Month: June 2015

John Williams and a group of enthusiasts are working on the creation of a Glamorganshire Canal historical trail from Merthyr Tydfil to Cardiff Bay. 

Indicating the major locations en route and other historical sites in proximity to the Canal e.g. Hamadryad Hospital Ship, as a means of encouraging interest in the regional history, tourism and providing an interesting and challenging walking and cycling trail.

Would you like to see a Glamorganshire Canal trail? Let us know what you think in the comments.

The visual artist, Valerie Coffin Price, collaborated with poet Philip Gross to produce A Fold in the River, a book of images and poems about the Taff.

 Philip Gross once lived on the banks of the Taff and his journals are the source for the powerful poems. Valerie Coffin Price revisited the walking route along the river and evolved the beautiful prints and drawings that accompany the poems.

Valerie is a Welsh artist-letterer, whose work responds to wild and remote landscapes and this has taken her as far afield as Russia, Québec and Cambodia, but she always comes back to a close and intimate relationship to river and border landscapes in Wales and along the English border.  

Philip Gross was born in Delabole, in north Cornwall, near the sea. He was the only child of Juhan Gross, an Estonian wartime refugee, and the daughter of the local village school-master.  He has written poetry and fiction for adults and children and also lectures in creative writing.