was landlord. The fifth photo, of his parents' wedding in Bonfire Night BBC Local 1935, was sent in by John Michael Smith in October 2008: Childhood Memories Mid Wales Cleansing Clyro Church Things to do Cooper's Hall Collection Facts and Figures People & Places Gold Award Nature & Outdoors Hay on Fire 2007 History Hay's Past Postmen Lampeter Christian Orthodox Church Religion & Ethics Market Memories Arts & Culture Memories of the Nelson Music My Town TV & Radio Ode To Hay Old Hay Families Local BBC Sites Old Photos News Phototour Sport Phyllis' Hay Photos Price's Pictures Weather Red Kite Theatre Travel Taitographs The Three Tuns Neighbouring Sites The Three Tuns Auction North East Wales The Warren North West Wales The snow of 1947 South East Wales Tom Williams standing on bridge over Dulas Brook with Town Tour the former station in the background. Twin Town South West Wales 1 2 3 4 5 Useful Info Related BBC Sites Winter Wonderland Wales Philip Williams: "Tom Williams my grandfather was the Your Say Cymru Police Sergeant in Cusop until he retired from the then Canolbarth ' Police Force'. On retirement, he took over as landlord of the 'Nelson Inn' opposite the Hay-on-Wye

railway station. I cannot remember the exact dates but I think it was the early to mid 50s and on into the early to mid 60s. Incidentally, the middle of the bridge my Grandfather is standing on was (and I think still is) the English/Welsh border." your comments

Alastair Jones,Glasbury My memory of the Nelson dates from August 1962.I was staying the weekend with my father in Ffynnon Gynydd, about 5 miles from Hay. I was an extremely impecunious 19-year-old articled clerk and visited the Nelson for the one and only time in my life on the evening of Saturday 11th August. I was alone, with very little money, but I did(and still do) have a talent for the piano.After a pint of scumpy I asked if it would be in order for me to play and was told that I could. From that moment I did not have to buy a drink(I had about 6 pints of scrumpy) and I was even given a free supper of liver and onions. The following day I returned to Birmingham, where I lived, and, emboldened by the scrumpy, asked Linda to go out with me.She said yes and we are still together after 44 years. We love the area so much that we came to live in Glasbury in 1997. Tue Sep 12 09:33:01 2006

Glynis Jones, Sydney, Australia Hi there Phil, Great to see you posting up some photos of the Nelson and of Tom Williams. He, of course, was my Grandad too and I have great memories of visiting the Nelson as a child with the rest of the family. We had a wonderful Christmas lunch in the bar area one year - the tables seemed to go on forever by the time all the family was seated. We all ended up playing darts and quoits well into the evening. Another thing I remember was the walled garden at the side of the Nelson. The number of hours I must have spent on top of that wall taking down car numbers!! Then of course, when it was time to go home to Derby where we lived at the time, there was a half a crown from Nana and Grandad. A fortune to me in those days...... Tue Apr 18 11:13:50 2006

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BBC Homepage Wales Home Memories of the Nelson more from this section Last updated: 26 October 2008 Hay on Wye Philip Williams lived with his grandparents in Hay-on-Wye A Photographer's View of Hay during the late 1950s and early sixties. He's sent us four old A Year in The Life of a Parish Priest Bevington Organ photos of the Nelson public house taken when his grandfather Black History Month Fest Tom was landlord. The fifth photo, of his parents' wedding in Bonfire Night BBC Local 1935, was sent in by John Michael Smith in October 2008: Childhood Memories Mid Wales Cleansing Clyro Church Things to do Cooper's Hall Collection Facts and Figures People & Places Gold Award Nature & Outdoors Hay on Fire 2007 History Hay's Past Postmen Lampeter Christian Orthodox Church Religion & Ethics Market Memories Arts & Culture Memories of the Nelson Music My Town TV & Radio Ode To Hay Old Hay Families Local BBC Sites Old Photos News Phototour Sport Phyllis' Hay Photos Price's Pictures Weather Red Kite Theatre Travel Taitographs The Three Tuns Neighbouring Sites The Three Tuns Auction North East Wales The Warren North West Wales Group photo outside the Nelson Inn. The snow of 1947 South East Wales Town Tour 1 2 3 4 5 Twin Town South West Wales Useful Info Related BBC Sites Philip Williams: "The people in the group are standing on Winter Wonderland Wales the small car park at the front of The Nelson. They are from Your Say Cymru L to R Back Row Tom Williams, ?, Alan Williams, Mrs Canolbarth Williams my Grandmother. Front Row Not Sure but might be Bill Gundy in a mack?, ?, ?

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BBC Homepage Wales Home Memories of the Nelson more from this section Last updated: 26 October 2008 Hay on Wye Philip Williams lived with his grandparents in Hay-on-Wye A Photographer's View of Hay during the late 1950s and early sixties. He's sent us four old A Year in The Life of a Parish Priest Bevington Organ photos of the Nelson public house taken when his grandfather Black History Month Fest Tom was landlord. The fifth photo, of his parents' wedding in Bonfire Night BBC Local 1935, was sent in by John Michael Smith in October 2008: Childhood Memories Mid Wales Cleansing Clyro Church Things to do Cooper's Hall Collection Facts and Figures People & Places Gold Award Nature & Outdoors Hay on Fire 2007 History Hay's Past Postmen Lampeter Christian Orthodox Church Religion & Ethics Market Memories Arts & Culture Memories of the Nelson Music My Town TV & Radio Ode To Hay Old Hay Families Local BBC Sites Old Photos News Phototour Sport Phyllis' Hay Photos Price's Pictures Weather Red Kite Theatre Travel Taitographs The Three Tuns Neighbouring Sites The Three Tuns Auction North East Wales The Warren North West Wales The Nelson Inn The snow of 1947 South East Wales Town Tour 1 2 3 4 5 Twin Town South West Wales Useful Info Related BBC Sites Philip Williams: "The Nelson and the Station are all in Winter Wonderland Wales . Also a strange thing, although Hay is in Wales, the Your Say Cymru postal address when I lived there was Hay-on-Wye, Canolbarth Herefordshire, which is England. I do not know if it is still the same?

Also, before all the county changes, you could at the same time stand in two countries - England and Wales - and also three counties - Herefordshire, Breconshire, Radnorshire. But you would get wet feet as it was in the middle of the River Wye!" 30 April 2012 Accessibility help Text only BBC Homepage Wales Home Memories of the Nelson Last updated: 26 October 2008 Philip Williams lived with his grandparents in Hay-on-Wye during the late 1950s and early sixties. He's sent us four old photos of the Nelson public house taken when his grandfather Tom was landlord. The fifth photo, of his parents' wedding in 1935, was sent in by John Michael Smith in October 2008: BBC Local Mid Wales Things to do People & Places Nature & Outdoors History Religion & Ethics Arts & Culture Music TV & Radio

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Neighbouring Sites North East Wales The Nelson in a flood during the early 60s. North West Wales 1 2 3 4 5 South East Wales South West Wales Philip Williams: "The reason for the flood was that the Related BBC Sites Wye was very high at the time which in turn made the also Wales high Dulas Brook back up and overflow. We were lucky in Cymru The Nelson but the people who lived in Dulas Terrace had a Canolbarth bad time."

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BBC Homepage Wales Home Memories of the Nelson more from this section Last updated: 26 October 2008 Hay on Wye Philip Williams lived with his grandparents in Hay-on-Wye A Photographer's View of Hay during the late 1950s and early sixties. He's sent us four old A Year in The Life of a Parish Priest Bevington Organ photos of the Nelson public house taken when his grandfather Black History Month Fest Tom was landlord. The fifth photo, of his parents' wedding in Bonfire Night BBC Local 1935, was sent in by John Michael Smith in October 2008: Childhood Memories Mid Wales Cleansing Clyro Church Things to do Cooper's Hall Collection Facts and Figures People & Places Gold Award Nature & Outdoors Hay on Fire 2007 History Hay's Past Postmen Lampeter Christian Orthodox Church Religion & Ethics Market Memories Arts & Culture Memories of the Nelson Music My Town TV & Radio Ode To Hay Old Hay Families Local BBC Sites Old Photos News Phototour Sport Phyllis' Hay Photos Price's Pictures Weather Red Kite Theatre Travel Taitographs The Three Tuns Neighbouring Sites The Three Tuns Auction North East Wales The Warren North West Wales The snow of 1947 South East Wales Town Tour 1 2 3 4 5 Twin Town South West Wales Useful Info Related BBC Sites John Michael Smith:" Here is a photo of my parents' Winter Wonderland Wales wedding group standing outside 'The Nelson'. My parents, Your Say Cymru Alice (nee Forknall) and William Bernard Smith, were Canolbarth married from the Nelson in October 1935, when it was run by my paternal grandparents. My mother, the bride, recently

celebrated her ninety-eighth birthday (in September, 2008).