Tag: Llandinam

• David Davies (1818-1890) of Llandinam

  

  Industry, Faith, Infrastructure, and the Making of Modern Wales There are certain nineteenth-century Welshmen whose lives do more than illustrate personal success. They expose the structural transformation of a nation. David Davies of Llandinam belongs firmly in that category. Born in rural Montgomeryshire in 1818 and dying in 1890, Davies rose from sawyer and small…

  Antony David Davies

  25/02/2026

  History

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• The Mid Wales Railway, The Lost Spine of a Divided Nation

  

  There are places in Wales where the landscape still feels like an argument. Not in the sense of conflict, but in the way it insists upon its own logic, steep, stubborn, beautiful, and not designed to make life easy for those who live within it. Mid Wales is one of those places. It is a…

  Antony David Davies

  11/02/2026

  History

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