Brecon is an interesting town in a beautiful setting and I’m told it often features in English home shows favoured in Australia. Our B&B was a 17th century farmhouse with a townhouse fronting the street. It’s attraction was off-street parking. Our next stop was the church followed by the canal.
We went to the church from which Ann Vick had been buried with the hope that it had a cemetery. It was the medieval Brecon Cathedral, the Church of St John the Evangelist, which had been the parish church from the time of the closure of the priory in 1537 to 1923. We had a […]
One of the things I wanted to do in Brecon was to look for the hotel which the Vicks managed in the second part of the 1840s and 1850. A newspaper advertisement for the sale of hotel contents at the time of bankruptcy provided a hotel name. A copy of a 1840 advertisement online at […]
After leaving the Clifton Bridge near Bristol we drove to Brecon in Wales. Some ancestors, the Vicks, had given up farming and taken to running a pub in Brecon. It was not a successful venture as in less than five years Anne Vick had died and Silvanus Vick was bankrupted the following month. A few months […]
My last day in Ireland involved an early departure by bus for Belfast. The light was dingy and the bus fast so photos were poor. I did a bus tour of Belfast and while I had an excellent seat the drizzle and bus departure coincided and again the situation didn’t augur well for good photos and […]