Search results... did we find another Gwilym?
Our search to find another Gwilym in Wales led us through the south of England, travelling past some of the UK's major tourist attractions... but we didn't actually go in to see most of them.
We went to Windsor (where the castle was too expensive to enter, so we saw it from outside), Stonehenge (which had closed the gates 5 minutes before we got there, so we saw it from outside), and Bath (where the baths were too expensive, so again, we saw them from outside).
Outside the walls of Windsor Castle
Sunset at Stonehenge (through the fence)
There were a few funny (and free) attractions that we did get to though. We made it to the smallest pub in England (in a town called Godmanstone), and also to see "The Rude Man" (AKA the Cerne Abbas Giant) - which is a man carved into a chalk hillside 2000 years ago, with a large appendage between his legs!
The Rude Man
The smallest pub in England
Making it to Wales late on Friday night to begin our search for another Gwilym, we pulled up in Cardiff to discover that there were almost no hotel rooms free... as we were there the night before the Wales v Australia game, and the people we met thought we were incredible unpatriotic to not know that it was happening!! We ended up finding a room after a long search, and got to experience the Welsh craziness that builds up before a rugby game.
Understanding Welsh
We spent the next morning shop-hopping, trying to find the name Gwilym on a keyring or a pen, but had no luck. So, we began our search to find another person called Gwilym... We unsuccessfully checked out the name badges of staff in bars and shops, and ended up in in Welsh shop to ask the girls behind the counter if they knew a Gwilym that we could meet. "No", they answered, "But you might find one in the mountains"!!! So it seems that Gwilym is just as unusual a name in Wales as in Australia!!
posted by Emily @ 4:42 am
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what fun seeing my old town.
Well Gwilym and Emily... all I can say is that you didn't try hard enough, I've just done a Google on the Welsh Births Records and here is just a couple of entries since 1984 and believe me there are many many more I just don't know how big a Comment can be :-) Love to you both... Pennie who would love to meet Gwilym Clack Clack!! And then there's Tomos Gwilym Davies :-) two of my sons in one!!
England & Wales, Birth Index: 1984-2004
Birth, Marriage, & Death
Name:
Gwilym John Bullock
Birth:
May 1984 - Bangor, Caernarvonshire
Name:
Gwilym Owain L Davies
Birth:
Mar 1984 - Swansea, Glamorgan
Name:
Tomos Gwilym Davies
Birth:
Aug 1984 - Rhuddlan, Clwyd
Name:
Gwilym Evans
Birth:
Dec 1984 - Haverfordwest, Dyfed
Name:
Name:
David Gwilym Hughes
Birth:
Mar 1984 - Bangor, Caernarvonshire
Name:
Dafydd Gwilym Jones
Birth:
Oct 1984 - Bangor, Caernarvonshire
Name:
Timothy Gwilym Jones
Birth:
Jun 1984 - Bangor, Caernarvonshire
Name:
Gwilym Rhys Lewis
Birth:
Apr 1984 - Pontypridd, Glamorgan
Name:
David Gwilym Littler
Birth:
Jun 1984 - South Glamorgan, Glamorgan
Name:
Huw Gwilym Matthews
Birth:
Jan 1984 - Brecknock, Breconshire
Name:
Gwilym Huw Priestland
Birth:
Jan 1984 - Swansea, Glamorgan
Name:
Gwilym Sion Pritchard
Birth:
Aug 1984 - Bangor, Caernarvonshire
Name:
Gwilym Roberts
Birth:
Aug 1984 - Bangor, Caernarvonshire
Name:
Gwilym John Robinson
Birth:
May 1984 - Bangor, Caernarvonshire
Gwilym Rhys Treble
Birth:
Oct 1984 - Newport, Glamorgan
Name:
Thomas Gwilym Williams
Birth:
Dec 1984 - Bangor, Caernarvonshire
Name:
Timothy Gwilym Williams
Birth:
Jun 1984 - Bangor, Caernarvonshire
Name:
Gwilym Clack Clack
Birth:
Oct 1985 - Bangor, Caernarvonshire
Name:
Gwilym Dewi Edwards
Birth:
Sep 1985 - Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorgan
Name:
Gwilym Owain Hurcom
Birth:
Nov 1985 - South Glamorgan, Glamorgan
Name:
Gwilym Dafydd Meyrick
Birth:
Jul 1985 - Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorgan
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Ah, Seaford!
Was ever a name more perfectly chosen? That it roll easily off the tongue might yet be sufficient were it not that it give its own pretty picture as well. A ford, by the sea, over a gentle Sussex stream.
And those dear, dead days beyond recall, as I stood by the pier in Brighton, with Pool Valley to my back, and the stately Southdown Queen Marys departed bearing Seaford on their brow, and the number 12.
Queen Marys? A point laboured is a point foregone, yet surely that grand, stately monarch would smile quietly in her grave to think that Leyland PD3s of Southdown Motor Services, of Freshfield Road in Brighton, grand and stately in their apple green and pale cream, then carried her crown.
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